(Blockchain eNewspaper)

News

World news

• IBM Signs $740 Million Deal With Australian Gov’t to Use Blockchain for Data Security
• Banks Conduct Cross-Border Trades on IBM - Powered Blockchain
• Early uses of blockchain will barely be visible, says Hyperledger’s Brian Behlendorf
• MyEtherWallet Founder, Kosala Hemachandra joined Blockchains LLC as Chief Blockchains Officer
• Europe’s biggest ETF trader -  Speed is moving into Crypto Markets - Bloomberg
• Thailand Leads in Crypto by Skipping the Big Debate

Ethereum News

• Vitalik Buterin: “I definitely hope centralized exchanges go burn in hell as much as possible”

Other Blockchain News

• Ripple, a start-up company, is sitting on $30 billion of its digital token, XRP. It is trying to get people to think of XRP as more than an investment - The New York Times
• NEO Entered the Era of Decentralization

Technology

Developers Update

Geth v1.8.12 Waggle Dance: Swarm PoC 3

EthereumJS Monthly Recap - June 2018

Plasma Implementers Call #10: MVP Implementation & DB Merkle log Accumulators!

Casper Standup Call #58

Ewasm Decision Hangout #1

EIP/ERC

EIP1187 Gas cost reduction for ECADD, ECMUL and ECPAIRING

EIP1190 Non-fungible royalty token

Good Reads on Blockchain

• Vitalik Buterin
• Transaction fee economics
• Quadratic costs and collective payouts as anti-centralization gadget
• Attestation committee based full PoS chains, version 2
• Cryptoeconomics: An Introduction by Karl Floersch (new lessons)
• On-Chain Vote Buying and the Rise of Dark DAOs by Philip Daian
• Proof of Value (PoV) by Roland Schmidt
• Understanding Overflow and Underflow Attacks on Smart Contracts by Blockgeeks

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• TC: In Conversation with Vitalik Buterin, Justin Drake and Karl Floersch
• Fireside Chat with Vitalik Buterin
• Watch all the interviews from TechCrunch Sessions: Blockchain
• Zero Knowledge at Zcon0

Projects

New Projects

• GiveCrypto.org - Give cryptocurrency to people in need.
• SupPorter: Blockchain Fundraising solutions
• Cindx: Revolutionize how you buy and sell crypto.
• Staramba: Invest, Own, Rent Parts of World’s Most Realistic Social VR Universe
• Quantler: Decentralizing Wall Street.
• Accounting blockchain: The future of Accounting at your fingertips
• Local Token Exchange: Peer to Peer Decentralised Cryptocurrency Exchange.
• GAMB: GAMB is the decentralized marketplace.
• Bdaqio : A platform for trading tokens even before they get on exchange - Top 10 “Stay Away” ICO Directions in 2018
• Opolis PEO - A crypto-friendly Professional Employer Organization (PEO)

Project updates and Press Release

• Tradeshift and MakerDAO Leverage Blockchain to Democratize Access to Financing for World’s Small Businesses
• Gitcoin Q2 Update & Q3 Goals
• Status Partners with OmiseGO
• Status - We Are the State of Us
• OmiseGO eWallet  update: The “Wendy, I'm home” edition
• Aventus - Working with Strings in Solidity
• MyCrypto - A Safer MyCrypto
• Metamask Monthly Update - June 2018
• MakerDAO Raised the debt ceiling of 50 million Dai in circulation! With that, the new debt ceiling has increased to 100 million Dai.
• Polkadot global testnet passed 500,000 blocks.
• Climatecoin will increase the price of the CO2 Token to a value decreed according to a Carbon Pricing.
• Winners of Etherparty’s Global Crowdfunding Contest: Covalent, Now Art, and Vanyx.
• Chronobank - TimeX Interface Testing Campaign Results
• Augur - $200,000 USD for critical vulnerabilities on @Hacker0x01.
• SONM is officially LIVE.

Miscellaneous

Out of the league

• Ethereum logo animation
• Updated Blockchain Glossary

Trading & Mining

• Coinbase Custody is Officially Open For Business
• Etherscan Ethereum Developer APIs
• Phishing Alert: Fake Trezor Wallet website

Hackathon, Events & Developer programs

Devcon4 Ticket Sales. Applications for scholarships and builder & student discounts are now open. On July 9, 2018 at 8am PDT, the first wave of general tickets will go on sale.

Status Announcing 2nd Community Competition. The meme-off will run for 2 weeks ending on July 17th 12:00PM EST.

ewasm “WRC20” token contract coding challenge

ConsenSys at BuildETH: A Recap

1st Solidity Gas Golfing Contest Result

July 12, 2018: Ethereum Foundation Workshop - IIT Delhi with Karl Floersch and Justin Drake.

July 12-18, 2018: IC3-Ethereum Crypto Boot Camp

July 14-15, 2018: Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians "Council of Berlin” meet

July 19-20, 2018: Dappcon in Berlin

July 20-22 2018: Bitfinex Hackathon, London

July 24-26, 2018: NIFTY Conference + Hackathon in Hong Kong

July 26-27, 2018: Satoshi United in Singapore

July 27-29, 2018: ETHSingapore

August 3-4, 2018: Discon in Boulder, CO

August 10-12, 2018: ETHIndia (Bangalore)

September 6, 2018: Fellowship of Ethereum Magicians - Gathering of Security Community

September 7-9, 2018: ETHBerlin - Back to Basics. apply for the ETHBerlin hackathon. Applications close on August 10th.

September 14-15, 2018: Litecoin Summit

October 5-7, 2018: ETHSanFrancisco

October 5-7, 2018: TruffleCon 2018 in Portland, Oregon,

October 30, 2018 – November 02, 2018 : Devcon4 in Prague.

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.
• June 9, 2018 - July 15,2018: ConsenSys India Developer Program – Vishakhapatnam & Bengaluru

ICO

• IDMoney Token sale start July 01, 2018 - August 31, 2018.

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