EtherWorld's weekly: August 19, 2018

(Blockchain eNewspaper)

News

World news

• US Rep. invites industry leaders to attend a Sept. 25 forum on Capitol Hill to discuss and weigh ICO regulation.
• India Bitconnect Head Arrested and accused of bilking millions of dollars (Rs 88,000 crore) from Indian investors seeking to find financial refuge during the government’s demonetization campaign.
• Microsoft Looks to Trusted Computing for Blockchain Security Boost
• Thai SEC disclosed the list of 7 digital asset applicants (five exchanges and two dealers) who could continue their business operations in accordance with the Transitional Provisions during the SEC's consideration.
• Jamaica Stock Exchange explores cryptocurrencies
• Venezuela will use the crypto currency (Petro) for a monetary reconversion as an accounting unit starting next Monday.

Other blockchain news

• You Can Now Get Paid (a Little) for Using Bitcoin's Lightning Network
• Marlowe in Cardano Explained
• Launching the Oraclize service on EOS

Ethereum News

• A tweet storm explaining the history and state of Ethereum's Casper research by Vitalik.
• ECF and ETHPrize band together to help fund Universal Logins for Ethereum Demo
• Ethereum Foundation Grants Update - Wave 3
• The golang implementation of Ethereum (Geth) surpassed 20000 stars on #github.

Technology

• Plasma

  • Enabling Fast Withdrawals for Faulty Plasma Chains
  • Plasma Challenge Bond Pricing Concerns
  • Batch auctions on Plasma
  • Plasma bridge between chains

• Casper

  • Casper Standup Call#64
  • Censorship detectors via 99% fault tolerant consensus
  • Casper FFG and light clients.

Good Reads on Blockchain

• How to get real-time updates from Ethereum in your favorite apps - Ethereum + Zapier
• Improving the Ethereum Developer Ecosystem with Libraries by Daniel Que, Co-Founder of CryptoFin.

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• Interview: MakerDAO CEO Rune Christensen Talks Stablecoins

Projects

New Projects

• Me token: The Social Commerce Revolution

Project updates

• MakerDAO and Wyre announced a partnership.
• MakerDAO and Wyre Give Businesses Immediate Access to Dai Stablecoin in Over Thirty Countries, Including U.S.A.
• Columbia Journalism Review profiles Civil
• Airswap Introducing Conversational OTC Trading
• 0x monthly dev update
• Grid+ Domestic Market Expansion
• Toshi as Coinbase Wallet — the easiest and most secure crypto wallet and browser
• Aragon Q2 dev update
• Loom Network’s Zombie Battleground is in private alpha
• Gnosis on getting to 100% decentralized exchanges
• Ocean Protocol v0.1 testnet release

Miscellaneous

Trading & Mining

• Cryptocurrency Startup Swarm Is Selling Tokens Backed by Robinhood Shares

• Uber Co-Founder and ETrade Alum Launch No-Fee Cryptocurrency Trading

• Ethereum Classic Jumps 15% Ahead of Today's Coinbase Launch

Hackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs

• August 24-26, 2018: Loom hackathon (Oslo, Norway)
• September 6, 2018: Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians - Gathering of Security Community
• September 7-9, 2018: ETHBerlin - Back to Basics.
• September 7-9, 2018: WyoHackathon 2018
• September 8, 2018: Ethereum Industry Summit (Hong Kong)
• September 14-15, 2018: Litecoin Summit
• September 15-16, 2018: Kiev DappDev hackathon
• September 21-23, 2018: EthAtlanta hackathon at Atlanta Tech Park.
• October 1-2, 2018: SWELL by Ripple. President Bill Clinton is one of the keynote speakers.
• October 3-4, 2018: CryptoSprings
• October 5-7, 2018: ETHSanFrancisco. Applications are officially open.
• October 5-7, 2018: TruffleCon 2018 in Portland, Oregon.
• October 11, 2018: Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)
• October 17-18, 2018: Crypto Games Conference at Minsk, Belarus.
• October 22–24, 2018 : Web3 Summit in Funkhaus, Berlin.
• Oct 26-28, 2018: Status hackathon (Prague)
• October 30, 2018 – November 02, 2018 : Devcon4 in Prague.
• DECEMBER 7-9, 2018: THE FIRST CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED GOVERNANCE In ATHENS

• March 19, 2018 - Spetmber 30, 2018: Gnosis X by Gnosis - a recurring challenge inviting developers, creators, and businesses to build customized prediction market applications on top of the Gnosis platform.

ICO

• C3C Protocol : August 25, 2018 - September 30, 2018
• Save Environment Token:Token sale starts September 05, 2018.
• MyShield : Token registration has commenced.
• Ubex : Onging Token sale till August 13, 2018

Ongoing

• IDMoney :July 01, 2018 - August 31, 2018.
• AligatoCoin : July 29, 2018 - August 30, 2018
• INCODIUM : July 17, 2018 - August 27, 2018.
• ORBIS : Onging Token sale till October 29, 2018.

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