ConsenSys​ kicks off the annual Ethereal Summit NY​ this weekend, hosting 104 speakers, 67 talks, including 13 panels, on 2 stages over 2 days at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn.

Over the duration of Ethereal Summit, ConsenSys and its portfolio companies are set to announce nearly a dozen project launches, platform upgrades, and enterprise partnerships. All of the endeavors build on the Ethereum blockchain, while substantially developing the network and ecosystem as it scales towards Ethereum 2.0.

“ConsenSys is committed to its focus, building core Ethereum infrastructure, developer tools and advanced solutions to meet the ever-increasing demand for blockchain technology,” explains ​ConsenSys founder and Ethereum co-creator Joe Lubin. “But at Ethereal, we take the opportunity to look up from our work, gather the foremost experts in the community and deeply discuss the technological advances we see coming to fruition across industry verticals.”

Check out some highlight announcements to be made over the course of Ethereal Summit and Blockchain Week by ConsenSys portfolio companies…

GridPlus

In consumer hardware, ConsenSys backed ​GridPlus​ will announce the pre-sale of its ​Lattice1 hardware wallet, ​which utilizes multiple chipsets, secure environments, an anti-tamper mesh, segmented WiFi connectivity, and physically un-clonable functions (PUFs) to provide a sophisticated key management solution, achieving greater levels of security than any hardware wallet built for the blockchain ecosystem to date.

OpenLaw and Loan Syndication Trade Association

ConsenSys is announcing two partnerships in the legal services vertical, set to simplify the way financial institutions and law firms can streamline commercial relationships. In collaboration with the Loans Syndication Trade Association​ (LSTA), ConsenSys’ ​OpenLaw​ will unveil a pilot to explore how a complex revolving credit facility could be automated with blockchain technology to streamline both the formation of complex syndicates and the creation of marketplace lenders to trade tokenized interests in those syndicates​.

ConsenSys Legal and Latham & Watkins

The ConsenSys legal team, in collaboration with global law firm ​Latham & Watkins LLP​, will announce the launch of the Automated Convertible Note powered by an OpenLaw-based document generator to help startups raise capital with customizable market standard terms and optional digital token provisions.

Alethio

Alethio, an advanced blockchain data, analytics and visualization platform, will announce the release of its new ​aleth.io​ platform and its updated public Ethereum API product. The updated aleth.io platform integrates Alethio’s advanced, UI-focused explorer with the team’s recently refined Monitoring & Reporting capabilities. Users can easily ​monitor any deployed smart contract or external account based on custom rule-based alerts. Users can also run reports to obtain historical aggregated blockchain datasets (in excel or .csv format) based on custom queries.

The entire platform is also deployable on private and permissioned blockchain networks, providing enterprise customers with much needed advanced analytics for their blockchain deployments.

ConsenSys Diligence and Amberdata

MythX​, a subsidiary of ​ConsenSys Diligence​ that brings advanced security analysis into development environments, detecting common Solidity vulnerabilities and EVM bytecode vulnerabilities, will announce a partnership with ​blockchain analytics powerhouse Amberdata.​ By integrating with MythX Platform API to verify changes in contracts deployed to Ethereum Mainnet, Amberdata will automate the discovery of vulnerabilities, version mismatches, and behavioral or transactional anomalies in its real-time data analytics and monitoring platform.

Pegasys and LiquidShare

PegaSys​, the Enterprise Ethereum protocol engineering group at ConsenSys, will announce its partnership with ​LiquidShare​, a European fintech venture using blockchain to improve SME access to capital markets and the transparency and security of post-trade operations using blockchain. With the financial support of its shareholders ​​ — AFS Group, BNP Paribas, CACEIS, Caisse des Dépôts, Euroclear, Euronext, S2IEM and Société Générale ​​ — LiquidShare will launch a production-grade system on PegaSys’ ​Pantheon​, a Java-based implementation of Ethereum. Pantheon enables LiquidShare to achieve the scalability and finality it requires, while complying with stringent regulatory environments.

Kaleido

Kaleido​, an ​award-winning​ SaaS platform for building and running live blockchain networks, is bringing together a full stack of tools and technologies from across the Ethereum ecosystem into its plug and play Marketplace and is announcing the new additions of OpenLaw team plan to automate legal agreements, Rhombus for off chain data feeds, Truffle and Metamask as new development tooling options, and support for PegaSys’​ Pantheon 1.1​, a Java-based, ​enterprise version of the Ethereum client. With this announcement, Kaleido now supports all popular Ethereum protocols for enterprise usage.

ConsenSys Grants

ConsenSys Grants​ administers awards that will total $550,000 in 2019 towards projects bolstering the Ethereum ecosystem based on 5 categories. ConsenSys is proud to announce the first wave of grant awardees at this year’s Ethereal Summit NY:

● Core Infrastructure: TabooKey’s Gas Station IEP awarded $25,000

● Education and Technical Knowledge: Black Girls Code Blockchain Immersion Program awarded $25,000, and Africa Blockchain Developers program awarded $10,000

● Social Impact: Public Health Incentives’ App awarded $25,000

● Security: Lighthouse, ​a security-focused Ethereum Serenity client awarded $25,000

Rhombus and Raincoat

Rhombus​, which develops oracles to connect Ethereum with real-world data, will announce a partnership with ​Raincoat​ to offer low-cost hurricane insurance to residents of Puerto Rico. Rhombus and Raincoat automatically determine whether a hurricane has struck, using wind speed sensors distributed throughout the island. If the sensors detect a hurricane, users receive a payout that same day — no claims process, no slimy insurance agents — it’s all automatic. Jeff Rosen, co-founder and COO of Rhombus, will discuss this technology on May 10 at 3:50 PM on the Workshop stage.

Oregon Enterprise Blockchain Venture Studio

R/GA Ventures, Moda, Umpqua Bank, Portland State University, Oregon Health & Science University, Business Oregon, ConsenSys and blockchain research firm Smith + Crown, are pleased to announce the launch of the Oregon Enterprise Blockchain Venture Studio (OEBVS): the first program of its kind designed to build a blockchain-based ecosystem, and position Oregon’s businesses and institutions to further compete globally.

Read more about what to expect from Ethereal Summit NY and Blockchain Week New York!