(Blockchain Weekly Recap)

News

World news

• Facebook Makes First Blockchain Acquisition With Chainspace: Sources
• UnionBank launches first virtual currency ATM.
• Web 3.0 Opera Browser  Launches Instant Crypto Purchases.
• Microsoft Logic Apps Connector to Ethereum Blockchain Networks
• GridPlus is LIVE in Texas. Opening the doors to Retail Electricity Provider. This is the first major, public step towards vision for the future of energy.
• SEC Commissioner Hester M. Peirce - Regulation: A View from Inside the Machine
• Brazil’s President Appointed Head of Central Bank is Pro Blockchain and Crypto
• Quadriga cryptocurrency exchange founder filed will 12 days before he died. Gerald Cotten’s sudden death left US$145 million in bitcoin and other digital assets protected by his passwords unretrievable. QuadrigaCX Owes Customers $190 Million, Court Filing Shows.
• A Dubai Royal Is Taking His First Steps Into Crypto.

Ethereum News

• ECF Network: More Than Grants
• Plasma Testnet Launched!
• Geth master has native Görli support!
• The Exclusive Ethereum Hardfork Naming Finals.
• Tweetstorm on "Q1 2019 Beacon Chain Testnet" by Paul Hauner
• A community-led initiative to decentralize Donuts on Reddit
• Constantinople hard fork on February 27! Upgrades to nodes are available. The changes are described here.
• Ethereum Cat Herders Meeting #4
• Agenda
• Audio
• Notes
• ProgPoW audit/review by the Ethereum Cat Herders. Community discussion on Reddit GPU Miners need you and you need GPU Miners (PoW/ProgPoW).

Other blockchain News

• Zcash Counterfeiting Vulnerability Successfully Remediated.
• More than 85% of the current Monero Hashrate is ASICs and each machine is doing 128 kh/s
• Ripple: The XRPArmy, Explained.

Technology

Reading Ethereum Geth database (LEVELDB)

Why libp2p?

zkSNARKs in WebAssembly - running demo and discussion

Ethereum Support for ZK-SNARKs

Introduction to ZK-STARKs

Ethereum 1.0

• ETH 1.x / ETH Roadmap AMA - Webinar - Video + Notes
• Fork Roadmap Planning Diagrams

Ethereum 2.0

• What's New in Eth2 - 8 February 2019
• Eth2.0 Implementers Call #11 (2019/1/31) and Notes
• The State of Ethereum 2.0 by Justin Drake

Release

• eth2.0-specs - Steady Progress
• ethereumjs-vm - v2.6.0 - Petersburg / Goerli Support

Projects

Project and Protocol updates

• Melon will run its decentralized governance on Aragon
• Maker DAO propsed to Increasing the Stability Fee
• Lightning VS Raiden #2: can we solve privacy and scalability problems of watchtowers and monitoring services?
• Lighthouse Update #07
• Zeppelin OS : Testing real-world contract upgrades
• Connext BiWeekly Update #7
• Convert Fiat on AirSwap with Wyre
• Provide sustainable funding for Open Source with Gitcoin Grants
• The District Weekly — February 9th, 2019
• RocketPool Development Update — 6th Feb, 2019

Miscellaneous

Exchange, Wallet and Trading

• Winklevoss Exchange Gemini Shuts Down Accounts Over Stablecoin Redemptions
• Kraken Acquires Crypto Derivatives Trading Platform and Index Provider, Crypto Facilities, in Nine-figure Deal
• Binance CEO: We Definitely Want to Add Ripple as a Partner for xRapid in the Future.
• Create your own ETH Vanity Address

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• Takeaways from the Eth222 workshop
• In conversation with Preston Van Loon, Co-Founder and Team Lead at Prysmatic Labs
• Taylor Monahan of MyCrypto: Interacting with the Ethereum Blockchain
• Sharding Research' by Alex Skidanov

Blockchain good reads

• Building Blocks: What makes a good EVM package?
• Upgradeability Is a Bug
• Why Blockchain Differs From Traditional Technology Life Cycles?
• Create2 EIP vulnerability questions
• ÐΞVp2p Wire Protocol (Kademlia Distributed Hash Table)

EtherWorld's collection of Good Read on Blockchain & Cryptocurrency

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

• February 14, 2019 - Eth Magicians (Denver)
• February 15-17, 2019: ETH Denver.
• February 16-17, 2019: NEO DevCon 2019, Seattle
• February 27, 2019: Constantinople fork (block 7280000)
• March 4, 2019: Ethereum Magicians (Paris)
• March 5-7, 2019: Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) 2019
• March 8-10, 2019: ETHParis (ETHGlobal)
• March 8-10, 2019: ETHUofT, Toronto
• March 22, 2019: Zero Knowledge Summit 0x03 (Berlin)
• March 27, 2019: Infura Legacy keys Support will officially stop.
• April 4-5, 2019: Deconomy (Seoul)
• April 8-14, 2019: EDCON in Sydney.
• 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 24-26, 2019: Truffle Blockchain Development Workshop, Dublin 2019
• May 10-11, 2019: ETHEREAL, NEW YORK
• May 13-15, 2019: Consensus by Coindesk. Register here.
• May 17, 2019: Hard deadline to accept proposals for “Istanbul” upgrade.

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