EtherWorld's weekly: September 23 , 2018

(Blockchain eNewspaper)

News

World news

SEC postponed the Bitcoin ETF Decision
PNC Bank joins RippleNet for cross-border payments.
A report on cryptocurrency exchanges by The State of New York.
France Passes the Most Progressive Legislation on ICOs, Bank Accounts to be Guaranteed
National University of Singapore Forms Academic Blockchain Think Tank
Crypto Pioneer David Chaum Says He’s Built a Better Bitcoin

Other blockchain news

Bitcoin Core vulnerability - CVE-2018-17144 Full Disclosure

Ethereum News

Ethereum in BigQuery: how we built this dataset. ethjs-abi library, compiled for use in Google BigQuery.
'Turbo Geth' Seeks to Scale Ethereum – And It's Already in Beta
Universal Logins update: first code release - a working happy flow for universal logins
New look Ethereum Reddit - Love it !!
The Görli Trumpet - A short update on the Goerli PoA public testnet // upcoming talks, block explorer, public rpc endpoints, but the big question remains unanswered.
Nick Johnson (ENS & ETH core dev) now supports the ETH network switching the PoW algorithm to ProgPOW

Technology

Ethereum 2.0 Casper+Sharding Development Update # 13 — Prysmatic Labs
Ethereum network throughput under Shasper
Ewasm Community Hangout #6

Release

Parity Ethereum 2.1.0-beta
Solidity 0.5.0 prerelease.
Remix IDE v0.7.0 released. medium
Plasma
- PlasmaChain Validator Requirements
- Plasma snapp - fully verified plasma chain
- On-chain scaling to potentially ~500 tx/sec through mass tx validation
- Plasma Implementers Call #14: Care for Collateral
- The State of Plasma: #1 - ConsenSys
- Plasma Cash Defragmentation
- Plasma Cash Minimal Atomic Swap
Open Source Block Explorers call #14

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

Hudson Jameson talks EIPs and Ethereum core decision-making.
A conversation with Manoush Zomorodi, host of the podcast ZigZag, a crypto and blockchain explainer
Linda Xie, cofounder at Scalar Capital at Unconfirmed Podcast

Projects

New Projects

Lighthouse - an open-source Ethereum 2.0 client, written in Rust.
Heritage - It is a decentralized application to accept and manage donations for itself and its charitable partners from cryptocurrencies on the Ethereum blockchain by Airbus Foundation.

Project updates

Grid+ Texas has begun flowing power to its first four customers
LiquidEOS presents BancorX on EOS Blockchain
Raiden Network - Update on the Development Status and the Red Eyes Mainnet Launch
State of the Polkadot Ecosystem. Polkascan explorer is live. GRANDPA Block Finality in Polkadot: An Introduction (Part 1)
Etheremon Integrates Kyber’s On-Chain Liquidity Protocol
Dharma Community Update: 17 Sept 2018
Tezos Mainnet Is Live

Miscellaneous

Trading & Mining

Ethfinex Trustless - A high performance platform for decentralised trading
The Gemini dollar (GUSD) is now available for trading on Hitbtc
Coinbase does not engage in proprietary trading
Ripple hints its cryptocurrency product will go live 'in the next month or so'
Cardano Creator Believes Ethereum Classic Is Following The Path Of Bitcoin

Hackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs

ConsenSys DEVELOPER PROGRAM 2018
September 21-23, 2018: EthAtlanta hackathon at Atlanta Tech Park.
October 1-2, 2018: SWELL by Ripple. President Bill Clinton is one of the keynote speakers.
October 3-4, 2018: CryptoSprings
October 5-7, 2018: ETHSanFrancisco. Applications are officially open.
October 5-7, 2018: TruffleCon 2018 in Portland, Oregon.
October 11, 2018: Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)
October 17-18, 2018: Crypto Games Conference at Minsk, Belarus.
October 22–24, 2018 : Web3 Summit in Funkhaus, Berlin.
October 26-28, 2018: Status hackathon (Prague)
October 30, 2018 – November 02, 2018 : Devcon4 in Prague.
November 14-16, 2018: Decentralized Divani Caravel, Athens, Greece. Registration Open.
DECEMBER 7-9, 2018: THE FIRST CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED GOVERNANCE In ATHENS

Ongoing ...

March 19, 2018 - Spetmber 30, 2018: Gnosis X by Gnosis - a recurring challenge inviting developers, creators, and businesses to build customized prediction market applications on top of the Gnosis platform.

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