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
https://ens.trade/
Make sure you reveal your bids, otherwise your ETH will burn.
https://etherscan.io/address/0x000000000000000000000000000000000000dead#internaltx
ENS subdomains-as-a-service?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6b3mzf/some_thoughts_on_ens_subdomainsasaservice/

Protocol and releases

What Ethereum Research will be working on for the next few years
https://hackmd.io/s/HkLkj55yb
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.
http://www.town-crier.org/
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.
https://blog.oraclize.it/the-random-datasource-a-scalable-architecture-for-on-demand-untrusted-delivery-of-entropy-7dbae6536322
Guide to using Truffle with JPMorgan’s Quorum
http://truffleframework.com/tutorials/building-dapps-for-quorum-private-enterprise-blockchains
uPort push notifications
https://medium.com/uport/introducing-push-notifications-for-uport-a5c9ae3bd8d5
Tips and Tricks for Metamask in your UI
https://medium.com/@asmiller1989/tips-and-tricks-for-adding-metamask-to-your-ui-32728b437194
Etherchain’s open source token explorer
https://github.com/gobitfly/erc20-explorer
An intro to LLL
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.
https://media.consensys.net/introducing-swap-a-protocol-for-decentralized-peer-to-peer-trading-on-the-ethereum-blockchain-d4058f3179cf
Should we make checksummed hex addresses mandatory?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6b9grz/should_we_make_a_move_toward_making_checksummed/
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.
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
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6awosg/podcast_interview_on_ujo_music_consensys/
Omar talks to Griff Green and to Taylor from MyEtherWallet

Coinfund Q&A with Aragon, Basic Attention Token, and Storj

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
https://etherian.world/summary-may-8-14/
Colony’s vision for MMO games
https://blog.colony.io/visions-of-the-future-1a26a7231926
Matchpool says it will release alpha in a month
https://medium.com/matchpool/building-a-worldwide-reputation-game-487a77745315
Etheroll 3–6 month roadmap
https://etheroll.wordpress.com/

Token Sales

Aragon token sale code is deployed on the public chain
https://blog.aragon.one/aragon-token-sale-contracts-have-been-deployed-and-activated-3f0ab78590ec
Why most blockchain projects will fail

Sikoba Green Paper draft — I like how they try new things in token sale mechanics
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
https://np.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6a8szc/token_two_weeks_post_launch_now_easier_by_several/dhd622y/
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.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/6b39sc/has_the_ethereum_foundation_released_any/dhk0eil/?context=3
Vitalik: Engineering Security through Coordination Problems
http://vitalik.ca/general/2017/05/08/coordination_problems.html
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
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