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Weekly Update 2.19.2017-2.26.2017

AKASHA – Social Media Network

Slack: https://akasha-slack.herokuapp.com/

2.19.2017-2.26.2017

Over 1000 entries published on Akasha

Blog Post: http://blog.akasha.world/2017/02/23/seeking-whispers/

Bugs fixed you can now post copied links and formatted text.

Updates including anonymous search, being able to post gifs and more.

Download links can be found at the bottom of the blog .

Augur – Prediction Market

Slack: http://invite.augur.net/

2.19.2017-2.26.2017

A new landing page for the app has been deployed.

Blog Post: http://blog.augur.net/augur-front-end-update-february-22nd/

Bug fixes and updates including Google translate.

Decision not to use IPC and to use their own UTF-8 compliant streaming JSON parse.

Casper (Dev Channel) – Proof of Stake Protocol

Gitter: https://gitter.im/ethereum/casper-scaling-and-protocol-economics

2.19.2017-2.26.2017

Draft of the Viper code for the Casper contract: https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/casper4/simple_casper.v.py Missing: Figuring out how it checks block hashes.

Discussion on the ‘fork choice rule’.

Simulation: https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/casper4/simulator.py Working in extreme conditions: 1 block per epoch & high latency.



Colony – Decentralized Collaboration Network

Slack: https://colonyslack.herokuapp.com/

2.19.2017-2.26.2017

Open call to potential users for usability research was filled in a matter of minutes. The research will be conducted this coming week and will involve a 15-30 minute video chat with user completing tasks such as “invite new users to your Colony” on the prototype build.

Digix – Asset (Gold) Backed Tokens

Slack: https://dgx-public.slack.com/signup

2.19.2017-2.26.2017

Ethereum Singapore DigixGlobal Live-Stream (Dr Loi Luu & Chris Hitchcott): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGSRLMMN4lo

Much conversation on the new competition from CodeTract

Testnet DGX is now on Ropsten. Token address is 0x1e83ddddc7826f8804630af70935f68090295d38. Reply to aeufemio’s pinned thread in the slack channel with your Ropsten address to get some.

Blog Post: https://medium.com/@Digix/updates-from-the-cto-23rd-feb-2017-9026b4aaa912#.v643syx7t

Chris Hitchcott’s response to the CodeTract news/Reddit user criticism of Spectrum: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/5vx84g/gold_is_now_live_on_mainnet/de5peef/

FirstBlood – Decentralized E-Sports Rewards Platform

Slack: https://firstbloodio.slack.com/signup

2.19.2017-2.26.2017

Blog Post: https://blog.firstblood.io/fighting-games-are-failing-as-esports-21655ac1da06#.vf0a532k9

Blog Post: https://blog.firstblood.io/top-tips-for-your-next-dota-2-in-house-23b32cba7ab4#.yri4792l7

It was noted in the slack that a small dev update is usually given at the bottom of each blog post.

mattius459 suggests “What about a small fee that taxed every game played which fed into a public pool, and the public pool replenished all users who have a zero balance with a very small but bet-able balance so they could continue playing. Basically, it would mean that no user would ever be unable to make a bet.” It received a positive reception from Auryn.

Golem – Distributed Computing Power

Slack: http://golemproject.org:3000/

2.19.2017-2.26.2017

Plans to move onto Ropsten testnet.

Blog Post: https://blog.golemproject.net/golem-and-the-road-to-brass-990c6d210c8d#.z66m1mkgz

MacOS builds on the way.

Challenges with storage solutions, research ongoing, IPFS and other methods.

Dev team continues to grow and should help continue progress.

ICONOMI – Digital Asset Management Platform

Slack: https://iconominet.herokuapp.com/

News Channel: https://iconominews.herokuapp.com/

2.19.2017-2.26.2017

Iconomi used cloudflare please change password.

Beta testers have reported bugs many relating to drop down menus, the devs are working on solutions.

Blog Post: Consolidating Legal Questions

Blog Post: State of Digital Asset Management Platforms

Status – Mobile Ethereum OS

Slack: http://slack.status.im/

2.19.2017-2.26.2017

Milestone: 0.9.3 (test/patch/regression week)

“Always on the lookout for strong Clojurists with an interest in crypto.” – @jarradhope

Need help with regression testing

Very active github

Swarm – Serverless Hosting, Incentivised P2P Storage/Content Distribution

Slack: https://gitter.im/ethereum/swarm

2.19.2017-2.26.2017

@MaiaVictor of Ethereum Name Service collaborating with Swarm on improving efficiency between the two distributed networks

Swarm roadmap on GitHub (currently in POC 0.3): https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/wiki/swarm—POC-series#poc-03

uPort – Self-Sovereign Identity

Gitter: https://gitter.im/uport-project/Lobby

2.12.2017-2.19.2017

“P2P attestations are on the roadmap, but not available right now.” – @christianlundkvist ETA is sometime in Q2. “Note that we will support on-chain attestations through a registry smart contract much sooner than this.” – @christianlundkvist

Lots of bugs being reported and handled.

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