(Blockchain Weekly Recap)

News

World news

• IBM X-Force Red Launches New Service for Blockchain Security Testing. New Service Uncovers and Helps Address Security Vulnerabilities in Blockchain Design and Implementations.

• Israel regulatory authority recommends regulated platform for cryptocurrency trading

• Switzerland's Main Stock Exchange Launches Ethereum ETP Trading

• South Korean authorities create Task Force to prevent cryptocurrency crimes

• Nevada is working hard to ensure it is one of the friendliest blockchain states!

• #InternationalWomensDay

  • Ethereal dedicating this week to the women moving the blockchain space
  • Women in Blockchain
  • Joseph Lubin, ConsenSys
  • Pooja Ranjan, Ethereum Cat Herders

Ethereum news

• Governance on /r/ethereum
• Fidelity Crypto Chief Says Hard Fork May Delay Firm’s Support for Ethereum
• Ethereum has the biggest developer team in crypto! Monthly developers average 216
• 1218 DNS top-level domains deployed with the necessary DNSSEC support to ENS on Goerli.
• Opera is integrating ENS + IPFS
• PROGPOW Explained in under 4 min. & why it matters to GPU Miners
• Ethereum is not succumbing to maximalism, a discussion on reddit.
• ConsenSysVC has invested $1.15 million in blockchain privacy startup Ligero and an undisclosed amount in Philippines crypto exchange PDAX.

Other blockchain news

• Monero Mined On 400 Vulnerable Docker Servers.
• 4th Largest Bitcoin Wallet - Emptied
• Why Ethereum Classic should Adopt Keccak256 for its Proof of Work Algorithm.

Exchange, Wallet, Trading and Minning news

• Vitalik proposes 1 gwei/gas fee for txs sent through their wallet.
• eToro officially launches its cryptocurrency exchange in the US
• Parity Signer Turn your smartphone into a hardware wallet.
• MyEtherWallet: You can now schedule future transactions for a specific time or block number using the Ethereum Alarm Clock #dapp by ChronoLogic in MEW V5.
• Coinbase Exec on Controversial Neutrino Acquisition, Adding Support for Ripple’s XRP. Says It Never Shared ‘Personally Identifiable’ Customer Data.
• Omise Holdings opens signups for GO.exchange (limited open/no fee)
• Ethfinex Migrates to 0x V2 . Ethfinex Restarts Token Voting With Revenue Share Incentive
• Bitmain already facing multiple lawsuits and more being filed.
• Cryptocurrency mining on college campuses rises as students make use of free electricity.

Technology

• Build an Ethereum DApp Using Ethers.js

• Dapplets: Rethinking Dapp Architecture for better adoption and security

• Solidity

  • SOLTIX: Scalable automated framework for testing Solidity compilers.
  • Learn Solidity: Atomic swap between erc20 tokens and Ether

• EVM Evolution Roadmap

• When ewasm ? by Alex Beregszaszi

• When Lightning STARKs - Scaling Payments with STARKs.

• Parity Shasper Testnet Plans

• Ethereum 2.0

  • Q + A on ETH 2.0 Serenity session at ETHMagicians: Paris 2019
  • The State of Layer-2 Protocol Development #1 by ConsenSys

• Release

• web3.js 1.0.0-beta.48

• Solidity Version 0.5.5

• Pantheon 1.0.1

EIP / ERC

• EIP-1837 : Explicit transaction fees
• ERC1836: Upgradable Identity Proxy
• EIP-1822: Introducing the “Escape-hatch” Proxy. Medium.
• EIP-1815: EIP that standardises the interface of blind auction contracts (first draft)
• EIP-1812: Ethereum Verifiable Claims

Projects

New Projects / Protocols

• ZRNT - Executable spec for ETH 2.0, implemented in Go. Reddit
• Vaulttel: VaultTel offers enhanced security against software wallets alone as it uses enhanced iOS and Android platform with VaultTel Chip validation in addition to encryption data storage and biometric authentication. Coindesk.
• ETHMail: ETHMail is an email provider. It providers email services like Gmail.
• SmartPy : An intuitive and effective smart contracts language and development platform for Tezos with Python syntax.
• Kyokan: Announcing our Plasma MVP Alpha

Projects and Protocols update

• Bounties Network: Our ETHDenver Highlights. Colorado Network, Faces of Ethereum, UNICEF Boost Token & More. Reddit
• paritytech/substrate - Initial: Offchain Workers #1942
• KyberDAO Voting Experiment #1
• EtherNode is nearing production
• Maker DAO Governance Poll Proposed Stability Fee Increase: +2%
• Introducing the Alethio API & Analytics Suite - Towards a Transparent & Accessible Decentralized Future.
• The District Weekly — March 9th, 2019
• Brave’s Opt-In Private Ad Platform Enters Second Phase with BAT Rewards for Users and Reporting for Brands. Brave Software and TAP Network Put Blockchain to Work with New Partnership.
• Civil Memberships available worldwide starting March 6.

Miscellaneous

Out of the league

• Satoshi Nakamoto - Found Him!!

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• What's the progress on Ethereum 2.0? Interview with PegaSys's Ben Edgington
• Gitcoin: Growing Open Source Software with Kevin Owocki
• The Enemy is not the Community: it’s our own naivety - Maria Paula Fernández
• Formal Verification with Martin Lundfall from Dapphub & MakerDAO

Blockchain good reads

• Why Do We Need Transaction Data? The “data” field exists for all transactions, but what actually goes there, and why?
• Ethereum Explained: Gas, Payment, and Mining
• Model 0: low-level defence measures for Sybil attacks in P2P networks

Also check: EtherWorld's collection of Good Read on Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

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

• March 8-10, 2019: ETHParis (ETHGlobal)
• March 8-10, 2019: ETHUofT, Toronto
• March 12, 2019: Blockchain International Scientific Conference. Register here
• March 22, 2019: Zero Knowledge Summit 0x03 (Berlin)
• March 27, 2019: Infura Legacy keys Support will officially stop.
• April 4-5, 2019: Deconomy (Seoul)
• April 8-14, 2019: EDCON in Sydney.
• April 19-21, 2019: ETHCapetown, Cape Town, South Africa.
• April 23-24, 2019: Blockchain Revolution Global at Toronto
• April 23-24, 2019: Blockchain Life 2019 at Singapore.
• April 24, 2019: Enterprise Blockchain Awards
• April 24-26, 2019: Truffle Blockchain Development Workshop, Dublin 2019
• May 10-11, 2019: ETHEREAL, NEW YORK
• May 13-15, 2019: Consensus by Coindesk. Register here.
• May 16, 2019: TOKEN SUMMIT IV NEW YORK CITY.
• May 17, 2019: Hard deadline to accept proposals for “Istanbul” upgrade.
• May 17–19, 2019: ETHNewYork
• May 17, 2019: Deadline to accept proposals for Instanbul upgrade fork
• May 23-25, 2019: Swarm Orange Summit Madrid 2019
• June 22 – 24, 2019: Zcon, Annual Privacy Conference
• August 2–4, 2019: ETHIndia II
• September 6–8, 2019: ETHBoston
• October 2019: ETHWaterloo II, Sign up to mailing list to be notified when applications open.
• October 2019: Istanbul. Planned Ethereum Network Upgrade

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