EtherWorld's weekly: November 04, 2018

(Blockchain eNewspaper)

News

World news

• Sundar Pichai's 11-year-old son is mining Ethereum on a computer the Google CEO built himself

• PayPal may share your personal information with third parties (other than PayPal Customers) with new policy update. snapshot. Get hold of your personal data

• Bringing digital ledger interoperability to Nasdaq Financial Framework through Microsoft Azure Blockchain

• HongKong Statement on regulatory framework for virtual asset portfolios managers, fund distributors and trading platform operators

• Brazilian Tax Regulator Publishes Draft on Cryptocurrency Taxation

• Blockchains L.L.C. Innovation Park will be a smart city with a decentralized, public blockchain infrastructure underlying all interactions. Video

• Fabian Vogelstellar has come up with the idea of “reversible” initial coin offerings to prevent scams in the industry.

Other blockchain news

• Bitcoin - A journey from white paper to $100 billion industry in 10 years.. BTC.com Releases New Ethereum Block Explorer to Support Ethereum Community
• Bitcoin Cash price spiked, HF supported by Bitcoin.com & Binance, Ledger suspending services
• Siacoin's HF, Bittrex adding USD market for SC, market and price analysis
• Ripple released Q3 2018 XRP Markets Report this week.
  According to the report, Ripple sells $163 million in XRP amidst rising volatility and volume in Q3 2018.
• Monero - GUI v0.13.0.4 'Beryllium Bullet' released!
• Tether Banking Relationship Announced
• Announcing the EOS21 Protocol: Teleport Your ERC20 Tokens to EOS. A step toward #blockchain interoperability. Sidechains and Sister Chains on EOS: An Explainer
• NEM Jason Lee's Keynote on Security Tokens
• Welcome Lukas Tassanyi to the IOTA Foundation

Ethereum News

• Vitalik Buterin talked about the future of Ethereum in Devcon4. Serenity is the next step for Ethereum - a term that's beginning to replace Ethereum 2.0 or Shasper to describe the upcoming integration of Casper and sharding. As the fourth development in the Etheruem roadmap, Serenity is helping the technology realize the potential of a world computer.

• ConsenSys Acquires Planetary Resources

• Launch of ConsenSys Grants in Devcon4! The program will distribute 500k to projects and teams building infrastructure, design, interoperability, and more. Grants will be distributed in increments of $10,000 - $25,000.

• Ethereum Special Projects announces 15,000 ETC donation to Ethereum Classic Cooperative

• EEA - Both the EEA Off-Chain Trusted Compute Specification V0.5 document AND the the Enterprise Ethereum Client Specification V2 document have been released!

Scam Alert!!

Technology

• Introducing the "Minimal CBC Casper" Family of Consensus Protocols Draft v1.0

• Ethereum Smart Contract Decompiler

• EIP / ERC

  • EIP-1337 - Subscription Services on the Blockchain.
  • ERC1538: Transparent Contract Standard

Projects

New Projects

• BlockAction - Introducing web3 commands to browser
• web3x v1.2.0 - TypeScript port of web3.js released, for type safe contract interactions.
• Sobol - Advance your organization toward decentralized, humanistic work. Sobol is helping redefine what it means to be a “firm” to better reflect human behavior, enable productivity, and encourage growth.
• Bamboo: a morphing smart contract language
• Elph Plasma Chain - demonstrates the speed and scalability of our Plasma chain.

Project updates

• Parity teams up with Zcash Foundation for Parity Zcash client

• Connext Community Update #3

• PegaSys, a ConsenSys company, announces Pantheon Core

• Aragon 0.6 is live on Mainnet

• Status Incubating Projects that are Building Web3

• district0x Quarterly Report - Q3 2018

• Gitcoin Grants.

• Quantstamp Partners with OmiseGo to Make Ethereum Ecosystem Safer by Securing Plasma MVP

• State of the OMG Ecosystem

• Developing with Truebit: An Overview

• Open Sourcing the Law — The Release of OpenLaw Core

• MetaMask at DevCon: Privacy Standards, Mobile, and More
  Synopsis (2018 @metamask_io by the Numbers):
  🦊 46 extension versions released
  🛠 50k new lines of code
  ✅ 882 pull requests merged
  💥 1400 issues closed
  👯‍ 100+ community contributors
  👥 18 full-time employees

• Zeppelin

  • Announcing the ZEP Token Private Beta
  • Solidity Compiler Audit

• Auditing OpenZeppelin 2.0

• If you want to contribute a validator node to the Goerli v0.2 pre-testnet, please join Gitter

Miscellaneous

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• Devcon4
  
  • Reddit Devcon4 Live Stream Links + Agenda + Mega Thread
  • Microsoft @ DevCon4
  • Recordings devcon4 (day 1, day 2)
  • Keynote - Vitalik Buterin - History and vision for Serenity
  • Slides of Christian Reitwiessner - Less Gas, More Fun: Optimising
  • Slides of Péter Szilágyi - Plugging the metadata leaks
    in the Ethereum ecosystem
  • Slides Georgios Konstantopoulos - Talk on Plasma Cash.
  • Justin Drake "Ethereum 2.0 randomness": RANDAO, VDFs and Foundation-sponsored open design ASICS to make sure delay proof generation cannot be highjacked.
  • The Trinity Ethereum Client - A platform for blockchain applications
  • ProgPoW Talk by the ifdefelse team

Great costume @hudsonjameson!!

• Substrate: A Rustic Vision for Polkadot by Gavin Wood at Web3 Summit 2018

• Interview with 0xBTC

Blockchain good reads

• 2FA on Ethereum
• JARVIS AND FRIDAY: STARK-FRIENDLY CRYPTOGRAPHIC PRIMITIVES

Wallets, Exchange, Trading & Mining

• Cryptocurrency Price and Market Analysis (November 01, 2018)
• Maker ( $MKR ) and Distributed Credit Chain ( $DCC ) are now available on Kyber Network.
• Binance Will Support the Upcoming Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork
• Ledger - Upcoming Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Fork: What Does This Mean For You?
• Bitfinex announces trading for DigiByte (DGB) against BTC and USD.

Hackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs

• Announcing the Colony Network Bug Bounty Up to $20k for critical disclosures

• 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, B-DAY 2.0 , Bálna, Budapest, HUNGARY

• November 8-9, 2018: Stable Conf @ BLOCKCHAIN BUDAPEST - discussing only stable coin topics Bálna, Budapest, HUNGARY

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

• November 10 - 11, 2018: EOS Hackathon

• November 14, 2018 :BlockScout - Open Source EVM Blockchain Explorer

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

• November 26 - Dec. 10, 2018: Settle Virtual Hackathon TWO

• November 27 - December 01, 2018: BlockShow Asia 2018 Singapore

• 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.

• May 13-15, 2019: Consensus by Coindesk. Register here.

ICO

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