03.12.2021
Agoric Smart Contracts: Where’s the Crypto?
The Agoric Distributed Programming Platform speeds up defi development by abstracting away cryptographic protocol design. Read more
We released SES 0.12.7 with an error annotation feature in preparation for distributed tracing.
The Treasury was moved to agoric-sdk. Autoswap publishes prices using a priceAuthority. PriceAuthority now has the ability to reset trigger levels on outstanding requests rather than requiring new requests.
Phase 1 of the incentivized testnet is underway.
03.12.2021
The Agoric Distributed Programming Platform speeds up defi development by abstracting away cryptographic protocol design. Read more
03.03.2021
Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks. Read more
02.17.2021
IBC will launch with the Cosmos Stargate upgrade on February 18th at 7AM UTC. This is exciting news for the Agoric economy, which is built on Agoric’s Layer-1 chain and connected to Cosmos zones and other networks like Ethereum via the same IBC protocol. Read more
02.02.2021
Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks. Read more
01.26.2021
This essay by Mark S. Miller presents a taxonomy of issues and approaches. It then explains both what forms of security are possible when using which technologies and what forms are necessary for large-scale software engineering. Read more
01.15.2021
Bill Tulloh on stablecoins, the role we see that they play in fueling a vibrant on-chain economy, and their role as a fundamental DeFi primitive that’s fueled the Cambrian explosion of DeFi protocols we’ve seen in recent months. Read more
01.05.2021
Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks. Read more
12.16.2020
Dean Tribble presents the Agoric public blockchain and plans for the mainnet. Read more
12.07.2020
Agoric and Chainlink announce winners of the DeFi hackathon. Read more
12.03.2020
Miko Matsumura speaks with Dean Tribble about smart contracts, their origins to how Agoric is building a safer, more cooperative world for software developers. Read more
12.01.2020
Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks. Read more
11.18.2020
Bill Tulloh provides a gentle introduction to the economics behind stablecoins, and the role they play in fueling DeFi growth. Read more
11.18.2020
In the fifth episode of The Decentralized Justice Broadcast, the host speaks with Kate Sills from on computer science, libertarianism, building novel institutions and tiny houses. Read more
11.16.2020
Dean Tribble talks on the panel about decentralization, security and privacy. Read more
11.03.2020
Jamie Burke of Outlier Ventures interviews Mark S. Miller about why he is so excited about blockchain and how at Agoric they make smart contracts more secure and usable. Read more
11.03.2020
Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks. Read more
10.29.2020
Level up your JavaScript skills during a two-week online hackathon focused on the power of decentralized finance. Read more
10.20.2020
Adding to our existing library of interchangeable, composable DeFi legos, Agoric is excited to announce that Agoric and Chainlink have teamed up to make it easy for smart contract developers to plug oracles into DeFi dapps. Read more
10.16.2020
Agoric and its founders have been featured in the Reason magazine article exploring the history of AMIX and today’s cryptocurrency debate. Read more
10.16.2020
During the Cosmos HackAtom V virtual hackathon (October 16 - 30), use the Agoric platform to tackle a challenge and win one of the many DeFi prizes. Read more
10.15.2020
Welcome to Agoric’s DeFi Workshops! This event hosted by Dean Tribble (CEO) will highlight how Agoric solves DeFi’s largest problems: user fund security and lack of true composability. You’ll get a detailed walkthrough of how to build a smart contract on Agoric and an early taste of what’s to come! Read more
10.06.2020
Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks. Read more
10.01.2020
Agoric is pleased to introduce monthly Community Calls on YouTube Live for developers, builders, and other interested parties. Read more
09.24.2020
ICF Collaborates with Agoric. Read more
09.16.2020
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is the new frontier of financial services. Like many frontiers, it’s exciting but dangerous. Agoric is building a public blockchain to make it more exciting and less dangerous. Welcome to the first step: the Agoric alpha release. Read more
09.14.2020
Dive into DeFi on the Agoric smart contract platform. Kate Sills will walk you through building an OTC market maker. The example introduces the key concepts of safe smart contracts on Agoric, and shows how to combine DeFi legos to rapidly produce a new DeFi dapp. Read more
09.09.2020
Dean Tribble, Co-Founder of Agoric explains how Agoric’s safer smart contracts secure more value for blockchain and DeFi for the long term. Dean’s delightful presentation segways into an AMA. Read more
07.28.2020
Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks. Read more
07.23.2020
Dean Tribble, CEO of Agoric, presents ‘Innovations for Interoperability Using Agoric Tools’ to the Blockchain in Transporation Alliance (BiTA) membership. Read more
07.21.2020
The whole Agoric team took a week off work. Not because of the pandemic. Not for vacation. Not for a mental-health break. We took off work to take part in a hackathon. Specifically, an internal hackathon. Read more
07.20.2020
This is the third part of a three-part series in which Professor Kevin McCabe of George Mason University talks about experimental microeconomics, and about the role Agoric’s smart contract platform is playing in his annual summer program for advanced undergraduates. Read more
07.16.2020
This is the second part of a three-part series in which Professor Kevin McCabe of George Mason University talks about experimental microeconomics, and about the role Agoric’s smart contract platform is playing in his annual summer program for advanced undergraduates. Read more
07.14.2020
Each summer, Professor Kevin McCabe of George Mason University runs a special program in computational economics for advanced undergraduates. This summer, McCabe’s program is investigating Agoric’s smart contract platform of Zoe and ERTP as a research tool. McCabe sat down with us for a conversation about computational experimental economics, and we’re sharing it here as a three-part series. Read more
06.30.2020
NY Tech Latina’s first program is Latina Luminaries, a bi-monthly fireside chat featuring Latina leaders and executives doing amazing work in the Tech ecosystem. This edition’s guest speaker will be Vanessa Pestritto, Director of Partner Programs at Agoric, a safe smart contracts framework for an open, global economy. Read more
06.30.2020
Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks. Read more
06.24.2020
The team sits down with Zaki Manian and Dean Tribble, to discuss Interoperability and why it matters, how Cosmos ($ATOM) is leading the charge, building out Agoric, and why iterations on DeFi are dangerous but positive for crypto. Read more
06.17.2020
Kate Sills discusses how to minimize the risks of running third-party JavaScript. She goes over POLA, the Principle of Least Authority, and how object capabilities can help grant specific, limited resources to third-party code. She also covers the current efforts to enforce security boundaries in JavaScript: SES (Secure ECMAScript) and Realms. Read more
06.10.2020
In this episode, Hemanth Madhavarao is talking to Chip Morningstar - an author, developer, software programmer, and designer of software systems from the University of Michigan in 1981 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering. Read more
06.07.2020
As Ethereum 2.0 continues to be delayed, competing smart contract platforms have emerged to try and compete. These are Crypto Briefing’s top 12 competitors to Ethereum. Read more
06.01.2020
Mark S. Miller joins Christopher Goes and Aaron Van Ammers on Difussion 2020 panel to discuss interoperability in Web3. Read more
05.29.2020
We’re excited to announce the first release of SES that directly supports loading ECMAScript modules. This is the first in a series of milestones toward delivering a seamless experience for applications that use both ECMAScript and CommonJS modules. Read more
05.25.2020
The Cross-Chain Hackathon, hosted by Gitcoin, started as a way to involve developers from around the world and give them ample time to work on their projects. Read more
05.18.2020
If a catastrophe is an event which causes the loss of most expected value, a eucatastrophe is an event which causes there to be much more expected value after the event than before. Currently, there may be a few unique opportunities to steer the COVID-19 crisis away from catastrophe toward eucatastrophe. Read more
05.08.2020
Dean Tribble and Jack Zampolin introduced the concepts of Inter-Blockchain Communication protocol (IBC) and Dynamic IBC, and showed how to use them. Read more
04.29.2020
Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks. Read more
04.21.2020
The Agoric team introduced their platform, shared resources and tips for getting started, went over the prizes they’ve posted for the Cross Chain hackathon, and answered questions from the audience to help get your team hacking. Read more
04.20.2020
The April Gitcoin Virtual Hackathon begins April 20th and runs for three straight weeks, through Monday, May 11. Our five hackathon challenges involve creating smart contracts with JavaScript on the Agoric stack. Read more
04.13.2020
Kris on his journey from Uber to Agoric. Read more
04.01.2020
dIBC is, in essence, the idea of using a smart contract or VM platform to deploy new contracts that support new protocols, all on an existing chain without having to wait for chain upgrades. Read more
03.31.2020
Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks. Read more
03.29.2020
Build real-world applications with Agoric, Band Protocol, and Cosmos. Read more
03.28.2020
Members of the TC39 committee including Agoric’s Chief Scientist Mark S. Miller join Cassidy Williams to answer questions sourced from the JSConf Hawaii audience about how the committee decides on changes to the language, and how companies, organizations, or individuals can get more involved. Read more
03.24.2020
Agoric’s software engineer Chip Morningstar on his work at AMiX, possibly the first smart-contracting system ever created, several years before Nick Szabo introduced the phrase ‘Smart Contract’ into our vocabulary. Read more
03.12.2020
Agoric shares their approach to working remotely during the virus outbreak. Read more
03.09.2020
Zoe adds a layer of safety to voluntary exchange that hasn’t been seen before. At Agoric we call that layer “offer safety. Read more
02.25.2020
Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks. Read more
01.31.2020
Kate Sills presented Zoe at Stanford CodeX meeting. Read more
01.22.2020
Our updates, upcoming events and reading picks. Read more
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