(Blockchain eNewspaper)

News

World news

• Yale university into crypto market
• TD Ameritrade Invests in ErisX, a New Regulated Cryptocurrency Exchange for Spot and Futures Trading
• Nicolas Maduro, Venezuelan president announced that the public sale of the Petro will kick off on November 5.
• Air France-KLM partners with Winding Tree to strengthen innovation in the travel industry using Blockchain technology
• VOIP Pioneer Says New Startup Is Paying Users Interest on Millions in Crypto

Other blockchain news

Ripple

• Swell 2018: Wrapping Up a Historic Year for Ripple
• xRapid Now Commercially Available

CARDANO RUST PROJECT IS LIVE, CHARLES HOSKINSON SAY TOOLBOX A “PROOF OF CONCEPT”. Updated roadmap.

Ethereum News

Ethereum Ropsten testnet Constantinople hard fork is delayed by 1 epoch to block #4230000 to allow clients to implement, test and release an update to CREATE2, countering a recently found EVM DoS attack vector. It was originally  set for block 4,200,000 on or about Oct. 11, 2018.

Universal Logins: First Demo. You can already use an app without ether.

Enterprise Ethereum Alliance and Hyperledger join hands. Growing the Enterprise Blockchain Ecosystem Through Open Standards and Open Source Code to Advance the Global Blockchain Business Ecosystem.

Vlad zamfir's Blockchain Governance 101 and  My Intentions for Blockchain Governance.

Vitalik Buterin's My summary of “Zamfirian anti-immutabilism”

Reddit Introduces Community Points & Polls: An experiment only in r/ethtrader

Technologies Driving Mainstream Web3 Adoption. Seamless onboarding powered by ephemeral key pairs signing meta transactions.

Technology

Casper Standup Call #69

Ewasm Community Meetup SF [10/4/18]

zk-s[nt]arks - Roll_up / roll_back snark side chain ~17000 tps

Ethereum 2.0 Casper+Sharding

• Development Update #14 — Prysmatic Labs
• What’s New in Eth2 - 1 October 2018 - Ben Edgington
• Ethereum 2.0 Prysm Demo Release v0.0.0

Release

Parity  - Shasper beacon chain implementation using the Substrate framework.

EIP / ERC

Decentralizing EIP workflow - A proposal to decentralize an existing EIP classification process in order to increase its throughput and level of details possible.

EIP-1014

ERC-1462: Base Security Token

ERC-1357 : Address Metadata JSON Schema

EIP-1470: Smart Contract Weakness Classification (SWC)

Projects

New Projects

• Discord: Free voice and text xhat for gamers. Join if you're a user of geth, puppeth, abigen, clique, rinkeby or a future user of clef - peter_szilagyi
• MUSTEKALA: Making Ethereum blockchain data available to a peer-to-peer network of light clients.
• Erasure - A New Unstoppable Predictions Marketplace. Medium

Project updates

• STORJ - Product Manager Development Update 8
• Augur v2 Details
• Introducing .luxe on ENS
• How Zcash Can Fill Ethereum’s Privacy Gap
• Announcing AraCon — The Aragon Conference
• Gnosis X — A Retrospective. What we learned and what we want to change moving forward
• Shining Light on WSJ’s Attack on ShapeShift and Crypto
• Raiden Explorer: Metrics for the Raiden testnet network
• Polkadot Community Gathering - New York
• Quantstamp and Mythril Link Forces with a Shared Vision for Smart Contract Security

Miscellaneous

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

George Gilder: forget cloud computing, Ethereum is the future

Loom’s Georgios Konstantopoulos talk on Plasma at Blockchain Game Summit

Ben Siegel’s blockchain in context talk

NEXT18 - Astrid Maier in conversation with blockchain pioneer Joseph Lubin

Ethereum P2P Networking / Sharding by Felix Lange and Péter Szilágyi in Taipei, March 2018

Blockchain good reads

• The Myth of The Infrastructure Phase by Dani Grant and Nick Grossman
• Learnings from the ETHSecurity Community. ETHSecurity was a recipient of an Ethereum Community Fund grant to support the interview process, the creation of this report, and community building up to now and through DevCon.
• trailofbits - A curated list of awesome Ethereum security references.

Wallets, Exchange, Trading & Mining

• Coinbase
• Accomplishment in Q3 2018
• Chris Dodds, Charles Schwab Board Member joined Coinbase’s Board
• Bittrex announces Wallet Removal of Bitshares (BTS), Bitcoin Gold (BTG), and Bitcoin Private (BTCP) on November 5, 2018

Out of the league

• $1,300,000 BANKSY artwork piece just “self-destructed” right after it was sold at Sotheby’s auction!??

Hackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs

Taking Blockchain Networking to New Heights - Satoshi United (Press Release)

October 11, 2018: Crypto Economics Security Conf (Berkeley)

October 12, 2018 - Non-fungible summit

October 17-18, 2018: Crypto Games Conference at Minsk, Belarus.

October 22–24, 2018 : Web3 Summit in Funkhaus, Berlin.

October 24-25, 2018:Winding Tree hackathon  (Prague)

October 25-26, 2018: STABLE CONF LONDON 2018 , Kings Place, London, UK

October 26-28, 2018: Status hackathon (Prague)

October 29, 2018 - Decentralized Insurance D1Conf (Prague)

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

November 2nd, 2018 - Metamask plans to release breaking change to commemorate the EIP proposing this change, EIP-1102.

November 3-4, 2018 - PegaSys Enterprise Ethereum hackathon (Prague)

November 8-9, 2018: BLOCKCHAIN BUDAPEST,  Bálna, Budapest, HUNGARY

November 9-13, 2018:Blockspot 2018, LISBON, PORTUGAL

November 14-16, 2018: Decentralized Divani Caravel, Athens, Greece. Registration Open.

DECEMBER 7-9, 2018: THE FIRST CONFERENCE ON DISTRIBUTED GOVERNANCE In ATHENS

January 16-18, 2019: The North American Bitcoin Conference Miami, Florida.

January 29-30, 2019:  AraCon — The Aragon Conference

ICO

Ongoing projects ICO

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