News and Links
Top — ENS
A beginner’s guide to buying an ENS domain.
https://medium.com/@weka/a-beginners-guide-to-buying-an-ens-domain-3ccac2bdc770
More Nick Johnson: State of the ENS: week 1 and A developer’s guide to ENS concepts
https://medium.com/the-ethereum-name-service/state-of-the-ens-week-1-c3e27b9af817
https://medium.com/the-ethereum-name-service/a-developers-guide-to-ens-concepts-7004eea8a073
Ens.trade: Name trading, running on the Kovan testnet
Make sure you reveal your bids, otherwise your ETH will burn.
ENS subdomains-as-a-service?
https://ens.trade/
https://etherscan.io/address/0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dead#internaltx
Protocol and releases
What Ethereum Research will be working on for the next few years
Latest Casper research call
Stuff for developers
Town Crier: Scrape data feeds to put data on chain, using Intel SGX as trusted hardware. Announcement post. Definitely check out the back and forth between Oraclize and Town Crier in the comments.
Oraclize publishes “A Scalable Architecture for On-Demand, Untrusted Delivery of Entropy.” See also the tl;dr. Oraclize is agnostic whereas Town Crier is Intel SGX.
Guide to using Truffle with JPMorgan’s Quorum
uPort push notifications
Tips and Tricks for Metamask in your UI
Etherchain’s open source token explorer
An intro to LLL
http://www.town-crier.org/
https://blog.oraclize.it/the-random-datasource-a-scalable-architecture-for-on-demand-untrusted-delivery-of-entropy-7dbae6536322
http://truffleframework.com/tutorials/building-dapps-for-quorum-private-enterprise-blockchains
https://medium.com/uport/introducing-push-notifications-for-uport-a5c9ae3bd8d5
https://medium.com/@asmiller1989/tips-and-tricks-for-adding-metamask-to-your-ui-32728b437194
https://github.com/gobitfly/erc20-explorer
https://media.consensys.net/an-introduction-to-lll-for-ethereum-smart-contract-development-e26e38ea6c23
Ecosystem
Introducing Swap, a peer-to-peer decentralized trading platform Demo video.
Should we make checksummed hex addresses mandatory?
It’s a strange world we live in when big name VCs like Fred Wilson are posting about Pepe Cash. Jack & The Giant Joint-Stock Pepe indeed.
https://media.consensys.net/introducing-swap-a-protocol-for-decentralized-peer-to-peer-trading-on-the-ethereum-blockchain-d4058f3179cf
http://avc.com/2017/05/rare-pepe/
https://medium.com/startup-grind/jack-the-giant-joint-stock-pepe-the-history-future-of-the-corporation-f17d30aff411
Interviews and Talks
We’ve seen the slides, now we have video: Alex Fisher’s Intro to Ethereum talk
Aaron Watson podcast interview of Ujo’s Jesse Grushack
Omar talks to Griff Green and to Taylor from MyEtherWallet
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Coinfund Q&A with Aragon, Basic Attention Token, and Storj
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Arthur Falls has rebooted the State Change podcast. As we all know, episode 42 is the answer to the question of life.
https://media.consensys.net/the-revolution-will-be-podcasted-introducing-the-new-state-change-4229015b2780
Project Updates
Latest issue of The Etherian
Colony’s vision for MMO games
Matchpool says it will release alpha in a month
Etheroll 3–6 month roadmap
https://etherian.world/summary-may-8-14/
https://blog.colony.io/visions-of-the-future-1a26a7231926
https://medium.com/matchpool/building-a-worldwide-reputation-game-487a77745315
https://etheroll.wordpress.com/
Token Sales
Aragon token sale code is deployed on the public chain
Why most blockchain projects will fail
Sikoba Green Paper draft — I like how they try new things in token sale mechanics
https://blog.aragon.one/aragon-token-sale-contracts-have-been-deployed-and-activated-3f0ab78590ec https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LA89ZXpM24WqZSrRY7oqi1DQ9jVhdcQ4fYiIleWw0iI/edit?usp=sharing http://www.sikoba.com/www/presale/index.html
General
“Bitcoin still has a black mark against it if you look at what big banks or more traditional folks in law enforcement think. Ethereum has a blank slate, and that is a chance to reach a mainstream audience.” — Brian Armstrong
Ethereum Foundation finances: about $90m USD. $15m USD, mostly in EUR and CHF, 500 BTC, 813k ETH. At monthly burn of $300k, that’s over 4 years of funding even if Bitcoin and Ether go to zero.
Vitalik: Engineering Security through Coordination Problems
Albert Wenger: Thoughts on Regulating ICOs. There’s been rumors of regulatory guidance coming at the upcoming conferences. Hopefully they do something smart: a safe harbor provision for projects who include a regulator-approved warning
https://np.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6a8szc/token_two_weeks_post_launch_now_easier_by_several/dhd622y/
http://vitalik.ca/general/2017/05/08/coordination_problems.html
http://continuations.com/post/160692129415/thoughts-on-regulating-icos
Dates of note
[For ongoing sales, check previous week]
May 15 — Sikoba private sale
May 15 — Etheroll token becomes tradeable
May 17 — Aragon sale begins
May 19 — Storj sale begins
May 19 — ConsenSys Ethereal Summit in Brooklyn
May 25 — William Mougayar’s Token Summit at NYU
May 30 — Mysterium sale begins
May 30 — Bancor Network sale begins
May 31 — Basic Attention Token sale begins
June 7 — Cofound.it sale begins
Source: https://blog.status.im/week-in-ethereum-may-14-4b5c7a60d31
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