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News

World news

• Bank of England to Update Settlement System to Work with Blockchain
• Japan's Financial Watchdog Orders AML Shake-Up at 6 Crypto Exchanges
• Thiel Foundation Announces 2018 Thiel Fellows
• Korean Government to Lead 6 Blockchain Pilots With $9 Million Fund
• Stanford computer scientists launch the Center for Blockchain Research.
• Stanford students build 16 blockchain projects in Dapp Showcase
• Blockchain technology almost a must-have for business said UBS CEO
• EY and Microsoft launch blockchain solution for content rights and royalties management for media and entertainment industry.
• Apple has updated its developer guidelines to outlaw cryptocurrencies "mining" on iOS devices.
• Amazon may Battle Facebook with Own Cryptocurrency

Ethereum News

• Docusign will let you store a document hash on Ethereum
• Cool DIY smart home features Alexa’s AI and Ethereum’s blockchain

Other Blockchain News

• Tron's Independence Day celebration - 1 billion #TRX coin burnt. It completed mainnet token migration . Justin Sun bought BitTorrent.

Technology

Developers Update

Announcing Swarm Proof-of-Concept Release 3

vyper is in beta now. erc721-vyper.

Truffle v4.1.12 – One sugar packet release.

ewasm community call #4

Parity - Why we believe in Wasm as the base layer of decentralised application development

Casper

• Full Casper chain v2 (updated)

EIP/ERC

ERC721 - BREAKING CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT

EIP 1154: Oracle interface #1161

ERC1155: Crypto Item Standard

EIP 1167: Minimal Proxy Contract

EIP 1172 Wallet & shop standard for all tokens (erc20)

Good Reads on Blockchain

• Decentralized Blockchain Governance by Dan Larimer
• Mechanism design challenges in cryptocurrency and blockchains  by Vitalik Buterin - EC2018 slides.
• Ethereum Name Service (ENS) presentation slides by Nick Johnson
• Merkelized LSM (mLSM): Making Authenticated Storage Faster in Ethereum
• Ethereum Messaging: Explaining Whisper And Status.im
• Analyzing Activities on Decentralized Exchanges - alethio

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

• Vitalik Buterin and Vlad Zamfir - The Ethereum Roadmap and Solving the Blockchain Scalability Problem
• Ethereal Interview Series: In Depth with Ujo, OmiseGO, Bounties, Microsoft
• 10 Questions with Fred Wang: Guest Vitalik Buterin
• Behind the Tezos Scandal: Conflicts of Interest, Self-Dealing and Bullying  - Unconfirmed Podcast by Laura Shin.
• Hashing It Out: Full Casper Chain v2 – Casper + Sharding by The Bitcoin Podcast

Projects

New Projects

• Buddy - Decentralized Development Automation Platform
• Artonomous - A self-sustaining, self-improving, autonomous artist.

Project updates and Press Release

• Gitcoin iOS App Launches, also Gitcoin Avatar builder.
• Etherparty Announces Rocket Price and Pricing Strategy
• $50,000 USD for critical vulnerabilities in Augur
• MakerDAO Foundation Proposal
• ICONOMI - Development Overview: Q2 2018

Miscellaneous

Trading & Mining

• Why ASICs May Be Better Than GPUs Even if They Tend Toward Mining Centralization by Unchained Podcast.
• Introducing Nano Wallet from the Nano Wallet Company

Hackathon, Events & Developer programs

• June 27-28, 2018: Blockchain Expo World Series- Amsterdam
• June 28, 2018: BuildEth in San Francisco
• 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 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 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.

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.
• May 23, 2018 - June 30, 2018: 1st Solidity Gas Golfing Contest
• June 5-24, 2018: Colony Global Hackathon.
• June 9, 2018 - July 15,2018: ConsenSys India Developer Program – Vishakhapatnam & Bengaluru

ICO

• Beyond the ICO: Methods to achieve more optimal token distribution
• IDMoney Pre-sale ending on June 30, 2018.

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