Introduction Giveth is looking to revolutionize charitable giving. They want the Giver closer to the people directly involved in the charitable works and remove the middleman (dis-intermediate). They will do this using a DAO. The DAO takes the place of most of the intermediary’s roles. Several people are involved in the process, as will be …
Introduction Grid+ is a powerful application that can be marketed to standard consumers, save them significant money without any knowledge of blockchain. The premise is very attractive. Plug in a device, give it credits and it will reduce your electrical bill for you. It introduces a household appliance that trades on the blockchain on your …
Overview District0x calls themselves a collective of decentralized marketplaces and communities, when in fact they are an infrastructure group (you could never call them a company) that will enable their vision of decentralized marketplaces. This is great, because the big up-front work is on the infrastructure. The infrastructure code is called d0xINFRA. I won’t call …
CryptoKitties is an Ethereum blockchain collectable game that had a big impact on the blockchain when it came out in November 2017. Their goals, as stated in their whitepaper were to; Gamify the unique features of the blockchain. Make an application that was approachable, easy for the non-technical, and fun. Make a self-sustaining financial model …
Overview This use case covers creating entities, functionally incorporated companies, based entirely on the Blockchain without the need of lawyers, notaires or even governments. The company developing this software is Aragon. You create and run your company via a webpage or a dedicated application. On this page you can add partners, issue shares, onboard and …
Overview Identity applications or Self-Sovereign Identities are poised to make one the biggest impacts on our daily lives of all Blockchain applications. Anyone can use it without an Ethereum wallet or any Ethereum knowledge. Both uPort and Civic have apps for phones that can be downloaded and stored and used in their present basic forms. …
Ethereum was announced by Vitalik in January 2014, so perhaps its too short to be considered history. A good story of Ethereum’s early days is here. Ethereum Network Development Plan At its outset, Ethereum was a designed as a development program. Four releases were initially foreseen; Frontier, Homestead, Metropolis and Serenity. Metropolis has now been …
What is Ethereum? I will not redefine what others have done previously. The first description is lighter and has pictures and quotes. The second description is more complete, by the Ethereum Foundation, and longer. A short history of Ethereum is here.
The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) is a utility that allows names to be associated with Ethereum Addresses. An Ethereum address is a 40 character hex number (0x1d8a08c8c3ce0a852cb4da902754991759f7f625). It is far too long to type or dictate practically without errors. ENS allows you to shorten this to a simple name (such as rexhygate.eth). I would recommend …
This post is about a Use Case that actually exists. I would like to give a big shout-out to Reine Revere who gave an excellent talk at the Decentralized Web Montreal meetup on July 28 I hope this post will summarize all she said but any errors or oversimplifications are my alone. The program is called …