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Weekly Update 2.26.2017-3.5.2017

AKASHA – Social Media Network

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

Blog: Seeking Whispers

2.26.2017-3.5.2017

Version 0.5.1 released “Akashic Mendings”.

More bugs fixed.

Improved loading times.

Augur – Prediction Market

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

Blog: AUGUR FRONT-END UPDATE

2.26.2017-3.5.2017

Still looking for Q&A contributors see here .

Smart contract “upgradeability” feature being worked on.

“Keythereum”library has been sent to an auditor.

Testing suit is almost at 95% coverage.

Casper (Dev Channel) – Proof of Stake Protocol

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

Blog 1: Formal Methods on Some PoS Stuff. (technically last week but I missed it)

Blog 2: Minimal Slashing Conditions.

Blog 3: Safety Under Dynamic Validator Sets.

2.26.2017-3.05.2017

Some links getting thrown around to help the research (specifically relating to time): https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ntp-network-time-security-15 https://roughtime.googlesource.com/roughtime

Lots of back and forth going on about finality and the variety of ways to implement minimal slashing conditions. (Honestly it’s a lot and I don’t think I can adequately condense it, I would however recommend reading the blog posts then checking out the gitter and not vice-versa).

Vitalik working on something called “validator set stitching.”

Colony – Decentralized Collaboration Network

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

2.26.2017-3.5.2017

Usability research completed

Closed beta about to start. ~30 projects on the shortlist.

Digix – Asset (Gold) Backed Tokens

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

Blog: Digix Core Dev Weekly Update — Mar 1st 2017

2.26.2017-3.05.2017

Ropsten attack causing delays in testing, not much happening because of this.

FirstBlood – Decentralized E-Sports Rewards Platform

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

Blog 1: The Tragedy of Tresdin (Not Dev Related)

Blog 2: Some Idiot’s Guide to Zeus (Not Dev Related)

2.26.2017-3.05.2017

Golem – Distributed Computing Power

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

Blog – On the Road to Brass

2.26.2017-3.5.2017

GNT now on TuxExchange .

Talk of the possibility of the option to use known data centers for privacy when required.

ICONOMI – Digital Asset Management Platform

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

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

2.26.2017-3.5.2017

Beta testing has begun.

Iconomi beta demo video.

There is a 1.5 BTC daily withdrawal limit for beta testers

Status – Mobile Ethereum OS

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

Blog: Status 0.9.3 – Melonport, Gnosis, Firstblood & bChat!

2.26.2017-3.5.2017

Milestone: 0.9.3 (regression week)

Testnet behaved long enough to release 0.9.3

Discussion about a hardware token plugged into phone for secure. In contact with Ledger.

Swarm – Serverless Hosting, Incentivised P2P Storage/Content Distribution

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

2.26.2017-3.5.2017

Enabled upload of metadata to swarm using the swarm-gateway (rather than a local swarm node). Works directly from remix.

In the process of rewriting the entire networking layer and developing the swarm network testing suite and visualisation software

uPort – Self-Sovereign Identity

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

2.26.2017-3.05.2017

Ropsten DDoS causing problems with beta testing.

“We are making upgrades to our Registry smart contract which will allow you to create an on-chain attestation stating that a specific identity is kycd” – Christian Lundkvist

Re: Ropsten issues: “Yeah it’s really unfortunate, we are looking at solutions. It’s possible we could switch to a private test network to mitigate the issue. We see it as an opportunity to harden our software” – Ashoka Finley

fdd-staging.etherisc.com to play around with a dapp on Uport!

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