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Blockchain Basics

Releases, Demos, and Rundowns

The Ujo platform, from stack to vision.

How Viant tracks fish from bait to plate.

Colendi, a Token Foundry client, is a decentralized credit scoring protocol that serves as a bridge between lenders and borrowers. Colendi is enabling the unbanked and underbanked to fully participate in the banking system through microfinancing.

BuildETH recap: blockchain for social impact use cases, token economics, design principles for Web 3.0, smart contract debugging, and more.

Think Pieces

“How Blockchain is Helping Technology Get Its Soul Back.” 30+ humanitarian solutions projects that are pointing us beyond the techlash and proving that more technology, not less, is the key to international relief.

“A Future History of International Blockchain Standards.” David Hyland-Wood and Shahan Khatchadourian from the protocol engineering spoke at ConsenSys survey current blockchain standards, explore interoperability, and call on the W3C to broaden their definition of the “Web.”

By the Numbers

1,552 decentralized applications currently launched on Ethereum.

decentralized applications currently launched on Ethereum. 1970s. When the actual blockchain story starts.

When the actual blockchain story starts. 2057. The year that humans walk on Mars in the Cellarius Universe.

The year that humans walk on Mars in the Cellarius Universe. 0.04%. The average payout to each miner among the four strongest mining pools in a case study performed by the Alethio data science team.

The average payout to each miner among the four strongest mining pools in a case study performed by the Alethio data science team. 0. How much transaction data is revealed to a verifier in a zero-knowledge proof.

How much transaction data is revealed to a verifier in a zero-knowledge proof. 28+ countries represented by members of the ConsenSys Mesh.

Well-Put

Ecosystem Shoutout

CryptoKitties, in partnership with ACTAI Global and Ocean Elders, is releasing Honu Kitty to benefit oceans and wildlife. Honu is the world’s first CryptoKitty auction designed to raise funds and awareness for an environmental cause. The auction ends Sunday, July 15th at midnight.

Daniel Ellison examines the structure of an LLL contract in comparison to a Solidity contract.

July 19–20. San Francisco. Distributed 2018. BTC Inc., in partnership with ConsenSys, HashKey Digital Asset Group Limited (HKDAG), and Wanxiang Blockchain Labs, is bringing innovators, technologists, engineers, and enterprises together from across the world to discuss the past, present, and future of a decentralized global ecosystem. Use the promo code “ETHSF” to get 25% off your ticket price.

July 19–20. Berlin. DappCon. Gnosis is hosting this global two-day developer conference for the Ethereum community to learn, build, and think big. Speakers will include ConsenSys Mesh members from Diligence, Infura, and VariabL, as well as Joe Lubin. Gnosis will be testing their prediction market app live at the conference.

July 20. Comic-Con International. Disruptive Storytelling with the Cellarius Chronicles. Cellarius is partnering with legendary artist Iain McCaig and visualization studio HALON Entertainment to present a sneak peek at their first transmedia project.

September 7–9. Berlin. ETHBerlin. Workshops, mini-conf, hackathon, and a radical new experiment for Ethereum community engagement.

Accelerators, Alphas, Hackathons, and More

Smart Contract Developer Course. Mexico City, July 23–25. ConsenSys Solutions, in collaboration with ConsenSys Academy, is offering this 3 day, in-person event for those interested in learning the fundamentals of Ethereum and mastering smart contract development. Training will be presented in Spanish.

Mexico City, July 23–25. ConsenSys Solutions, in collaboration with ConsenSys Academy, is offering this 3 day, in-person event for those interested in learning the fundamentals of Ethereum and mastering smart contract development. Training will be presented in Spanish. Tachyon. ConsenSys Ventures’ Ethereum accelerator is open for applications! 8–15 early-stage Ethereum projects will receive $75–100k in pre-seed funding and slingshot from idea to MVP in 8 weeks.

ConsenSys Ventures’ Ethereum accelerator is open for applications! 8–15 early-stage Ethereum projects will receive $75–100k in pre-seed funding and slingshot from idea to MVP in 8 weeks. Cellarius Alpha. AI has its Genesis Thought. Humankind splits into factions. What happens next?

AI has its Genesis Thought. Humankind splits into factions. What happens next? ConsenSys India Developer Program. Coding-intensive training program + 2-day hackathon.

Coding-intensive training program + 2-day hackathon. Gitcoin’s Issue Explorer. Claim an issue, fulfill it, get paid in ETH.

Claim an issue, fulfill it, get paid in ETH. Bounties Network. Bounties in any task, paid in ETH or ERC20 tokens.

Kavita Gupta, Head of ConsenSys Ventures, discusses Tachyon, ConsenSys’ new accelerator program.

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