(Blockchain Weekly Recap)

News

World news

• Facebook Building Cryptocurrency-Based Payments System. Social-media giant is recruiting financial firms, merchants to help launch payments platform.
• Singapore Students graduating from local schools to receive digital certificates using blockchain technology.
• BreakerMag is shutting down
• Tether Lawyer Admits Stablecoin Now 74% Backed by Cash and Equivalents
• Square’s Bitcoin Revenue Jumped to $65.5 Million in Q1, Its Highest Ever

Ethereum news

• Kavita Gupta step down ConsenSysVC
• ConsenSys Monthly Report — April 2019
• Elon Musk tweeted Ethereum.

Exchange News

• Balaji S. Srinivasan Is Leaving Coinbase.
• What's an Initial Exchange Offering (IEO)? CoinDesk Explains

Technology

• Ethereum 2.0

  • Lighthouse Update #10
  • Nimbus Development Update - Whisper, 2019 goals, Season of Docs
  • Plasma Group AMA

• Release

  • Solidity 0.5.8
  • web3.js 1.0.0-beta.54
  • truffle v5.0.15 — Sugared confectionery improvements and more!
  • trufflesuite / ganache 2.0.2-beta.0 - ✨ Mystery Flavor ✨

Projects

New Projects and Protocol

• solang: A new solidity to wasm compiler written in rust.

Projects and Protocols update

• [Maker DAO] Executive Vote: Raise the Stability Fee by 3% to a total of 19.5% per year
• Filecoin Announcing First Mining Community Call to be held on Thursday, May 9th, 2019 at 11pm UTC.

Miscellaneous

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• Exploring Aztec with Zac Williamson

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

• May 12, 2019: Tokenized Assets in New York. BLOCKCHAIN TOKENIZATION – THE NEW METHOD OF ASSET FINANCING
• 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 10-11, 2019: Blockchain for Social Impact Conference 2019 Building a Resilient Future at Microsoft Conference Center, 11 Time Square, New York, NY.
• 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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