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News

World news

Brazil may write new laws with data stored on the Ethereum blockchain

Facebook adopting blockchain

Facebook Investor and PayPal Co-founder Peter Thiel Bets Big on Bitcoin – and Wins

Viant, GSK partner for blockchain in pharmaceuticals

China’s Largest Bitcoin Exchange Heads to Japan and South Korea With Major Bank Deal

Popular Chrome extension is secretly mining cryptocurrency.

Ripple Gateways Can Freeze Users’ Funds  at Any Time

Microsoft Halts Bitcoin Transactions Because It's An "Unstable Currency"

Royal Bank of Canada highlights the positive developments of Segregated Witness and Lightning Network for Bitcoin scalability

Litecoin plans to reduce actual min fee to 0.0001 LTC/kb ($0.03/kb). Charliee Lee proposes Litecoin with a soft fork that will let miners signal their min accepted fee in the block header. This will let a fee market develop without having us decide what the min fee is. Will also make it easier for users to estimate fees.

Ethereum News

• Ethereum updates - Q4 Round Up, scalability R&D subsidy programs, website redesigning
• Ethereum Yellow Paper is now placed under the Creative Commons Free Culture License CC-BY-SA.
• If Ethereum suddenly dies (goes to 0$ ) Will all of the tokens built on the Ethereum platform also die? A discussion at reddit
• There are still >200 Million $ unclaimed funds in the DAO refund contracts. Re-check if you still have a balance in one of them!
• Everything you need to know about ConsenSys hubs and spokes.

Technology

Developer's Update

• Call-out assurance contracts by Vitalik Buterin
• ERC809: Renting Standard for Rival, Non-Fungible Tokens
• EIP 777 - A New Advanced Token Standard

Good Reads on Blockchain

• 18 Blockchain Predictions for 2018 by Andrew Keys, ConsenSys

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• When New Tech and Dated Policies Collide: a Conversation with Vitalik Buterin
• Most Influential in Blockchain 2017 #5: Joe Lubin
• Interview with Microsoft's Marley Gray

Projects

New Projects and White Paper

• Digitex - Commission-Free Bitcoin Futures Trading
• Digital Asset Calculator - It provides your tokens net value anytime, anywhere.

Project updates and Press Release

Polymath unveils securities token platform (Press Release)

The IOTA of China? How IoT Chain ($ITC) Is Securing The Internet Of Things (Press Release)

DNN Begins Whitelisting For Public Sale

Request Network project update - Release of the JS library, on the road to Request Great Wall

Decentraland Project Updates

Melon Dev Update

ETHLend Partnership with SwissBorg on lending. ETHLend Airdrop info.

Aragon Team Update

Minerva update

Toshi: A Dapp Browser for the Ethereum Network

Cosmos update.

TRON Reached Strategic Cooperation Agreement with Game.com

Trading

Vulnerability found in Electrum wallet, upgrade to version 3.0.4

Stellar (XLM) price goes sky rocketing, recorded ATH $0.91, SureRemit AMA, Mobius token sale

Total market cap now over 800,000,000,000 dollars!

TRON recorded a new high, reached #6, live streaming on January 6th

ETH doing more transactions than all other chains combined (update 4 jan)

The Gibraltar Stock Exchange joins the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance

Coinbase - No decision to add additional assets to either GDAX or Coinbase.

• Update on Meltdown and Spectre

Litecoin Opendime Hardware Wallets introduced - Opendime is a small USB stick that allows you to spend Litecoin like a dollar bill. Pass it along multiple times. Connect to any USB to check balance. Unseal anytime to spend online. Trust no one. Video

BitPay Invoices Will Soon Require Payment Protocol for Bitcoin Transactions

BTC.com wallet is rolling out Segwit - goodbye high fees!

Miscellaneous

Bounty

• Bug Bounty (Up to $1,000 in ETH) - Crowdsale contract - Ethorse

Hiring

Consensys

• Social Media Manager at
• Senior Full Stack Developer
• Current Job Openings

Ripple is hiring.

• Engineering Manager
• Senior Software Engineer, Ripple API
• Sr Software Engineer-Java

Humor

• Finally! A use case for fiat money.

Events

• January 7-12, 2018: EURO TECH WEEK at LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
• January 9, 2018: ConsenSys & Blockchain EXE present: Smart homes & Smart contracts - Meetup Ney York City, CES to Hold Digital Money Forum in Las Vegas
• January 15-16, 2018: World Crypto Economic Forum at
  South San Francisco Conference Center
• January 16, 2018: ConsenSys Ethereum Meetup Dubai
• January 26, 2018: Blockchain Connect  – San Francisco
• February 1, 2018: Consensys Meetup at Paris
• Feb 4-6, 2018: BLOCKCHAIN ECONOMIC FORUM 2018 at Singapore
• Feb 16 - 18, 2018: ETHDenver (Hackathon + Workshop)

ICO

• ICO or Token Sale Calendar
• New DAICO (by Vitalik) scheme for Tokensales at Reddit- Designing the “Fair ICO”
• A report by TokenData
  

ICOs ended 2017 on a high by raising more than one billion dollars ($1.2B) in December, bringing total capital raised to $5.6B. It's safe to say that this has exceeded everyone's expectations.
Key statistics for 2017:

• USD Raised: $5,596 Million*
• No. of Completed & Reported ICOs: 442
• Average Raise: $12.7M
• Median Raise: $4.5M
• Average Token Return: 12.8x
• Median Token Return: 4.9x

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