EtherWorld's weekly: December 10, 2017

(Blockchain eNewspaper)

News

World news

Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), the largest U.S. options exchange and BATS Global Markets opened its own bitcoin futures trading on December 10, 2017. CME Group will launch bitcoin futures trading on December 18, 2017.
SEC cyber unit halted $15 Million ICO scam
Bank of America Wins Patent for Crypto Exchange System
Japan Bank Consortium (JBC) is production-ready on RippleNet
Venezuela to launch 'El Petro', a cryptocurrency backed by oil.
NiceHash hack - Payment system was compromised and the contents of the NiceHash Bitcoin wallet have been stolen.
United Kingdom plans tighter regulation of Bitcoin
Austrian Government Backs New Blockchain Research Institute

Ethereum News

Sharding is coming soon
Block gas limit started rising from ~6.7 million and is now up around ~7.7 million to help with the congestion.
Ethereum processed nearly 800k transaction in a day. A new all time high and more than all other decentralized blockchains combined by a wide margin.
An ethereum statue in Norway.

Technology

Developer's Update

Lightning Protocol 1.0: Compatibility Achieved
Solidity plugin for Eclipse
An Introduction to Ethereum Programming Part 1, Part 2 by Facu Spagnuolo, Zeppelin
ETH Gas Station Adaptive Gas Price Oracle is now open source.
Should Easy parallelizability · Issue #648 · ethereum/EIPs be prioritised for next fork?

Good Reads on Blockchain

Fundamental challenges with public blockchains by Preethi Kasireddy
CryptoKitties - How to turn 1 digital cat into 150 analogue cows by Nick Johnson
Building A Usable Multisig Wallet

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

Joe Lubin on CNBC
Charlie Lee on Glenn Beck
Jack Spallone from Ujo Music on An Ethereum Podcast
Brian Armstrong on Bloomberg TV

Projects

New Projects and White Paper

GIFTO - Decentralized Universal Gifting Protocol
Chronicled zk-Snark Privacy Solution for Supply Chain
Dai Stablecoin Whitepaper
Mirocana - FIRST AI-SYSTEM FOR EFFECTIVE ASSETS MANAGEMENT
Vynos - Micropayments for online media.
Zipper - Mobile platform bringing blockchain to the masses.
Trade - THE TRADING REVOLUTION White paper

Project updates and Press Release

Kyber Network To Partner With Gifto
Toshi has integrated CryptoKitties
Status joins the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA)
KickCity attented BlockShowAsia 2017
Aventus Weekly Update, Aragon Nest
Ethlend - OKCoin and HuoBi Spin-Off BiBox Exchange Listed LEND on Dec 10, 2017
uPort Zug ID: Exploring the First Publicly Verified Blockchain Identity
Ethermint testnet is live
Brave grants 300,000 crypto tokens to browser users
Melonport November newsletter.

Trading

Miscellaneous

Bounty and Hackathon

Crypterium Bounty Program
MANA Bounties for 3D Designers on Ethlance
Microraiden Bug Bounty Release
The iExec ÐApp Challenge — $150K of Grants for Ethereum Developers
uPort Blockchain and Identity Hackathon

Vacancy

Ethereum Solidity team looking for helping hands, send your CV to solidity-jobs@ethereum.org

Events

December 15, 2017: Terraform Event
Jan 9, 2017: CES to Hold Digital Money Forum in Las Vegas

ICO or Token Sale

ETHLend Token Sale event successfully Closes With $16.2 million usd raised
December 10, 2017 – Gazecoin (JOIN 20% BONUS LIST NOW - CLOSES DEC 5)
December 11, 2017 - Aurora DAO, Telcoin
December 14, 2017 - Gifto (Whitelisting ends December 12)
December 23, 2017 - Rocketpool
January 16, 2018 - Kudos

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