(Blockchain eNewspaper)

News

• China Blocks WhatsApp, Broadening Online Censorship.

• IMF chief tells central bankers to not dismiss bitcoin

• The SEC has charged two initial coin offerings with defrauding investors.

• South Korean Regulator Issues ICO Ban

• Japan's FSA gives official endorsement to 11 cryptocurrency exchanges

• Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Co-Authors Plan for Interactive ICO Protocol

• Aragon and 10 other projects are switching from Slack to Rocket Chat an open source messaging platform.

Interviews

• Vitalik Buterin Interview - The Story of Ethereum

• A Career in Crypto — Linda Xie

• • Women in crypto by Linda Xie

• Matt Kerner talks Microsoft’s Coco Framework – The Holy Grail for Enterprise on Epicenter.

New Projects & Whitepaper

• BlockAction - Blockchain Transaction Simplified. Announcing the BlockAction Wallet on test networks.. (Disclosure - BlockAction.io is a project by founder of EtherWorld.co)

• SRG - Gaming Loyalty Program on Blockchain.

• Balanc3: Quickbooks for Token Launches

• Kudos Project : The decentralized protocol for building a fair and equitable service economy. Whitepaper.

• LocalEthereum - a secure peer-to-peer marketplace. Trading is set to open on October 21st (midnight at UTC).

• Gitcoin - Push open source forward for the Web3 Generation.

• Project Onyx: Software Development Set Free

• dYdX - The Protocol for Decentralized Derivatives

• Kin Alpha - a relayer that allows for the decentralized exchange of ERC20 Tokens using the Øx Protocol

• MicroMoney for People & Big Data for Business

Project updates

• Hacken Raised $650,000 in pre-sale, token sale - late October.

• Ox - The 0x Ecosystem

• Gnosis - The Power of Prediction Markets.

• OpenLaw - Decentralizing the Deal

• uPort improves privacy: only public keys in IPFS and stateless JS challenge/response

• Raiden Network - The RDN token explained video.

• IOTA - critical technical and social issues identified.
  1 Nick Jhonson's blog
  2 Vitalik's view

• ETH Lend - Digix & ETHLend Announces Extensive Partnership on Decentralized Lending
  LEND token pre-sale reached its 2000 ETH cap within 77 hours from the start of the pre-sale. During the closing of the pre-sale, the raised amount was over USD 600 000.

• Coinbase announces
  1 Ethereum & Litecoin vaults,
  2 Phone Support,
  3 Safeguarding against phone porting

Good Reads on Blockchain

• Stop getting phished. by MyEtherWallet

• State Specifiers and STATICCALL by Niran Babalola

Bounty

• The Social Effects of a Bounties Network on Ethereum - Consensys.

Developer's Update

• Ethereum Core Developers Meeting #25
  1 Agenda
  2 Hudson's notes
  3 Video

• Solidity v0.4.17 released.

• Remix - Solidity IDE - Update

• Writing Truffle tests with async/await.

• Make your own Truffle Box.

• Learn Blockchains by Building One - Daniel van Flymen

Initial Coin Offering (ICO) or Token Sale calendar

• WSJ - How Blockchain and ICOs Are Changing the Funding Game for Startups.

• October 2, 2017 - Rhea, ETHINO

• October 4, 2017 - SRG , RNDR

• October 10, 2017 - AIRSWAP, Notary

• October 5, 2017 - Airtoken

• October 14, 2017 - WorldCore, (Presale October 2, 2017)

• October 16, 2017 - SENSE Token (closing October 30, 2017)

• October 18, 2017 - MicroMoney

• October 20, 2017 - Wire - X

• October 26, 2017 - KICKICO

• October 30, 2017 - Grid+

• November 1, 2017 - Rockchain , Kudos

• November 1-15, 2017 - DMarket

• November 25, 2017 - ETH Lend.

Events - Conference, Seminar, Meet-up, Hackathon, Competition etc.

• 15th Seoul Ethereum meet-up video - Vitalik Buterin, Karl Floersch and Thomas Greco.

• Blockchain for Social Impact Coalition (BSIC) virtual hackathon - September 7 - October 7, 2017.

• Blockchain Solutions Forum 2017, Barcelona - October 3-5, 2017.

• ICO-Hypethon, Barcelona - October 6, 2017.

• ETHWaterloo - October 13-15, 2017

• Ethereal Hosts Hackathon at Berkeley - Cotober 21-22, 2017

• Devcon3 -November 1-4, 2017.

• BlockShow in Singapore by CoinTelegraph - Nov 29-30, 2017.

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