(Blockchain eNewspaper)

News

World news

• Nasdaq would consider trading cryptocurrency, partnered with Gemini
• American Express closer to breaking into elusive Chinese market - CNBC
• Reserve Bank of India Faces Lawsuit Over Attempt to Ban Cryptocurrency Trading
• Puerto Ricans are developing their own parametric hurricane insurance product using Ethereum
• IBM introduces a blockchain to verify the jewelry supply chain.
• BBVA Registers $91 Million Loan on Public Ethereum Blockchain.

Ethereum News

"I am boycotting @coindesk's Consensus 2018 conference this year, and strongly encourage others to do the same." - Vitalik Buterin

Updates on EDCON: speakers announced, early bird tickets sold out.

Péter Szilágyi responded to Coindesk for EIP 999 - "@coindesk asked me a few questions about EIP-999, but for some reason didn't add even one of my answers into their piece. Maybe they preferred a more apocalyptic piece, maybe my answers were too late to incorporate. Either way, I spent time writing it, so here ya go."

Recovering lost ether, past and future - Alex Van de Sande

Ethereum Audio White Paper

Other Blockchain News

• Bitcoin's 17 millionth coin mined
• Monero Payment Gateway for OpenCart. Also, accepted in Italian restaurant now.
• Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse and Michael Arrington to talk cryptocurrency at Disrupt SF
• NEO - How Blockchain Technology is Making Your Holidays Cheaper
• Aion launches first public blockchain network

Technology

Developer's Update

• EIP 210: Blockhash refactoring. Constantinople features pt 1
• EIP 1015 -On chain issuance control
• EIP 1035: Transaction execution batching and delegation
• Parity 1.10.2-beta
• Geth (v1.8.6) - Third Derivative
• Web3.py v4.2.0 - local private key signing is now stable
• swarm POC3
• Casper  Standup call 48
• How to write upgradable smart contracts in solidity.
• A simple guide on how to build a social platform for an ERC-721 token.
• Studying the new game development capabilities ERC-721 objects enable
• New batchOverflow Bug in Multiple ERC20 Smart Contracts (CVE-2018–10299)

Good Reads on Blockchain

• Sharding - Ethereum Research
• Minimal sharding protocol extension
• As-fast-as-possible shard chains with notarization
• Cryptoeconomic aggregate signatures for the main chain
• RNG exploitability analysis assuming pure RANDAO-based main chain
• Fork-free RANDAO
• The State of Scaling Ethereum
• A Prehistory of the Ethereum Protocol - On Radical Markets by Vitalik Buterin
• Why Tokens Need Customer Development - Early-stage token teams should spend more time learning about their customers than building products.
• Why Infura is the Secret Weapon of Ethereum Infrastructure

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• AMA with Christian Reitwießner.
• An Ethereum Podcast: Dan Romero, General Manager of Coinbase.com
• Karl Floersch - Plasma Cash and the Ethereum Roadmap

Projects

New Projects and White Paper

• Reversible ETH (RETH) - Use SilverWire  to perform reversible payments on Ethereum.Reddit
• Token Foundry - The global platform for properly designed tokens.
• Ethbay: A Decentralized Peer to Peer Marketplace that uses Ethereum for Payments.Reddit
• CryptoCarz  — the world’s first blockchain-enabled VR racing experience
• Velix.id — Protection of own data
• Block Party - A New Political Party - A thought.

Project updates and Press Release

• Official statement regarding DNS spoofing of MyEtherWallet domain
• Parity - Our commitment to Ethereum and a decentralized future. "We have no intention to split the Ethereum chain."
• Creating a lighter experience - DECOUPLING PARITY WALLET UI FROM PARITY BLOCKCHAIN CLIENT
• OmiseGo - Strategy vol. 02. Plasma Cash repo is now open
• Quantstamp’s security assurance on the OmiseGO token contract in the context of batchOverflow and proxyOverflow
• Gitcoin partners with Maker Dao.
• DigixDAO Governance Model — Update #1
• uPort - Privacy Preserving Identity System for Ethereum dApps
• The ENS Blacklist
• ICONOMI Financial Report — Q1 2018
• Kyber Network Integrates with MyEtherWallet
• Waves Smart Contracts have just been released to Waves’ TestNet.
• adChain Registry to the Ethereum Mainnet
• Loom  - Practical Plasma (Volume I): Gaming
• Kleros Project & Token Sale Overview

Trading

• COINUT EXCHANGE - Now Singapore users can buy ETH directly through internet banking.
• Koinex presents XRP-based trading market with 8 XRP pairs.
• Announcing Margin Trading with dYdX

Miscellaneous

Out of the league

• Love for community -
• an Ethereum Lamp
• an Ethereum Art
• an Ethereum Pendent

Hiring

• Parity Technology
• uPort Test Engineer

Hackathon

• MedCredits $10,000 App Competition. The winner will be announced by Kyle Samani on May 1, 2018.
• Kauri Technical Content Competition: The competition starts May 3rd and will run on the Rinkeby testnet until May 31st.
• EthMemphis hackathon. Apply before  MAY 19TH - 7 PM.
• HackEth - May 19-20, 2018 at Warsaw
• EthBuenosAires hackathon from May 25-28, 2018.
• Melonport hackthon in Zug. May 17-19, 2018
• Free DAPP Hackathon in Atlanta  - June 1-2, 2018.

Events

• May 3-5, 2018: EDCON in Toronto
• May 7-11, 2018: Swarm Orange Summit 2018 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Apply before April 20, 2018.
• May 10, 2018: Fluidity Summit 2018
• May 11-12, 2018: Ethereal Summit at the Knockdown Center in NYC.
• MAY 14-18, 2018: Boulder Startup Week
• May 16-17, 2018: Token Summit III (NYC)
• June 1, 2018: Blockchain for Social Impact Conference (Washington, DC)

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