EtherWorld's weekly: September 30 , 2018

(Blockchain eNewspaper)

News

World news

• Fidelity bets on the future with blockchain, virtual reality and AI
• J.P. Morgan INTERBANK INFORMATION NETWORK exands to more than 75 banks. Largest number of banks to join live application of blockchain technology
• Google updated Financial products and services policy; ends cryptocurrency ad ban. The new policy starts in October.
• AT&T Announces Suite of Blockchain Solutions
• United Nations Secretary General mentions Blockchain in his speech as a way of progress.
• Shanghai Hongkou District Court: Ether ($ETH) as a property in the general legal sense is under the protection of the laws.
• Facebook says nearly 50m users compromised in huge security breach.
• IBM Urges US Government to Lead Global Blockchain Regulations
• Austria to Use Ethereum Public Blockchain to Issue 1.15 billion euros in Government Bonds. On October 2, 2018, Austria will raise 1.15 billion euros in new debt. The auction of Bonds is handled by the Ethereum Blockchain.

Other blockchain news

• EOS indemnity exposed by accidental leakage

Ethereum News

• Ropsten Constantinople hard fork officially set for block 4,200,000 on or about Oct. 11, 2018.

• Twelve reasons I’m bullish about Ethereum today - Lane Rettig. And more... - Vitalik Buterin

• An interesting discussion on reddit - Why would anyone want to buy old empty Ethereum wallets?

• "DPOS is not PoS" - Vitalik

• The co-founder of Ethereum says we’re thinking about money all wrong - Joe Lubin

Technology

• Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #47 [09/28/18]
  • Agenda
  • Video
  • Notes
• Ethereum 2.0 Implementers Call #4 [9/27/2018]
  • Agenda
  • Video
• State Channel Researchers Call #3
  • Video
  • reddit
• Open Source Web3Design call #7
• Turbo-Geth — beta, constantinopole, tests

Release

• Truffle v5.0.0-beta.1 – Hazelnut Onigiri.

• Typesafe Truffle with Typescript and TypeChain

• Trinity Ethereum Client v0.1.0-alpha.16 Release "Ada Lovelace"

• Shasper viz 0.4 - Visualization of Ethereum sharding

• Plasma

  • Erasure coding (Reed-Solomon) for Plasma data availability
  • Plasma Leap - a State-Enabled Computing Model for Plasma
  • Plasma Cash defragmentation, take 2

• EIP / ERC

  • EIP712 is coming: What to expect and how to use it?
  • EIP1438 - dApp Components (avatar) & Universal Wallet
  • EIP-1444: Localized Messaging with Signal-to-Text

Projects

New Projects

• LDGRToken - A compatible security token for issuing and trading SEC-compliant securities.
• Blockchain Game Alliance - a coalition of gaming and Blockchain companies committed to advocate for the democratization of Blockchain within the gaming industry.
• Decentralized_eCom - A decentralized e-commerce platform. Tech Stack: Ethereum (Solidity) on the backend, Web3 binding to ReactJS frontend!
• 3box - TheEthereum Profiles API makes it easy to onboard users and build scalable, user-friendly dapps.
• CivD - 4X - strategy game on Ethereum. Reddit
• Securify - Security scanner for Ethereum smart contract.
• EthHub - an open source information hub.

Project updates

• Testing contracts that use ENS with ENSBuilder
• The Technical and Legal Side of Iconomi’s Transformation. It is ending the utility tokens and making them securities.
• 0x Protocol
  • Blockchain Governance
  • the launch of 0x protocol v2.0.
• a16z crypto purchases 6% of MKR, backing Stablecoin Vanguard MakerDAO
• Aragon Community Update #1
• Status
  • Announcing Embark 3.2
  • Wallet Bug Fix - v.0.9.28 release
• Strategic Partnership between imToken and Circle
• Next Generation uPort Identity App released
• POA Network: Building Honey Badger BFT

Miscellaneous

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• A RadicalxChange between Vitalik Buterin and Glen Weyl
• Randi Zuckerberg AMA - about entrepreneurship, technology, blockchain, and more.

Blockchain good reads

• Fraud Proofs: Maximising Light Client Security and Scaling Blockchains with Dishonest Majorities by Vitalik Buterin. Summary
• Learn Merkle Trees by programming your own.
• The State of Decentralized Oracles

Wallets, Trading & Mining

• India's Zebpay shutdown its operations as cryptocurrency trading platform
• Circle introduces USD Coins (USDC)
• MetaMask now supports Ledger Hardware Wallets

Hackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs

• Satoshi United - GET A CHANCE TO PITCH YOUR INNOVATION TO THE RIGHT TARGET AUDIENCE AND WIN UPTO 100K USD

• 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.

• October 5-7, 2018: TruffleCon 2018 in Portland, Oregon.

• October 11, 2018: Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)

• October 12, 2018 - Non-fungible summit

• October 17-18, 2018: Crypto Games Conference at Minsk, Belarus.

• October 22–24, 2018 : Web3 Summit in Funkhaus, Berlin.

• October 24-25, 2018:Winding Tree hackathon (Prague)

• October 25-26, 2018: STABLE CONF LONDON 2018 , Kings Place, London, UK

• October 26-28, 2018: Status hackathon (Prague)

• October 29, 2018 - Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (Prague)

• October 30, 2018 – November 02, 2018 : Devcon4 in Prague.

• November 2nd, 2018 - Metamask plans to release breaking change to commemorate the EIP proposing this change, EIP-1102.

• November 3-4, 2018 - PegaSys Enterprise Ethereum hackathon (Prague)

• November 8-9, 2018: BLOCKCHAIN BUDAPEST, Bálna, Budapest, HUNGARY

• November 9-13, 2018:Blockspot 2018, LISBON, PORTUGAL

• November 14-16, 2018: Decentralized Divani Caravel, Athens, Greece. Registration Open.

• DECEMBER 7-9, 2018: THE FIRST CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED GOVERNANCE In ATHENS

• January 16-18, 2019: The North American Bitcoin Conference Miami, Florida.