(Blockchain Weekly)

News

World news

• New Zealand Makes It Legal For Employees To Get Paid In Bitcoin
• Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala throws support behind cryptocurrencies.
• IBM Files US Patent for Blockchain Web Browser Interface
• European Cryptocurrency Exchange (EUCX) + BLOCK 30 Financial Announce Strategic Partnership
• Federal Reserve To Launch FedNow Instant Payments System
• 15 Nations Plan Global Crypto Monitoring System Under FATF: Report by Coindesk
• Congressman Reintroduces Cryptocurrency Tax Bill

Ethereum news

• Enterprise Ethereum Alliance EEA appoints Aya Miyaguchi from Ethereum Foundation’s to the EEA Board and Launches Mainnet Initiative, a technical working group designed to accelerate and lead the collaboration between enterprises and the mainnet and vice versa.
• Where Ethereum Is Going - Changes on Ethereum Foundation and ecosystem from an insider’s perspective by Alex Van de Sande
• ENS: What the “Ethereum” Means in “Ethereum Name Service” and Why It Matters
• Shariah White Paper on Ethereum

Exchange, Wallet News

• Algorand (ALGO) is launching on Coinbase Pro on Wednesday, August 14.
• Serious Security Warning Issued For World's Biggest Bitcoin And Crypto Exchange, Binance

Technology

Ethereum 2.0

• Prysmatic Labs Ethereum 2.0 Development Update #32
• Nimbus Development Update, August 5

Release

• Parity Signer v2.2 Beta

• web3.js 2.0.0-alpha.1

• jpmorganchase/quorum v2.2.5

• Search engine for solidity source code by EF

Projects

New Projects and Protocol

• COTI is deploying its Global Trust System (GTS) on Chainlink
• Tornado Cash: Introducing Private Transactions On Ethereum. It allows you to send Ethereum cryptocurrency 100% anonymously using groundbreaking, non-custodial technology based on strong cryptography. Reddit
• CryptoUnlocked: Conditional Fundraising on the Blockchain
• Gas Stations Network (GSN) launching on mainnet. OpenZeppelin performed the GSN security audit and joined in building and maintaining the code.
• Ethereum Elements : Harvestable Digital Resource. Mainnet launched on 10th August 2019.

Projects and Protocols update

• Running a Pantheon Node in Java Integration Tests
• Kyber Ecosystem Report #5
• Tokenizing Products Using Uniswap and OpenLaw Part 1
• Connext V2.0 is on testnet! Contract audits are in progress and expected to go live sometime around ETHBerlin (8/23–8/25).
• OpenLaw’s Integration Framework: Making it Easy to Integrate Third Party Services into OpenLaw, a sneak peek.
• Augur v2's Faster Oracle & Market Resolution System

Miscellaneous

Funds and Grant

• MetaCartel DAO Wave 1 Funding

Blockchain Opening

• Görli Testnet Initiative ("Görli"), in cooperation with the Department of Decentralization ("DoD", @ETHBerlin), is looking for a Testnet Coordinator (f/m/*), a.k.a. Görlinator.
• 10 new jobs at MakerDAO

Print, Video, Podcast and Interviews

• Charles, Pooja, and Tim of the Ethereum Cat Herders at HumansOfEthereum
• Eth2.0 update and a look at Libra with Raul Jordan
• Vitalik's talk from ETHIndia 2.0 Tech Talks + Workshops

Blockchain good reads

• EIP-centric forking by @holiman
• The future of decentralized finance by Lind Xie
• Analyzing Solidity Smart Contracts with Piet
• My ETH India 2.0 Experience by Mudit Gupta

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

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

• August 15, 2019: Devcon tickets on sale again (3pm CEST)
• August 16-18, 2019: ConsenSys Grants hackathon (Toronto)
• August 21-23, 2019: Dappcon (Berlin)
• August 23-25, 2019 - ETHBerlin
• September 3, 2019 - EIC Horizon Prize for 'Blockchains for Social Good'. Deadline at 17:00:00 Brussels time.
• September 4, 2019: Istanbul fork on Ropsten.
• September 6–8, 2019: ETHBoston
• September 16-17, 2019: STARKWare, Tel Aviv
• September 15, 2019: Ethereal Summit 2019, Tel Aviv
• September 15-16, 2019: StarkWare sessions (Tel Aviv)
• October 7, 2019: ENS workshop (Osaka). Application open.
• October 8-11, 2019: Devcon 5, Osaka, Japan.
• October 2019: ETHWaterloo II, Sign up to mailing list to be notified when applications open.
• October 16, 2019: Istanbul. Planned Ethereum Network Upgrade.
• October 30-31, 2019: Blockchain Life 2019, Russia- Moscow
• November 8-10, 2019: ETHWaterloo

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