EtherWorld's weekly: Edition 96
(Blockchain Weekly Recap)
News
World news
- Facebook and Telegram Are Hoping to Succeed Where Bitcoin Failed
- LinkedIn Founder, Fidelity Latest to Carry Bitcoin’s ‘Lightning Torch’
- Fidelity Digital Assets to support @coinmetrics.
- GSR to Cut Overstock tZERO Investment 75%, down from $404 Million to $100 Million.
- London Stock Exchange Leads $20 Million Fundraise for Blockchain Startup Nivaura
- Intel - Can a Blockchain-Controlled Robot Change the Future?
- Federal Cryptocurrency Bill Tracker
Ethereum News
- Constantinople upgrade successfully done.
- Ether issuance is now just half a percent higher than Bitcoin.
- Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #56 (2019-03-01)
- Ethereum Cat Herders Update #3
- ProgPOW
- Cat herders will publish more official blog post on ProgPOW.
- Community signals mostly in favor of ProgPOW
- Hopefully audit will be conducted soon. Two components to the audit -
- Benchmarking
- To see how long it would take an ASIC company to actually build a ProgPOW ASIC.
- Fund raising for audit is live on Gitcoin and Bounties.
- ENS
- New Way to Claim
.testENS Domains for Easy Testing - ENS Root Change Will Allow Easy Integration of More Than 1300 DNS TLDs
- New Way to Claim
- A Twitter thread covering some of the coolest submissions from Eth Denver
Other blockchain News
- Coinhive, an in-browser Monero cryptocurrency miner famous for being abused by malware gangs, announced this week its intention to shut down all operations next month, on March 8, 2019.
- Let’s reminisce about 2014’s bizarre cryptocurrency market
Technology
- Wasmer - Running WebAssembly 100x faster
- Ethereum 2.0
- Eth2.0 Implementers Call #13 (2019/2/28)
- Ethereum 2.0 Development Update #23 — Prysmatic Labs
- Phase 0 Wire Protocol #692
- Release
EIP / ERC
- Proposing Higher standards for EIPs at Eth Magicians
- EIP ERC#1775: App Keys, application specific wallet accounts. Eth Magicians Post.
- ERC-1776 Native Meta Transactions - allows users that simply own ERC20 or ERC777 (ERC1155 could be supported too) tokens to perform operations on the ethereum network without needing to own ether themselves by letting a third party, the relayer, the responsibility to execute a transaction on the ethereum network carrying the desired operations (the so called meta transaction) in exchange of a token reward to cover the relayer's gas cost.
- ERC#1780 : Semantic Interface Registry / ERC820 Extension. Contract Metadata for Semantic Web Ontologies (first draft).
Projects
New Projects / Protocols
- Zether: a fully-decentralized, confidential payment mechanism that is compatible with Ethereum and other smart contract platforms.
- Waterloo : a Decentralized Practical Bridge between EOS and Ethereum
Part I: EOS → Ethereum - Helena : inviting crypto experts, industry professionals, and crypto Twitter users to predict key events in the blockchain space. Prediction Markets Platform Is Live on Ethereum Mainnet
Projects and Protocols update
- Raiden Pulse #4: News from January and February
- MELON V1.0: ZAHREDDINO
- Pantheon 1.0 has arrived. New consensus algorithm + first permissioning system.
- GiveCrypto Monthly Update — Feb 2019: Doubling-down on Venezuela
- Aragon Network Vote #1 Review - GOVERNANCE
- Tokencard February 2019 Newsletter
- Decentraland to Debut on HTC EXODUS 1
- Chainsafe Lodestar Bi-weekly Update #3
- Gitcoin Introducing the CodeFund Referral Program
- Brave Software and TAP Network Put Blockchain to Work with New Partnership
- Status 0.10.0 Mobile Release - Blocking, Searching & Syncing
- Lighthouse Update #08
- Nimbus Development Update, Feb 2019. It is in sync with the latest Ethereum 2.0 spec changes - the 0.3 release.
- Building Applications Faster with OpenLaw: The Release of OpenLaw “Elements”
- An Intro to Truebit’s Interactive Coin Offering
- The Road Ahead for OmiseGO
Miscellaneous
Exchange, Minning, Wallet and Trading
- Kraken offering a $100,000 reward for discovery of Quadriga coins.
- SoFi to launch cryptocurrency trading in partnership with Coinbase.
- MyEtherWallet has recently partnered with Coral Protocol to bring secure, trustless transactions to MEW users with the SafeSend Dapp.
- XRP is now available to trade on Coinbase Pro
Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews
- ETH2.0 Update With Danny Ryan. Notes
- An overview of private Ethereum transactions with Paul Perg
Blockchain good reads
- Ideas on how to improve scientific research: Bridging the gap from scientific discovery to new product by Brian Armstrong
- Stablecoins in 2019: Reliable, Proliferating, Liquid, and Global.
- Zero-Knowledge Proofs: A Layman’s Introduction
- Zk-channels: Private layer 2 payments on Ethereum
- The Gas Fee Game
EtherWorld's collection of Good Read on Blockchain & CryptocurrencyHackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs (Event Calendar)
- March 4, 2019: Ethereum Magicians (Paris)Agenda
- March 5-7, 2019: Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) 2019
- March 8-10, 2019: ETHParis (ETHGlobal)
- March 8-10, 2019: ETHUofT, Toronto
- March 12, 2019: Blockchain International Scientific Conference. Register here
- March 22, 2019: Zero Knowledge Summit 0x03 (Berlin)
- March 27, 2019: Infura Legacy keys Support will officially stop.
- April 4-5, 2019: Deconomy (Seoul)
- April 8-14, 2019: EDCON in Sydney.
- April 19-21, 2019: ETHCapetown, Cape Town, South Africa.
- April 23-24, 2019: Blockchain Revolution Global at Toronto
- April 23-24, 2019: Blockchain Life 2019 at Singapore.
- April 24, 2019: Enterprise Blockchain Awards
- April 24-26, 2019: Truffle Blockchain Development Workshop, Dublin 2019
- May 10-11, 2019: ETHEREAL, NEW YORK
- May 13-15, 2019: Consensus by Coindesk. Register here.
- May 16, 2019: TOKEN SUMMIT IV NEW YORK CITY.
- May 17, 2019: Hard deadline to accept proposals for “Istanbul” upgrade.
- May 17–19, 2019: ETHNewYork
- May 17, 2019: Deadline to accept proposals for Instanbul upgrade fork
- May 23-25, 2019: Swarm Orange Summit Madrid 2019
- June 22 – 24, 2019: Zcon, Annual Privacy Conference
- August 2–4, 2019: ETHIndia II
- September 6–8, 2019: ETHBoston
- October 2019: ETHWaterloo II, Sign up to mailing list to be notified when applications open.
- October 2019: Istanbul. Planned Ethereum Network Upgrade
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