(Blockchain eNewspaper)

News

World news

• Goldman Sachs to Open a Bitcoin Trading Operation
• SEC is cautiously open to initial coin offerings, commissioner says
• JPMorgan Seeks Patent for Blockchain-Powered Interbank Payments.
• ConsenSys Signs Partnership With Coursera to Offer Foundational Blockchain Course
• BMW, Ford, GM: World's Largest Automakers Form Blockchain Coalition
• Venezuela to Create Digital Cryptocurrency Bank for Youth.
• Huobi Labs Announces $1 Billion Global Blockchain Industry Fund
• Reddit Plans to Take Bitcoin Once Again—Along With Litecoin and Ethereum

Ethereum News

• Announcing May 2018 Cohort of EF Grants
• Localethereum Added Twenty Two Payment Methods
• VIMANA Global Establishes EEA Blockchain Airspace User Working Group
• World’s Second Most Valuable Cryptocurrency Under Regulatory Scrutiny- The Wall Street Journal
• Joseph Lubin told TheStreet, "Ether Is Not a Security and Doesn't Need to Be Regulated".
• A Successful Attack of Hybrid Casper Costs 1.67 Million Eth, $1.4 Billion, Says Vitalik Buterin

Other Blockchain News

• Bitcoin Segwit adoption is moving extremely slowly, if not sideways.
  • Almost 3,000 Bitcoin ATMs are Installed Worldwide
• First ever Global Litecoin Summit is coming up.
• Monero: Frequent deep mining forks, xmr.to offline, double spend attack ongoing?
  • Monero DevMeeting - 2018-05-06
• ICON Partners With SBI Ripple Asia - Enable instant cross-border payments primarily between Japan and South Korea, and global scale.
  • Why XRP is Legally NOT a Security?

Technology

Developer's Update

• EIP0- A Review of the Current Ethereum Governance Processes (EIPs & All Devs Call). Dan Finlay’s flowchart of EIP process. Summarizing thoughts of day1 breakout sessions
• ERC #1056: Lightweight Identity
• ERC #1056: Lightweight identity
• EIP1052: proposal for new EXTCODEHASH opcode
• EIP1051: Arithmetic overflow detection for the EVM
• Vitalik Teases Sharding Release on Twitter
  • Ethereum Sharding Biweekly Development Update #3
  • GitHub
• web3j (v3.4.0) - Dynamic Gas Support release
• Geth (v1.8.7): Titanium

Good Reads on Blockchain

• The Instability of Stablecoins
• Open Source Money will BUIDL the Open Source Ecosystem - Kevin Owocki

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• EDCON Toronto - 2018 Video
  • Vitalik Buterin Gives An Overview Of Casper FFG During EDCON 2018
• Deconomy 2018 'Scalability' Panel
• Extremely high demand for Ethereum skills - Interview with Team Leader at Ethereum, Christian Reitwiessner
• Crypto Investors Linda Xie and Avichal Garg on Opportunities, Use Cases, and Regulation

Projects

New Projects and White Paper

• IDMoney: Play IDMoney, Win and Help! It is a social, public and global governance model.
• KnownOrigin - Discover, buy and collect digital artwork by some of the worlds most respected artists, illustrators and creative practitioners.

Project updates and Press Release

• Havven launches world’s first online store to solely accept a stable cryptocurrency as payment. (Press Release)
• Algebraix Welcomes Esteemed Industry Leaders To Advisory Board. (Press Release)
• Announcing Embark by Status: Fostering the development of web3.
• EOS: Don’t Believe The Hype
• Latest in Cosmos — April Community Update. Reddit AMA on May 8th.
• Kauri is Live on Rinkeby
• How to Launch a Newsroom on Civil
• Dharma Community Update: 1 May 2018. Live on the Ethereum mainnet in a closed beta.
• OmiseGO + Hoard: Creating a truly seamless game marketplace
• Participate In The Livepeer Alpha
• TrueBit - Research & Engineering Update — April 2018

Mining and Trading

• Reddit Co-Founder: By the End of the Year ‘Ethereum Will Be at $15,000’
• Circle Invest Adds Zcash Trading in Bid to Compete with Coinbase
• 16 Cryptocurrency Exchanges Get Approval to Launch in Venezuela, List Petro
• Mine #Equihash-based cryptocurrencies with Bitmain's Latest Crypto ASIC

Miscellaneous

Out of the league

• Ethereum Founder Vitalik doing the Badger dance

Hiring

• Mosaic

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 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 14-16, 2018: Consensus 2018 by Coindesk
• MAY 14-18, 2018: Boulder Startup Week
• May 16-17, 2018: Token Summit III (NYC)
• May 17, 2018: BLOCKCHAIN, ACCOUNTING, AUDIT, AND TAX CONFERENCE II. (New York) Register
• June 1, 2018: Blockchain for Social Impact Conference (Washington, DC)
• June 27-28, 2018: Blockchain Expo World Series- Amsterdam
• September 14-15, 2018: Litecoin Summit

ICO

• Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) by Kyber Network
• The IAGON Pre-Sale has been PAUSED by Dragonchain
• IDMoney White-Listing registration opened.

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