The BUIDL Weekly Newsletter — Block 4

Recognizing the People and Projects building cool things in Crypto

Ankit
The Spectrum
3 min readDec 19, 2018

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It’s truly the BUIDL season. Especially, after Vitalik went all YOLO yesterday night “giving away ETH” to projects building on Ethereum.

And we also saw this guy dropping out of University of Toronto to save Crypto.

Well, we are flushed with money now. Ain’t we?

Enough YOLOing now, let’s dive straight into the latest launches in the cryptoverse that scored some eyeballs.

DAICO Hedge

Built on Kyber Network, DAICO Hedge allows people to seamlessly connect their DAICO projects to kyber as a reserve manager to reduce exposure. Recently, DAICO Hedge was also judged as the winner of ETH Singapore Hackathon.

HashEdge

HashEdge is a decentralized marketplace for generalized crypto mining. In this peer-to-peer marketplace, “miners” can issue tokenized synthetic mining contracts within a few clicks, and investors can trade these standard contracts with limitless liquidity.

Dai.ly

Dai.ly enables Etherless payments with Dai. DAaily allows users to have a Dai-only account, and spend Dai by paying Dai fees instead of Ether. It also allows Ether holders to be delegated to pay the gas fees in Ether, and get reimbursed in Dai.

DPAGE

Built on Blockstack by Val Repsys and Tautvilas Mecinkas, DPAGE is a decentralised webpage creator. It stores your data and publishes your pages on the decentralized web.

DPAGE lets you:

  • Create simple and neat webpages
  • Give your pages a custom link
  • Create private or public notes and snippets
  • Quickly publish articles and blog posts
  • Embed social media and other web content

StretchVM

Another gem from ETHSingapore, StretchVM is an Ethereum’s Virtual Machine (EVM) that supports cross-shard messages (built into the block structure)

OpenNode

Built by Brandon A. Lewis, João de Almeida, Rui Gomes and Afnan Rehman, OpenNode is the most straightforward bitcoin payments stack for your business. It offers e-commerce plugin solutions and a payments API for any developer looking to monetize any idea.

With a focus on design and using the power of the Lightning Network, OpenNode has enabled micro transactions for anyone daring enough to experiment with new business models.

t-bZx

t-bZx allows people to borrow and loan ETH(and a lot of other cool thinks) with a Telegram bot. It also lets you:-

  • Create an ETH wallet
  • Send ETH to other users (By address and @nickname)
  • View balance of your Wallet
  • Request for Loans
  • Accept Loan Requests

Ankit Kumar Singh is the Product & Community Evangelist at Prism Labs, makers of Xpo.Network and Bridge.Academy. Reach out to him ankit@prism.io

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