November 8, 2017

Ethereum News and Links



Top

~150m USD value of Ether frozen in Parity multi-sig bug. Most of it from Parity, a decent chunk also from Iconomi.

DevCon3: scalability looks closer than expected, which is important because some early projects (Maker, Augur, etc) are near to going live.

Jeff Coleman and Liam Horne are working on a generalized state channels project called Counterfactual. This is an important layer of infrastructure and arguably as vital as anything announced during DevCon talks. Funded by Vitalik and L4, it was announced by Liam on Twitter a few hours before Devcon.





Parity multi-sig frozen





Devcon3





Protocol

Vlad Zamfir’s Casper draft spec v0.1. Prototype codebase and paper.

Better address checksums is coming.

Vitalik: “Plasma is optimal for systems with larger sets of users and where having limited trust in some second-layer consensus mechanism is okay; state channels are best for repeated interaction between limited sets of parties.”





Stuff for developers





Ecosystem

Eth Gas Station metropolis release – view transaction pool filtered by account/nonce, plus better predictions. plus more transparency about how predictions are made. When this gets released by API, it should help bring gas prices down even further. By the way, it now costs $0.00006 to send a transaction if you’re willing to wait a minute. Lower your gas price!

A brief comparison of Name Bazaar vs. ENSListing

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Also, the second edition of Token Summit is December 5th in San Francisco. Use discount code WENTS17 for 18% off.

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Project Updates



Project Announcements and Whitepapers





Interviews, Videos and Talks





Token Sales





Token Sale Projects





General





Dates of note

From Token Sale Calendar:

[Truncated list this week as I don’t have the post-Devcon energy to wade through all the junk.]

Upcoming token sale start dates:

Ongoing token sales:

WARNING: list may include or even likely includes scams and quasi-scams. Do your own research and due diligence before putting value at risk. Read disclaimer below.

Want to be included? If you are building your project on Ethereum, email weekinethereum @ gmail [period] com with 1) your URL, 2) sale date and 3) a brief but convincing description of how you are using Ethereum, preferably with a link to your Github repo. Listings are free. But please make sure to follow those instructions. If you don’t follow the instructions, you likely won’t get a response.

[I aim for a relatively comprehensive list of Ethereum sales, but make no warranty as to even whether they are legit; as such, I thus likewise warrant nothing about whether any will produce a satisfactory return. I have passed the CFA exams, but this is not investment advice. If you’re interested in what I do, you can find my somewhat out-of-date investing thesis and token sale appreciation strategies in previous newsletters.]





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