We’ve made good progress on rewriting the purse and paymentKeepers to make sure that currency is conserved on each call.
We’ve created a Compartment ShIm in XS that overrides the native one and allows us to experience non-flat module maps.
01.16.2020
Zoe is our new platform that provides an innovative, much safer approach for building and interacting with smart contracts. Elsewhere we talk about “offer safety” in Zoe: the assurance that on payout, a client of a contract either gets what they want or gets a refund. Here, I’m going to dig into another feature of Zoe, “payout liveness” (also referred to as “exit safety” in early presentations)...Read more
01.13.2020
We’re excited that Chip Morningstar has joined Agoric as a software engineer as of January 2020. A longtime associate of Agoric’s team members, Chip has built and shipped systems in varied realms from gaming to smart contracts to digital payments. Read more
12.19.2019
On this episode we discussed a lot of philosophical questions around a multi-chain vs few chain world, chain sovereignty, Agoric’s targeting the world’s 20M javascript developers for its smart contract platform, the use cases IBC enables across chains, the status of IBC and so much more. Read more
12.16.2019
Kate Sills wrote the encyclopedia entry on smart contracts. Read more
12.11.2019
Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks. Read more
12.04.2019
Overview of SES, our JavaScript runtime library for running third-party code safely inside a featherweight compartment. Read more
12.04.2019
In this podcast episode Kate Sills explains the design choices for the secure smart contract framework that Agoric has developed, and how they incorporate e-rights into an interoperable cross-chain world. Read more
11.20.2019
How Agoric’s JavaScript framework provides the best of both worlds. Read more
11.19.2019
Zaki Manian (Tendermint team) & Dean Tribble (Agoric) joined Staking Hub on Nov 5, 2019 to discuss Cosmos IBC and Game of Zones (GoZ). IBC enables blockchains to exchange value & data. Read more
11.18.2019
Insurance and cross-platform efforts were the winners. Read more
10.25.2019
On Oct. 21, 2019, representatives from Agoric, Tendermint, FOAM, and oscoin gathered at Full Node in Berlin, Germany, to discuss the blockchain space’s current need for interoperability protocols. Read more
10.24.2019
Two security bugs were found and fixed in the realms-shim library, so all users should upgrade to the latest version. A new, simpler evaluator-shim library is being developed, with a smaller attack surface. Future security efforts will focus on this alternative library. Read more
10.22.2019
Brian Fabien Crain and Sunny Aggarwal interviewed Agoric’s Chief Scientist, Mark S. Miller, on the history of smart contracts, the Agoric Papers, and more, on the Epicenter Podcast. With thanks to the Epicenter Podcast & Infominer, we have shared the interview here with navigable links. Read more
10.16.2019
We’ve created a functioning Agoric demo that you can work within, showcasing our electronic rights technology. Read more
10.15.2019
Deciding to send a payment to a blockchain address can be nerve-racking. You think you’re getting something in return, but will you? You think you’ve looked at the contract code, but maybe you missed something. Contracts have bugs. If only there was a way to guarantee that the money that you send isn’t stolen. If you could guarantee that you would get what you wanted, or get a refund, that’d ad...Read more
10.10.2019
During the last TC39 meeting, 4 proposals we’ve been working on made it to Stage 1. Read more
10.02.2019
Four security-critical bugs were discovered and fixed in the ‘realms-shim’ and ‘SES’ libraries, which underpin Agoric’s secure JavaScript platform. All users should upgrade to the latest versions. Read more
09.25.2019
Mark shows how to establish connections while preserving accountability and the ability to reason about trust with a reduction of fear. Read more
09.23.2019
Agoric is opening up its framework to developers in an invite-only testnet. Read more
08.23.2019
Chorus One latest Q&A session with Dean Tribble and Mark Miller. Read more
08.20.2019
Dean joins Base Layer podcast for an in-depth discussion on Agoric and object capabilities model. Read more
08.19.2019
In this episode, Meher and E. Dean Tribble explore the Agoric platform and the value proposition. Dean and his team are among the first to work on smart contracts, starting in the 80s with the Agoric Open System papers. Read more
08.03.2019
Kate Sills talks about some of the security issues using NPM packages, the EventStream incident that created a security breach in a package, and Realms and SES (Secure ECMAScript) as possible solutions to NPM package security vulnerabilities. Read more
07.03.2019
Agoric will collaborate with Cosmos core developers on delivering cross-chain interoperability standard Read more
05.13.2019
We are excited to announce that we have secured a $4 million raise from esteemed funders to propel our mission Read more
05.12.2019
At the Blockchain in Transportation Alliance, BiTA Spring Symposium, our CEO, Dean Tribble, explains how blockchains and hybrid smart contracts can reduce the cost of trust for transportation and logistics. Read more
02.01.2019
Dean Tribble presented a solution to the train-hotel problem at the Stanford Blockchain Conference. The train-hotel problem comes from Andrew Miller and demonstrates a difficulty with cross-shard communication. In the problem, we want to get a train ticket AND a hotel reservation - if we don’t get both, we want neither. Read more
01.28.2019
Reentrancy attacks can be entirely prevented with eventual-sends. Eventual-sends (think JavaScript promises — promises actually come from eventual-sends!) allow you to call a function asynchronously and receive a promise, even if the function is on another machine, another blockchain, or another shard, making sharding and cross-chain contract communication much easier. Read more
12.03.2018
A popular npm package, event-stream, included malicious code that attempted to steal the private keys of certain Bitcoin users. At Agoric, we think this attack was entirely preventable, and the answer is POLA, the Principle of Least Authority. Read more
09.20.2018
We’re excited to reveal the proof-of-concept of our distributed smart contracts system. Read more
07.28.2018
SES takes us one step closer to a world of smart contracts by creating a secure subset of JavaScript for object capabilities. With SES, even untrusted JavaScript programs can execute in the same environment safely. Read more
07.13.2018
We’re excited to announce that Agoric has been unanimously approved as a member of ECMA International and TC39. ECMA International is the organization responsible for publishing ECMAScript (JavaScript) standards, and TC39 is the working group in which decisions about the future of JavaScript are made. Read more
05.21.2018
Agoric is committed to making strong security easier to achieve. We are delighted to announce that Agoric has completed a seed funding round from the Zcash Company, Naval Ravikant, and Polychain Capital. Read more