DGX & DGD Gold tokens
Digix Gold Token – DGX is a token representing 1 gram of gold.
DGD is the DAO system governance token. System includes Digix Badges (DGB).
Digix Whitepaper describes a much interesting Proof of Asset protocol. ‘The PoA protocol utilises Ethereum and the InterPlanetaryFiles System (IPFS) to track an asset through its chain of custody’.
Parity Wallet Vulnerability Security Alert
“Severity: Critical
Product affected: Parity Wallet (multi-sig wallets)
Summary: A vulnerability in the Parity Wallet library contract of the standard multi-sig contract has been found.
Affected users: Users with assets in a multi-sig wallet created in Parity Wallet that was deployed after 20th July.Continue reading
CRYPTO20 – Crypto Index Fund
CRYPTO20 is a tokenized crypto index fund. Its token trades listed as C20.
The ethereum based, ERC20 compliant smart contract allows for liquidation process. Holders can redeem tokens for the Ether equivalent of the calculated NAV of the crypto assets held by the fund, less an 1% trading fee.
Marketcap or market-share debate aside, cap-ceiling at 10% may cause clearly distinct behaviour from what would be a no-cap portfolio distribution.
Litecoin peer-to-peer payments
Litecoin proposes to complement Bitcoin as a cheaper and faster payment method. Its open source global network allows descentralized transactions handled by blockchain.
Check Litecoin source, library, and other downloads on GitHub
IOTA White Paper
IOTA is a distributed ledger that rellies on spread validation of transactions instead of blocks. Instead of having miners confirming blocks of transactions, each participant issuing a transaction must approve 2 past transactions. Thus consensus is reached by destributed, active users. This data structure, based on Directed Acyclic Graph forms the ledger dubbed “Tangle”. As described in detail in Serguei Popov’s white paper.Continue reading
Ripple (XRP)
Ripple is a global payments network, RippleNet, based on Ripple Transaction Protocol. XRP is the digital asset intended to be used as a cross-currency liquidity utility.
RippleNet proposes a distributed financial network for real-time messaging, clearing and settlement. Continue reading
Whitepaper Database
Maybe selfproclaimed “The World’s Largest Database of Cryptocurrency Whitepapers” is somewhat exaggerated, but no doubt a great go-to whitepaper source.
Tezos: A new digital commonwealth
Tezos a generic and self-amending crypto-ledger. Tezos can instantiate any blockchain based ledger. The operations of a regular blockchain are implemented as a purely functional module abstracted into a shell responsible for network operations, and allows creating governance rules for stakeholders to approve of protocol upgrades that are then automatically deployed on the network.
EOS White Paper
The EOS.IO software introduces a new blockchain architecture designed to enable vertical and horizontal scaling of decentralized applications. This is achieved by creating an operating system-like construct upon which applications can be built. The software provides accounts, authentication, databases, asynchronous communication and the scheduling of applications across hundreds of CPU cores or clusters. The resulting technology is a blockchain architecture that scales to millions of transactions per second, eliminates user fees, and allows for quick and easy deployment of decentralized applications.Continue reading
The Cathedral and the Bazaar – Eric Raymond
Celebrating the publication of “The Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary” by Eric S Raymond. (PDF)
On May 27th, 20 years ago, exposure of Linux Kernel, then a novelty as open source development, now ubiquitous.