ConsenSys Monthly Report — November 2018
Ethereum dApps, enterprise blockchain solutions, most popular articles, upcoming events, and more.
“If the helicopter has any reputation at all, it is because of the men and women who fly them.”
–Igor Sikorsky, helicopter designer
If blockchain technology has any reputation at all, it is because of the people behind it––the developers who write the code, the security experts who audit smart contracts, the designers who simplify UX, the historians and systems theorists who remind us of humankind’s power to reorganize, the social impact teams who are providing faster, frictionless aid, the creatives who hash art to the chain, the storytellers who have dramatized the stakes of making it to Web3, and the users and adopters who are already working peer-to-peer.
Last month, we came back from Devcon IV determined to confront the technical challenges and opportunities that stand before the Ethereum ecosystem. So we’re building, testing, shipping, iterating. More projects are making their way to the market––some from concept to prototype, others from alpha to beta, and still more from testnets to mainnet. Legacy institutions are breaking out of their silos to join consortium networks and work together––in trade finance, supply chain management, energy distribution, and other global industries. Governments and enterprises get it. Ethereum is the IT infrastructure and business model of the future.
All the while, the engineers who are closest to the machine are attending to the protocol itself and layer 2 solutions to deliver throughput and privacy at scale. Ethereum clients are becoming more flexible, maintainable, certifiable. Encryption tools are more robust, and lighter-weight. Multi-sig wallets are going mobile.
November was the month for thanks. We’re thankful to all those who have helped Ethereum make a name for itself. As Thomas Edison once said, “The value of an idea lies in the using of it.” For those of you who have used Ethereum to uncover the potential of human networks, the blockchain owes its reputation to you.
The ConsenSys Vision
Most Popular Articles
- Enterprise Ethereum: Blockchain Use Cases and Applications by Industry— These major sectors are already deploying Ethereum blockchain solutions to solve industry problems.
- MetaMask at DevCon: Privacy Standards, Mobile, and More — 1.3 million downloads later, how has MetaMask improved since last DevCon and where do we go from here?
- The First ConsenSys Tachyon Accelerator — Highlights from the teams behind Netherstorm, Fission, Groundhog, GlobalXplorer, and Quidli.
Social Media Hits
Locations and Headcount
- 20 office locations
- 1000+ employees
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.
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.
- Token Foundry. A global platform that enables anybody to safely, securely, and fairly buy vetted tokens and digital assets.
- ConsenSys Ventures. Helps entrepreneurs in the blockchain ecosystem scale businesses through strategic capital and a worldwide network.
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, policy makers, 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
An initiative started by ConsenSys’ Balanc3 team that is driving innovation in the accounting industry and also educating businesses and organizations on accounting for blockchain-based digital assets.
The Brooklyn Project
An industry-wide initiative to promote token-powered economic growth and consumer protection.
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)
The industry’s first global standards organization for delivering an open, standards-based architecture and specification to accelerate the adoption of Enterprise Ethereum.
Rimble Design System
An open source Web3 design system spearheaded by ConsenSys Design.
TokenWork
A think tank initiative for designing technically and functionally sound consumer tokens and business models.
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.
- Metric: Processed 70,000 transactions in less than two hours
- Read Project Khokha receives inaugural “Best Distributed Ledger Initiative”
AirSwap
A platform that makes it easy to find, price, and trade tokens peer-to-peer on the Ethereum blockchain.
- Metric: 100+ tokens registered
- Read “KeySpace: End-to-End Encryption Using Ethereum and IPFS”
Alethio
A comprehensive suite of blockchain exploration, analysis, and forecasting products for the Ethereum network.
- Metric: Animated every Ethereum account up until block 6.7 million.
- Releases: DEXWatch, a decentralized exchange explorer
- Watch “All of Ethereum”
- Read “Zeus-o-cat and Kerakitty: A Look at CryptoKitties Breeding Patterns and More”
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.
- Metric: 40+ live bounties
- Explore: manila.bounties.network
- In collaboration with Social Impact and coins.ph, Bounties Network just ran a two-day ocean cleanup in the Las Pinas-Paranaque Critical Habitat Area.
BTC Relay
Ethereum smart contracts can trustlessly verify arbitrary Bitcoin transactions and payments.
Cellarius
Reinventing collective storytelling for a modern, decentralized, equitable world.
- Metric: 1,300+ Alpha applicants
- Releases: “Whose Future Is It?” anthology launches December 11
- Read “Why Blockchain Needs Sci-Fi Right Now”
Circles
Decentralized basic income.
Civil
A platform for sustainable and trustworthy journalism using open governance and cryptoeconomics.
- Metric: 18 newsrooms
- Listen to the ZigZag podcast
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: $420,836.97 of total platform value
- Releases: CodeFund (ads for developers), Kudos (reputation badges), and Gitcoin Grants
- Read “Native Meta Transactions: Integrate Signed Message Recovery Directly in your Contracts”
Gnosis
Gnosis provides an open platform for businesses to create their own prediction market applications on the Ethereum protocol.
- Releases: Gnosis Safe, the first smart contract-based wallet for mobile, is now live on mainnet for Android.
- Read “The Parrot and the Viper: A Tale of Ethereum Scalability”
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.
Helena
A decentralized platform for curated fundamental token research and analysis.
- Metrics: 7 consumers and 15 research analysts onboarded to private alpha. 11 reports generated to date.
- Releases: private alpha research platform
- Read “Introducing Token-Ranked Lists (TRLs)”
Infura
A scalable, standards-based, globally distributed cluster and API endpoint for Ethereum, IPFS, and other infrastructures.
- Metric: 10.1B+ API requests per day
- Read “Infura Dashboard Update: Introducing Infura Stats”
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.
- Metric: 1,800 users
- Releases: Kaleido announces the first Blockchain-as-a-Service Subscription Plans built for the full spectrum of enterprise ecosystems
Kauri
The Ethereum community’s technical knowledge network.
- Metric: 200+ articles
- Read the “Full Stack dApp Tutorial Series”
Liquality
Swap cryptocurrencies without middlemen.
- Metrics: 36 GitHub stars
- Releases: testnet alpha for swapping cryptocurrencies peer-to-peer
- Read “10 Years Later: Enter Liquality”
LitePaper
A simple knowledge base for the crypto-verse.
Localties
A community loyalty network that unites independent merchants and their customers to incentivize spending in the local economy.
Meridio
A blockchain platform for creating, managing, and transferring fractional real estate ownership.
- Metric: $2M+ of assets tokenized
- Releases: reLease, a workspace leasing dApp
- Browse tokenized properties
MetaMask
MetaMask is a browser extension that allows you to run Ethereum dApps right in your browser without running a full Ethereum node.
- Metric: 1.2M+ downloads
- Releases: Version 5.0.3
- 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.
- Metric: 18 GitHub stars
- Check out the openlaw-core GitHub
PegaSys
A protocol engineering team building Ethereum tech for the public chain community and leading enterprises.
- Stat: 183 GitHub stars
- Releases: Pantheon, an open source Ethereum client in Java
- Read “The Winners from PegaSys’ First Enterprise Ethereum Hackathon”
Rhombus
Securely connects smart contracts with accurate, computable real-world data.
- Metrics: 14 oracles built
- Read “Rombus API Reference”
Sobol
The tools teams need to work decentralized and humanistically.
Stow
The Stow Protocol helps developers build dApps without cryptography or solidity expertise, and gives end-users control of their data.
Truffle
A development environment, testing framework, and asset pipeline for Ethereum-based smart contracts and dapps.
- Metric: 1,152,059 lifetime downloads
- Check out the Truffle suite
TruSet
Building multi-sided marketplaces to collect, validate, publish, and commercialize business-critical reference data.
- Releases: Token Data Beta launches December 6
- Sign up for TruSet’s pre-launch webinars to get a demo of the platform
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.
- Metric: 320 albums registered on Creator’s Portal
- Releases: Kuraci, a musician’s blog
- Read “Play to the Fans or Play to Yourself? From Viceroy”
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.
- Releases: uPort Developer Libraries 1.0: Connect, Credentials, Transports
- The Swiss Federal Railway is now using uPort to issue certificates for railway workers.
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.
Virtue Poker
A peer-to-peer community poker platform built on trust, transparency, and provably fair gaming.
3Box
Profiles and distributed database infrastructure for Ethereum.
- Metric: 1,692 NPM installs
- Releases: Ethereum Profile––add your info once and share it across dApps.
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