Mindfully Curated
If DEVCON1 proved anything in spades, it was certainly the enthusiasm, creativity, and momentum of the Ethereum developer community. Utilizing the never-before-seen potential unleashed by the Ethereum World Computer, our small-but-growing community is …
Now that Ethereum has launched and is rapidly nearing its Homestead phase, over the last few months we at the Ethereum Foundation have finally had the chance to have some breathing room and plan our strategies with a more long-term view. From a develop…
Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir for introducing the idea of by-block consensus and convincing me of its merits, alongside many of the other core ideas of Casper, and to Vlad Zamfir and Greg Meredith for their continued work on the protocol In the last p…
Special thanks to Gavin Wood for prompting my interest into abstraction improvements, and Martin Becze, Vlad Zamfir and Dominic Williams for ongoing discussions. For a long time we have been public about our plans to continue improving the Ethereum pr…
ARK believes AMZN is jumping ahead due to its robot system deployed in its distribution centers. Read the full retail robot research article.
This is the third and final post on a series on how to use the Ethereum Wallet to create your own autonomous organisations. On the first post we detailed how to create a token, and on the second we shown how to generate a digital democracy c…
This is a second post on a series on how to use the current Ethereum tools to build smart contracts without needing programming experience. Download the latest version of the Ethereum Wallet, read the first part and let’s have fun!
A lot of things have happened in the past few weeks in the Ethereum ecosystem, so many that it might be hard for a casual observer to understand where we are and what’s available out there. So I would like to use my first post here to give you an…
Amazon Drones Could Deliver a Package in Under Thirty Minutes for One Dollar. The Drone Delivery Program could be revolutionary.
Considering the many examples of prolonged IoT standards disputes…For the IoT to harness and fulfill its potential it is key to create an IoT standard…
Instagram Monetization: With 650 million users, how much revenue would Instagram generate for Facebook? This analysis assumes Instagram follows growth…
Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir for his work in developing many of the ideas behind prediction markets for content curation. For the past six years, people have been searching to try to find those elusive applications of blockchain technology that could…
Merkle trees are a fundamental part of what makes blockchains tick. Although it is definitely theoretically possible to make a blockchain without Merkle trees, simply by creating giant block headers that directly contain every transaction, doing so pos…
Friction in the labor market costs the US economy more than $630B per annum as shown in the chart below. Given ARK’s expectations for job turnover…
One of the major security challenges of the internet over the last twenty years has consistently been the rather simple problem of securing user accounts. Right now, users have accounts with hundreds of websites, and dozens of passwords, leading to lar…
As the micro sharing economy grows, inefficiencies will be squeezed out… The Internet of things (IoT) is creating a new dimension of sharing ecosystem:
With DEVCON1 a mere week away, the teams are excited and preparing to share all the great tools and technology the ecosystem has to offer. There will be hundreds of developers and dozens of talks including Nick Szabo, Vitalik Buterin, and Marley Gray f…
London, United Kingdom, October 28th – Ethereum is happy to announce that Microsoft will sponsor and attend DΞVCON1, the premier Ethereum developer conference. Marley Gray, Director of Technology Strategy US Financial Services at Microsoft said, “Micr…
This white paper investigates how the Bitcoin network will be sustained, especially as its incentive structure changes in coming years.
Tesla’s improvements in its battery technology demonstrate the durability of its competitive lead… Advantage by innovating on its battery technology.