AKASHA – Social Media Network
- No News to report waiting for updates that should come in the near future.
Augur – Prediction Market
- AUGUR DEVELOPMENT UPDATE – APRIL 19TH.
- Plans for "Facelifts" to many aspects of Augur UI.
- Tom will be speaking at the upcoming “Business and the Blockchain” conference at Rice University this Tuesday the 25th
- Further audits are planned, ethrpc and the contracts are on the waiting list.
BasicAttentionToken - Blockchain Based Digital Advertising
- Added slack this week to chat for BAT - ask any questions at their new slack channel.
- Post on reddit by BAT official seems to point at update ICO in the next few weeks.
Casper (Dev Channel) – Proof of Stake Protocol
- Spreadsheet to calculate gas costs for validating.
- Casper Standup 2
- Discussion over the ideal erasure code to use, ultimately Vitalik is hopeful that we can have all the data in a simple linear merkle tree. Note this is not needed in "base Casper" but becomes relevant with sharding and more specifically sharding with light clients.
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Nick Johnson: "Blocks are only finalised if a majority of participating validators finalise them, though. So you can't have a secret cartel of validators maintaining a different chain"
- Funny-looking diagram of The Fisherman's Dilemma
- Lamport hash ladder signatures for Casper validators
Vitalik Buterin: 107583 gas for verification plus ~71679 for the sig data for 160 bits security.
ChronoBank – Labour Hour Stable Coins
- Blog: Chronobank: A look at the competition
- Blog: Great news! Chronobank to release ChronoMint wallet beta1
- ChronoBank Beta is Live!
Colony – Decentralized Collaboration Network
- Beta invites sent out to initial testers
Digix – Asset (Gold) Backed Tokens
- Blog Post: TECH DEV UPDATE — 22nd Apr 2017
- Blog Post: DigixDAO — Governance / Reward claiming Process
- @hitchcott re: ETC withdrawl
we've talked to the exchanges about it, yunbi/gatecoin are cool with it and will probably just credit their users at that specific block. not sure if we heard back from bittrex yet, but we'll work with them
- Anthem Gold vs Digix SWOT analysis.
- KC Chng re: demurage fees:
Hello yes there are ways to the demurrage effect to keep dgx demurrage free but to a ratio, has been discussed and there is a solution. There can be two types of tokens in existence, one where it's the traditional dgx token, the other which is a dgx-dem free token derived from dgx so users can choose which they prefer. In terms of redesign, the architecture has already been addressed as per the post, it won't take long as the only portion left is refactoring it. This design will also be less complicated than previously which may reduce audit time, hence the roadmap isn't likely to change drastically.
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KC Chng: The entire vendor registry and management system is developed in house and will not be open to the public at the moment.
Ethereum Name Service - Decentralized Name Service
- Latest update on bug bounty here.
- Token sale will initiate after bug bounty and cleanup is finished.
Etherplay – The Transparent Skill Game Platform
- Released our tool to read ethereum blockchain on github : ethreader. Allow to programmatically analyse transactions with abi method names and parameter names
Ethlance – Decentralized freelancing platform with 0% fee
- Still brewing that whitepaper among some other major announcements.
FirstBlood – Decentralized E-Sports Rewards Platform
- Alpha testing going well.
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Auryn Macmillan: For the time being, the alpha is limited to those who successfully participated in the pre-sale.
- Coin Interview with Firstblood.io
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Zack Coburn: It [witness node software] will run on basically everything, including Windows, OS X, Linux, and even Raspberry Pi (so system requirements will be very very low).
Giveth - Crowd Funded Donation Dapp|
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Griff Green - We are still reworking our Vault Controller and will be testing it for the next month. This week we are also collaborating with Alice.si to help them set up a Giveth Campaign.
Gnosis - Prediction Market
- Blog: What is DAO May Never Die: The DAO, DAOs, and the Future of Organization
- Blog: It’s finally time! The Gnosis token sale begins April 24th, at 1pm EST.
- Gnosis ICO
- The fervor around the Gnosis token auction can truly begin in earnest as everyone anxiously awaits what will happen the first day (Monday 4/24)
- Gnosis AMA on /r/ethtrader
- Token auction testrun on Kovan
- How to participate in Gnosis auction with Kraken
- First consumer-facing Dapp is planned for Q4
- Gnosis Twitter Bot
Golem – Distributed Computing Power
- Blog: Announcing the Pirx testnet and a Windows release!
- Golem does not work with any of the exchanges and does not review their code, even though they have ocasionally found bugs.
- No other news to report on but there is allot of cool things to read in the blog.
ICONOMI – Digital Asset Management Platform
- Q1 report is coming before April ends and a monthly Q&A has been proposed.
- Comunication remains slow.
MakerDAO - Stable Token and Decentralized Marketplace
- Diligently working on SAI and forthcoming marketing push
MelonPort – “Blockchain Software for Asset Management”
- Blog: The Difference Between Protocol Tokens and Traditional Asset Tokens.
- Podcast: IS ETHEREUM THE BETTER BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY?
- Video: Melonport's George Hallam gives a brief explanation of how the Melon protocol.
Status – Mobile Ethereum OS
- Ethereum DApp Creators // Issue #07 Gnosis
- Status featured on Hacker News
- Encoding the Status ‘Genesis Block’
- Status competitor, Token, enters the marketplace.
Swarm – Serverless Hosting, Incentivised P2P Storage/Content Distribution
SingularDTV – Rights Management and Video On-Demand Portal
- Blog: SingularDTV: The Reinvention of Film & Television Distribution
- SingularDTV Hires Another Hollywood Talent (Spanish)
- Blog: HOLLYWOOD: Designed to Prevent all but a Few from Achieving Their Dreams!
- Zach LeBeau (SingularDTV CEO) to speak at the Ethereal Summit (among other brilliant people)
UjoMusic - Decentralized Music Platform
- Q1 Update
- Pivoting architecture to be more inclusive of peers (uPort and others) who share the vision for an open music industry.
- Drafting experimental designs in using tokenized models:
- fostering standards-compliant metadata (eg COALA IP)
- sharing said metadata (into IPFS/IPDB/Mediachain/Swarm)
- making sure to re-use and define what is valid metadata
- Exploring concepts such as continuous token models and curation communities with experiments rolling out soon!
uPort – Self-Sovereign Identity
- The Gnosis Twitter Bot seems to function exclusively with uPort.
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Christian Lundkvist: Very soon we should have account recovery in place (using a backup seed or trusted delegates).
- Server-Side Credential Tutorial
WeTrust – Trusted Lending Circles
Matchpool – Decentralized Matchmaking
- Blog: Matchpool Transparency Polici & Updates
- Media: The ICO Scandal that Wasn't
- First round of TRST tokens successfully distributed
- TRST listed on Bittrex and Liqui
- Using MyEtherWallet (MEW) for ERC20 Tokens like Trustcoins (TRST)
- TRST details on CoinMarketCap
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- Check out State of dApps for a curated list of all dApps
Coverage:
- ChaceHunter: Swarm, Status, Colony, WeTrust, ChronoBank, UjoMusic, Gnosis, MakerDAO
- truewavebreak: ICONOMI, Golem, Augur, AKASHA, MelonPort
- MrNebbiolo: uPort, Casper, FirstBlood, Digix
- PΞther: Ethlance, SingularDTV, ChronoBank, Gnosis, WeTrust, Matchpool
- pablanopete: Brave (BasicAttentionToken), Giveth, ENS
- wighawag: Etherplay
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