(Blockchain Weekly)

News

World news

• Crypto 2.0 Roundup: SEC Rumours, Swarm’s Payday and Ethereum’s Expansion
• ‘Members’ of OpenLibra Disavow Project Days After Its Devcon Unveiling

Ethereum news

• CFTC says cryptocurrency ether is a commodity, and ether futures are next

• Devcon V

• Joseph Lubin got a mission for a more open & transparent Web 3.0. 1M Ethereum developers by Devcon6.

• Alex Stokes's Slides of presentation on 'The finality gadget'

• Justin Drake 's Slides of presentation on 'Eth2—collaboration culture'

• Phillip Dian, from Cornell University - Slides of presentation on 'Towards Free Will in
  Cryptographic Systems'. Introducing Complete Knowledge (CK) proofs that allow a user to demonstrate that they really have control of secret data, and the data isn't shackled by SGX or MPC. Implications on communication protocols, smart contract bribery prevention, ZKPs, etc.!

• Kevin Owocki's Tweet thread of presentation ‘The Future History of the Open Internet’

Ethereum Classic

• ETC Labs CEO, announced partnerships with Gitcoin, Bloq and SWARM at Devcon V. ETC Labs Core is researching ETC state availability layer to help ETH scalability issues.
• Bloq announced working with ETC Labs to provide blockchain infrastructure services to the Ethereum Classic and Ethereum communities via BloqCloud.
• BloqCloud to Launch Infrastructure Services for the EthereumStack.
• Etherplan Crowdfunded Grant Proposal to the ETC Ecosystem

Exchange, Wallet News

• Metamask introducing Snaps: The Metamask Plugin System, a Web3 plugin. This is a script loaded over a verified and permissionless protocol like ENS, IPFS, or Swarm. These scripts have zero privilege by default, but will be able to request a variety of powerful wallet APIs from MetaMask, via a new API we call the wallet API.
• A massive update to the MyCrypto experience is in the final stages, and to properly wrap it up, a beta version is provided, try The New MyCrypto.

Technology

Ethereum 2.0

Release

• Truffle v5.0.40 — High-flying birds and vegetables

Projects

New Projects and Protocol

• shethExecution environment for managing shard ether

Projects and Protocols update

• Aragon Chain: a proof of stake blockchain for the Aragon community

Miscellaneous

Funds and Grant

Blockchain Opening

Print, Video, Podcast and Interviews

• BBC Radio 4: The Bottom Line, Cryptocurrency. Talk is focused on Libra.

Blockchain good reads

• Ethereum Research by Vitalik Buterin

  • On-beacon-chain saved contracts
  • Eth2 shard chain simplification proposal
  • The eth1 -> eth2 transition
  • Two-way bridges between eth1 and eth2
  • Partially sharding single-threaded apps: a design pattern
  • Cross-shard DeFi composability

• Research paper: A model for Bitcoin’s security and the declining block subsidy By Hasu, James Prestwich, and Brandon Curtis

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

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

• October 2019: ETHWaterloo II
• October 30-31, 2019: Blockchain Life 2019, Russia- Moscow
• November 8-10, 2019: ETHWaterloo
• February 9-15, 2020: ETHLagos, Nigeria

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