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News

World news

• Amazon Partners On New Ethereum Marketplace - Kaleido For Enterprises
• IBM announces Cloud Data Shield Experimental – Scalable Data-in-Use Protection for Your Container Workloads
• Seagate is testing a blockchain ledger to track hard drives
• Spanish Bank BBVA loans $150M via the Ethereum blockchain
• Canadian bank Subsidiary VersaVault Initiates Commercialization Stage of Its Digital Safety Deposit Box for Cryptocurrency Exchanges and Crypto Investment Funds.
• Vietnamese Startups are Leading the Way to Connect Blockchain Technology With the Real Economy with Kyber Network.
• SEC - Five things you need to know about ICOs
• SEC’s case against EtherDelta founder Zack Coburn.
• Thai SEC to Approve First ICO portal in November.
• S.Korean lawyers press govt for cryptocurrency laws, investor protection.
• Colorado Division of Securities continues ICO crackdown with four more cease and desist orders
• How the Crypto Crash Could Be Good for Crypto - Bloomberg. A price collapse doesn’t have to herald the end of a technology or its relevance.
• Harvard, Stanford, MIT Endowments Invest in Crypto Funds

Other blockchain news

• Stellar  Giveaway - Bringing Lumens to Millions
• Roger Ver's Thoughts on 15th November Bitcoin Cash Upgrade
• Sia: Hardfork successful. All major exchanges (Binance, Bittrex, Upbit, and Poloniex) have re-enabled their Siacoin wallets for trading over the past few days since the hardfork. Sia Weekly Update
• EOS : Thomas CoxFollo's response to Whiteblock  - "Yes, EOS is a blockchain". Ledger Blocking Release of Second EOS App

Ethereum News

Constantinople hard fork on mainnet scheduled for January 16, 2019.

Ethereum Engineering Effort by Péter Szilágyi. EEP-1: Consensus update rollout

Ethereum Core Dev Meeting #49 [2018-11-09]

• Agenda
• Video

A detailed post on differences between Nearprotocol and Ethereum Serenity - Why doesn’t Near just replicate Ethereum Serenity design? by Alexander Skidanov

Technology

Substrate - step-by-step instructions on how to build a runtime library for a Substrate chain.

Casper CBC

• Proof-of-Concept of sharded fork choice rules with Xshard message routing and balancing, including EVM integration and Xshard EVM calls
• Casper CBC Simplified!

The economic incentives of staking in Serenity.

Release

• Raiden v0.16.0 - Sherlock

EIP / ERC

EIP#1559 - Fee market change for ETH 1.0 chain

Projects

New Projects

• E-Ukraine: Decentralized Electronic Platform For Self-Governance powered by NEM.

Project updates

• uPort is fully open-source now.
• Raiden Pulse #2: News from September and October
• How Enigma protocol can be used to implement “secret voting”, complete with a video walkthrough.
• Augur Weekly Report — November 7th
• Kaleido Launches Blockchain Marketplace with Plug-and-Play Services and Solution Partnership Program

Miscellaneous

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

New Protocols for old Asset Classes - A conversation with Consensys’ founder and CEO Joe Lubin and the Consensys CSO Sam Cassatt

Brave's Brendan Eich on Fixing Online Advertising

The Future of Layer2 - Prague Meetup

Blockchain good reads

Atomic Batched Transactions — Solving ERC-20 problems through MetaTX: Executing multiple arbitrary blockchain transactions at once

SMT-based Verification of Solidity Smart Contracts by Leonardo Alt, Christian Reitwiessner.

Wallets, Exchange, Trading & Mining

• Introducing Circle Research
• Poloniex  - Pre-Fork Trading for Upcoming Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork
• Bitfinex - Statement Regarding Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork
• Metamask Introducing: Privacy Mode.
• Ethfinex announces a trading competition in collaboration with Waltonchain (WTC).
• Crypto Exchange BTCC Is Closing Its Mining Pool Business

Hackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs

• November 9-13, 2018:Blockspot 2018, LISBON, PORTUGAL
• November 09-16, 2018: Waltonchain (WTC) Trading Competition
• November 10 - 11, 2018: EOS Hackathon
• November 14, 2018 :BlockScout - Open Source EVM Blockchain Explorer
• November 14-16, 2018: Decentralized Divani Caravel, Athens, Greece. Registration Open.
• November 26 - Dec. 10, 2018: Settle Virtual Hackathon TWO
• November 27 - December 01, 2018: BlockShow Asia 2018 Singapore
• DECEMBER 7-9, 2018: THE FIRST CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED GOVERNANCE In ATHENS
• DECEMBER 7-9, 2018: ETHSingapore
• January 16-18, 2019: The North American Bitcoin Conference Miami, Florida.
• January 29-30, 2019:  AraCon — The Aragon Conference
• February 15-17, 2018: ETH Denver.
• May 13-15, 2019: Consensus by Coindesk. Register here.

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