(Blockchain eNewspaper)

News

World news

Facebook bans crypto ads

European Commission launches the EU Blockchain Observatory and Forum

Illinois Eyes Blockchain for IDs and Public Asset Management

U.S. Regulators Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether

Russian State Bank Will Open a Cryptocurrency Exchange in Europe

India will explore the use of Blockchain technology, will not consider cryptocurrency as legal tender

OMERS (Ontario pension giant) expands cryptocurrency presence with $50-million Ethereum public company offering

UNICEF plans to fund blockchain start-ups

Is Goldman Sachs planning a cryptocurrency desk using 0x?

Coincheck heist spurs regulation.

Ethereum News

• Aya Miyaguchi new Executive Director of Ethereum Foundation
• SRF Receives $2.4M Ethereum Donation from Vitalik Buterin
• Greg Maxwell calls Vitalik Buterin a liar, VB comes to clarify why he didn't build Ethereum on top of Bitcoin
• Andreas M. Antonopoulos is writing “Mastering Ethereum” with Gav Wood, for O’Reilly Media
• New EEA members include: AMD, Ernst & Young, Pfizer, Kaspersky, and Royal Bank of Canada among 80 others
• ENS Name Buying  — Simplified

Technology

Developer's Update

• Parity 1.9.2 allows you to connect to the Ropsten testnet.
• Parity 1.9.1 shows your ERC-20 token balances.
• ERC 865: Pay transfers in tokens instead of gas, in one transaction.
• Plasma Implementers Call #1 Video
• IOTA C++ Library (v1.0.0) has been released.
• CryptoZombies Lesson 4  - Zombie Battles & Monetizing Your DApps

Good Reads on Blockchain

Initial explorations on full PoS proposal mechanisms by Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Research)

Gas price oracles and the future of ethgasstation

State of Decentralized Exchanges, 2018 by Nathan Sexer

What is Ethereum? | The Ultimate Beginners’ Guide

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• Ethereum PoS: Casper FFG 2017 Chronicles - BPASE '18 by Karl Floersch
• ScalingNOW! #1: Björn & Max from Parity Talk to Giveth about Bridging EVM Chains NOW!
• Interview with TrueBit #ArtProject Creator, Jessica Angel
• Ben Siegel from the Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition
• Polymath AMA with Trevor Koverko
• Joe Lubin at Ethereal Davos 2018
• Gitcoin: Sustaining Open Source with Cryptocurrency, Kevin Owocki  on the Changelog

Projects

New Projects and White Paper

• FarmaTrust - Saving Lives Using Blockchain and AI
• Unilot - Decentralized gambling platform
• Swarm.fund - The A.I. Driven Investment Economy
• Crypto Jingles - First music based Ethereum game self.ethereum
• The Dfinity Consensus - White Paper
• Crypto Racing League: a decentralized racing game on the Ethereum Blockchain

Project updates and Press Release

• Gibraltar Exchange Announces ICO for Regulated Token Sale and Exchange - Press Release
• Block.one and Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital Announce Joint Venture for New $325 Million EOS.IO Fund
• Quantstamp- Announcing Proof-of-Caring Submission Deadline
• El Petro - WhitePaper
• Request Network project update (February 2nd, 2018)-Tech development, RCN partnership
• The District Weekly - February 3rd, 2018
• Aragon Monthly - Bringing DAOs back
• Ambrosus Sensor Systems: Progress update on integrating IoT with Blockchain
• OmiseGO Town Hall 0x1
• Kyber Network Mainnet Pilot Launch on February 11, 2018.
• Cofound.it Q4 2017 quarterly report
• ICONOMI Financial Report — Q4 2017
• Makerdao: The Road Ahead for Dai
• Melonport Update (Q1 2018)
• VeChain partners with iTaotaoke to bring intellectual property protection to content creators
• Hyperledger Sawtooth 1.0 on Ethereum
• Grid+ Trustless Bridge Contracts v0.1 Released: Ethereum Scaling via EVM Sidechains

Trading

Forex vs Cryptocurrency Investment Comparison

Comparative Analysis of Cryptocurrency Market vs Traditional Stock Market

Bitcoin.com launched a Bitcoin (BCH) Block Explorer.

bitFlyer USA - 0% Trading Fee Promotion extended until February 15th

X Wallet moving to donation model. First Restaurant accepting XLM as Payment!

Rai.Exchange/Nanex has launched.

Bitfinex: All pairs are now tradable against BTC, ETH & USD.

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Miscellaneous

Events

• Feb 9-11, 2018: PyCon 2018 - Colombia
• Feb 16 - 18, 2018: ETHDenver (Hackathon + Workshop)
• Mar 8-10, 2018: Ethereum Community Conference in Paris

ICO

• KickCity Moves Crowdsale Date to March 1st 2018
• DNN - Token Presale Extended to March 2.
• ICO or Token Sale Calendar
  

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