The Control - Issue #51
While cryptocurrency prices indicate that we're in the midst of crypto winter, there's a growing number of new products launching that are making blockchains useful for behaviors beyond price speculation. These products indicate to us that spring is coming.
A few of our favorite new recent products are:
Instadapp to create CDPs
Veil to participate in prediction markets
Compound to lend or borrow your cryptocurrencies
Uniswap to access new tokens like donuts
All of these require Metamask to use and the UX is not yet ready for a mainstream audience, but if you want to experience what the future open, global financial system looks like these are worth checking out.
Required reading this week
19 Augur Predictions for ‘19 — tokeneconomy.co
Augur has now been live for over half a year. Ben Davidow shares a few thoughts for what 2019 will have in store for Augur.
Business Models Behind Stablecoins — medium.com
Aleks Larsen explores the business models behind different types of stablecoins and their competitive implications.
Blockchain Privacy: Equal Parts Theory and Theater — www.tokendaily.co
Ian Miers goes over real-world privacy threats to privacy coins – including overseer attacks, flashlight attacks, and tainted dust attacks – and what these mean for the privacy road ahead.
The Year in Ethereum — medium.com
Josh Stark takes a long, in-depth look at the past year in Ethereum and highlights the major projects and developments being built on top of Ethereum.
Why Crypto Needs Institutions — hackernoon.com
Haseeb Qureshi explains why the popular crypto-anarchist narrative of destroying institutions for decentralized networks is flawed.
Constantinople Explained — medium.com
The MyEtherWallet team explains the security vulnerability that caused the Constantinople hard fork delay and how it affects users.
1confirmation portfolio reading this week
A guide to Augur market economics — medium.com
The Veil team wrote a guide for how prediction markets work, including the difference between binary and scalar markets and how Augur enables leverage trading.
Augur Interface Veil Acquires Search Engine for Prediction Markets — www.coindesk.com
Veil acquired Predictions.Global, the leading site for exploring data on Augur prediction markets.
Demystifying the Mining Ecosystem — medium.com
Robert Belson from bloXroute explains the differences between nodes and miners within PoW consensus protocols and explores the incentives and roles of mining pools in the ecosystem.