EtherWorld's weekly: Edition 76

(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

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.

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.

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

SECURITIES COMMISSIONER ISSUES ORDERS AGAINST 3 MORE COMPANIES PROMOTING INITIAL COIN OFFERINGS IN NORTH DAKOTA
Crypt-ON - October 31, 2018 - January 21, 2019 (Token Sale)