(Blockchain Weekly Recap)

News

World news

• DocuSign Can Now Trigger Clause Smart Contracts, Co. Preps For Paid Clients
• SEC Staff to Hold Fintech Forum to Discuss Distributed Ledger Technology and Digital Assets. Forum To Be Held on May 31 at SEC Headquarters.
• Canada Proposes Regulatory Framework for Cryptocurrency Exchanges
• Fundación Castro Limón in Tijuana, Mexico, a Nonprofit Children’s Hospital Now Accepts Crypto Donations Via Giveth and Alibre
• Tokyo crypto-cops nab their first cryptocurrency hacker: the $134K Monacoin thief

Ethereum news

• All Core Dev call 57

  • Agenda
  • Video
  • Notes

• Ethereum Cat Herders Update #5

• kaizen - Aya Miyaguchi for Afri S.

• Ethereum reddit - A statement & call for discussion from (some of) the /r/ethereum moderators regarding recent events.

• The Future of ENS, as Explained in Our ETHcc Talks (Videos Inside)

• Coinbase Rival ErisX Says Crypto Trading Platform for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash Is Imminent

Other blockchain news

• ECIP-1049: Why Ethereum Classic should Adopt Keccak256 for its Proof of Work Algorithm.

Exchange, Wallet, Trading and Minning news

• Etherscan added the ability to view/explore "State Changes" for any transaction made.
• Stellar Lumens (XLM) is launching on Coinbase Pro

Technology

• EVM

  • Basic support for EVMC in Rust

• Ethereum 2.0

  • Ethereum 2.0 Development Update #24 — Prysmatic Labs
  • EDCON HACK: Learn ETH2.0 Phase 0 Through Live Online Workshop
  • Eth2.0 Implementers Call #14 [2019/3/14]
  • What's New in Eth2 - 15 March 2019

• Release

  • eth2.0-specs exec beacon_chain v0.5.0
  • Solidity Version 0.5.6
  • Truffle v5.0.8 — Fistful of fixes and a pinky-sized improvement.

EIP / ERC

• EIP 1155: ERC-1155 Multi Token Standard. Last Call (review ends 2019-03-28).
• EIP 1844: ENS Interface Discovery

Projects

Projects and Protocols update

• What’s New With Gitcoin? Product Updates From Q1 2019
• Goodbye Melonport, hello world! Madeeba Ltd will be building an application layer on Melon which will enable users to enter a one-stop shop for asset management without necessarily being aware that they are using blockchain technology.
• Connext Introducing the Dai Card. Transact Instantly, Cheaply, and Securely in Dai.
• Nimbus Development Update, March 2019
• Golem AMA is happening on April 20th, 18hs, CEST.
• yeeth updates #2BeaconChain, BLS & Libp2p. Yeeth repositories have been relicensed from GPL-3.0 to MIT.
• MakerDAO joins the #PiDay celebration by encouraging donations to charity.

Miscellaneous

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• Transcript: Scalable blockchains as data layers | Vitalik Buterin

Blockchain good reads

• Web3 subscription APIs and watching birth of CryptoKitty
• VDF FAQ pt. 1 or Making an Open Source Chip

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

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

• March 22, 2019: Zero Knowledge Summit 0x03 (Berlin)
• March 26, 2019: Webinar: The Final Word: IBFT 2.0 and Enterprise Consensus by PegaSys
• March 27, 2019: Infura Legacy keys Support will officially stop.
• April 4-5, 2019: Deconomy (Seoul)
• April 8-14, 2019: EDCON in Sydney.
• April 15-30, 2019: Ethereal Virtual Hackathon
• 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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