EtherWorld's weekly: Edition 97
(Blockchain Weekly Recap)
News
World news
- IBM X-Force Red Launches New Service for Blockchain Security Testing. New Service Uncovers and Helps Address Security Vulnerabilities in Blockchain Design and Implementations.
- Israel regulatory authority recommends regulated platform for cryptocurrency trading
- Switzerland's Main Stock Exchange Launches Ethereum ETP Trading
- South Korean authorities create Task Force to prevent cryptocurrency crimes
- Nevada is working hard to ensure it is one of the friendliest blockchain states!
- #InternationalWomensDay
- Ethereal dedicating this week to the women moving the blockchain space
- Women in Blockchain
- Joseph Lubin, ConsenSys
- Pooja Ranjan, Ethereum Cat Herders
Ethereum news
- Governance on /r/ethereum
- Fidelity Crypto Chief Says Hard Fork May Delay Firm’s Support for Ethereum
- Ethereum has the biggest developer team in crypto! Monthly developers average 216
- 1218 DNS top-level domains deployed with the necessary DNSSEC support to ENS on Goerli.
- Opera is integrating ENS + IPFS
- PROGPOW Explained in under 4 min. & why it matters to GPU Miners
- Ethereum is not succumbing to maximalism, a discussion on reddit.
- ConsenSysVC has invested $1.15 million in blockchain privacy startup Ligero and an undisclosed amount in Philippines crypto exchange PDAX.
Other blockchain news
- Monero Mined On 400 Vulnerable Docker Servers.
- 4th Largest Bitcoin Wallet - Emptied
- Why Ethereum Classic should Adopt Keccak256 for its Proof of Work Algorithm.
Exchange, Wallet, Trading and Minning news
- Vitalik proposes 1 gwei/gas fee for txs sent through their wallet.
- eToro officially launches its cryptocurrency exchange in the US
- Parity Signer Turn your smartphone into a hardware wallet.
- MyEtherWallet: You can now schedule future transactions for a specific time or block number using the Ethereum Alarm Clock #dapp by ChronoLogic in MEW V5.
- Coinbase Exec on Controversial Neutrino Acquisition, Adding Support for Ripple’s XRP. Says It Never Shared ‘Personally Identifiable’ Customer Data.
- Omise Holdings opens signups for GO.exchange (limited open/no fee)
- Ethfinex Migrates to 0x V2 . Ethfinex Restarts Token Voting With Revenue Share Incentive
- Bitmain already facing multiple lawsuits and more being filed.
- Cryptocurrency mining on college campuses rises as students make use of free electricity.
Technology
- Build an Ethereum DApp Using Ethers.js
- Dapplets: Rethinking Dapp Architecture for better adoption and security
- Solidity
- SOLTIX: Scalable automated framework for testing Solidity compilers.
- Learn Solidity: Atomic swap between erc20 tokens and Ether
- EVM Evolution Roadmap
- When ewasm ? by Alex Beregszaszi
- When Lightning STARKs - Scaling Payments with STARKs.
- Parity Shasper Testnet Plans
- Ethereum 2.0
- Q + A on ETH 2.0 Serenity session at ETHMagicians: Paris 2019
- The State of Layer-2 Protocol Development #1 by ConsenSys
- Release
- web3.js 1.0.0-beta.48
- Solidity Version 0.5.5
- Pantheon 1.0.1
EIP / ERC
- EIP-1837 : Explicit transaction fees
- ERC1836: Upgradable Identity Proxy
- EIP-1822: Introducing the “Escape-hatch” Proxy. Medium.
- EIP-1815: EIP that standardises the interface of blind auction contracts (first draft)
- EIP-1812: Ethereum Verifiable Claims
Projects
New Projects / Protocols
- ZRNT - Executable spec for ETH 2.0, implemented in Go. Reddit
- Vaulttel: VaultTel offers enhanced security against software wallets alone as it uses enhanced iOS and Android platform with VaultTel Chip validation in addition to encryption data storage and biometric authentication. Coindesk.
- ETHMail: ETHMail is an email provider. It providers email services like Gmail.
- SmartPy : An intuitive and effective smart contracts language and development platform for Tezos with Python syntax.
- Kyokan: Announcing our Plasma MVP Alpha
Projects and Protocols update
- Bounties Network: Our ETHDenver Highlights. Colorado Network, Faces of Ethereum, UNICEF Boost Token & More. Reddit
- paritytech/substrate - Initial: Offchain Workers #1942
- KyberDAO Voting Experiment #1
- EtherNode is nearing production
- Maker DAO Governance Poll Proposed Stability Fee Increase: +2%
- Introducing the Alethio API & Analytics Suite - Towards a Transparent & Accessible Decentralized Future.
- The District Weekly — March 9th, 2019
- Brave’s Opt-In Private Ad Platform Enters Second Phase with BAT Rewards for Users and Reporting for Brands. Brave Software and TAP Network Put Blockchain to Work with New Partnership.
- Civil Memberships available worldwide starting March 6.
Miscellaneous
Out of the league
- Satoshi Nakamoto - Found Him!!
Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews
- What's the progress on Ethereum 2.0? Interview with PegaSys's Ben Edgington
- Gitcoin: Growing Open Source Software with Kevin Owocki
- The Enemy is not the Community: it’s our own naivety - Maria Paula Fernández
- Formal Verification with Martin Lundfall from Dapphub & MakerDAO
Blockchain good reads
- Why Do We Need Transaction Data? The “data” field exists for all transactions, but what actually goes there, and why?
- Ethereum Explained: Gas, Payment, and Mining
- Model 0: low-level defence measures for Sybil attacks in P2P networks
Also check: EtherWorld's collection of Good Read on Blockchain & CryptocurrencyHackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs (Event Calendar)
- 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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