State Change

We have some interesting neighbours around the ConsenSys offices in Bushwick. Located down the street, Ryan King and Katya Zavayalova are establishing a decentralized architecture office. Foam aspires to use crowd equity and the DAO model to bring much needed flexibility and freedom to the field of architecture. http://foam.space Content: Ryan John King, Katya Zavyalova, Arthur Falls Editing: Richard Toth https://twitter.com/foamspace https://twitter.com/katya_zavyalova https://twitter.com/arthurfalls http://podcast-editing.com

Intellectual property arrangements in the music industry can be incredibly complex. This is both the result and the cause of the numerous intermediaries that sit between the listener and the artist. Ujo aims to solve this problem for the benefit of all. Jesse Grushack explains. http://ujomusic.com/ Content: Jesse Grushack, Arthur Falls Editing: Richard Toth https://twitter.com/JesseGrushack https://twitter.com/arthurfalls http://podcast-editing.com

Nick Dodson is the creator of blockchain governance DApp BoardRoom. The plaform is designed to interoperate with Weifund, his equity crowdfunding Dapp. Together they use the trustless nature of the blockchain to provide decentralized equity based crowdsale and governance tools for online communities. Having featured uPort and MetaMask on recent episodes, it’s interesting to see the how these core components are so important to the kind of higher level applications Nick has been working on. http://boardroom.to/ http://weifund.io/ Content: Nick Dodson, Arthur Falls Editing: Richard Toth https://twitter.com/iamnickdodson https://twitter.com/arthurfalls?lang=en http://podcast-editing.com

Systems architect Christian Lundkvist explains self sovereign identity through the lens of ConsenSys’ identity management platform uPort. Self sovereign identity is a key infrastructure component of the blockchain ecosystem. http://uport.me Content: Arthur Falls, Christian Lundkvist Editing: Richard Toth http://podcast-editing.com

Regis is a decentralized key/value storage Dapp. Use cases include property and domain name registry, and also online store product registries. Access control features and auction tools give the creator a suite of options for managing the way users interact with their registry. Lead developer Daniel Novy explains. http://regis.nu Content: Arthur Falls, Daniel Novy Editing: Richard Toth http://podcast-editing.com

Andrew Keys leads business development and strategy for ConsenSys Enterprize spoke, focusing on the ideation of business solutions for Fortune 500 companies. These include standardizing Know Your Client solutions and tracking the provenance of assets. Andrew also explains the ConsenSys-Microsoft partnership and Blockchain as as Service strategy. Content: @ConsenSysAndrew , @arthurfalls consensysmedia.net

John Crain explains Blockapps and consortium ledgers @jallancrain http://blockapps.net/

York Rhodes of Microsoft explains how blockchain technology fits into the software giant’s long term roadmap. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/ @yorkerhodes @arthurfalls media.consensys.net

Inflekt is an open source tribal network and events management platform. It enables a secure and fluid web of individuals’,’ tribes, and relationships between tribes based upon events attended and roles that were held at those events. It allows sharing responsibility for events and manage themselves according to group-defined rules. Tribes can arise withheld their own rules around membership, contributions in order to sustain membership, and different styles of management. It is a portal to a new frontier of cyber space in which individuals and groups can stake their claim by owning their information (data) and managing their identities. Cryptography ensures that what data wants to stay private can, and what data wants to be shared with other specific groups can as well. No one can advertise to the tribe or mine their information unless they collectively decide. Inflekt will begin as a series of events called The Entropy Experiment in New York City. Email party@inflekt.us to request an invitation or suggest a contribution. Options to purchase tickets or earn them by contributing to the not-for-profit event, and vote on use of extra proceeds.

Safemarket is a suite of peer to peer commerce protocols designed to enable trustless exchange of goods and services. Lead developer Aakil Fernandes explains the details and the future of Ethereum.

Today Troy Murray, founder of The Rudimental, an equity crowd funding platform for artists, discusses the SEC's recent guidance relating to crowd funding and the platform he is building to empower individual creatives. www.therudimental.com

ConsenSys Systems is a venture production studio building businesses and business infrastructure using the global compute platform Ethereum. Founder, Joseph Lubin explains the mission and structure of the organization. consensysmedia.net @consensysllc