(Blockchain eNewspaper)
News
World news
- Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Announces Bakkt, a Global Platform and Ecosystem for Digital Assets
- SEC Subpoenas Another Firm Following Claimed Blockchain Pivot
- IBM & Citibank In Partnership To Launch Blockchain App Store For Banks
- UBS Says Bitcoin Could Replace US Dollar with BTC price nearly $213,000.
- EU Blockchain Observatory’s New Report on Innovation in Europe
- A Chinese billionaire is building out a nearly $300 million crypto innovation hub in Hartford, Connecticut.
- Tech Giant Sony Applies for Blockchain-Enabled Hardware Patents titled “Electronic Node and Method for Maintaining a Distributed Ledger” and “Device and System,” describe devices and systems which would be used to maintain a ledger.
- Cryptocurrencies are not real money, says Dutch central bank
- A 20-year-old college student, a former valedictorian in Boston orchestrated a steal of $5 million in cryptocurrency.
- Overstock Subsidiary Medici Land Governance to Develop Blockchain Land Registry for Zambia
Ethereum News
- Beacon chain Casper FFG RPJ mini-spec - A three-stage beacon chain plan proposed by Vitalik.
- Minds Machines Group Ltd and Ethereum Partnership that will enable Ethereum's Ethereum Name Service ("ENS") to be integrated into the services marketed by registrars to consumers in MMX's, soon to be launched top-level domain, .luxe. The ICANN-approved .luxe extension is set to shortly enter its pre-launch phases ahead of going on sale to the public from 30 October 2018.
Other Blockchain News
Technology
- Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #43
- Constantinople Progress Tracker
- Sharding
- Ethereum Sharding Implementers Call #0
- Notes
- sharding-p2p-poc - poc of ethereum sharding p2p layer on pubsub system in libp2p
- Ewasm community call #5
- EIP
- EIP-858 - A Case Against Ethereum Block Reward Reduction to 1 ETH in Constantinople
- A Case for Ethereum Block Reward Reduction to 2 ETH in Constantinople (EIP-1234)
- A Survey of Two Verifiable Delay Functions
- Releases
- Geth Swarming (v1.8.13)
Good Reads on Blockchain
- Token-Curating the Truth by AVSA
- State Channel Applications - Counterfactual by Liam Horne
- State Channels for Babies Pt. 1
Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews
- SEC’s Hester Peirce On The Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF Proposal
- Interview with ENS team (Nick Johnson)
- Ethereum Gas Golf by Nick Johnson and Zachary Williamson
- The Future is Decentralized but Will Take a While to Arrive - Changpeng Zhao, The CEO of Binance.
- AMA with Pablo Ruiz, VP of Engineering at Polymath
Projects
New Projects
- WOM Token - As the WOM Token embarks on a Dutch auction token sale, its internal cryptoeconomics mechanism will employ dynamic smart contracts to reward personal brands for how they create fun, genuine, product-related content online with crypto. Medium
- Orion - A Private Transaction Manager in Java
- The Graph - SCALABLE QUERIES FOR A DECENTRALIZED FUTURE
Project updates and Press Release
- Gnosis - Redistribute the Future
- digixdao ( $DGD ) is LIVE on the Bancor Network.
- Status Introducing Nimbus - An Ethereum 2.0 Sharding Client
- Augur App Release v1.1.0
- Maker (MKR) went LIVE on Bancor!
- DD Purse, Bitcoin Cash wallet on WeChat
- Enjin Coin: Live on the Mainnet. ERC-1155 Tokens can now be minted on Ethereum Mainnet — and nothing will ever be the same again.
- Aventus monthly summary: July 2018
- The Tezos Experiment
- OpenLaw Explainer: The Future of Law
- Scaling Shoutout: FunFair Technologies
- Announcing - imToken 2.0 - new completely overhauled wallet app.
- Augur hijack via dormant service workers.
Miscellaneous
Trading & Mining
- Coinbase Custody is exploring a range of new assets. In addition to ERC20 tokens, here is the full list of assets that Coinbase Custody is exploring:
- OKEx - Regarding the Forced Liquidation Incident on Jul 31, 2018. OKEx has adopted the societal loss risk management mechanism since launched and it has been working orderly as intended.
- Korea's Financial Regulator Wants to Use the Blockchain for Stock Trading
Vacancies
- Current Job Openings at Consensys
Hackathon, Events & Developer programs
- Devcon4 Call for Participation!
- August 7, 2018 - Devcon4 tickets - wave 2
- August 10-12, 2018: ETHIndia (Bangalore) rolled out first round of acceptances on July 13, 2018. Check out your dashboard to RSVP for ETHIndia within five days. If you didn't receive an acceptance email yet, don't worry, as they'll be doing more round in coming weeks.
- 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 22–24, 2018 - Web3 Summit in Funkhaus, Berlin.
- 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.
ICO
- IDMoney Token sale starts July 01, 2018 - August 31, 2018.
- Save Environment Token Token sale starts September 05, 2018.
- ORBIS - Onging Token sale till October 29, 2018.
- MyShield - Token registration has commenced.
- AligatoCoin - Token sale start from July 29, 2018 - August 30, 2018
- Ubex - Onging Token sale till August 13, 2018
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