The Control - Issue #43
Cryptocurrency price volatility is at or near 15 month lows, but the amount of activity in the ecosystem doesn't seem to be slowing.
As we enter Q4 and head into 2019, there's a lot to be excited about in terms of new products launching on blockchains (many of which can be found here) and we don't think there's ever been a better time to get involved in the space.
Required reading this week
Jordan Clifford gives a great overview of different consensus algorithms and their tradeoffs – PoW, PoS, dPoS, PoST, pBFT, and DAGs.
The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase — www.usv.com
There's an idea in crypto that we need tools before we can build apps. Dani Grant and Nick Grossman explain how usually apps come first and inspire us to build tools, not the other way around.
A Simplified Look at Ethereum’s Casper — medium.com
There are multiple versions of Casper and the documentation is scattered and constantly evolving, so Jacob Eliosoff created a simplified sketch of how Casper works.
In Search of Stability: An Overview of the Budding Stablecoin Ecosystem — bitcoinmagazine.com
A stablecoin, as its name suggests, is a cryptocurrency that is built to retain a stable value. Colin Harper wrote an overview of some of the different types of stablecoins that are making their mark.
Blockchain Governance 101 — medium.com
Vlad Zamfir outlines what he thinks will be five possible outcomes of blockchain governance and encourages people to drop their apathy and get actively involved in governance.
1confirmation portfolio reading this week
dYdX is live on mainnet: Margin trade now on expo — medium.com
dYdX margin trading protocol and expo are both live on mainnet. The protocol enables anyone to trustlessly lend, borrow, and margin trade on any ERC20 token.
CryptoKitties By the Dozen: OpenSea to Bundle Collectibles for Easy Sales — www.coindesk.com
With a new feature called "bundles," OpenSea now enables sellers to offer crypto collectibles at better prices.
Defining the Security Token Stack — medium.com
Harbor describes its security token stack – a network of on-chain smart contracts and off-chain processes that work together to create a holistic solution for issuing, trading, and auditing securities using the blockchain as a store of value.
Twelve weeks after the initial deployment of Augur, the team shares some planned changes for the Augur protocol v2 deployment.
How bloXroute Benefits Miners — medium.com
CTO Soumya Basu explains how the bloXroute Distribution Network lowers the barrier to entry for miners.