“Ethereum won’t fail. It is massively decentralized, it’s useful, it’s growing incredibly quickly, and it is antifragile. Whatever you throw at it will make it stronger.” -Joe Lubin, Co-Founder of Ethereum

August’s monthly report is filled with exciting updates, recaps, and releases from ConsenSys. If this is the first monthly report you’re reading, check out our vision, and learn more about ConsenSys. If you’re a frequent reader, jump right into the good stuff — the top tweets, events, videos, and reads from the past month.

In August, we felt the blistering heat rising from ETHSommer. Hyperledger Besu became the first public blockchain on Hyperledger. Panvala launched on mainnet at DappCon. ConsenSys launched Daisy — a platform to manage crypto payments. Narly the ConsenSys SpokesNarwhal made its debut at ETH Berlin. MakerDAO teamed up with OpenLaw to make DAI a global currency.

And if that wasn’t enough…

The Star Trek universe announced their digital crypto collectables: six ships from the Trek universe will be digitally minted, cryptographically secured, and provided in limited supply as ERC-721 items. We’ll be able to play with them within the Crypto Space Commander game.

What a time to be alive!

Keep reading for further updates from the Mesh.

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Joe Lubin dropped some amazing Ethereum nuggets at DappCon. “Ethereum’s superpower is decentralization, its #opensource bazaar approach. Problems pop up and people show up from all over to address them.” #ETHSommer

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Hub and Spoke Model

The ConsenSys “hub” spawns, incubates, and accelerates “spoke” ventures through development, resource sharing, acquisitions, investments, and the formation of joint ventures. These spokes benefit from foundational components built by ConsenSys that enable new services and business models to be built on the Ethereum blockchain.

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Our blockchain venture studio. Labs incubates the best teams of Web3 across the globe, providing them capital, mentorship, and access to ConsenSys’ network of top-tier projects and talent.

Our educational institution. Academy’s mission is to develop the global blockchain ecosystem by bridging the Ethereum knowledge gap.

Our enterprise arm. Solutions brings blockchain to businesses, helping enterprises, governments, non-profits, and startups across the globe build, test, and deploy public and private blockchain solutions. Solutions offers education, advisory, and development services, as well as opportunities for joint ventures and co-creation.

ConsenSys Social Impact is leveraging emerging technologies to solve the world’s most pressing issues.

Capital is our constellation of financial service offerings for digital assets and blockchain-based companies, and also includes token sale advisory and a venture capital studio.

ConsenSys Diligence is committed to improving and protecting the Ethereum ecosystem by facilitating technical excellence, security guidelines, legal precautions, and ethical business practices.

Ethereal Summit brings together builders, philosophers, policymakers, artists, and humanitarians from around the world for two days of storytelling and knowledge sharing around how we can build our decentralized future together using blockchain technology.

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Started by ConsenSys’ Balanc3 team, ABC drives innovation in the accounting industry while educating businesses and organizations on accounting for blockchain-based digital assets.

Read: Crypto Trends Every CPA Should Know In 2019

An industry-wide collaboration utilizing blockchain law, regulation, and policy to promote token-powered economic growth and consumer protection.

Listen: “New Territories Ep 007: Syndicated Loans — LSTA And OpenLaw Collaboration”

The industry’s first global standards organization provides guidelines for developing and delivering large-scale, interoperable blockchain implementations.

Read: “Telecom Leaders Unveil Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Blockchain Use Case Playbook”

An open-source library of React components and guides to help you make dApps everyone can use.

Try: The Rimble Demo app