EtherWorld's weekly: October 21, 2018

(Blockchain eNewspaper)

News

World news

• FinHub by SEC - Request Form for FinTech-Related Meetings and Other Assistance
• Fidelity announces new company to bring cryptocurrency for institutional investors
• US Marshal - Approximately 660 bitcoins for sale.
• G4S CRYPTOCURRENCY: SECURE VAULT STORAGE IN THE WILD WEST
• Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak Becomes the Co-founder of EQUI Global
• Gibraltar Gov’t Launches Advisory Group to Develop Blockchain-Related Educational Courses
• North Korean hacker crew steals $571M in cryptocurrency across 5 attacks

Other blockchain news

• Sia coin set to Fork on October 31. Sia Proof-of-Work Reset
• NGD (Neo) Announces Research Partnership with Arqit
• Telegram Plans to Launch Test Version of Its Blockchain Platform TON this Autumn
• No Connection Required: How One Dev Sent Bitcoin While Off the Grid

Ethereum News

• Constantinople mainnet HF pushed to January 2019. ProgPOW could be included. Next AllCoreDevs on Nov. 9. STOP pressuring the core devs.
• Issues discovered in the Ropsten Constantinople hard fork by Lane Rettig.
• Ethereum Foundation Grants Update - Wave IV. NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR WAVE V
• Announcing dc⟠ıv Sponsors and Supporters! This year they have "Scholarship Sponsors" to support students to join, and Community Sponsors to support smaller teams and nonprofits.
• What the EEA and Hyperledger Collaboration Means for Enterprise Blockchain Development
• Geth is the 5th fastest growing open source project on GitHub
• True drone autonomy enabled by blockchain built on Ethereum.

Technology

• Ethereum Core Devs Meeting Constantinople Session 2

  • Agenda
  • Video
  • Notes

• Plasma Cash: Towards more efficient Plasma constructions

• Suggested average-case improvements to reduce capital costs of being a Casper validator

• State Channel Researchers Call #5

• Ethereum 2.0 (Casper+Sharding)

  • Development Update #15 — Prysmatic Labs
  • Ben Edgington's 'What’s New in Eth2' - 15 October 2018

• Sharding Talk at Blockchain@Berkeley - Alex Skidanov

• Open Source Block Explorers #16

Release

• ethers.js — Version 4.0 Release

Projects

New Projects

• EXCOLONY: to provide compatibility between all transaction bodies around the world and create an ecosystem which allows real-time transactions and data sharing with low cost.
• RISE: developing sophisticated algorithmic trading technology using the latest artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems.
• An Introduction to the Block-Lattice - The technology that solves the problems of today’s blockchains
• MixEth - Trustless coin mixing service for Ethereum

Project updates

• Peepeth is now free
• Giveth in the DecentralizeNOW
• Raiden Network [GIT] Weekly Update 37
• Raiden Transport - Token transfers in the Raiden Network are performed via multiple messages which are sent between the nodes.
• POA Network partners with MakerDAO on xDai Chain, the first ever USD-Stable Blockchain!
• Token Card (TKN) and Short Address Attack Mitigation
• Ujo Music - Introducing Digital, Collectible, Patronage Badges
• Rocket Pool 2.0 — The Next Generation. New whitepaper for Rocket Pool 2.0 — a decentralised staking infrastructure service for Ethereum 2.0.
• New Brave Browser Release Available for General Download on Brave.com. Redesigned Chromium-based desktop version
  replaces previous Muon-based browser and delivers 22% faster load time.
• AGP-1: The Aragon Governance Proposal Process. [Request For Comment]
• Status Alpha extensions support in nightlies
• Swarm City - Episode3
• Colony Q4 2018 Update
• Increasing Action On Your Gitcoin Bounty. How to put your Gitcoin contributors to productive use
• Ticketmaster Dives Head-First into Blockchain with Acquisition

Miscellaneous

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• Gitcoin – Aligning Incentives in Open-Source Development
• Open Finance on Ethereum with Dharma, 0x, Maker, Compound, and Coinbase - ETHSanFrancisco
• AMA with Yan Zhu (Brave)
• Chat with Richard Craib from Numerai
• Barry Silbert on Wall Street and Crytpo
• peter_szilagyi's Hungarian slides from the talk recently given on , "The cypherpunk endgame: The reign of our virtual creations".

Blockchain good reads

• What's the Relationship Between Gold And Bitcoin?

• Healthcare System Could Benefit from Blockchain Technology Says Philips Research Lead

• Lessons Learned Squatting ENS Domains

Wallets, Exchange, Trading & Mining

• A First Look at the Grid+ Lattice1 Hardware Wallet
• MyCrypto Release 1.4.0
• Coinbase
  • open sourcing Salus, a tool used at Coinbase to coordinate security scanning across their services.
  • Coinbase expands with [new Dublin office](Coinbase expands with new Dublin office)
• Coinbase's Adam White joins Bakkt as Chief Operating Officer in November. “Bakkt will provide the first Federally regulated, physical delivery price discovery contract for the digital currency market.” - @Bakkt CEO Kelly Loeffler
• The Gemini dollar (GUSD) is now officially listed on @BitZExchange
• Bancor (#BNT) listed on Poloniex
• Kyber Network - coingecko has integrated KyberWidget to enable instant decentralized token swaps, allowing visitors to exchange tokens directly in the site.

Hackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs

• A Week of Crypto in San Francisco

• AMA Devcon4 Organizing Team - Ask Us Anything!

• 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 29, 2018: SWARM mini-summit (Prague)

• October 29, 2018: EthMagicians Council of Prague

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

• October 30, 2018: Parity + Polkadot Prague Devcon Meetup

• November 01, 2018: Blockchains LLC Global Launch Event at Prague

• November 02, 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

• DECEMBER 7-9, 2018: ETHSingapore

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

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

• February 15-17, 2018: ETH Denver. Accepting applications in 11 days...