EtherWorld's weekly: October 14, 2018

(Blockchain eNewspaper)

News

World news

• Forbes joined Civil: A Major Milestone for Blockchain-Based Journalism. WSJ and CNN criticism on Civil's token sale.
• PBoC Is Seeking Blockchain Talent to Help Build Its Central Bank Crypto
• Gary Cohn, Former Director of the U.S. National Economic Council Joins blockchain start up Spring Labs
• Korea's Largest Bitcoin Exchange Sells Stake in $350 Million Deal
• Sandoval touts economic development at event with Elon Musk, gives proclamation to Blockchains CEO
• Microsoft joins Open Invention Network to help protect Linux and open source

Other blockchain news

• NEWLY LAUNCHED LIQUID A BITCOIN SIDECHAIN BY DEFINITION.
• 7th Anniversary Litecoin. Gemini added LTC.
• NEM PoI - Proof of Importance (POI) is one of NEM's major innovations in the blockchain industry. It's a novel algorithm that uses network theory to assign a rating of each account's importance in the network.

Ethereum News

• Ropsten HF is scheduled for Today or Tomorrow (Monday). Mainnet HF will happen after DevCon.

• "Due to a consensus issue with the Constantinople fork, Ropsten is currently not usable. The Ethereum dev community is investigating. Until further notice please utilize one of the other Ethereum testnets." - Infura, update October 13, 2018.

• Visualization of the X-shard message routing and shard rotation PoC @ETHSanFrancisco. Vlad’s Sharding PoC

• Silvana Rodriguez joined as Director of Strategic Partnerships for the Americas at ConsenSys.

• Should VitalikButerin and Nouriel come on Laura Shin podcast for a debate?

• Ethereum Co-founder Joe Lubin Set To Take The Stage For SXSW Keynote

Technology

• Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #48 [10/12/18]

  • Agenda
  • Video
  • Notes
    • Every client is Constantinople -compatible. Except: Trinity, ethereumJS, exthereum.
    • Next Core Dev meeting will be in four weeks (Nov 9, 2018).
    • An intermediate Constantinople special call in one week, to evaluate the fork on Ropsten, see if it's going well, announce a preliminary block number for mainnet HF. If something goes wrong, it will be put on hold until January.

• Casper Standup 70

• Plasma

  • Implementers Call #15: 🔀 Atomic Swaps
  • Plasma Cash defragmentation, take 3 by Vitalik Buterin

• Ethereum 2.0 (Casper+Sharding)

  • There is an ETH2.0 specs repo, eth2.0-pm, please take a look, updated Danny in Core Dev Meeting.

  • Ben Edgington - Ethereum 2.0 Slides Paris 2018-10-09

  • Ben Edgington - What’s New in Eth2 - 8 October 2018

  • ETH2.0 Implementers Calls #5 [10/11/2018]

    • Agenda
    • Video

• Open Source Web3Design Livestream #8

Release

• Raiden_Network testnet v0.13.0- Gypsy Mushroom! The Raiden smart contracts are now also deployed on Kovan and Rinkeby testnets.
• Geth v1.8.17 (Shoutingstone) released! It's also ready for the Ropsten Constantinople hard fork.
• Parity Ethereum 2.1.2-beta: Constantinople coming to Kovan and Ropsten
• Parity Signer v2.0 Beta: New features and improved security.

Projects

New Projects

• Crypt-ON - a multiservice financial p2p platform for secure transactions based on smart contracts.
• BlockScout - Full Featured Open-Source Ethereum Explorer
• web3x - Typescript port of web3JS
• shadowlands - A Python3 based, TextUI Dapp platform for Ethereum

Project updates

• Giveth DApp recently moved from alpha state into closed beta testing
• Gitcoin monetary policy
• Aragon Nest Update—Evolution of the grants program
• Lighthouse Update #01
• Raiden getting close to Red Eyes alpha launch, will be limited to 250 ETH total, only wrapped ETH, and .075 ETH per direction in a payment channel. Latest testnet release: v0.13.0
• Kyber Network integrated Melon.
• CasinoFair now be accessed from 8 more jurisdictions - Japan, South Korea, China, Brazil, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, New Zealand.

Miscellaneous

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• ETH San Fransisco Videos
• EthereumJS Javascript Ecosystem/Sharding by Holger Drewes, Ethereum Meetup Vienna, October 2018
• Gavin Wood on Polkadot, Sharding and Substrate
• Always Be Shipping: Maurycy Pietrzak of Infura

Blockchain good reads

• How blockchain can cause major paradigm shift for small businesses and start-ups
• Interledger: How to Interconnect All Blockchains and Value Networks
• Introduction to Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs)
• A Comprehensive Solution to Bugs in Fomo3D-like Games - Hackernoon
• Interledger: How to Interconnect All Blockchains and Value Networks

Wallets, Exchange, Trading & Mining

• Datum, Quarkchain and Republic Protocol are now available on Kyber Network.

• A Letter From Robinhood Co-Founder & Co-CEO Vlad Tenev - Better execution quality. Better prices. Offering commission-free trading for everyone.

• Binance Listing Fee Update - all listing fees transparent and donate 100% of them to charity.

• Coinbase is shutting down its Crypto Index Fund Product

• Coinbase’s Adam White is joining Bakkt as its COO

  • ZRX is now available to trade on Coinbase Pro

Hackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs

• 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