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(Blockchain Weekly Recap)

News

World news

• CEOs of Mastercard and Wells Fargo Concur on Blockchain’s Long Term Potential
• Louis Vuitton Owner LVMH Is Launching a Blockchain to Track Luxury Goods
• Samsung Galaxy S10 is out but its cryptocurrency wallet is AWOL. The Samsung Galaxy S10 has shipped but only users in Germany, Korea and the U.S. are able to use its crypto features for now.
• Japanese e-commerce giant  Rakuten sets June launch date for crypto exchange
• Indian Crypto Community Rallies to Influence Government’s Decision on Regulation

Ethereum news

All Core Dev Call #58 Agenda, Video, Notes

Ethereum Cat Herders Update #6

ProgPoW

• ProgPoW Audit: Goals & Expectations
• ProgPow Algorithm Audit Proposal by Least Authority
• ProgPOW Carbon Voting (progpowcarbonvote.com) will be shut down by 9 April 2019 (block/time to be confirmed).
• Comprehensive ProgPoW Benchmark
• Swende's My stance on progpow - reasons for why I think Ethereum should switch to progpow.
• The Cost of ASIC Design - Kristy-Leigh Minehan @OhGodAGirl - A response to the infamous #ProgPoW Tumblr post

Twitter storm  on Ethereum governance.

All Ethereum Security Tools Built by ConsenSys Diligence

Exchange, Wallet, Trading and Minning news

• MKR voting on Coinbase Custody dashboard

Technology

Ethereum 2.0

• Ethereum Moving from Keccak to Sha256 for ETH2.0. What are the implications for moving from 1.0 to 2.0?
• Eth2.0 Implementers Call #15 agenda, Video
• What's New in Eth2 - 29 March 2019
• Ethereum 2.0 Serenity Testnet Update — Closer Than Ever by Prysmatic Labs
• Nimbus Development Update: A Public Ethereum 2.0 Testnet

Release

• EthereumJS VM v3.0.0: Stack & Memory Refactoring, ES6 Classes
• Trufflev5.0.10 — Enriching the debugger one release at a time, and compiler enhancements too
• Pantheon 1.0.2

EIP / ERC

• EIP 1057 (ProgPoW): Open Chip Design for 1% cost/power increase.
• EIP 1884 Opcode repricing for trie-size-dependent opcodes

Projects

New Projects and Protocol

• CryptoUnlocked : Proof of Impact Fundraising. Reddit
  Powered by Ethereum Smart Contracts and Augur
• Stakingrewards ETH Staking reward Calculator

Projects and Protocols update

• A Gitcoin Bounty Platform Fee imposes 10% fee on bounties as a start.
• Introducing Streaming Payments for Ujo with Connext Payment Channels and Dai
• Pando live on Rinkeby
• 0x Roadmap 2019 (part 3): Networked Liquidity & 0x Mesh

Miscellaneous

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• Vitalik Buterin at the University of Waterloo Combining Mechanism Design and Computation
• Interview - Vitalik Buterin  @ EthTrader's Community Member Spotlight

Blockchain good reads

• Ethereum is game-changing technology, literally by Virgil Griffith

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

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

• 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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