The Control - Issue #18
The Augur team completed one of the first token sales in the space in October 2015, when it raised $5M. Since then, the project has been relatively quiet; they've released a beta product but that's about it.
I continue to be excited about the promise of permissionless prediction markets and explain why in the latest on The Control: "Improving the Flow of Information in the World."
Required reading this week
Cosmos raises $17M in 30 minutes
Cosmos is led by a credible technical team attempting to solve a big problem in blockchains: interoperability. Their $17M funding in 30 minutes is the latest raise in the wild world of token sales.
Ethereum Dev Roundup: Q1 (Boring Edition) — blog.ethereum.org
The speed at which the Ethereum protocol developers are shipping has been impressive in the young life of Ethereum. Vitalik gives an update and the main goals for the team are likely to continue to be consensus algorithms (proof-of-stake), privacy (zero knowledge proofs) and formal verification.
Proof of Stake: How I Learned to Love Weak Subjectivity — blog.ethereum.org
Speaking of consensus algorithms, this piece by Vitalik in 2014 is an important read for anyone interested in better understanding Ethereum's highly ambitious and controversial planned approach to achieving distributed consensus.
The Bitcoin Holder's Creed — github.com
An important message from Will Binns of 21, who articulates his version of the "Bitcoin Holder's Creed."
Introducing cloud storage in the blockchain with Sia and Nextcloud — nextcloud.com
The decentralized storage project Sia continues to be one of the most underappreciated projects in the space. This week Nextcloud announced an integration with Sia, which is a positive step in making the Sia blockchain more accessible to users.