(Blockchain eNewspaper)
News
World news
- IMF Explores Evolving Forms of Money, Prospects of CBDC
- IBM and Columbia University Launch Two Accelerator Programs for Blockchain Startups Programs combine research and enterprise network expertise to help early-stage and later-stage companies build and scale blockchain.
- Blockchain Gaming Is Coming to Sony PS4
- The US Election Commission Allows Mining of Cryptocurrency for Political Campaigns.
- Indian Government Expects to Finalize Crypto Bill Next Month
- Saudi Arabia Explores Option to Launch a New Cryptocurrency Coin with UAE in 2019
- North Dakota Securities Commissioner Issues Order Against Union Bank Payment Coin
- North Korea Announces International Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Summit
- Overstock’s Founder Bets on Blockchain, Not Bedsheets - Patrick Byrne is so certain about the technology’s possibilities, he’s planning to sell Overstock’s retail business
- WATCH OUT FOR FALSE CLAIMS ABOUT SEC AND CFTC ENDORSEMENTS USED TO PROMOTE DIGITAL ASSET INVESTMENTS
Other blockchain news
- Bitcoin Close to Overtaking MasterCard in Daily Transfers
- Telegram (TON) raised $1.7 billion in its ICO.
Ethereum News
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"A Blockchain Holiday Dinner" - A video by ConsenSysMedia, it's amazing - must watch!!
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Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #50 [2018-11-23]
- Agenda
- Video
- Notes
- In today's call there was a long discussion over the controversy of an article published at Coindesk . According to the article, Ethereum developers are secretly meeting to work on improving the Ethereum network. I personally don't think there is anything bad about it, but many were concerned why the meeting wasn't in public forum. Read more about the discussion between developers on Gitter.
- Well, to settle down the dust, a write up on Ethereum 1 dot X: a half-baked roadmap for mainnet improvements is published for public reference.
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Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Opens Regional Office in Korea and Appoints Blockchain Leader Joonho Park as Regional Head.
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Announcing EDRA: The Ethereum Dispute Resolution Alliance. This effort was started together by the Bounties Network and ENS teams. The Aragon One team has also decided to officially join as a member of the alliance.
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"Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps 1st Edition" by Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Gavin Wood is now available on Kindle.
Technology
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Serenity
- What's New in Eth2 - 19 November 2018, The beacon chain state has been merged; the beacon chain spec has been split.
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Görli Testnet
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Geth :
- In 2018, 18 versions of Geth are released, all in the 1.8 family.
- @peter_szilagyi calling for help of Influx dev to look into 2 lines of new code to enable @torproject metrics reporting to @InfluxDB.
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Light.js: How to Build Your Dapp on a Light Client
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Ewasm community hangout #7 [2018/11/15]
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Wasm on the Blockchain: The Lesser Evil
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Giveth
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Sandbox dApp for experimenting with Moloch DAO mechanics
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Ethereum Research
- SNARK based Side-Chain for ERC20 tokens
- Plasma World Map - the hitchhiker’s guide to the plasma
- Short RSA exclusion proofs for Plasma Prime
- Plasma DAG - skaling ETH using BLS DAG
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An open invitation to join Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians
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Release
- ethereumjs-vm v2.5.0 - Constantinople, Consensus, StateManager
- Rocket 1.2 - Release Notes
- Truffle v5.0.0-beta.2 – Bento Box of Candy
- Trinity v0.1.0-alpha.17 "RBG"
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EIP / ERC
- EIP1592 - Address and ERC20-compliant transfer rules. proposes a standard and an interface to define transfer rules, in the context of ERC20 tokens and possibly beyond.
- EIP1601 - Block reward for efficient miners. Suggests improvements to the compensation system from the block compensation and processing transactions, giving more compensation to the gas-efficient miners.
Projects
New Projects
Project updates
- The District Weekly — November 24th, 2018
- Using Truffle framework with Arkane - Extending the most popular blockchain development framework.
- Aragon
- The future of organizations
- Final results from the AGP-1 vote. "Should the Aragon project adopt AGP-1 as the Aragon Governance Proposal process?" passed with (99.97%) vote.
- Nest Q3 Updates
- Status v0.9.31 Release - Introducing browser privacy mode
- Gnosis Safe—Product Status
- Level K - Public Disclosure: Malicious GasToken Minting. Redit
- Bakkt Launch update + reader FAQs - Bakkt Warehouse to feature warm & cold wallet insurance.
Miscellaneous
Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews
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Vlad and Gav go head-to-head on blockchain governance.
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Ethereum 2.0 and Scaling Blockchains with Preston Van Loon of Prysmatic Labs
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Blockchain Could Work for Luxury, Too - Joe Lubin at NY Times
Blockchain good reads
- Constantinople - the winding up of Metropolis phase
- Two Point Oh: The Beacon Chain
- Introducing the ERC20 to ERC20 TokenBridge
- Maker for Dummies: A Plain English Explanation of the Dai Stablecoin
- Moving ERC721 Tokens Between Ethereum and PlasmaChain Using Transfer Gateways
Wallets, Exchange, Trading & Mining
- MetaMask Labs presents Mustekala — the Light Client that seeds data
- Introducing The Kyber Trading API
- Trezor Black Friday deal Model T 3for2 package or Trezor One with a 33% discount + free silicone case
Hackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs (Event Calendar)
- Panvala Token Grants: Earn tokens for work that makes Ethereum safer. The committee will decide on the first budget before February 1, 2019.
- 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. Apply here
- January 16-18, 2019: The North American Bitcoin Conference Miami, Florida.
- January 29-30, 2019: AraCon — The Aragon Conference
- February 15-17, 2019: ETH Denver.
- March 27, 2019: Infura Legacy keys Support will officially stop.
- May 13-15, 2019: Consensus by Coindesk. Register here.
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