ConsenSys Monthly Report — April 2019
Ethereum dApps, enterprise blockchain solutions, most popular articles, upcoming events, and more.
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”
–Anaïs Nin
April’s monthly report is filled with awesome updates, recaps, and releases from ConsenSys. If this is the first monthly report you’re reading, check out our vision and learn more about ConsenSys.
If you’re a frequent follower, jump right into the good stuff — the top tweets, events, videos, and reads from the past month. In April, the cherry blossoms graced us with their presence, beautiful yet fleeting. It’s a moment to sit back and stare in awe at the beauty that is spring. So, as you enjoy watching new flowers blossom take a gander at the blooming projects and events occurring during this Crypto Spring.
The ConsenSys Vision
Most Popular Articles
- Forbes Releases ‘Top 50 Billion-Dollar Companies Exploring Blockchain’ — Over Half are Working with Ethereum
- Joe Lubin: Why Ethereum Will Become the Global Settlement Layer
- Ethereum Accelerator: Meet the 10 Startups of ConsenSys’ Tachyon 2019
- April Update: The 20 Blockchain Projects With the Most Dev Activity on Github
Social Media Hits
- Vitalik Rapping about Eth 2.0 at EDCON in Australia.
Youtube
Office Locations
Hub and Spoke Model
The ConsenSys “hub” spawns, incubates, and accelerates “spoke” ventures through development, resource sharing, acquisitions, investments, and the formation of joint ventures. These spokes benefit from foundational components built by ConsenSys that enable new services and business models to be built on the Ethereum blockchain.
Hub
Labs
Our blockchain venture studio. Labs incubates the best teams of Web3 across the globe, providing them capital, mentorship, and access to ConsenSys’ network of top-tier projects and talent.
Academy
Our educational institution. Academy’s mission is to develop the global blockchain ecosystem by bridging the Ethereum knowledge gap.
- Releases: Ethereum 101 Course available for registration!
- Read “How 1990s Vacuum-Packed Steaks Could Help Bring Ethereum Its Early Majority”
Solutions
Our enterprise arm. Solutions brings blockchain to businesses, helping enterprises, governments, non-profits, and startups across the globe build, test, and deploy public and private blockchain solutions. Solutions offers education, advisory, and development services, as well as opportunities for joint ventures and co-creation.
- Read “Blockchain for Banking and Financial Services”
- Read “An Exploration of 5 Ways Enterprises Can Benefit from Tokenization”
- Read “Designing Trust at Scale: Hiding Enterprise Blockchain Complexity in Products”
Social Impact
ConsenSys Social Impact is leveraging emerging technologies to solve the world’s most pressing issues.
Capital
Capital is our constellation of financial service offerings for digital assets and blockchain-based companies, and also includes token sale advisory and a venture capital studio.
Diligence
ConsenSys Diligence is committed to improving and protecting the Ethereum ecosystem by facilitating technical excellence, security guidelines, legal precautions, and ethical business practices.
Ethereal
Ethereal Summit brings together builders, philosophers, policymakers, artists, and humanitarians from around the world for two days of storytelling and knowledge sharing around how we can build our decentralized future together using blockchain technology.
Ethereal 2019 in New York — May 10th–11th: Get your ticket now!
Alliances and Initiatives
Accounting Blockchain Coalition
Started by ConsenSys’ Balanc3 team, ABC drives innovation in the accounting industry while educating businesses and organizations on accounting for blockchain-based digital assets.
The Brooklyn Project
An industry-wide collaboration utilizing blockchain law, regulation, and policy to promote token-powered economic growth and consumer protection.
Read: “The State of Blockchain Regulation, Policy, and Compliance in 2019”
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)
The industry’s first global standards organization provides guidelines for developing and delivering large-scale, interoperable blockchain implementations.
Rimble Design System
dApps present new hurdles for designers and front-end devs. Rimble creates an open source Web3 design system spearheaded by ConsenSys Design.
Upcoming Events
Cryptocurious? Honing your smart contract development? Explore our global events calendar for meetups, workshops, hackathons, and more.
Spokes and Ventures
AdChain
A community-curated registry of ad-supported websites. Community members are rationally incentivized to include or reject websites from the registry based on the merits of ad performance and inventory quality.
Adhara
Liquidity management and international payments for decentralized financial networks.
AirSwap
A platform that makes it easy to find, price, and trade tokens peer-to-peer on the Ethereum blockchain.
- Release Airswap Instant 2.0
- Read “OTC Spotlight: Grapefruit Trading”
- Read “Using AirSwap Technology and the Consumer Token Framework to Complete a Token Sale”
Alethio
A comprehensive suite of blockchain exploration, analysis, and forecasting products for the Ethereum network.
- Release: Defi Dashboard for an update about decentralized finance analytics and metrics
- Release: Reporting tool is now live — get on-demand data sets and customizable queries
- Read “The DeFi Series — An overview of the ecosystem and major protocols”
Allinfra
All infrastructure, for all — platform for the tokenization of large scale unlisted infrastructure.
- Read “Why Infrastructure”
- Read “Allinfra Medium article series” about tokenizing infrastructure
Benefactory
A community platform for proposing and crowdfunding public goods that contribute to their mission.
Bounties Network
Freelance task fulfillment, paying out in any Ethereum token upon successful completion.
BTC Relay
Ethereum smart contracts can trustlessly verify arbitrary Bitcoin transactions and payments.
Cellarius
Reinventing collective storytelling for a modern, decentralized, equitable world.
Circles
Decentralized basic income.
Civil
A platform for sustainable and trustworthy journalism using open governance and cryptoeconomics.
- Releases: Civil’s community-run journalism network is officially LIVE!
- Become a member today!
ConsenSys Capital Asset Management
Builds institutional market infrastructure for the emerging digital asset class.
ConsenSys Energy
Enterprise and industry-spanning blockchain solutions for the energy sector including trading, markets, and logistics.
Curation Markets
Using tokenized signals to reduce information asymmetry in the market.
Decrypt Media
A daily news site covering all things crypto and the advent of the decentralized web.
- Release: New website
- Release: More New individual profiles on Decrypto Media
- Read “Decrypt Media Manifesto”
- Explore: Join Startup 3.0 Newsletter
Drupal Ethereum
PHP JsonRPC client and Drupal integration.
Endjinn
Simulate your key token mechanisms to get on the awesome future usage timeline.
Fathom
A decentralized peer assessment protocol forming the foundation of a universal academic system.
Gitcoin
The easiest way to leverage the open source community to incentivize or monetize work.
- Metric: $1,231,845 of total platform value
- Read “Microsoft and Gitcoin Team Up to Turn the Traditional Hackathon Model Upside Down”
- Read “Gitcoin Founder Kevin Owocki Explains the Strategy as Platform Passes $1 Million”
Gnosis
Gnosis provides an open platform for businesses to create their own prediction market applications on the Ethereum protocol.
GovernX
A governance platform for creating and managing complex decentralized and distributed organizations.
Grid+
Leverages the public Ethereum blockchain to give consumers direct access to wholesale energy markets.
- Releases: Grid+ is LIVE in Texas with their Retail Electricity Provider
- Watch “A First Look at the Grid+ Lattice1 Hardware Wallet”
Helena
A decentralized platform for curated fundamental token research and analysis.
- Release: “Helena becomes first prediction markets platform dapp on xDai Sidechain”
- Read “Introducing Token-Ranked Lists (TRLs)”
Infura
A scalable, standards-based, globally distributed cluster and API endpoint for Ethereum, IPFS, and other infrastructures.
- Release: Websocket API upgrade is now Live
- Release: Görli Testnet Support is now available
- Read “Introducing Faster Ethereum Logs and Events”
Kaleido
An all-in-one enterprise SaaS platform that radically simplifies the creation and operation of secure blockchain networks and accelerates the journey from PoC to Production.
- Release: Launched support for Microsoft Azure with Borderless Blockchains
- Listen: KaleidoCast the best new blockchain podcast
Kauri
The Ethereum community’s technical knowledge network.
- Explore: Sign up for the Kauri newsletter
- Read “Over 500 articles, tutorials, documentation and best practices”
Liquality
Swap cryptocurrencies without middlemen.
LitePaper
A simple knowledge base for the crypto-verse.
- Read “What are Cryptocurrencies?”
- Explore: Search the project ecosystem.
Meridio
A blockchain platform for creating, managing, and transferring fractional real estate ownership.
MetaMask
MetaMask is a browser extension that allows you to run Ethereum dApps right in your browser without running a full Ethereum node.
- Releases: Version 6.3.0 with full changelog
- Download the MetaMask browser extension
MythX
A security analysis API for Ethereum smart contracts. It powers tools that bring security into the smart contract SDLC.
Nethereum
A .NET integration library for Ethereum allowing users to interact with Ethereum clients like Geth or Parity using RPC.
- Metric: 397,000 downloads
- Releases: Nethereum 3.3
Omega One
A decentralized, automated trade execution platform making crypto trading cheap and safe.
OpenLaw
A blockchain-based protocol for the creation and execution of legal agreements in a user-friendly, compliant way.
- Read: Building Applications Faster with OpenLaw: The Release of OpenLaw “Elements”
- Check out the OpenLaw Elements feature
PegaSys
A protocol engineering team building Ethereum tech for the public chain community and leading enterprises.
- Release: PegaSys Pantheon 1.1 Release
- Read “A (not so) Gentle Introduction to the PCP Theorem — Part 1”
Peeps Democracy
Building voting technology to power democracies, big and small, using the power of the Ethereum blockchain.
Rhombus
Securely connects smart contracts with accurate, computable real-world data.
- Update: Kaleido and Rhombus announce a partnership to bring off–chain data feeds to enterprise blockchains
- Read “An Oracle Tutorial”
- Read “Blockchain Oracles Will Make Smart Contracts Fly”
Sobol
The tools teams need to work decentralized and humanistically.
- Update: Join the waitlist
- Read Sobol’s “Not a Blog”
- Read “How to Build a Decentralized Organization”
Truffle
A development environment, testing framework, and asset pipeline for Ethereum-based smart contracts and dapps.
- Metric: 1,704,957 lifetime downloads
- Get your Ticket for TruffleCon Aug2–4 at Microsoft in Redmond, WA
TruSet
Building multi-sided marketplaces to collect, validate, publish, and commercialize business-critical reference data.
Trustology
A custody platform to safeguard crypto assets, with customizable smart accounts for diverse client needs.
Ujo
A digital rights management platform enabling fairness, transparency, and profitability in music and creative works.
- Release: Ujo now supports streaming payments via Connext’s payment channel technology and MakerDAO’s Dai
- Read “Introducing Streaming Payments for Ujo with Connext Payment Channels and Dai”
uPort
A self-sovereign identity management platform that allows users to register their own identity on Ethereum, send and request credentials, sign transactions, and securely manage keys and data.
- Read “Leading the Way to a Better UX for Decentralized Identity”
- Announcement: Partnership with ABC Platform that democratizes access to commodities trading starting with diamonds.💎
VariabL
A secure, efficient derivatives trading platform on Ethereum that matches traders in secure zero-sum smart contracts.
Viant
A blockchain-based platform for modeling business processes, tracking assets, and building the supply chains of the future.
Read: “Blockchain’s Movable Feast: How The Tech Is Changing Food Supply Chains.”
Virtue Poker
A peer-to-peer community poker platform built on trust, transparency, and fair gaming.
3Box
Profiles and distributed database infrastructure for Ethereum.
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