ConsenSys Monthly Report — February 2019
Ethereum dApps, enterprise blockchain solutions, most popular articles, upcoming events, and more.
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.”
–Mark Twain
Ethereum has inspired millions of developers, designers, investors, engineers, business professionals, journalists, educators, and enthusiasts to discover their passion, their “why” for living. Discovering one’s why is unforgettable. It’s a moment filled with captivation, exuberance, and bliss. As ConsenSys continues to develop the Ethereum infrastructure and blockchain companies of the future, we hope to inspire others and help them discover their why.
February is a month filled with love, the glimpse of a new spring, and renewed passion. It was an exciting month for ConsenSys, the Ethereum community, and hopefully, brought many new individuals in the crypto and blockchain ecosystem who experienced the second most important day of their lives. To them we say welcome.
The ConsenSys Vision
Cryptospring: An Atmospheric Report
A compilation of essays from #cryptospring, a series of behind-the-scenes stories about the state of the Ethereum ecosystem from dapp founders, security engineers, data scientists, and more. Click below to download a free copy. ⬇️
Most Popular Articles
- I Read Crypto Twitter for Hours Daily — Here Are 40 Accounts That Really Matter — From the vocal advocates to the sardonic skeptics. Follow the top 40 crypto accounts on Twitter.
- How I Fell Out of Love with the Internet — Meshian Avery Erwin shares his love affair with the internet, and how it all fell apart.
- J.P. Morgan is using Ethereum to launch a ‘digital U.S. dollar’ — here’s what it means for blockchain — Payment rails are changing. Andrew Keys 1.3 outlines the implications of institutional adoption of enterprise blockchain.
- A Weather Report on #Cryptospring — Joe Lubin shares his thoughts on Cryptospring from the ConsenSys Atmospheric Report.
Social Media Hits
- Vitalik reveals his holdings for different tokens amid AMA
- Meridio’s Corbin Page announces a tool to connect dapps and defi components
- ConsenSys Grants now accepting applications! 550k grants awarded throughout 2019.
Youtube
- Watch the Ballad of the BufficornInstagram
- Watch the Blockchain Explained Series by Joseph Lubin
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.
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.
- ConsenSys Ventures. Helps entrepreneurs in the blockchain ecosystem scale businesses through strategic capital and a worldwide network.
- Read “ConsenSys Ventures Look Back on 2018”
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.
Read “Convert Fiat on AirSwap with Wyre”
Alethio
A comprehensive suite of blockchain exploration, analysis, and forecasting products for the Ethereum network.
Allinfra
All infrastructure, for all — platform for the tokenization of large scale unlisted infrastructure.
- Releases: ConsenSys and Allinfra announce a joint venture delivering access, choice and liquidity to investors in unlisted infrastructure assets through blockchain technology.
Balanc3
Financial and accounting tools for digital asset.
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.
- Recap of ETHDenver: UNICEF has partnered with Bounties.Network to implement The Boost Token.
- Read Forbes or Newsweek articles about Bounties Network.
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 starting March 6th.
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.
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: $888,622.07 of total platform value
- Releases: CodeFund (ads for developers), Kudos (reputation badges), and Gitcoin Grants
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: “The Helena Prediction Markets Platform Is Live on Ethereum Mainnet”
- Read “Introducing Token-Ranked Lists (TRLs)”
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.
- Release: Clause.io is now available on Kaleido Marketplace
- Update: Over 1,800 networks, 4600+ nodes and 150M+ blocks generated on Kaleido across Starter, Team, Business and Enterprise plans.
- Read: “New Full-Stack Architecture” which highlights what makes up a complete enterprise blockchain solution.
Kauri
The Ethereum community’s technical knowledge network.
- Update: Completed onboarding for 150+ new users and 21 projects during ETHDenver.
- Update: Smoothly handled 126 hackathon submissions. Check out the winners!
Liquality
Swap cryptocurrencies without middlemen.
- Hiring: Looking for FS javascript dev. Click here to apply.
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.
- Read “Real estate transparency leads to better cities — here’s how blockchain helps”
- Releases: Created Eth This Then That (IFTTT for Ethereum) to connect different dApps and DeFi components without writing a single line of code!
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 6.1.0 which upgrades the UI. Read the additional updates.
- Download the MetaMask browser extension
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 3.0
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.
- Rlease: PegaSys Pantheon 1.0 Release
- Release: intails enterprise-grade features in addition to performance improvements for mainnet.
- Read: “Blockchains and Databases Aren’t the Same Things. Yet”
Rhombus
Securely connects smart contracts with accurate, computable real-world data.
- Release: New Oracle product for Ethereum developers to connect to real-world data.
- Update: Now featured in the Kaleido marketplace.
- Read “Blockchain Oracles Will Make Smart Contracts Fly”
Sobol
The tools teams need to work decentralized and humanistically.
- Update: Six organizations are using Sobol to organize their decentralized teams.
- Read “How to Build a Decentralized Organization”
Truffle
A development environment, testing framework, and asset pipeline for Ethereum-based smart contracts and dapps.
- Metric: 1,484,305 lifetime downloads
- Releases: Ganache v1.3.0 release featuring Constantinople support.
TruSet
Building multi-sided marketplaces to collect, validate, publish, and commercialize business-critical reference data.
- Update: TruSet now has community validated reference data on 150 tokens
- Releases: TruSet Beta Competition 6 is live with 14 ETH available in prizes.
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.
- 1,453 registered users playing 1,500 songs.
- Read “Should We Separate the Art from the Artist?”
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.
- uPort at EthDenver
2163 registrations with uPort
97.3% success rate for check-in - 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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