Protocol Weekly #1 — Launch Edition
Protocol Weekly is a newsletter to exclusively showcase the progress of Ethereum layer-2 protocols.
Issue #1
Welcome to the first edition of Protocol Weekly.
Here at 8x, we recognised there were a select group of Ethereum projects which had a strong focus on building great products and infrastructure to power web 3.
Our goal is to showcase these projects and to keep the wider community informed of their progress and anything they might need help with.
If you have any feedback, feel free to reach out to me directly at @kermankohli or hello@8xprotocol.com
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From Vinny Lingham (Co-Founder & CEO):
- We announced our acquisition of the Identity.com domain. This will be the home of Civic’s open-source, decentralized identity ecosystem. Read about it on the Civic blog and we’ll have more updates in August.
- It was recently the one year anniversary of our token sale. With this milestone, we’ve unlocked an additional 110M tokens to increase our circulating supply to 440M tokens.
- Take a look at our newly-updated roadmap to see where we’re going in the months ahead.
One thing we need help with:
Join the top identity company in the blockchain sector. Our Careers page is open.
From Micah Alcorn (Engineering):
- Wrapping up the UI for our encrypted, auditable and decentralized messaging platform
- Testing our fractional usage API, which enables developers to create more complex listing contracts that have sharing economy characteristics
- Experimenting with the ERC 793 arbitration standard for handling disputes that arise between marketplace participants
One thing we need help with:
Recruiting community managers in Korea and China. Contact: micah@originprotocol.com
From Janine Videva (Head of Marketing):
- Liquidity.Network is operational on the mainnet with our Web Wallet and Mobile App for Google Playstore meaning that ETH payments without transaction fees are now possible on the mainnet. Here is a short tutorial on how to install and set up the mobile app.
- There is a new video tutorial about Canvas.Liquidity.Network as well. The video demonstrates how to draw and pay off-chain in Liquid ETH, without incurring in any gas costs. It is now possible to pay on https://canvas.liquidity.network with the Liquidity app through a simple scan.
- Achievement.Network is an interactive blockchain learning platform launched four weeks ago under https://achievement.network by Liquidity Network. Every week new exercises are published on the platform and will be announced here.
- We are happy to announce the end of our ICO that was successfully concluded on the 18th of July. More details and statistics will be released soon.
One thing we need help with:
We are looking to hire a Marketing Specialist to help with the growing and scaling of Liquidity.Network. Apply for this job at contact@liquidity.network. (At least one year of experience in a marketing related role is required).
From Brendan Forster (Head of Growth Operations):
- We released a three part tutorial series on how to build a Lending dApp. Each part of this series highlights a different aspect of our new `dharma.js` developer API. In Part 1, we focus on creating a loan request. Part 2 demonstrates how to fill loan requests. And in Part 3, we focus on collateralization of loans.
- We added methods to `dharma.js`to streamline loan repayment, reclaiming of collateral, and seizing of collateral.
- Implemented MVP of crowdfunding through Dharma that enables fungible bond issuances using an ERC-20 token that represents a bond. This enables debt issuances with one borrower and multiple lenders (e.g., crowdfunding, corporate bonds, and venture debt.
- Updated our documentation to give developers a digestible understanding of the protocol and API.
One thing we need help with:
Hiring a marketing manager on Angelist.
From Inje Yeo (CPO)
- Released a new article on our next steps. Medium: Set Protocol — Looking Ahead
- Started planning our Set rebalancing architecture
- Added more exchange support for our issuance orders, explained in the article above
One thing we need help with:
Want to be the first to build on Set Protocol? Get in touch with me at inje@setprotocol.com
From Adrienne Burke-Moran (Content and Community):
- Begins ICO on July 24th, 2018.
- Announced Codex Viewer launch to Mainnet.
- Announced partnership with Heffel to improve provenance records for items sold through Heffel auctions and to accept cryptocurrency for unique assets.
One thing we need help with:
Hiring a community manager to help with our token sale. Contact: contact@codexprotocol.com
From Peter Dao (Community Manager):
- Launched daily price and volume API for CMC consumption
- Added Rinkeby tokens to token metadata service
- Added transaction history to mobile
- Launched hosted version of eth gas station for better reliability on the gas selection screen
- Launched AirSwap status page: https://status.fluidity.io
One thing we need help with:
We are always looking for the best and brightest to join our ever expanding AirSwap family. You can learn more about what we do and how to join our team here: airswap.io/contact
From Daniel Wang (Founder of Loopring Foundation):
- Announcing World’s First DEX Alliance Initiative
- We welcome wallets, DEXs and market makers to join us first, by using the “Bootstrap” relay cluster (bootstrap.loopring.io) maintained by the foundation.
- We will provide an inter-relay liquidity sharing mechanism called “Superconducting Alliance” by connecting third-party relay clusters with the Bootstrap clusters.
One thing we need help with:
We need contributors for content writing, preferred bilinguist.
From Kevin Lu (Partnerships & Community):
- 8x Protocol has rebranded to highlight our solution for decentralised recurring payments on a more consumer-level and introduce a new focus — pre-authorised payments.
- New website to enhance consumer understanding of core function of 8x Protocol itself, explain why recurring payments are a problem and deviate from technical/crypto-specific jargon.
- Launch of Protocol Weekly — an 8x Protocol community initiative to unite all Ethereum protocols.
One thing we need help with:
We are always looking for like-minded crypto-enthusiasts to join our community! Find us on Telegram & Twitter.
Participating Projects:
Civic, Origin Protocol, Liquidity Network, Dharma Protocol, Set Protocol, Codex Protocol, AirSwap, Loopring, 8x Protocol.
Updates Not Included This Week:
Kyber Network, Abacus Protocol, Bloom Protocol.
Know a protocol that should be part of this list? Drop us an email at hello@8xprotocol.com.
25/07/2018
