Colony Blog (Page 3)

Why Ethereum Projects Don’t Need Silicon Valley

HBO’s Silicon Valley does a pretty good job of lampooning the absurdity of The Bay Area’s startup circus. At the heart of satire though is always a kernel of truth.

Blockchain

Visions of the Future: Ownage

We can see the beginnings of a trend where the blockchain is being used to expand an imaginary world beyond the confines of a single game, and to connect the game world to the real one.

Blockchain

SAFTE: A Simple Agreement for Future Tokens (or Equity)

The SAFTE: how to apply a Simple Agreement for Future Equity to tokenized assets

Blockchain

Token-weighted Voting Implementation Part 3

This is the last of a 3-part article which presents the Solidity-based implementation of the Token weighted voting protocol.

Ethereum

Why I Have Stood Down as a Judge of hack.ether.camp

Edit: This article was previously longer. I had, for the sake of transparency, provided the entirety of an email I sent to Roman regarding a number of my concerns. In the interests of

Solidity

Code Coverage for Solidity

Ensuring the security of deployed Ethereum contracts is one of the most important challenges facing Ethereum developers today.

Ethereum

Token-weighted Voting Implementation Part 2

This is the second of a 3-part article which presents the Solidity-based implementation of the Token weighted voting protocol.

Ethereum

Token-weighted Voting Implementation Part 1

This is the first of a 3-part article which presents the Solidity-based implementation of the Token weighted voting protocol.

Blockchain

Visions of the Future

The most ambitious manifestation of the Colony protocol is the ‘True DAO’. True DAOs solve the problems of coordination, cognition, and collaboration traditionally solved by ‘the firm’.

Ethereum

Writing Robust Smart Contracts in Solidity

Before contract function code executes, it’s a good idea to validate who triggered it and what inputs are given.

Blockchain

Why a Post Hard Fork Ethereum Will be More Valuable

As the decision therefore lies with us, the Ethereum community, here is why I believe the fork which excises theDAO from the chain will prove more valuable and why you should support it.

Ethereum

Writing Upgradable Contracts in Solidity

Ethereum contracts are immutable — once deployed to the blockchain they cannot be updated, yet the need to change their logic with time is ultimately necessary. This article presents one way to implement upgradeable Ethereum contracts.

Blockchain

An Ethereum hard fork is not a bailout; it’s foiling a bank robbery.

The 2008 bank bailouts came as a result of greed, arrogance and the systematic exploitation of those least able to protect themselves. As you all know, these banks were “bailed out” by the taxpayers. Their bad behaviour was not punished, and the rest of us had to foot the bill.

Education

An Ethereum Platform for Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

Learn about the vision behind Colony's platform for decentralized autonomous organizations by founder Jack du Rose at this exclusive presentation

Ethereum

#TrueDAO

We made some of the most extraordinary jewellery in the world. Work which, if I may say so myself, put the best of the world’s top luxury brands to shame.

Blockchain

The DAO: How to Not Fuck it Up.

For the uninitiated, “The DAO” is, in simple terms, the world’s first decentralised investment fund. A smart contract based investment club where the Ether used to purchase DAO tokens may be used to finance proposals made to it. DAO token holders will then vote on whether to accept each proposal.

Future of Work

The Future of Work

All ants are part of a colony, and all colonies have a queen. Despite her royal title, other than laying eggs, the queen has no special abilities. She is not in command and she issues no orders. In fact, there is no central control; no ant is directing the activity of any other ant.