1confirmation Newsletter - Issue #76
It's been over three years since the ICO craze began. Today we're seeing new funding models like bonding curves and quadratic funding, which are driven by a long-term interest in the success of the ecosystem rather than the short-term greed that fueled ICOs.
Read about one of the most exciting new experiments, quadratic funding on Gitcoin here: On Gitcoin Grants
Required reading this week
The Year in Ethereum 2019 — medium.com
Josh Stark and Evan Van Ness recap the biggest developments in the Ethereum ecosystem in 2019.
Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 4
Vitalik describes the results of the latest Gitcoin Grants quadratic funding round.
The Personal Token Revolution — medium.com
Reuben Bramanathan is tokenizing his own legal consulting time and explains the benefits of doing so.
The Life and Death of Plasma — medium.com
Two years ago, Plasma was considered the future of Ethereum scalability. But today Plasma is dead and everyone has moved on to rollups. Ashwin Ramachandran and Haseeb Qureshi explain what happened.
Computers that can make commitments
Chis Dixon explains how blockchains are computers that make commitments, opening up possibilities in areas like social networks and marketplaces.
1confirmation portfolio reading this week
Brendan Eich on How Brave Is Working to Decentralize — unchainedpodcast.com
Brendan Eich chats with Laura Shin about the growth of Brave.
WiV Technology is bringing fine wine trading to OpenSea — opensea.io
OpenSea is collaborating with WiV Technology to bring tokenized wine bottles to the OpenSea marketplace.
Programmatic Trading on dYdX — medium.com
Programatic trading on dYdX is simple. Learn how to quickly spin up a trading bot on dYdX today.
Edgeware – Coordinating Distributed Communities With On-Chain Governance
Dillon Chen talks about Commonwealth, the governance interface for crypto, and Edgeware, a smart contract platform governed by its stakeholders.
How the Nervos CKByte Gets its Value — medium.com
Nervos explains the CKB token design and how CKB captures value.