(Blockchain eNewspaper)

News

World news

Hurricane Victims Edge Closer to Automated Insurance Payouts With Ethereum - Forbes
SoftBank, Synchronoss and TBCASoft partner on a Proof of Concept for an RCS and blockchain-based mobile payments service.
The Coming Epic Battle Between Crypto & FAMGA (aka Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Google, & Amazon)
New York regulator approves Winklevoss, Paxos dollar-linked tokens
Closing Cofound.it as crowdfunding market disappears and presenting good practice for ICOs. Introduction & roadmap. For any questions please email me at: ervin@cofound.it.

Other blockchain news

Litecoin Summit (video)
Monero Best Practices PSA [5 of 7]: Community Participation (Details in the comments)
Rippled 1.1.0 Is officially released! Reddit
Big Data, IOTA and revenues from the processing of data. Dominic will speak at the German economic summit.

Ethereum News

The Görli Testnet Proposal Proposal - A Call for Participation by Afri Schoedon from team Parity. "Now, that EIP-1011, the hybrid Casper proof-of-work/proof-of-stake testnet idea has been abandoned by latest Ethereum research, Görli could be the next-generation public Ethereum test network", states the post. The Aura EIP is being drafted on Github.
Vitalik tweeted

To be clear, I never said that there is "no room for growth" in the crypto ecosystem. I said there is no room for 1000x price increases. A 1000x price increase from today means $200T in crypto, or ~an entire 70% of today's global wealth being in crypto.
What I actually said is that, because large portions of the population have already heard of crypto, further growth of crypto in any sense must come from depth (ie. actual usage), and not bringing in more attention

Technology

Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #46 [09/14/18]
- Agenda
- Video
- Notes
Constantinople is coming to Ropsten testnet around 2nd week of October 2018; Blocknumber to be announced.
- Constantinople Progress Tracker #53
- Parity Ethereum finished implementing the Constantinople hardfork.GitHub
Open Source Web3Design Livestream Call #6
Ethereum 2.0 Implementers
- Ethereum 2.0 Devs Handbook and FAQs
- Call #3 [9/13/2018]
- Agenda
- Video

Release

Solidity 0.4.25 bugfix release
Parity Ethereum 2.0.4-beta released!

Plasma

Basic Mass Exits for Plasma MVP
EthereumJS Recap August 2018 - Client Light Sync Support / Chain & Hardfork Support for Blockchain Library

EIP / ERC
* EIP-1380: Reduced gas cost for call to self
* ERC1400 - Security Token Standard . ERC1400 is now open for discussion! Post any comments you have on GitHub. This community-driven standard will change security tokens, Ethereum, and capital markets forever.
* EIP-1108: Reduce alt_bn128 precompile gas costs
* EIP-1057 (ProgPoW) and EIP-1355 (Ethash1a)
* Crypto Composables ERC-998 — Update 6 “In the Wild”Casper - A tight and intuitive Casper slashing condition - Justin Drake.

Good Reads on Blockchain

Why We Need Web 3.0? - Gavin Wood
What’s a Sparse Merkle Tree?
Going Beyond ERC-20 and ERC-721 To Reduce Gas Cost by ~80%
A simple guide for how to write unit tests for smart contracts
It’s Happening! Real Life Implementation of Blockchain for the Internet of Things

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

Vitalik Buterin Discusses On-chain Governanace
Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin talks with CNN
Hashing It Out - Casper+Sharding – Danny Ryan
Let's Talk ETC! (Ethereum Classic) #49 - Dr. Matthew Green - Zero Knowledge Proofs & ZK-SNARKs
Nick Johnson of Ethereum Name Service on Mass Adoption & Scaling

Projects

New Projects

Emergent Ventures - a project to help foment enlightenment.
Hacera Network Registry - creates directory to blockchain project.
The Brooklyn Project is developing a Core Framework and experimenting with a crypto-economic system to help consumer token projects engage the community to build more trust, cooperation, fairness, safety, and regulatory compliance across the industry. Official Blog

Project updates

Aragon DAO Backed Transcoders.
The First Use Case of BANKEX Plasma
MetaMask Breaking Change: No Accounts Exposed by Default. (edited on 9/13 to reflect updates made to EIP-1102).
AirSwap Technology and a New Model for Tokenized Securities
Saying Goodbye to Slack and Hello to Status
Schedule Your Ethereum Transactions Now On MyCrypto. The Ethereum Alarm Clock from ChronoLogic is live.

Miscellaneous

Trading and Mining

Gemini can make GUSD non-transferrable at any moment

Hackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs

September 15-16, 2018: Kiev DappDev hackathon
September 17-21, 2018: Blockchain Technology Symposium. Toronto.
September 21-23, 2018: EthAtlanta hackathon at Atlanta Tech Park.
September 29 - Oct 1 - Ethfinex’s governance summit (Lugano)
October 1-2, 2018: SWELL by Ripple. President Bill Clinton is one of the keynote speakers.
October 3-4, 2018: CryptoSprings
October 5-7, 2018: ETHSanFrancisco.
October 5-7, 2018: TruffleCon 2018 in Portland, Oregon.
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 22-23, 2018: Satoshi United Conference-2.0, Dubai
October 22–24, 2018 : Web3 Summit in Funkhaus, Berlin. Tickets
October 24-25, 2018:Winding Tree hackathon (Prague)
October 26-28, 2018: Status hackathon (Prague)
October 28-30,2018 - Ethereum Magicians Council of 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 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.

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.

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