Blog - Agoric

May 2022 Newsletter: Prague + Rewards + Security

Hello from the growing team at Agoric — yes, we’re hiring. See below. We’ve just finished up...

Agoric Community Call 19: BLD Staking, Distribution, Roadmap

Every monthly Community Call at Agoric is an opportunity for us to talk about what we’re doing,...

April 2022 Newsletter: Agoric Staking Month

Hello from the growing team at Agoric (see job listings down below). First and foremost, we want to...

Next Steps for CoinList BLD Purchasers

At the end of 2021, some 48,000 new token holders were added to the Agoric community. This article...

March 2022 Newsletter: Roadmap + CoinList + Validators

Hello from a distributed workplace (potentially) near you — beyond our HQ, just south of San...

February 15, 2022

A Deep Dive into Agoric: JavaScript Smart Contracts

Originally published on CoinList • Dec 28, 2021 Last week, we announced the Agoric Token Sale on...

February 11, 2022

February 2022 Newsletter: Token Sale Recap + Blue Lava 2022 Conference + Validator Delegation Program

Join us on Twitter this Wednesday, Feb 2, @ 9am PST / 17:00 UTC for our next Community Call! ...

January 28, 2022

Validator Delegation Program

The Agoric network is a Proof-of-Stake chain using the Cosmos-SDK and the Tendermint consensus...

January 22, 2022

A Look at Our Recent Public Sale

What an awesome and incredibly fast moment occurred at the very end of 2021. In barely two hours on...

January 11, 2022

January 2022 Newsletter: BLD Public Sale + Blue Lava Conference + 2022 Forecast

Happy New Year! We’re delighted to share that on Dec 29th, 2021, Agoric’s public sale took...

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November 18, 2021

The Path to Verified BLDs : How Informal Systems and Agoric Are Using Formal Methods Analysis to Improve Software Integrity

Agoric engaged Informal Systems to begin formally verifying the Agoric JavaScript VM (SwingSet), a...

November 10, 2021

November 2021 Newsletter: Mainnet Phase 0 is Live!

The Agoric public chain is live! Dive into all the details on our Mainnet Phase 0 blog...

November 5, 2021

Mainnet Phase 0 Launch

BLD Distribution, Governance, and what Phase 0 brings to the table On November 1st, 2021, Agoric’s...

October 6, 2021

Purple Teaming: How MetaMask and Agoric hunted bugs to harden JavaScript

📥 Download Hardened JS Security Report This summer, the Agoric and MetaMask teams kicked off the...

October 6, 2021

October 2021 Newsletter: Hardened JS – A Safer Web3

It’s officially fall! New weather, changing leaves, and most importantly, new opportunities....

September 7, 2021

September 2021 Newsletter

Greetings from the Agoric crew! Wonder what we’ve been up to? Well, join our Community Call #12...

August 27, 2021

Testnet Phase 4 Recap: Stress Test

We pushed the system to its limit, we recuperated, and now we’re here with a report. Phase 4...

August 2021 Newsletter

Greetings from the Agoric crew, just in time for our next Community Cal #11 (tomorrow, August 4)....

July 2021 Newsletter: Stress Test Completed!

Greetings from the Agoric crew, just in time for our next Community Call (tomorrow, July 7)....

Developer Bounties Are Yours for the Coding!

We’ve just announced $34,000 in developer bounties! For all the DeFi entrepreneurs, JavaScript...

The Settlers of Blockchain

In Settlers of Catan, players require a high level of communication to complete trades. At Agoric...

Testnet Phase 3 Recap: Staking Dynamics with BLD and RUN in JavaScript

Phase 3 of the ongoing, five-phase Agoric incentivized testnet had validators engage in various...

June 2021 Newsletter: The Rundown – Readying the Mainnet Rollout

This month we talk Mainnet roll-out schedule, the upcoming Gitcoin developer bounties, and a whole...

Access Controls in Public Chains

See how Agoric brings access back to blockchain development with a familiar JavaScript framework and...

Testnet Recap – Phase 2

The Infrastructure phase had an exciting 90% participation rate. Let’s go through what we learned,...

May 2021 Newsletter

Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks.

Agoric Explained: What’s Zoe?

In this article we explain Zoe, the smart contract framework that dApp users and developers interact...

Testnet Recap – Phase 1

We started off Phase 1 of the incentivized testet with a full week of tasks and challenges, all...

Agoric Smart Contracts: Where’s the Crypto?

The Agoric Distributed Programming Platform speeds up defi development by abstracting away...

March 2021 Newsletter

Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks.

February 17, 2021

IBC Launch Paves Way For Agoric Interoperability

IBC launched with the Cosmos Stargate upgrade on February 18th. This is exciting news for the Agoric...

February 2, 2021

February 2021 Newsletter

Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks.

January 26, 2021

A Taxonomy of Security Issues

This essay by Mark S. Miller presents a taxonomy of issues and approaches. It then explains both...

January 15, 2021

The Role of a Stable, Local Currency

Bill Tulloh on stablecoins, the role we see that they play in fueling a vibrant on-chain economy,...

January 5, 2021

January 2021 Newsletter

Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks.

December 7, 2020

Hack the Orb Winners

Agoric and Chainlink announce winners of the DeFi hackathon.

December 1, 2020

December 2020 Newsletter

Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks.

November 3, 2020

November 2020 Newsletter

Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks.

October 29, 2020

Join the Agoric and Chainlink Hackathon

Level up your JavaScript skills during a two-week online hackathon focused on the power of...

October 20, 2020

Agoric and Chainlink Integration Brings Plug’n’Play Oracles to JavaScript Smart Contracts

Adding to our existing library of interchangeable, composable DeFi legos, Agoric is excited to...

October 16, 2020

Win Cosmos HackAtom V Prizes Using Agoric

During the Cosmos HackAtom V virtual hackathon (October 16 - 30), use the Agoric platform to tackle...

October 15, 2020

DeFi Workshops – Smart Contracts in JavaScript

Welcome to Agoric’s DeFi Workshops! This event hosted by Dean Tribble (CEO) will highlight how...

October 6, 2020

October 2020 Newsletter

Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks.

October 1, 2020

Launching Agoric Community Calls

Agoric is pleased to introduce monthly Community Calls on YouTube Live for developers, builders, and...

September 16, 2020

Agoric Alpha: The Future of DeFi Starts with Composable Building Blocks

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is the new frontier of financial services. Like many frontiers, it’s...

July 2020 Newsletter

Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks.

Why the Agoric Team Spent a Week Eating Our Own Dogfood

The whole Agoric team took a week off work. Not because of the pandemic. Not for vacation. Not for a...

Computational Microeconomics Part 3: Smart Markets in Action

This is the third part of a three-part series in which Professor Kevin McCabe of George Mason...

Computational Microeconomics Part 2: What Is Experimental Economics?

This is the second part of a three-part series in which Professor Kevin McCabe of George Mason...

Go Inside a Computational Microeconomics Summer Camp

Each summer, Professor Kevin McCabe of George Mason University runs a special program in...

June 2020 Newsletter

Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks.

Securing JavaScript Modules

We’re excited to announce the first release of SES that directly supports loading ECMAScript...

Announcing the Cross-Chain Hackathon Winners

The Cross-Chain Hackathon, hosted by Gitcoin, started as a way to involve developers from around the...

April 2020 Newsletter

Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks.

Take on Agoric Hackathon Challenges from the Safety of Your Own Home

The April Gitcoin Virtual Hackathon begins April 20th and runs for three straight weeks, through...

Kris Kowal joins Agoric

Kris on his journey from Uber to Agoric.

The Road to Dynamic IBC

dIBC is, in essence, the idea of using a smart contract or VM platform to deploy new contracts that...

March 2020 Newsletter

Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks.

Spend the Pandemic Inside: Join Our Gitcoin Cross-Chain Hackathon and Win Prizes

Build real-world applications with Agoric, Band Protocol, and Cosmos.

What Agoric Learned from the American Information Exchange About Online Markets

Agoric’s software engineer Chip Morningstar on his work at AMiX, possibly the first...

11 Things COVID-19 Taught Us About the Decentralized Workplace

Agoric shares their approach to working remotely during the virus outbreak.

January 16, 2020

How Zoe Ensures You Won’t Leave Empty-Handed

Zoe is our new platform that provides an innovative, much safer approach for building and...

January 13, 2020

Chip Morningstar Joins Agoric

We're excited that Chip Morningstar has joined Agoric as a software engineer. A longtime associate...

December 4, 2019

SES: Securing JavaScript in the Real World

SES is a JavaScript runtime library for running such third-party code safely inside a featherweight...

November 20, 2019

Bypassing the Functionality/Security Trade-Off in Smart Contracts

In the blockchain world of smart contracts, the either/or between security and functionality is an...

November 18, 2019

Agoric Announces SFBW Hackathon Winners

Insurance and cross-platform efforts were the winners.

October 24, 2019

Realms and Evaluator Shim Security

Two security bugs were found and fixed in the realms-shim library, so all users should upgrade to...

October 22, 2019

Agoric and the Decades-Long Quest for Secure Smart Contracts: Epicenter Interview with Mark S. Miller

Brian Fabien Crain and Sunny Aggarwal interviewed Agoric’s Chief Scientist, Mark S. Miller, on the...

October 16, 2019

Run our Testnet Demo in 5 minutes: Presenting an end-to-end test of the Agoric stack

We’ve created a functioning Agoric demo that you can work within, showcasing our electronic rights...

October 15, 2019

Zoe vs. the Low-Level Status Quo

Contracts have bugs. If only there was a way to guarantee that the money that you send isn’t...

October 10, 2019

TC39 Proposals

Four security-critical bugs were discovered and fixed in the ‘realms-shim’ and ‘SES’...

October 2, 2019

Realms-shim Security Updates

Four security-critical bugs were discovered and fixed in the ‘realms-shim’ and ‘SES’...

September 23, 2019

Agoric Launches Testnet: Smart Contracts that Interoperate across Blockchains with Cosmos

Agoric is opening up its framework to developers in an invite-only testnet.

Making ‘npm install’ Safe

Kate Sills talks about some of the security issues using NPM packages, the EventStream incident that...

Agoric and the Interchain Foundation Announce Strategic Collaboration to Develop Inter-Blockchain Communication Protocol

Agoric will collaborate with Cosmos core developers on delivering cross-chain interoperability...

Announcing Our $4 Million Raise, Covered by CoinDesk

We are excited to announce that we have secured a $4 million raise from esteemed funders to propel...

January 31, 2019

Offer Safety: Partitioning Risk in Smart Contracts

Zoe adds a layer of safety to voluntary exchange that hasn’t been seen before. At Agoric we call...

January 28, 2019

Preventing Reentrancy Attacks in Smart Contracts

Reentrancy attacks can be entirely prevented with eventual-sends.

December 3, 2018

POLA Would Have Prevented the Event-Stream Incident

A popular npm package, event-stream, included malicious code that attempted to steal the private...

September 20, 2018

Agoric Releases Distributed Smart Contract Proof of Concept

Agoric is excited to release the proof of concept of our distributed smart contracts system.

Agoric Releases SES: Secure JavaScript

For the past 10 years, the founding team of Agoric has been working to shape JavaScript—to make it...

Agoric Joins ECMAScript Committee (TC39) and ECMA International

We’re excited to announce that Agoric has been unanimously approved as a member of ECMA...

Introducing Agoric

We are delighted to announce that Agoric has completed a seed funding round from the Zcash Company,...