EtherWorld's weekly: October 07, 2018

(Blockchain eNewspaper)

News

World news

• Yale university into crypto market
• TD Ameritrade Invests in ErisX, a New Regulated Cryptocurrency Exchange for Spot and Futures Trading
• Nicolas Maduro, Venezuelan president announced that the public sale of the Petro will kick off on November 5.
• Air France-KLM partners with Winding Tree to strengthen innovation in the travel industry using Blockchain technology
• VOIP Pioneer Says New Startup Is Paying Users Interest on Millions in Crypto

Other blockchain news

• Ripple

  • Swell 2018: Wrapping Up a Historic Year for Ripple
  • xRapid Now Commercially Available

• CARDANO RUST PROJECT IS LIVE, CHARLES HOSKINSON SAY TOOLBOX A “PROOF OF CONCEPT”. Updated roadmap.

Ethereum News

• Ethereum Ropsten testnet Constantinople hard fork is delayed by 1 epoch to block #4230000 to allow clients to implement, test and release an update to CREATE2, countering a recently found EVM DoS attack vector. It was originally set for block 4,200,000 on or about Oct. 11, 2018.

• Universal Logins: First Demo. You can already use an app without ether.

• Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Hyperledger join hands. Growing the Enterprise Blockchain Ecosystem Through Open Standards and Open Source Code to Advance the Global Blockchain Business Ecosystem.

• Vlad zamfir's Blockchain Governance 101 and My Intentions for Blockchain Governance.

• Vitalik Buterin's My summary of “Zamfirian anti-immutabilism”

• Reddit Introduces Community Points & Polls: An experiment only in r/ethtrader

• Technologies Driving Mainstream Web3 Adoption. Seamless onboarding powered by ephemeral key pairs signing meta transactions.

Technology

• Casper Standup Call #69

• Ewasm Community Meetup SF [10/4/18]

• zk-s[nt]arks - Roll_up / roll_back snark side chain ~17000 tps

• Ethereum 2.0 Casper+Sharding

  • Development Update #14 — Prysmatic Labs
  • What’s New in Eth2 - 1 October 2018 - Ben Edgington
  • Ethereum 2.0 Prysm Demo Release v0.0.0

Release

• Parity - Shasper beacon chain implementation using the Substrate framework.

• EIP / ERC

• Decentralizing EIP workflow - A proposal to decentralize an existing EIP classification process in order to increase its throughput and level of details possible.

• EIP-1014

• ERC-1462: Base Security Token

• ERC-1357 : Address Metadata JSON Schema

• EIP-1470: Smart Contract Weakness Classification (SWC)

Projects

New Projects

• Discord: Free voice and text xhat for gamers. Join if you're a user of geth, puppeth, abigen, clique, rinkeby or a future user of clef - peter_szilagyi
• MUSTEKALA: Making Ethereum blockchain data available to a peer-to-peer network of light clients.
• Erasure - A New Unstoppable Predictions Marketplace. Medium

Project updates

• STORJ - Product Manager Development Update 8
• Augur v2 Details
• Introducing .luxe on ENS
• How Zcash Can Fill Ethereum’s Privacy Gap
• Announcing AraCon — The Aragon Conference
• Gnosis X — A Retrospective. What we learned and what we want to change moving forward
• Shining Light on WSJ’s Attack on ShapeShift and Crypto
• Raiden Explorer: Metrics for the Raiden testnet network
• Polkadot Community Gathering - New York
• Quantstamp and Mythril Link Forces with a Shared Vision for Smart Contract Security

Miscellaneous

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• George Gilder: forget cloud computing, Ethereum is the future

• Loom’s Georgios Konstantopoulos talk on Plasma at Blockchain Game Summit

• Ben Siegel’s blockchain in context talk

• NEXT18 - Astrid Maier in conversation with blockchain pioneer Joseph Lubin

• Ethereum P2P Networking / Sharding by Felix Lange and Péter Szilágyi in Taipei, March 2018

Blockchain good reads

• The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase by Dani Grant and Nick Grossman
• Learnings from the ETHSecurity Community. ETHSecurity was a recipient of an Ethereum Community Fund grant to support the interview process, the creation of this report, and community building up to now and through DevCon.
• trailofbits - A curated list of awesome Ethereum security references.

Wallets, Exchange, Trading & Mining

• Coinbase
  • Accomplishment in Q3 2018
  • Chris Dodds, Charles Schwab Board Member joined Coinbase’s Board
• Bittrex announces Wallet Removal of Bitshares (BTS), Bitcoin Gold (BTG), and Bitcoin Private (BTCP) on November 5, 2018

Out of the league

• $1,300,000 BANKSY artwork piece just “self-destructed” right after it was sold at Sotheby’s auction!🤯😳

Hackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs

• Taking Blockchain Networking to New Heights - Satoshi United (Press Release)

• 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.

• January 29-30, 2019: AraCon — The Aragon Conference