(Blockchain Weekly Recap)

News

World news

• Wyoming Introduces Crypto Related Bills which Gives Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin the same Status as Money.
• Bitcoin is now accessible at your local grocery store via Coinstar Kiosks.
• NASA to Use Blockchain Technology For Air Traffic Management. Blockchain would address the potential issues of privacy, prevent spoofing, denial of service and other attacks.

Ethereum News

• Security Alert: Ethereum Constantinople Postponement by Ethereum Team

• The Constantinople re-fork update

• Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #53

  • Agenda #70,
  • Video
  • Constantinople re-fork on Feb 27th at block 7.28M
  • Mr. Else explained that with implementing ProgPow, the goal is not to win a hardware but to make it less evil. No decision on including ProgPow in next upgrade yet.

• The EEA and ConsenSys Academy are collaborating.

Other blockchain News

• Over $3.2 trillion was sent using bitcoin in 2018

• Circle’s USDC Stablecoin Fully Dollar Backed, passed auditing.

Technology

• New Ethereum Dev Tools from 0x: Four tools to help you write better smart contracts.

• Deploy a private IPFS network on Ubuntu in 5 steps by Sander van Laar

• Ethereum 1.0

  • Serenity, Proof-of-Stake, Sharding - all that is completely unrelated to protocol upgrades on the Ethereum 1.0 chain. "It's important to understand that Proof-of-Stake, the so-called "phase 0" / the "beacon chain," will not be a hardfork, unlike other milestones. We will see beacon chain testnets very soon, within weeks or months. And I expect that we can reach the Serenity milestone within a year, optimistically speaking." - Afri

• Ethereum 2.0

  • Teams Building Eth 2.0
  • Exploring Ethereum 2.0 Design Goals - What are the principles shaping the development of Ethereum 2.0, Serenity? Where are the landmarks and constellations that will guide us? What’s the map for the journey?
  • Eth2.0 Implementers Call #10 [2019/1/17]
  • What's New in Eth2 - 18 January 2019
  • eth2.0-specs - phase 0 validator doc
  • Ethereum 2.0 Development Update #20 — Prysmatic Labs

• Release

  • Swarm 0.3.9

• EIP / ERC

  • ERC1710: URL format for web3 browsers

Projects

New Projects and Protocols

• Parity Fether light client based wallet: Beta is out.
• ADVENTUREUM : Text-based, crowd-sourced, decentralised choose-your-own adventure game.
• BeaconChain.swift: Swift implementation of Ethereum 2.0 beacon chain
• Veil is a peer-to-peer prediction market and derivatives platform built on top of Augur, 0x, and Ethereum. It is live on Mainnet
• Urbit: is a personal cloud server.

Project and Protocol updates

• BAT offering 30 days of free advertising for crypto projects.
• Decentraland 2019 Project Update
• Panvala Token Grant Applications from Gnosis, Status and Level K
• Pulling Back The Curtain: How ShapeShift Handles Law Enforcement Compliance

Miscellaneous

Out of the league

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• Andrew Keys - Building a Stronger ConsenSys in a Decentralized World

Blockchain good reads

• What to Expect When ETH’s Expecting by James Prestwich
• The Year in Ethereum by Josh Stark, Evan Van Ness, and Daniel Zakrisson

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

• January 10 - February 7, 2018: 0x and Coinlist virtual hackathon
• January 22, 2019: Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) at World Economic Forum, Davos.
• January 29-30, 2019: AraCon — The Aragon Conference
• January 31, 2019: GörliCon Berlin
• February 7-8, 2019: M1 Asset Management 3.0 , Zug.
• February 16-17, 2019: NEO DevCon 2019, Seattle
• February 15-17, 2019: ETH Denver.
• March 4, 2019: Ethereum Magicians (Paris)
• March 5-7, 2019: Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) 2019
• March 8-10, 2019: ETHParis (ETHGlobal)
• March 27, 2019: Infura Legacy keys Support will officially stop.
• April 19-21, 2019: ETHCapetown, Cape Town, South Africa.
• April 23-24, 2019: Blockchain Revolution Global at Toronto
• May 10-11, 2019: ETHEREAL, NEW YORK
• May 13-15, 2019: Consensus by Coindesk. Register here.

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