The Control - Issue #39
There’s been a tremendous amount of experimentation and research in bringing privacy to blockchains in the past few years. We covered the complete landscape here: An Overview of Privacy in Cryptocurrencies.
Required reading this week
Toward a million markets… — medium.com
Paradex shares their vision of enabling the trustless trading of millions of tokens.
A Guide to 99% Fault Tolerant Consensus — vitalik.ca
Vitalik takes historical research from Leslie Lamport to propose a way for outside observers to detect foul play on blockchains and prevent 51% attacks.
A few take-aways from the Augur prediction market — versionone.vc
Boris from Version One highlights the opportunities and challenges for Augur.
Zero Knowledge Proofs: An illustrated primer — blog.cryptographyengineering.com
The best explanation we've seen on zero knowledge proofs, the technical underpinning for privacy on the blockchain.
Ekiden — A Hardware Approach to Privacy-Maintaining Smart Contracts — medium.com
A breakdown of the research paper Ekiden, which is the technology behind the privacy project Oasis Labs.
1confirmation portfolio reading this week
A Deep Dive into Nervos with the founding team — medium.com
An interview with the CEO of Nervos about their layered architecture in blockchain design and how that compares to different layers of computer storage (cache, RAM, hard disk).
MakerDAO and Wyre Give Businesses Immediate Access to Dai Stablecoin in Over Thirty Countries — medium.com
MakerDAO partnered with Wyre to convert major fiat currencies directly with the Dai stablecoin.