ConsenSys Monthly Report — June 2019
Ethereum dapps, enterprise blockchain solutions, most popular articles, upcoming events, and more.
“I think cryptocurrency doubters are finding it hard to continue their cause.”
June’s monthly report is filled with incredible 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. June brought us record worthy weather and exciting developments throughout the blockchain ecosystem.
With June passes the winter and summer solstices. If your day was long, relish the long days that you have left in your summer. If your day was short, take solace in the fact that each day grows longer as your winter passes. If you’re involved in crypto, rejoice that you’re able to participate in such a revolutionary event.
The ConsenSys Vision
Most Popular Articles
- What are people searching for? “Bitcoin is Bigger than Donald Trump, Tesla, and Kim Kardashian”
- Trending: “20 Blockchain Projects With the Most Dev Activity on Github"
- Blockchain Developer Job Kit: The Blockchain Jobs Report 2019
Social Media Hits
- Iceland’s Currency Will Be First in Europe to Be Traded as E-Money
- Road to Serenity Infographic
- Chief Technology Officers from komgo®, Greenfence, and UnionBank of the Philippines share advice for those embarking on enterprise blockchain projects.
- Blockchain Developer Job Kit
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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.
- Read “The Beyond Blockchain Hackathon By Gitcoin & ConsenSys Labs”
- Read: “7 Essential Explainers for New Blockchain Startups”
- Watch “Tachyon II Demo Day Pitches”
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.
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.
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 Makes Traditional Tax Season Anything But Traditional.”
The Brooklyn Project
An industry-wide collaboration utilizing blockchain law, regulation, and policy to promote token-powered economic growth and consumer protection.
Listen: “The BKP Podcast–Episode 2: Crypto Regulatory Landscape in Hong Kong”
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)
The industry’s first global standards organization provides guidelines for developing and delivering large-scale, interoperable blockchain implementations.
Read: “Setting the Standard: Future of blockchain in the supply chain.”
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.
Alethio
A comprehensive suite of blockchain exploration, analysis, and forecasting products for the Ethereum network.
- Release: New Alethio API available on the Alethio Dev Portal
- Release: Reporting tool is now live — get on-demand data sets and customizable queries
- Read “The DeFi Series — Statistics Around Maker CDPs Loans and Top Users”
Allinfra
All infrastructure, for all — platform for the tokenization of large scale unlisted infrastructure.
- Read “The Advantages of a Token”
- Watch “Why we created Allinfra”
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.
- Sign up for the Civil Weekly Newsletter!
- Read the Civil Blog
- 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: More New individual profiles on Decrypto Media
- Read “The Coinbase Effect”
- 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: $1,633,847.78 of total platform value
- Read “The Gig Economy has Arrive for Coders and Programmers”
- Read “The Beyond Blockchain Hackathon By Gitcoin & ConsenSys Labs”
- Read “Github Sponsors and Gitcoin Grants”
Gnosis
Gnosis builds new market mechanisms to enable the distribution of resources — from assets to incentives, and information to ideas.
Release: dxDAO launched, check it out today!
- Read “The dxDAO has awoken”
- Release: New Community Chat for Gnosis
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.
- Read “The Phonon Network”
- Release: Lattice Pre-sale now open
- Read “Understanding the Safe Card”
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.
- Read: Infura June 2019 Update
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.
- Event: Enterprise Blockchain Meetup with CEO Panel, Q&A and Networking in Raleigh.
- Twitter: AWS and Kaleido Paris Meetup.
Kauri
The Ethereum community’s technical knowledge network.
Liquality
Swap cryptocurrencies without middlemen.
- Announcement: BTC, ETH, DAI Cross-Chain Atomic Swaps Launched by Liquality on Mainnet.
- Read: “Liquality co-founder Thessy Mehrain: Keep testing your assumptions.”
LitePaper
A simple knowledge base for the crypto-verse.
- Read: “Facebook Libra Explained.”
- 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.
- Read: “Dependency Audit Retrospective: June 2019.”
- 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.
- Release: Mythril v0.21.5
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.
PegaSys
A protocol engineering team building Ethereum tech for the public chain community and leading enterprises.
- Announcement: “Pantheon Certification and PegaSys Partner Program”
- Release: Update to Pantheon 1.1.3
Peeps Democracy
Building voting technology to power democracies, big and small, using the power of the Ethereum blockchain.
- Connect: Twitter
Rhombus
Securely connects smart contracts with accurate, computable real-world data.
Sobol
The tools teams need to work decentralized and humanistically.
- Update: Join the waitlist
Treum
Same project, new name. Treum is a blockchain-based platform for modeling business processes, tracking assets, and building the supply chains of the future.
- Watch “Treum’s “Bait to Plate” short film.
- Read “The First Organic-Certified, US Hemp Crop Tracked on the Ethereum Blockchain.”
Truffle
A development environment, testing framework, and asset pipeline for Ethereum-based smart contracts and dapps.
- Get your Ticket for TruffleCon Aug2–4 at Microsoft in Redmond, WA
- Metric: 1,920,908 lifetime downloads
- Release: v5.0.25 released!
- Read “Truffle Teams Interview with Mike Seese”
- Read: “Microsoft Azure Integrates Support for Truffle Ethereum Tools.”
TruSet
Building multi-sided marketplaces to collect, validate, publish, and commercialize business-critical reference data.
- Update: Read the results of TrueSet Beta Comp13
- Read: “TruSet and Imbrex Partner to Create the First Blockchain-Based State-By-State Collection of Residential Real Estate Contracts.”
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.
- Release: “Goodbye uPort DIDs, Hello Ethr-DIDs”
- Read: Welcome to uPortlandia!
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.
- Read: “And the winner is…”
3Box
Profiles and distributed database infrastructure for Ethereum.
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