EtherWorld's weekly: December 16, 2018

(Blockchain eNewspaper)

Quote of the week

"We are still in the beta stage of crypto protocols. Learn and adopt. Acting like you’ve figured it out is a death wish." - Eric Conner

News

World news

• Timothy C. May, author of the Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, has died.
• Opera Introduces Blockchain-Ready Browser for Web 3
• Facebook’s Blockchain Group Is on a Hiring Spree to Reinvent Money
• The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Seeks Public Comments on Crypto-asset Mechanics and Markets
• European Parliament resolution of 13 December 2018 on Blockchain: a forward-looking trade policy.
• solarisBank supports Boerse Stuttgart Group in the development of the trading system for its crypto trading venue
• Sephora Shoppers Are Getting Their First Bitcoin Using Crypto Startup Lolli
• Former Apple Exec Phillip Shoemaker, joins Decentralized Identity Startup Civic as executive director of Identity.com.

Other blockchain news

• ETC Labs decided to sell ETCDEV’s advances as their own
• Ripple final AMA of 2018 with CEO on 12/18 at 10:30am PST.
• NEM New Zealand University Takeover | Canterbury

Ethereum News

• Ethereum unique address is at 50 million.
• Satellite named "EtherX" as an ode to Ethereum to be launched on SpaceX Falcon 9 in Winter 2019
• Devcon4 Videos and Pictures Released!
• Coindesk - 8 Teams Are Sprinting to Build the Next Generation of Ethereum
• Request for public feedback by Vitalik: how well organized / useful / understandable are our sharding and Casper educational materials?
• Vitalik's tweetstorm on non-financial applications of blockchains.
• 5 Reasons Why Enterprise Ethereum Is so Much More Than a Distributed Ledger Technology. Here’s how Ethereum compares to other blockchain business solutions.

Technology

• Eth 1.x

  • Using the Beacon chain to POS-finalize the Ethereum 1.0 chain
  • State Rent proposal update and Dark Rent markets

• Serenity (Ethereum 2.0)

  • Eth2.0 Implementers Call #8 [2018/12/13]
  • What's New in Eth2 - 10 December 2018
  • State of the spec (from Danny’s perspective)
  • Ethereum 2.0 Prysmatic Labs - Development Update #18 —
  • Exploring Worst Case Scenarios in ETH 2
  • Lighthouse update tweet-storm

• ETHProduct Community Call #2

• Ethereum 3.0 as described by Justin Drake is a set of ideas for beyond the foreseeable Ethereum 2.0 roadmap (phases 0, 1 and 2). I'd say it includes Casper CBC, super-quadratic sharding, data availability proofs, private leader election, STARKs (signature aggregation, witness compression, VDFs, state roots).

• ProgPOW testnet block explorer

• Release

  • Loom 2.0 Initial Release Build 651
  • Py-evm Trinity v0.1.0-alpha.20 "Elpis Kesaratsian"
  • Parity Ethereum 2.2.5-beta, Parity Ethereum 2.1.10-stable
  • Geth Constant (v1.8.20). It is last planned release of the 1.8 family. Developers will start merging backwards incompatible changes onto master in preparation of Geth 1.9.0.

• web3j 4.1.0 is available for Android

• Ewasm

  • community call #8
  • turbo eWASM - Guillaume Ballet (Ethereum meetup at Berlin)

• Solidity

  • questions/answers Solidity 0.5.0 - Christian Reitwiessner (Ethereum meetup at Berlin).
  • Help required in #Solidity 0.5.0 to compile more real-world contracts as part of CI testing.

• EIP / ERC

• ERC-1654 Dapp-wallet authentication process with contract wallets support

• ERC #1651 A document management proposal for legally binding token #1651

• ERC-1643: Document Management Standard (part of the ERC-1400 Security Token Standards)

• ERC-1646: Decentralized Autonomous Zero-identity Protocol

• EIP #1613 - gas stations network (Initial draft)

Projects

New Projects and Protocols

• Totem, a decentralized operating system. The demo runs in the browser and uses @metamask_io to connect to Ethereum.
• Security Innovation Blockchain CTF V.2
• Nym is a project to break surveillance’s stranglehold on the internet. Nym builds on top of the panoramic mixnet protocol. It is kind of a layer-0 privacy enhancement, the way Zcash is layer-1 and Bolt is layer-2.
• Clique: cross-client Proof-of-authority algorithm for Ethereum
• eth.events is an Ethereum search engine with an extensive API.
• CryptoXmas: Send Christmas Cards & Support Venezuelans in Need, on Mainnet now.

Project updates

• FOAM’s Holiday Treasure Hunt 🎁 — Tis’ the season to get mapping
• Loom PlasmaChain Validator & Staking Economics, Part 1
• Gitcoin surpasses $500K in total platform value
• The Mythril (MythX) project is switching to DAI as should many other Ethereum projects.
• Indorse Second layer scaling with EIP-712
• Polymath ERC-1400: Evolution of a Security Token Standard
• Maker DAO Decreasing the Stability Fee. The voting application is at https://vote.makerdao.com and voting starts on December 17, 2018 at 16:00 UTC.
• Storj - Decentralized Auditing and Repair! The Low-key Life of Data Resurrection
• 0x Protocol - Ecosystem Update: DDEX and the 0x Roadmap, Announcing the 0x Ecosystem Acceleration Program. The 0x Core Team aims to distribute over $1 million per year in grants to high-quality teams. The are offering projects non-dilutive capital ranging from $10,000 — $100,000, with grant sizes awarded based on the stage of the project, quality of the team, commitment of the team, level of execution, and contribution to the crypto community.
• Kyber Network Tech Update (Dec 2018)

Miscellaneous

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• Blockchain Insider interviews Vitalik Buterin
• Beyond Cryptocurrencies - Linda Xie
• Andrew Keys on Why ConsenSys Is 'Shifting From Experimentation to Excellence'
• Ethereum 2.0 with Prysmatic Labs: Scaling, Sharding, Proof of Stake, Serenity Phases, and Eth 2.0 Client

Blockchain good reads

• Finding Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts

• Smart Contracts vs. Application-Specific Blockchains

• Ethereum Research

  • Terra-Bridge: Protocol for Interchain Token Transfers between Ethereum and Bitcoin
  • Zero-Knowledge Proofs Starter Pack

• Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians

  • EthMagicians gathering at EthCC 2019 initial call

EtherWorld's collection of Good Read on Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

Jobs and Vacancies

• Monthly ''Who's hiring, and who's for hire'' December, 2018
• Ecosystem-Job-Openings

Wallets, Exchange, Trading & Mining

• A tweetsorm by PeterMcCormack
  "how I turned $32,000 into $1.2m and back to pretty much zero". This is prettymuch story of every individual who invested in Crypto in and around 2016 - 2017.
• 12 days of Coinbase gifts
  * Coinbase donated $10,000 gift in Bitcoin ($BTC) to http://GiveCrypto.org
  • Instant PayPal withdrawals now available for all U.S. customers
• New Listing on CoinmarketCap.com - Chain (CRO), Lisk Machine Learning (LML), Kambria, Platinum, Opacity, FOAM

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Hackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs (Event Calendar)

• January 16, 2019: Constantinople hard fork at block 7080000
• January 16-18, 2019: The North American Bitcoin Conference Miami, Florida.
• January 29-30, 2019: AraCon — The Aragon Conference
• February 7-8, 2019: M1 Asset Management 3.0 , Zug.
• February 15-17, 2019: ETH Denver.
• March 4, 2019: Ethereum Magicians (Paris)
• March 5-7, 2019: Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) 2019
• March 27, 2019: Infura Legacy keys Support will officially stop.
• April 19-21, 2019: ETHCapetown, Cape Town, South Africa.
• April 23-24, 2019: Blockchain Revolution Global at Toronto
• May 13-15, 2019: Consensus by Coindesk. Register here.

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