Biweekly update 6th November — 20th November

Development

GitHub metrics

Developer activity (from Coinlib.io)

Protocol updates

Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #49 [2018–11–09]: Constantinople hard fork scheduled for January 16th, 2018. Notes.

Testing; Client Updates; Research Updates; Constantinople/Ropsten HF

hardfork timing 1, 2

difficulty bomb

5.ProgPoW update;

6.Ethereum stratum/mining pool support

7.Görli PoA-testnet progress

Ethereum Constantinople Hard Fork Set for January Release.

Eth2.0 Implementers Call #8 [11/15/2018]:

Client Updates; Research Updates; Working group followup

a. notes: https://notes.ethereum.org/2-HRUzGjSc6jmwRgsVJqsg

4.min libp2p requirements;

5.Proposal to use SSZ for consensus only;

a. Should we have two serialization formats?

b. If so, what should the second be? (@rawfalafel suggests protobufs in the above issue);

6.big vs little endian.

Ethereum 2.0 Development Update #16 — Prysmatic Labs: biweekly updates written by the entire Prysmatic Labs team on Ethereum 2.0.

Overview and Devcon Recap

Latest Research

Single State Root

Alternative Staking Withdrawal Mechanisms

Merged Code, Pull Requests, and Issues

Simulated Test Runner for Chain Tests

RANDAO First Iteration Done

Beacon Node P2P Bootnode

Validator Private Key Management

Upcoming Work

Continuing BLS Signature Aggregation Work

Prysm Testnet (launch in the first quarter of 2019).

Network-adjusted timestamps: Vitalik Buterin on Casper.

Casper CBC, Simplified!: A simplified overview of Correct-By-Construction Casper consensus mechanism. Aditya Asgaonkar’s Casper CBC explainer.

Ewasm’s roadmap for monthly testnet releases.

Lighthouse Update #03: Lighthouse fortnight client update — devcon, libp2p in Rust, basic block processing.

Client Architecture Roundtable: Client validator architecture notes.

The economic incentives of staking in Serenity: The economic incentives of staking discussion.

Avalanche RANDAO — a construction to minimize RANDAO biasability in the face of large coalitions of validators: sharding.

Barnabé Monnot’s Casper CBC spec explainer part 1and part 2. Also, a visualization of multi-shard system from Vlad.

Explaining the liveness guarantee of Eth 2.0.

Brainstorming about validator privacy.

Plasma Prime design proposal.

Plasma Cash was a transaction format.

Development tools

Develop a voting application using Hyperledger and Ethereum: Build a decentralized app that combines Ethereum’s Web3 and Solidity smart contracts with Hyperledger’s hosting Fabric and Chaincode EVM.

Solidity v0.5 — a major release.

MetaMask’s privacy mode (EIP1102).

Leo Alt: built-in formal verification in Solidity in the SMTChecker and how it works.

A quick dive into Trail of Bits’ Slither, their Solidity static analyzer.

Tutorial on a private layer 2 voting system with Enigma.

Zeppelin’s Solidity compiler audit.

Pipeline visual IDE now available as a Remix plugin.

Atomic batched transactions — multiple ERC20 transfers at once through MetaTX.

Parity’s Fether — alpha release of a wallet with a light client, so you can embed light clients in your dapps.

Solpp — Solidity preprocessor and flattener.

Meeseeks.app — a static file hosted on a CDN to allow websites easier IPFS hosting with human-readable ENS names.

Creating a custom Substrate chain.

Proof-of-Concept of sharded fork choice rules with Xshard message routing and balancing, including EVM integration and Xshard EVM calls.

Tutorial: deploying a Loom PlasmaChain app.

Next 6 months roadmap for 3Box.

Etherlinker for Unreal Engine 4.

Unity and Ethereum starter tutorial.

Bonding curves explained with code. More code for bonding curve tokens.

Grid+ releases SDK for their Lattice agent.

IBM is creating Solidity tutorials for Hyperledger.

Gateway contracts: code operating on a shared state through the gateway contract.

Academic paper on KEVM.

Sojourn dev kit in React — encrypt and store data on IPFS using Shamir’s Secret Sharing with hash stored onchain.

Resources for developing with Gnosis Safe.

How to query balances for all Eth addresses in BigQuery. Dappboard is working on an ETL pipeline for Eth

0x launch kit.

Infura dashboard now has stats.

Snarkjs: snark implementation in Javascript from Iden3.

Practical Smart Contract Security Analysis and Exploitation — Part 1: how to use Mythril Classic to find and exploit security bugs in Ethereum smart contracts.

Governance and new standards proposals

EIP 1337 (Subscriptions) Launches.

EIP1559: fee market change for short-term volatility in block size instead of transaction fees.

ERC1577: Multiaddr for ENS better defined system of mapping names to network and content addresses.

ERC1576: Whisper bid negotiation protocol.

ERC1856: risk redistribution for stable payment.

ERC1572: contact card standard.

Automatic Regulatory Compliance with Ethereum: A summary of security token standards that are incorporating compliance with smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.

Restricting Who Can Hold and Trade Your Security Tokens with ERC-1404 and Whitelisting: Part one of a series on ERC-1404.

Péter Szilágyi proposes Ethereum Engineering Efforts — document (and improve) the necessary cross-team processes.

Trust Minimized Governance Tokens by Luke Duncan (Research at Aragon).

What Makes ERC-1155 Unique?: There has been a major influx of new Ethereum-based tokens over the past 18 months. Although most of these tokens adhere to the ERC20 standard, that may come to change fairly soon. Enj now lets users mint their “custom crypto tokens” using the ERC-1155 standard, which offers a few key benefits worth looking into.

Ecosystem updates

Status’ Cryptolife hackathon winners.

Ethereum 2.0 explainers. Status is hosting a “peer-reviewed” repository of Ethereum 2.0 articles, such as explaining validators.

Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Opens Regional Office in Korea and Appoints Blockchain Leader Joonho Park as Regional Head.

Burner Wallet runs on POA’s xDAI and exchanges value between phones without app download.

ConsenSys Grants — $500k given through Gitcoin in amounts of 10k-25k.

MyCrypto’s Taylor Monahan: the unintended consequences of product design.

ConsenSys: A Decentralized Organization Building Decentralized Technology — How does the decentralization of technology influence the structure of a company’s internal organization?

A survey of Ethereum based games. Tyler Smith’s tweetstorm on tokenizing game assets.

Alethio finds a bunch of CryptoKitty inbreeding.

Hour of day gasprice heatmap from Gitcoin.

Rachel O’Leary profiles Swarm’s Daniel Nagy.

Streamr is following Gnosis’ lead in defaulting to web3 products.

Taylor on lessons learned in the MEW/MyCrypto split — the whole MyCrypto AMA is worth a read because they put time into it.

Enterprise Ethereum: Blockchain Use Cases and Applications by Industry.

Wrapping up the First ConsenSys Tachyon Accelerator.

Projects updates

0x:

Relayer Report #14 — EtherDelta Ruling, Permissioned Liquidity Pools, and ERC dEX Interview: The latest updates from the 0x ecosystem: November 19th, 2018.

Introducing the 0x Launch Kit.

Development Update #12 — October 2018.

8x Protocol:

8x Protocol Monthly Update: October.

Protocol Weekly #16: Protocol Weekly is a newsletter to exclusively showcase the progress of layer-1 and Ethereum layer-2 protocols.

Protocol Weekly #17.

Augur:

Augur Weekly Report — November 14th.

Augur Weekly Report — November 7th: Augur 2.0 will cost 25–40% less gas and in the future may run in the browswer without the need for an app. In the meantime, v1.7.1 is out.

Ethereum dApp Augur Records $2 Million in Bets in US Midterms: During the United States midterm election, as Augur co-founder Jeremy Gardner stated, bets placed on the outcome of US midterms initially reached $900,000 and eventually surpassed the $2 million mark.

Coinbase:

What to Expect During the Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork.

A brand new look for Coinbase Wallet.

Buy and Sell BAT on Coinbase: Coinbase supports the Basic Attention Token (BAT) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android and iOS apps. Coinbase customers can now buy, sell, send, receive, or store BAT, along with Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Litecoin, ZRX and USDC. BAT will be available for customers in most jurisdictions, but will not initially be available for residents of the state of New York.

Wrapping up Devcon 4.

Coinbase-backed Startup Releases Home Cryptocurrency Miner: A startup backed by Coinbase and Arrington Ventures has launched a cryptocurrency miner for domestic use. The new device, however, won’t be powerful enough to mine Bitcoin (BTC).

CryptoKitties:

What can I do with my CryptoKitty?: When you purchase a CryptoKitty, you get both the Kitty and its art.

This White Elephant is actually a cat in a onesie: The CryptoKitties #1 Fan contest winner is sharing his collection of Kitties with the community — and you can take part.

Win a Gen 0 before the Kitty Clock winds down: This is your chance to win one of CryptoKitties’ rarest Kitties before the Kitty Clock stops releasing them on November 30th.

CryptoKitties and Lil BUB are makin’ kittens: The charity-focused digital Lil BUBs will be first ever celebrikitties.

Decentraland:

Agora: Results & New Polls: Review Agora’s first round of results and check out the new open polls.

Introducing Axie Infinity on Decentraland: Embark on an Axie scavenger hunt across Decentraland, earning loot and experience.

How will the LAND auction work?: An explanation of Dutch auctions.

Decentraland’s Second LAND Auction: Announcing the date and format for Decentraland’s upcoming LAND auction.

Ask Us Anything! — Nov 19th for an AMA on Reddit.

Start Your Engines in Battle Racers: partnering with Altitude Games to build Battle Racers, an action-packed arcade racing game for Decentraland.

Dether:

The Dether Wallet App is Now Available in the Google Play Store: Download the Dether Wallet App here.

district0x:

district0x Dev Update — November 13th, 2018: Development progress and product changes from district0x.

The District Weekly — November 10th, 2018: News and updates from the district0x Network

The District Weekly — November 17th, 2018.

Gitcoin:

Counterfactual Loan Repayment: exploring predictive smart contract deployments.

Announcing Gitcoin Labs: R&D for Busy Developers.

Introducing Kudos Trophies: Physical Trophies for the winners of the Status Hackathon.

Ethereum in Emerging Economies: Mass adoption will start where decentralization is necessary.

EIP 1337 (Subscriptions) Launches: Forget tokenization, subscriptions on the blockchain are here.

Giveth:

Web3Summit’s DecentralizeNOW! Hacker Node: The Giveth team was very honored to get a hacker node in Studio 2.0 at the Web3 Summit to bring people together to decentralize now.

0x4 What’s DAppening? Easier Milestone creation, reporting and faster service.

Gnosis:

Gnosis Safe — Product Status TL;DR: A feature overview of the first smart contract-based mobile wallet on Ethereum.

Golem Project:

Brass Golem Beta 0.18.2.

Reddit — Golem will be using Raiden State Channel Technology in the near future.

Keep:

Introducing Our New Team Members: Keep’s Development Team is Growing.

Getting to Know the Keep Team: Kuba: the Getting to Know the Keep Team series with a member of the development team — Jakub “Kuba” Nowakowski.

Kyber Network:

Community Update (October — November).

Vietnamese Startups are Leading the Way to Connect Blockchain Technology With the Real Economy: With Kyber Network You Can Now Use ERC20 Tokens To Purchase WisePass Credits.

Loom Network:

Loom SDK Projects: Coins & Steel — A Fantasy Multiplayer Role-Playing Game (Like You’ve Never Seen Before).

Moving ERC721 Tokens Between Ethereum and PlasmaChain Using Transfer Gateways.

PlasmaChain: Announcing the First External Validators.

Deploying Your First App to Loom PlasmaChain: Installing Loom, Setting up Your Environment, and Generating Keys.

CryptoZombies Global Meetups: Recent Meetups Recap & Upcoming Events (Developers, Come Find One in Your City!).

MakerDAO:

Announcing #cryptolife Hackathon Winners.

Recap: MakerDAO in Prague for DevCon.

BSL2018 Colombia: Blockchain Summit Latin America Colombia represents the second edition of an exciting event where MakerDAO was present and sponsoring a Hackathon Challenge. These events and initiatives help users and crypto enthusiasts understand the vibrant crypto ecosystem of Latin America, one of the places with most use cases in the world.

MakerDAO: What Doesn’t Kill It, Makes It Stronger by David Hoffman: An analysis on the recent performance of the MakerDAO system.

MakerDAO partners with Ripio to bring Dai to South America via fiat on/off ramp.

MakerDAO: A New Hope for Financial Reform.

Melonport:

Melonomics Part 3: Counting Melons.

MetaMask:

MetaMask Monthly: October: the team took the stage at DevCon, launched Privacy Mode in Version 5.0, and opened merchandise store for business..

Ocean Protocol:

Community Report Sept/Oct 2018 | Fall into the Ocean: 27 events, 15 cities, 1 rising tide.

Walking the Talk on Transparent, Decentralized Governance: Announcing Luis Cuende as an Advisor to Ocean Protocol.

Operationalizing Ocean for Data Scientists and Managers: Announcing Adam Drake as an Advisor to Ocean Protocol.

Verifiable Compute Services within Ocean Protocol Network: Announcing Jason Teutsch as Advisor to Ocean Protocol.

Bringing Beloved Machine Learning Library scikit-learn to Ocean: Announcing Andreas Müller as Advisor to Ocean Protocol.

Curation Thinking in Data Markets & Data Commons: Announcing Simon de la Rouviere as an Advisor to Ocean Protocol.

Origin protocol:

Origin DApp gets Browser Notifications.

Join Us at Origin Protocol USA Meetups This Fall.

Why Stablecoins Matter More Than You Think.

Parity:

Parity Fether alpha is here: a decentralised, light client-based wallet.

Parity v2.2.1 beta & 2.1.6 stable.

Parity To Offer Alternative To Infura-Powered Wallets on Ethnews.com. On Friday, November 9, Parity Ethereum announced the alpha release of its light client-based wallet, Parity Fether. For the moment, the Fether is only on testnets and the Parity team does not recommend it for mainnet use, but the release marks a significant advancement in UX for the decentralized access to Ethereum.

Polkadot:

Dotcon-0: Substrate workshop with Gavin Wood.

Wasm on the Blockchain: The Lesser Evil.

Polkadot Asia Tour (Nov-Dec).

Raiden Network:

Raiden Pulse #2: News from September and October: the second episode of Raiden Pulse, bi-monthly update on all things Raiden.

v0.17.0 — Zigzag Street.

Status:

Status Core Devs Call 2018–11–19.

Human Tradition in a Technological Age.

LeapDAO to Join Incubate Family as Our Fourth Incubatee.

Designing the Status.im voting ÐApp.

Status.im Townhall 11–12–2018.

Status.im Hardwallet Devcon4 wrap-up.

#CryptoLife Winners Round Up.

Streamr:

20 Years of Open Source — What’s in it For Me/Them/Us?

How we’re doubling our efforts to live decentralized.

Streamr invited to contribute in IATA Hackathon.

Trinity protocol:

Trinity Monthly Report — Early November.

Also check biweekly updates by Paradigm:

Aragon biweekly update 6th November — 20th November.

OmiseGo biweekly update 6th November — 20th November.

Other projects:

Infura Dashboard Update: The launch of the Stats section of the Infura Dashboard. Developers using dashboard generated Project IDs with their API requests will now have visibility into exactly how their application is using Infura. This includes their most common methods, request volume, and bandwidth usage.

POA Network: How Honey Badger BFT Consensus Works: Part 2 of POA Network’s how Honey Badger BFT works.

Colony: For Whom the Delegate Calls.

Kaleido Launches Blockchain Marketplace with Plug-and-Play Services and Solution Partnership Program: Blockchain platform leader Kaleido, in collaboration with ConsenSys and Amazon Web Services, is launching the first full-stack platform with a marketplace of plug-and-play services, integrations and partner software to accelerate enterprise blockchain projects from proof-of-concepts to live production business networks.

Brave Asks For US Equivalent To GDPR: JavaScript creator Brendan Eich’s Brave browser is “on a mission to fix the web.” En route to this, Brave has this week written directly to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), part of the US Department of Commerce, calling for a US equivalent to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

uPort is fully open-source now.

Zug residents can now ride e-bikes using their uPort-powered Zug Digital IDs.

Livepeer: Call for Transcoder Feedback — Streamflow Protocol Update Proposal Draft — Livepeer’s potential Streamflow release — new orchestrator role, no stake minimum to be a transcoder, and probabilistic micropayments.

SpeedReader: Fast and Private Reader Mode for the Web: Brave’s SpeedReader — pre-rendering classifier gives 20x performance improvement, 84x less bandwidth, 2.4x memory reduction.

New Brave SpeedReader Improves on Existing Reader Mode Technology.

Subby — censorship resistant newsfeed using Eth and IPFS.

Introducing Waffle.

Gitcoin — Introducing Kudos Trophies: Physical Trophies for the winners of the Status Hackathon.

The Görli Testnet Has Arrived: At the ETHBerlin back in September, a team of hackers from ChainSafe, along with Parity’s Afri Schoedon, began work on Görli, a universal proof-of-authority testnet for Ethereum developers. Following the hackathon, a call for participation, written by Schoedon, was posted across GitHub and Twitter. In the proposal, Schoedon cited the lack of “consistent availability and high reliability” among existing cross-client testnets. The hope is that Görli might fill this void. Now, just over two months later, the testnet is up and going. There are still bugs to be worked out, and the GitHub README is calling it “pre-testnet v0.2,” warning that “it might break any time.”

Nethermind v0.9.1 .NET Core mainnet client with Görli support.

Geth v1.8.18 with Swarm v0.3.6. Geth optimization coming.

Test suite v6.0.0beta2 ready for Constantinople fork.

EthereumJS monthly recap: October 2018.

Counterfactual Development Update #0–11.12.2018. Monorepo. Specs for state channel protocol, app library and a minimalist contracts layer.

Chainlink Acquires Town Crier from the Initiative for Cryptocurrencies and Contracts: Chainlink acquires Town Crier to use enclaves for oracles.

We launched an example state channel app: Magmo launches rock-paper-scissors app with a channel wallet on Ropsten using ForceMove framework.

Ethereum-Based Platform Powers Sale of a Multi-Million Dollar Luxury Property in Manhattan: Blockchain startup Fluidity has partnered with broker-dealer firm Propellr to tokenize a piece of prime Manhattan real estate on the Ethereum network.

Secret Voting: An Update & Code Walkthrough: An update from Enigma on how protocol can be used to implement “secret voting”, complete with a video walkthrough. Decentralize This! — Episode 8: Michael Casey.

Announcing IBM Cloud Data Shield Experimental — Scalable Data-in-Use Protection for Your Container Workloads: IBM announces its Data Shield Experimental with iExec (SGX).

MultiVAC Platform Performs ‘All-Dimensional’ Sharding Breakthrough For Ethereum Blockchain: MultiVac, a blockchain platform, has recently reported that it has achieved a “breakthrough” concerning scaling technology sharding. The information, reported in a press release from November 5, indicates that the company was able to achieve 30,784 transactions in one second and it did so using 64 shards. Further, total transactions for the shards were over 30K at the peak.

Maecenas Is Tokenizing A Picasso, But The Physical Artwork Will Be Made Inaccessible: Maecenas, a blockchain-based art investment platform, announced that it has partnered with the cryptocurrency exchange Ethershift and the colorful John McAfee to digitize and tokenize a Picasso painting. The effort has been dubbed Project Phoenix, according to Marcelo García Casil, founder and CEO of Maecenas.

New Projects:

E-Ukraine: Decentralized Electronic Platform For Self-Governance powered by NEM.

What Does Ethereum Need? Rainbows, Glitter, And Uniswap: the protocol Uniswap was born on the Ethereum network. It serves as an automated token exchange, comprised of a series of ETH-to-ERC20 executable distributed code contracts to allow users to easily swap their ERC20 tokens. There is one contract for each ERC20 token; if a contract does not exist for a certain asset, then anybody can create one using the Uniswap factory.

Lition Ethereum Blockchain Project Now Delivers Power in 10 Different Cities, Totalling 700 Houses: A new Ethereum-based project called Lition is helping German citizens to find cheaper energy for their houses. Lition, which was launched earlier in 2018, is a licensed energy provider in Germany that has clients in 12 major cities of the country including Berlin, Hamburg and Munich.

Opinion and research articles

Vitalik Buterin On the Hard Lessons of Ethereum’s First Five Years: BreakerMag’s print interview with Vitalik.

Video of Future of layer 2 meetup at Devcon (October 29th, 2018). The panel was joined by: Celer Network — Mo Dong; L4 — Liam Horne; Nervos Network — Jan Xie; Perun — Lisa Eckey; PISA — Patrick McCorry & Chris Buckland; Raiden — Jacob Stenum Czepluch; Finality Lab — Nathan Ginnever; Connext — Arjun Bhuptani; Spankchain — Ameen Soleimani; Transmute — Eric Olszewski; Liquidity Network — Guillaume Felley; Loom Network — Georgios Konstantopolous; Parsec Labs — Johann Barbie.

Devcon 4 video — Interview with Vitalik Buterin and Lighthouse team on Ethereum 2.0/Serenity.

Devcon 4 main hall talks are all online.

The power of Ethereum — Joe Lubin keynote at WebSummit: Co-founder of Ethereum speaks on its merits. Ethereum is a world computer on top of a peer-to-peer network that runs smart contracts — applications that run exactly as programmed without the possibility of censorship, fraud, or third-party interference. Until now, businesses had to build their systems on database technologies that resulted in siloed and redundant information in typically adversarial contexts. With Ethereum, we can move to next-generation IT infrastructures and trust-minimized networks that allow for new innovations like cryptocurrencies, automated and self-executing legal agreements, and self-sovereign identity.

Ethereum [ETH] Co-founder discusses effective initiatives favoring decentralization: In a video published by the YouTube handle of Web Summit on 8th November, Joseph Lubin, a Co-founder of Ethereum delivered a talk addressing the upside potential of Web 3.0. Here, the Consensys CEO spoke about decentralization, throwing light on how the feature eliminates top-down hierarchical operation and promotes equal say of everyone involved.

Ethereum Co-Founder Predicts A Radical Overhaul Of Society on Forbes.com: Joe Lubin has said blockchain technology, which powers bitcoin and similar cryptocurrencies, will cause society to move from a “scarcity to an abundance mindset.”

Ethereum’s Joe Lubin: Blockchain Will ‘Take a Little Longer’ to Develop Than the Web: Blockchain will “probably take a little longer” to develop than the internet, because it is “much more complicated,” ConsenSys creator Joseph Lubin told German media outlet t3n in an interview, Cointelegraph auf Deutsch reported Nov. 9.

New Protocols for old Asset Classes: A conversation with Consensys’ founder and CEO Joe Lubin and the Consensys CSO Sam Cassatt.

Ethereum Evangelist Joseph Lubin: ‘It’s Pretty Much Epic Day After Epic Day’: BreakerMag’s print interview.

The coming privacy-by-default era: Brave and the Basic Attention Token: Brendan Eich talk at Web Summit.

Brave’s Brendan Eich on Fixing Online Advertising: Brendan Eich on What Bitcoin Did.

Boost VC S3 EP31: Solving for Volatility in Crypto with a Decentralized Stablecoin — with Steven Becker of MakerDAO.

Balancing Security With Usability: A Look At One Crypto Company’s Evolution In Product Design: THNews spoke with blockchain company MyCrypto to learn more about how it weighs the two qualities when making design decisions.

Plasma isn’t Dead — An Implementer’s Rebuttal to CoinDesk’s Claims by Hamdi Allam and Wesley Graham. Background: Four days ago Coindesk published an article speaking to the “stalling” of the Plasma scaling solution. This article, written by plasma implementation team, FourthState Labs, reflects upon Coindesk’s claims from an implementors perspective.

Zooko talks Sapling and more on Zero Knowledge: The Sapling upgrade promises to reduce the proving times of the zk-SNARKs from 37 seconds to 2.3 seconds by replacing the SHA256 hash function with an improved performance Pedersen hash function called Bowe-Hopwood Pedersen, introducing an updated eliptic curve (Groth16/BLS12–381), moving from Libsnark to Bellman, and using a new split circuit design.

POV Crypto — Episode 11 w/ Ameen Soleimani from Spankchain.

NEAR protocol’s Alex and Illia on 51 Percent.

Alex van de Sande on Hashing It Out #29 on the challenges behind adoption that UX can solve, and the future of DApps as they begin implementing standards such as universal logins.

A detailed post on differences between Near protocol and Ethereum Serenity — Why doesn’t Near just replicate Ethereum Serenity design? by Alexander Skidanov.

What Is Ethereum? on Nasdaq.com.

Ethereum [ETH] is better because Vitalik is involved, says ShapeShift CEO: Erik Voorhees, CEO of ShapeShift, spoke about Ethereum 2.0, Vitalik Buterin’s influence over the Ethereum ecosystem and the real-life adoption of Ethereum and cryptocurrencies, in an interview with CNBC Crypto Trader.

Blockchain Expert Predicts “Monumental” breakout for Ethereum, Explains How: McLeod, a tech expert with Thomas Crown Art predicted that the second largest cryptocurrency will experience a price surge that will see its price go as high as $500 before the year ends.

Why Cryptomarkets Need Trusted Token Reference Data: And how we can build the dataset together.

Scaling Series Part 1: What is Decentralized Scaling? in ConsenSys blog.

The Parrot and the Viper: A Tale of Ethereum Scalability: Or what are zk-SNARKs and why do they matter.

Mattereum, perhaps the world’s weirdest and most daring startup, intends to own literally everything on Tech Crunch.

Ethereum Core Developer Reveals ‘Weird Trackers’ Exposing User Location Information: Péter Szilágyi recently engaged in an interview to speak on the various components on the Ethereum blockchain and software of Geth, specifically speaking on the information that consumers put out.

Ethereum [ETH] can act as an equipment for the next big economic crisis, says economist: Glen Weyl, Principal Researcher, Political Economy and Social Technology at Microsoft Research New York City recently took to Twitter in appreciation of the blockchain industry and culture. In his tweet, he mentioned Ethereum and its Co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, specifying that the blockchain movement could be the radical change that can be a major tool in battling the next recession.

Concerns Rise Over Backdoored Smart Contracts.

⟠ Visions of Ether: How major narratives of Ethereum and $ETH have evolved over time.

Smart Contract Code is Free Speech, Protected by the First Amendment.

Five Popular DApps on Ethereum You Can Use Today.

The Great Scaling Debate: State Channels, Plasma, or Sharding.

Video: Ethereum 2.0 is going to $1250. Here is why..:

Vitalik Unveils ETHEREUM 2.0;

It’s a new version of ETH thats fast and uses POS;

Zooko talks Zcash;

Erik Voorhees comments on Ethereum 2.0.

Upcoming events:

Dec 7–9 — ETHSingapore hackathon (ETHGlobal)

Jan 10 — Mobi Grand Challenge hackathon ends

Jan 29–30 — AraCon (Berlin)

Feb 7–8 — Melonport’s M1 conf (Zug)

Feb 15–17 — ETHDenver hackathon (ETHGlobal)

Feb 23–25 — EthAustin hackathon (EthUniversal)

Finance

20th November: Ethereum Tumbles 20% In Bearish Trade: Ethereum was trading at $147.50, down 20.31% on the day. It was the largest one-day percentage loss since March 18, 2017. The move downwards pushed Ethereum’s market cap down to $15.36B, or 9.47% of the total cryptocurrency market cap. At its highest, Ethereum’s market cap was $135.58B.

Metamask Introducing: Privacy Mode.

Ethfinex announces a trading competition in collaboration with Waltonchain (WTC).

Ethereum Token BAT Crashes Nearly 20% after Coinbase.com Listing.

A New Model For Token Distribution: Kyle Samani highlights Livepeer’s MerkleMine as an example of good token distribution.

Banks complete first syndicated loan on blockchain: BBVA, MUFG and BNP Paribas do $150m syndicate loan for Red Electronica on a private chain but timestamped to the mainchain.

The court docs settling SEC’s case against EtherDelta founder Zack Coburn. He paid almost $400k, which is substantial but a fraction of his earnings and he admitted no guilt. The SEC got to claim that ED traded securities, without having to litigate it and risk losing jurisdiction. Not clear what facts the SEC considers to be dealbreakers and what is mere dicta.

Why crypto networks will eat the SaaS industry. This post explores commoditization cycles and models for software delivery by looking at the threat properly incentivized crypto networks pose to the Software-as-a-Service industry.

How the Crypto Crash Could Be Good for Crypto — A price collapse doesn’t have to herald the end of a technology or its relevance — by Tyler Cowen.

Swiss AI-Powered Stablecoin on Ethereum Becomes Halal to Attract Muslim Investors: Swiss-based cryptocurrency firm X8 has become the latest to acquire an Islamic finance certification.

Attributing rent cost: economics.

RadarRelay says it will implement OFAC compliance. OpenRelay will blacklist security tokens. New relayer Lake Trade is blocking the US, as Paradex continues to do.

An Overview Of Decentralized Trading Of Digital Assets: Brooklyn Project on dexes.

Airfox and Paragon agree SEC settlements to register as securities, pay 250k each plus refund purchasers. Given the EtherDelta settlement.

Bancor’s Smart Tokens vs Token Bonding Curves by Simon de la Rouviere.

Roadmap

Release Step 3.1: Metropolis phase 2: Constantinople, 2019.

Ethereum’s Next Blockchain Upgrade Faces Delay After Testing Failure on Coindesk.com: While a fixed date for implementation of Constantinople has yet to be set, Griff Green, ethereum community lead and founder of blockchain-based nonprofit Giveth, set mainnet activation for sometime in 2019. “I would expect it to get delayed to 2019, the blockchain doesn’t take holidays, but developers do,” Green said. “If I were to make a wager on a prediction market I would put my ETH on late January, early February.”

Ethereum Constantinople Blockchain Upgrade Delayed Until 2019.

Release Step Four: Serenity. Serenity is meant to move from consensus through Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake.

Ethereum 2.0 Roadmap by Vitalik Buterin at Devcon 4 (31st October 2018, Prague):

The Ethereum 2.0 spec has been explicitly split out into two separate documents:

Partnerships

Amazon Partners On New Ethereum Marketplace — Kaleido For Enterprises.

Vietnamese Startups are Leading the Way to Connect Blockchain Technology With the Real Economy: With Kyber Network You Can Now Use ERC20 Tokens To Purchase WisePass Credits.

Ethereum-Based Platform Powers Sale of a Multi-Million Dollar Luxury Property in Manhattan: Blockchain startup Fluidity has partnered with broker-dealer firm Propellr to tokenize a piece of prime Manhattan real estate on the Ethereum network.

WeTrust Uses Ethereum To Connect Nonprofits With Cryptocurrency: WeTrust, a decentralized platform for financial products co-founded by George Li, a former employee at Google, is seeking to use its platform to connect non-profit organizations with cryptocurrency.

Japan’s NRI Presents Its New Blockchain Security Tool, Becomes ConsenSys‘ Development Partner: Nomura Research Institute’s cybersecurity subsidiary revealed its new security tool called “Blockchain Security Monitoring Service” and confirmed its partnership with ConsenSys.

BTC.com Introduces Ethereum Block Explorer: BTC.com, a major Bitcoin pool operator, wallet provider, and block explorer, is expanding its services further into the crypto market. The site announced that it has added an Ethereum block explorer to its array of services.

MakerDAO partners with Ripio to bring Dai to South America via fiat on/off ramp: Dai is now available on the Ripio exchange! For the first time, users in South America will be able to buy and sell Dai through Ripio, and its app, jointly achieving a new milestone in financial development of the region.

Rumors

William Shatner tweets about Ethereum explaining Eth standards and governance. Don’t Worry Vitalik, Captain Kirk Has Ethereum’s Back: William Shatner defended Vitalik Buterin against ‘literal scammer’ claims on Twitter this week. The USSS Enterprise’s very own James T Kirk appears to have found a deep love of Ethereum.

Google’s Eric Schmidt comments on Ethereum “the most interesting stuff that’s going on is the beginning of execution on top of blockchain, the most obvious example being the capability of Ethereum.” Ethereum [ETH] is a powerful platform if it figures out global synchronization, says ex-Google CEO.

Ethereum [ETH] network will help countries with emerging economies, says creator of Burner wallet: The release of the new Burner wallet developed by Austin Griffith, Director of Research at GetGitcoin, was announced today, November 10, on Twitter. The open-source project supposedly aims to help drive mass adoption of Ethereum using the xDAI sidechain.

Chinese teachers caught mining Ethereum at work: the principal and vice principle of Hunan middle school were taking advantage of the schools electricity to mine Ethereum.

This Ethereum Token You’ve Never Heard of is Hogging 10% of the Network’s Gas: A Reddit user has complained that a virtually unknown token is consuming a large amount of Ethereum’s gas supply.

ICO Exit Scam? 13,000 Ethereum (ETH), Crypto Startup Disappear Overnight.

A 7-Year Legal Fight Led This Dev to Build Unstoppable Ethereum Storage: “If you build it strong enough, the law will follow.” That’s how Daniel Nagy, the lead developer behind Swarm — ethereum’s decentralized storage-layer — described his “takeaway lesson” after a seven-year legal battle over his use of an early file-sharing network called Direct Connect (DC).

The Little-Known Ways Ethereum Reveals User Location Data: “People don’t realize how much information is out in the open.” That’s Peter Szilagyi, an ethereum core developer who manages the software client Geth, referring to the fact that little attention has been paid to the blockchain’s underlying network layer, where information is sometimes exposed in complex and unpredictable ways. Indeed, there’s an awareness of the implications of such exposure, and it’s given rise to an ongoing acceleration in research on how to better obscure user data at the application level, which sits on top of the ethereum blockchain, a transparent system that publishes smart contract and transaction data.

Ethereum Developer: Serenity Is Moving Really Fast, Sharding By 2020.

Newsflash: Ethereum the biggest smart contract platform out there, EOS, IOTA, Cardano trail significantly behind. Swift denies partnership with Ripple rumors.

AMD Launches Ethereum Mining Gear.

Will Banks Really Use XRP or Ethereum’s Public Blockchain? on Trust Nodes.

Ethereum’s Hashrate Drops to a Nine Months Low on Trust Nodes.

Blockchain Gaming Is Coming to the PS4: Ethereum-based NFTs coming to PS4.

Reddit — Just noticed that Ethereum, Solidity and Truffle are all mentioned in the thoughtworks technology radar.

Social media metrics

Social media activity

Social media dynamics

Social media dynamics

Facebook — official announcement channel. Recent publications — about Ethereum Core Devs Meetings, Conferences (20–100 likes per publication).

Twitter (Ethereum) — official announcement channel — duplicates news from Facebook page (250–500 likes per publication, 30–50 comments). Average number of shares is 100–200 for one post.

Twitter (Ethereum Network) — news from companies (10–20 likes per publication, 1–5 comments, 1–10 shares).

Twitter (Ethereum Report) — retweets from official announcement channel and team members’ pages.

Reddit — news about projects and blockchain, links to interviews, podcasts, upcoming events. The longest thread has 161 comments (Welcome to r/ethereum — the Reddit frontpage of the Web 3.0).

Information from Cryptocompare.com

There is a slight growth in Ethereum community over time. The graph above shows the dynamics of changes in the number of Ethereum Reddit subscribers, Twitter followers and Facebook likes. The information is taken from Coingecko.com.

YouTube (Ethereum) — last video — 27th July 2017 (5000–20 000 views per video).

YouTube (Ethereum Foundation) — videos from conferences, meetups, Ethereum Core Devs Meetings. 2–3 videos / month.

Ethereum Community Forum — Recent Discussions: Forum has been hacked, Security alert, Forums Database Compromised, Help Stop Forum Spam, Developing Guidelines for acceptable Promotion and Marketing on the Ethereum Forum.

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