ConsenSys Monthly Report — August 2019
Ethereum dapps, enterprise blockchain solutions, most popular articles, upcoming events, and more.
“Ethereum won’t fail. It is massively decentralized, it’s useful, it’s growing incredibly quickly, and it is antifragile. Whatever you throw at it will make it stronger.”
-Joe Lubin, Co-Founder of Ethereum
August’s monthly report is filled with exciting 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 reader, jump right into the good stuff — the top tweets, events, videos, and reads from the past month.
In August, we felt the blistering heat rising from ETHSommer. Hyperledger Besu became the first public blockchain on Hyperledger. Panvala launched on mainnet at DappCon. ConsenSys launched Daisy — a platform to manage crypto payments. Narly the ConsenSys SpokesNarwhal made its debut at ETH Berlin. MakerDAO teamed up with OpenLaw to make DAI a global currency.
And if that wasn’t enough…
The Star Trek universe announced their digital crypto collectables: six ships from the Trek universe will be digitally minted, cryptographically secured, and provided in limited supply as ERC-721 items. We’ll be able to play with them within the Crypto Space Commander game.
What a time to be alive!
Keep reading for further updates from the Mesh.
The ConsenSys Vision
Most Popular Articles
- What are people searching for? “Ethereum Has 4x More Developers Than Any Other Crypto Ecosystem”
- Trending: “The State of Stablecoins, 2019”
- ConsenSys Academy Webinar: “On-Demand Webinar: Blockchain and the Future of Commerce”
Social Media Hits
Youtube
- Blockchain for Schools with ConsenSys Academy
- Joe Lubin dropped some amazing Ethereum nuggets at DappCon. “Ethereum’s superpower is decentralization, its #opensource bazaar approach. Problems pop up and people show up from all over to address them.” #ETHSommer
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.
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.
- Watch: “Enterprise Ethereum vs other business blockchains?”
- Read: “Hyperledger Unanimously Approves First Ethereum Codebase For Enterprises”
- Read: komgo Case Study: Blockchain for Commodity Trade Finance
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.
- Read: MEET Brings Together Young Israeli and Palestinian Entrepreneurs — Now It’s Coming to Ethereal TLV
- Grab your Ethereal Tel Aviv Ticket!
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.
Read: Crypto Trends Every CPA Should Know In 2019
The Brooklyn Project
An industry-wide collaboration utilizing blockchain law, regulation, and policy to promote token-powered economic growth and consumer protection.
Listen: “New Territories Ep 007: Syndicated Loans — LSTA And OpenLaw Collaboration”
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)
The industry’s first global standards organization provides guidelines for developing and delivering large-scale, interoperable blockchain implementations.
Read: “Telecom Leaders Unveil Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Blockchain Use Case Playbook”
Rimble Design System
An open-source library of React components and guides to help you make dApps everyone can use.
Try: The Rimble Demo app
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 Trader
- Read: Introducing AirSwap Trader
Alethio
A comprehensive suite of blockchain exploration, analysis, and forecasting products for the Ethereum network.
- Read: “A Guide to Deploying Alethio’s Free Open Source Products”
- Read: “Understanding the Decentralized Finance Movement and Ethereum Through Blockchain Data”
Allinfra
All infrastructure, for all — platform for the tokenization of large scale unlisted 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.
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.
- Read: “Hong Kong protests are accelerating bitcoin adoption”
- Read: “Ethereum is halal, conclude prominent Muslim scholars”
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.
- Gitcoin hits $2million of Gross Marketplace Value!
- Read: “Virtual Hackathons Continue to Grow with Gitcoin’s Ethereal Blocks”
Gnosis
Gnosis builds new market mechanisms to enable the distribution of resources — from assets to incentives, and information to ideas.
- Watch: Gnosis CEO Martin Köppelmann and Joseph Lubin discuss the state of Ethereum at DappCon 2019.
- Apply: Gnosis offers $3,000 microgrants to teams interested in building a
@WalletConnect integration that is compatible with the Safe.
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.
- Announcement: Grid+ has integrated @WalletConnect into the #Lattice1’s mobile app!
- Watch: Lattice1 Build and Security Overview
Helena
A decentralized platform for curated fundamental token research and analysis.
Infura
A scalable, standards-based, globally distributed cluster and API endpoint for Ethereum, IPFS, and other infrastructures.
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.
- Webinar: “Enterprise Blockchain: Top Considerations Before You Deploy”
- Read: Kaleido REST API Gateway provides enterprise-grade connectivity to deploy & manage #smartcontracts in seconds.
- Watch: “Greenfence Consumer helps big brands achieve customer engagement rates of 65%”
Kauri
The Ethereum community’s technical knowledge network.
- Announcement: Java Ethereum community created and curated by members of PegaSys, Web3Labs, and IOBuilders and the Kauri team.
- Read: “Devcon5 Osaka online ticket Auction”
- Read: “Gamifying Crypto Assets with the ERC998 Composables Token Standard”
Liquality
Swap cryptocurrencies without middlemen.
LitePaper
A simple knowledge base for the crypto-verse.
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.
- Release: v7.1.0.
- Read: “Introducing Web3 Permissions”
MythX
A security analysis API for Ethereum smart contracts. It powers tools that bring security into the smart contract SDLC.
- Read: “Announcing MythX Pro”
- Sign up: MythX beta.
Nethereum
A .NET integration library for Ethereum allowing users to interact with Ethereum clients like Geth or Parity using RPC.
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: “Rocket Lawyer To Formally Launch ‘Stablecoin’ For Smart Contracts By Early 2020”
- Read: “The Future of Savings: Real-time Payment and Automatic Savings using Compound’s cDai and OpenLaw”
- Read: “Turning DAI into a Global Currency: Using DAI as the Medium of Exchange of Choice for On-chain Financial Transactions on OpenLaw”
Panvala
A decentralized foundation that provides sustainable funding through grants.
- Read: About Panvala
- Release: v.0.5.0
- Read: Panvala Launching On Mainnet At DappCon 2019
PegaSys
A protocol engineering team building Ethereum tech for the public chain community and leading enterprises.
- Read: “Why We Contributed Our Ethereum Client to The Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Community”
- Read: “Accelerate Blockchain Deployment with Kubernetes + Pantheon”
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.
Sobol
The tools teams need to work decentralized and humanistically.
Treum
Same project, new name. Treum helps businesses build trust with their customers by bringing transparency, traceability, and tradability to supply chains.
Truffle
A development environment, testing framework, and asset pipeline for Ethereum-based smart contracts and dapps.
- Release: v5.0.34: Chocolate-Frosted Dougnut is out! Truffle now supports nodejs12.
- Read: “Truffle University: The Inaugural Experience”
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.
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: “Creating Trust by Redesigning the Way Data is Shared”
VariabL
A secure, efficient derivatives trading platform on Ethereum that matches traders in secure zero-sum smart contracts.
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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