(Blockchain Weekly Recap)
News
World news
- Framework for “Investment Contract” Analysis of Digital Assets by SEC. SEC Issues First ‘No-Action’ Letter Clearing ICO to Sell Tokens in US
- Former White House Deputy CTO Raises $3.7 Million for Ethereum Scalability Project
- Launch of the International Association of Trusted Blockchain Applications - INATBA
- PayPal Targets Identity Ownership With Its First Blockchain Investment
- Elon Musk says "Paper money is going away." "Dogecoin might be my fav cryptocurrency". It’s pretty cool.Tesla won’t be getting involved with cryptocurrency.
- NEWS South Korean government officials consider making cryptocurrency, blockchain regulations laxer
- Blockchain and Crypto to Reinforce Tourism & Culture in Italy
- Tunisia Aims To Be A Pioneer In Blockchain Technology
- Russian Gas Giant Gazprom to Execute Business Contracts on a Blockchain
- 10 ways central banks are experimenting with blockchain
Ethereum news
- Ethereum Name Service (ENS) team, and ENS is getting a major upgrade starting in May - AMA!
- Minimum viable governance
- ECF - Ethereum Community Fund Network 2019: A Build Odyssey
- ‘In Ethereum, developers are more powerful than the miners,’ says Andreas Antonopoulos.
- Miners weigh in on Ethereum’s future prospects. GPU miners are set to benefit from a contentious update on the Ethereum blockchain, but they still face an uncertain future.
Technology
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Ethereum 2.0
- Tweetstorm about #eth2 development - "The ETH 2.0 testing saga".
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Release
Projects
New Projects and Protocol
- Golemgrid - Compute on the Golem Network and pay as you go. Submit tasks to the Golem Network using Golemgrid.com - pay using credit card
Projects and Protocols update
- GridPlus Explores International Expansion
- Kyber Ecosystem Report #1
- Etherlime Spring Updates. Etherlime 1.1.0 has 0x coverage, zksnarks integration, ide and vyper compilation
- Rocket Pool Development Update — 4th Apr, 2019
- Brass Golem Beta 0.19.1
- imToken Progress Update | March 2019 — Spring Breakout, Milestone Version Released, imKey, more DApps🔥
Miscellaneous
Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews
- Into the Ether - Connext: Building Ethereum Payment Solutions with Arjun Bhuptani
- After the Blockchain Bust, Ethereum Co-Founder Joe Lubin Still Bullish
Blockchain good reads
- On Collusion by Vitalik Buterin
- The Basics of Ethereum 2.0 Economics by Eric Conner
- Enterprise IPFS - Why Organizations Will Adopt IPFS
Also check: EtherWorld's collection of Good Read on Blockchain & Cryptocurrency
Hackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs (Event Calendar)
- 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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