(Blockchain Weekly Recap)

News

World news

Samsung Confirms Galaxy S10 Will Include Private Crypto Key Storage
University of Michigan Considers Further Investment in A16z’s Crypto Fund
UN World Food Programme uses Parity Ethereum to aid 100,000 refugees.
Indian Government Inaugurates National Crypto Forensic Lab
Komodo and Amazon create a 60-second blockchain builder
Bringing xDai to Harvard
Brazilian Bank Aims to Raise $15 Million Through Security Token Offering

Ethereum News

Ethereum Constantinople/St. Petersburg Upgrade Announcement. Amberdata Constantinople & Petersburg Countdown To block Confirmation
Ethereum Foundation Grants Program Wave 5 - The first grantees of 2019: The Matter, LeapDAO, Py-libp2p, Ethereum on ARM, Goerli testnet, Shadowlands, DeepSEA.
ConsenSys Grants is now accepting applications. Grants will be awarded in 2019 to projects that are building the foundational infrastructure, tools and components required to improve the developer and user experience of Ethereum. Apply today!
AMA about Ethereum Leadership and Accountability in response to a Reddit thread. Vitalik Buterin Disclosed Non-Ethereum Cryptocurrency Holdings
ENS
- Short Name Auction Reservation Process - Proposed Process
- is a Season Partner for ETHGlobal
Sparkpool Freezes The Mysterious 2100 ETH Transaction Fee. They received the 2,100 ETH payout after mining block number 7,238,290 on the ethereum blockchain worth $300K.
Vlad Zamfir would be joining New York-based startup CasperLabs, in a paid role, to work on a new blockchain protocol and will continue his research on “governance” and “Proof-of-Stake” for the Ethereum Foundation, a role which will remain paid.
Parity's lead developer Afri Schoedon left Ethereum blockchain development. Statement from Afri.
Ethereum Cat Herders Update #2
ProgPOW
- Ethereum ProgPoW Explained
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) is joining IBM, Johns Hopkins, and other prestigious institutions at this first-ever Scholars in Blockchain International Scientific Conference on March 12. Chair of EEA Technical Standards Committee Conor Svensson will be participating in the panel discussion on the role of enterprises in supporting blockchain research.

Other blockchain News

Bitcoin Cash (BCH): Roger Ver pledges to support any cryptocurrency that works and heralds economic freedom.
NEO Cofounder Praises the Ethereum Dev Community, Talks About the Future of Blockchain Tech and NEO 3.0

Technology

Why create2? Doing the “impossible” with create by Deviate Fish. Philippe Castonguay adding a few things you can do with CREATE2 that CREATE can’t permit
Ethereum 1.0
- Looking back at the Ethereum 1x workshop 26–28.01.2019 (final part 6) by Alexey Akhunov
- Ewasm 1.x precompiles, part 1
Release
Brass Golem Beta 0.19.0
Geth Xircus (v1.8.23) to address a few crashes reported lately. It also ships built in support for the #Görli testnet.
Swarm v0.3.11 released!
Security Review Period for Hardfork Roadmap

EIP / ERC

EIP 1193: Provider Ring Call/Meeting
EIP-615: Subroutines and Static Jumps for the EVM. Incorporating changes for a later PR into the original proposal.

Projects

New Project / Protocol

MolochDAO White Paper on using a grants DAO to fund public goods.
Certik: DeepSEA/Blockchain - A language to write verified Ethereum contracts
Monoplasma: A simple way to broadcast money to millions of people.
Trustless Atomic Loans (TAL): Borrow and lend crypto on your terms from the safety of your wallet
Plasma watchtower: a watchtower that monitors for invalid transactions on plasma chains
Rhombus: Connect your smart contract with real-world data.
rust-miximus: a MVP, WASM compatible zkSNARK of barrywhitehat's original Miximus.
Lahja is a generic multi process event bus implementation written in Python 3.6+ to enable lightweight inter-process communication, based on non-blocking asyncio. v0.11.0 released

Project and Protocol updates

Stability Fee Increase: February 22nd. The Maker Foundation Risk Team will place a proposal into the voting structure to raise the Dai Stability Fee by 0.5%, for a new rate of 1.5%.
Pantheon Release series highlighting our IBFT 2.0 feature. In part 2 we will write about our new permissioning feature.
Polkadot: The Foundation of a New Internet
Radical Results: Gitcoin’s $25K Match
Uniswap passed Lightning Network for the #3 DeFi project!!

Miscellaneous

Exchange, Minning, Wallet and Trading

Coinbase has acquired Neutrino, a blockchain intelligence platform. They believe it will play an important role in legitimizing crypto, making it safer and more accessible for everyone.
Bitmain announces next generation 7nm ASIC chip for SHA256 mining, delivering breakthrough energy efficiency for Bitcoin Mining
Binance DEX is now up for public testing where users can create their own wallets and interact with the trading platform’s interface.
CoinMarketCap added Methodology page for listing process.

Print, Video, Podcast & Interviews

ETHDenver 2019 videos
Whiteboard Series with NEAR. Justin Drake from Ethereum Foundation
Verifiable Delay Functions Playlist.
The Burner Wallet at @EthereumDenver.
On the Road to Full Autonomy With Elon Musk
E. Galano, Kris Shinn ~ Infura & EthQL: Improving the dApp Building Experience

Blockchain good reads

Maximally simple account abstraction without gas refunds by Vitalik Buterin
Strange Loop: An Ethereum Governance Framework Proposal by Dan Finlay.
Arithmetization I - math behind STARKs
Awesome Decentralized Finance: A curated list of awesome decentralized finance projects
Understanding How Blockchain Can Make Artificial Intelligence Safer and Smarter

EtherWorld's collection of Good Read on Blockchain & CryptocurrencyBounty and Vacancy

ETHGlobal 2019 Updates

Hackathon, Conferences, Events & Developer programs (Event Calendar)

February 27, 2019: Constantinople fork (block 7280000)
March 4, 2019: Ethereum Magicians (Paris)
March 5-7, 2019: Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) 2019
March 8-10, 2019: ETHParis (ETHGlobal)
March 8-10, 2019: ETHUofT, Toronto
March 12, 2019: Blockchain International Scientific Conference. Register here
March 22, 2019: Zero Knowledge Summit 0x03 (Berlin)
March 27, 2019: Infura Legacy keys Support will officially stop.
April 4-5, 2019: Deconomy (Seoul)
April 8-14, 2019: EDCON in Sydney.
April 19-21, 2019: ETHCapetown, Cape Town, South Africa.
April 23-24, 2019: Blockchain Revolution Global at Toronto
April 23-24, 2019: Blockchain Life 2019 at Singapore.
April 24, 2019: Enterprise Blockchain Awards
April 24-26, 2019: Truffle Blockchain Development Workshop, Dublin 2019
May 10-11, 2019: ETHEREAL, NEW YORK
May 13-15, 2019: Consensus by Coindesk. Register here.
May 17, 2019: Hard deadline to accept proposals for “Istanbul” upgrade.
May 17–19, 2019: ETHNewYork
August 2–4, 2019: ETHIndia II
September 6–8, 2019: ETHBoston
October 2019: ETHWaterloo II, Sign up to mailing list to be notified when applications open.
October 2019: Istanbul. Planned Ethereum Network Upgrade

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