ConsenSys Monthly Report — March 2019
Ethereum dApps, enterprise blockchain solutions, most popular articles, upcoming events, and more.
“What is coming is better than what is gone.”
–Arabic Proverb
March’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 the Mesh.
If you’re a frequent follower, jump right into the good stuff––the top tweets, events, videos, and reads from the past month. In March, we said hello to the first day of spring and goodbye to winter. As the seasons come and go, ConsenSys continues to evolve and grow.
The ConsenSys Vision
Most Popular Articles
- The 100+ Project Pioneering Decentralized Finance — The stablecoins, DEXs, investing, derivatives, payments, lending, and insurance platforms building on Ethereum
- Joe Lubin at SXSW––Ethereum Will Handle Millions of Transactions Per Second Within Two Years
- Jim Jagielski on Why Open Source and Blockchain Must Unite — The Co-Founder of the Apache Software Foundation is on a mission to bring the two communities together.
- Cisco: Blockchain Market Will Be $10 Billion by 2021— Tech behemoth and EEA member Cisco is making big moves into decentralized networks
Social Media Hits
- Almost all of the top 20 blockchain projects with the most developer activity on Github are building on Ethereum
- Cisco believes that $10B will be poured into the blockchain market by 2021
- Agnes Budzyn, Managing Director of Global Growth at ConsenSys, has been selected as one of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders
Youtube
- 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.
- Read “An Exploration of 5 Ways Enterprises Can Benefit from Tokenization”
- Read “Enterprise Ethereum: Blockchain Use Cases and Applications by Industry”
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”
- Tachyon 2019 kicks off April 1st 2019
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.
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: Dex Watch the decentralized exchange explorer
- Release: Reporting tool is now live––get on-demand data sets and customizable queries
- Read Alethio’s analysis in Coindesk’s article “Crypto Mogul Moshe Hogeg’s ICOs Have Unusual Patterns, Analysis Finds”
Allinfra
All infrastructure, for all — platform for the tokenization of large scale unlisted infrastructure.
- Read “Why Infrastructure”
Balanc3
Financial and accounting tools for digital assets.
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!
- 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: New individual profiles on Decrypto Media
- Read “EXCLUSIVE: The inside story of Spankchain”
- 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: $1,020,996 of total platform value
- Releases: New features on Gitcoin––new homepage, bounties, notifications, grants, and more!
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
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
Liquality
Swap cryptocurrencies without middlemen.
- Read “Atomic Swaps Explained”
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
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.
- Release: PegaSys Pantheon 1.0 Release
- Watch the PegaSys webinar about IBFT 2.0 and Enterprise Consensus
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 “Blockchain Oracles Will Make Smart Contracts Fly”
Sobol
The tools teams need to work decentralized and humanistically.
- Update: Sobol version 1.2 is Live
- 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: 1,598,472 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.
- 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.
- Release: mobile version 1.6 released
- 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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