The Weekly Airdrop #11

6 min readSep 29, 2018

At EOS Detroit, we keep our finger on the pulse of what’s happening in the EOS ecosystem. To keep the community up to speed on the latest breaking news and updates we produce The Weekly Airdrop, an EOS focused research report.

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New Releases

EOSIO 1.3
This release comprises several additional features and fixes, in addition to the cumulative patches made against v1.2. More info.

Key changes:

New WebAssembly Interpreter: wabt (pronounced wabbit)
Trusted Producer: Light Validation
MongoDB improvements
HTTP over Unix Socket support for keosd
Unknown configuration items in config.ini will now error on startup

EOS News

EOS Hackathon — London
Three of EOS Detroit’s founders flew to London to attend the EOS Hackathon. With Brendan Blumer and Dan Larimer as judges, EOS Detroit hacked up and pitched a parental controls app called Famileos to go with the theme of privacy & security.

Congratulations to the winners!

- 1st prize: EoShield
- 2nd prize: Chestnut
- 3rd prize: On the Block

- Greatest Social Impact: Geneos
- Best UX: Chestnut
- Best Social Media Post: cybercodetwins

EOSONE Rankings
EOSONE published a report that re-ranked the top 83 block producers based on an in-depth analysis based on transparency, internationalization, community construction, activity participation, and landing projects.

EOS Detroit was ranked 17th overall according to the new report. Read the report here.

Inaugural EOS Alliance Board Retreat
Amid partially restored stone ruins, the team chalked its meeting notes on a nearby wall, as they laid the groundwork for how the Alliance will unfold over the coming year. Read more.

In Defense of URI
Dan Larimer published a new post on Medium titled In Defense of Universal Resource Inheritance. Read Dan’s post here.

“The concept of URI is something that everyone should carefully consider after setting aside preconceived notions about the nature of property rights, socialism, and capitalism.” — Dan Larimer

EOS Livestreams

EOS Detroit has been livestreaming the EOS Alliance calls on EOS Detroit’s Youtube channel and will continue to do so in the future. Information transparency being easily available is key to the health and well-being of the EOS network. The livestreams allow anyone to follow the evolution of EOS as governance, protocol mechanics, and other top-of-mind concerns are discussed in open forums. View Week 6 call schedule.

EOS Alliance Calls — Livestreams presented by EOS Detroit and EOS NodeOne

More livestreams presented by EOS Detroit:

Telos Contributors Call (09/25/2018)
Live event — Tools for Preserving Black Spaces (09/25/2018)
EOS Education Meeting #3 (09/27/2018)

Stats

Price of EOS: $5.75
EOS Voter Turnout: 25.69%
Market Cap: $5,207,693,009
Price of RAM: 0.12424331 EOS per KiB

Note: The numbers above are accurate as of 11:30 am EST on 09/29/2018.

EOS Detroit News

The State of Blockchain Usability
On September 18th, Steve Floyd from EOS Tribe presented “The State of Blockchain Usability” to Detroiters at Red Door Digital community center. Watch the presentation here.

EOS Hackathon — London
Rob Konsdorf, Adam Zientarski, and Brandon Lovejoy from EOS Detroit were in attendance at the EOS Hackathon in London and Blockchain Live in London. It was an experience our team will never forget and it was great to see familiar faces and meet new ones!

Featured Airdrop of the Week

Airdrops are additional tokens that are distributed to EOS token holders. New projects can bootstrap a user base for their DApp while avoiding the complexity of selling tokens via the traditional ICO method. Projects may withhold founder tokens that can provide a runway for the development team. Market participants then decides the fair market value of airdropped tokens for themselves.

What is Worbli?
The team at WORBLI is comprised of core contributors to the EOS network who have been deeply involved in EOS since the beginning; in launching WORBLI they are aiming to solve one of the most fundamental issues in the cryptocurrency space, namely, the issue of compliance with legacy financial systems. Solving the compliance issue solves a great deal of other issues at the same time, chief among them being access.

What is a Sister Chain?
Like EOS, WORBLI is based upon the EOSIO software developed by Block.One and as such, it may be regarded as a “sister chain” to the EOS Network. Sister chains share the EOSIO code base in common but generally differ in terms of governance, distribution, and other specific policies or features. In this way, EOS, WORBLI, and Telos, are examples sister chains. In the future, inter-blockchain communication (IBC) will enable EOSIO sister chains to be interoperable with one another!

How Worbli will Benefit the EOS Community
The presence of an AML/KYC (Anti Money Laundering & Know Your Customer) compliant EOSIO based blockchain can serve to create a bridge between traditional financial systems and the whole EOSIO ecosystem. Through building fiat to EOS gateways and closing the gap between blockchain technology and the average user by providing services such as “Gamma Bank”, WORBLI is poised to open the floodgates of traditional finance into the entire EOSIO ecosystem.

Key Features of Worbli
(Source: Worbli’s whitepaper)

Compliance: Enterprise business will benefit from full AML/ KYC user account verification.
Account recovery: Provided for all customers. Customer accounts are recoverable when private keys are lost, and transactions can be reversed.
Startup friendly: Startups will benefit from exchange listing and merchant processing services to quickly launch and fund their projects.
Optimized for the enterprise: Businesses and corporations will benefit from predictable pricing models when planning to operate on the network.
Finance-focused blockchain: The network governance is designed to meet the regulatory needs of global financial services and financial technology businesses.

The Worbli “Share Drop”
WORBLI is conducting a 1 Billion (WBI) Token Share Drop on EOS token holders. Public Network Access to the WORBLI network will be enabled following a scheduled network restart on the 1st of November, 2018 at which point WORBLI will be launching a User Portal to facilitate users in setting up their accounts and claiming their tokens on the WORBLI network. The ShareDrop snapshot took place at 11:59 PM UTC, 7 September 2018. You can see all the details of the WORBLI (WBI) token issuance in the WORBLI Short Paper.

Security Tip: Although we trust the open-source WORBLI code, as a best practice you should change your EOS network account keys before importing the EOS genesis keys into any other EOSIO variants.

More Information

WORBLI website
WORBLI News (Telegram group)
WORBLI Community (Telegram group)
Worbli Conference 2018: The Financial District of EOS (September 29–30)