February 12, 2017

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State channel scalability: Update from the Raiden team on development progress and RaidEX

Raiden MVP release planned for March



Not state channels: Make Ethereum massively scalable today with delayed computations

Per Vitalik, the 3 greatest challenges for the Foundation in 2017 are: 1) more revenue, 2) finding more of the right researchers, and 3) “Improving the foundation’s external communications; working on helping the community understand what the foundation is doing, why things are done the way they are done, and what the progress is.”

I hope this newsletter helps with #3.



Stuff for Dapp developers

Client releases

Parity 1.5.2 includes browser extension

Protocol

Video of Vlad Zamfir January talk at Stanford. [All videos from that conference.]

Erik Voorhees: “I’ve found myself now holding a modest balance of Ethereum merely for the purpose of small (not micro) payments to friends. It’s just cheaper and more reliable. And I’m doing that with more allegiance to Bitcoin than almost anyone on Earth.”

Joe Lubin: “Ethereum has an ambitious, aggressive, coordinated and achievable roadmap to scalability. Bitcoin has an embattled, haphazard ongoing struggle to make the slightest progress on scalability. First system that demonstrates genuine scalability will quickly dominate.”



Ecosystem

Project Updates

Token Sales

General

Dates of note

[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.]

This is issue 26, so the newsletter has been around for half a year!

Thank you for reading and subscribing. It’s been a joy to write, even if occasionally some issues feel like work. I’m thankful for all the tips, praise, links, and upvotes. I’m also particularly thankful to have so many more smart people to chat with about Ethereum.

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Last week I asked for upvotes, and it worked. I appreciate it. The posts on r/ethereum and r/ethtrader both got many more upvotes than recent weeks. The newsletter also added 56 subscribers last week, which is good mean-reversion to the long-term average.

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