Weekly News 15/2018 by Protocols (Ethereum, QTUM, Cardano, Tezos, Rchain, QRL, Nebulas)
Ethereum Protocol (Ethereum, Ethereum Classic)
In the news and blogs
- Aragon’s Luis Cuende Talks Decentralizing Power Through Technology by Jen Luker
- Mining Centralization Scenarios by Jimmy Song
- Introducing Protocol Labs Research and Grant Program by Protocol Labs
- Curate This: Token Curated Registries That Don’t Work by Aleksandr Bulkin
- Hash-based Signatures: An illustrated Primer by Matthew Green
Protocol
- Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #36 on Youtube. Ethereum Core Devs Meeting 36 Notes on Github
- Hudson Jameson summarizes the facts as well as the arguments for and against forking for ASIC resistance on Reddit
- Perun: virtual payment and state channel networks by Perun
- A general framework of overhead and finality time in sharding, and a proposal by vbuterin
- A general framework of overhead and finality time in sharding, and a proposal, A minimal sharding protocol that may be worthwhile as a development target now and Off-chain intermediate blocks by vbuterin
- Expanding on proposer/notary separation, Blob serialisation and Offchain collation headers by JustinDrake
- Per period committee snapshot by Hsiao-Wei Wang
Stuff for developers
- HITB2018AMS: Smashing Smart Contracts for Fun and Real Profit by Bernhard Mueller
- A library for encoding CBOR data in Solidity on Github
- Implementing the EVM in Clojure by Nervous Systems
- Tutorial: Post a Bounty in 90 Seconds by Kevin Owocki
- Deploy uPort IdentityManager Smart Contracts to Ganache by uPort
- Web3 RPC API now in Postman by Harry Denley
- Executable Operational Semantics of Solidity by arXiv
- DSproxy: execute transactions and sequences of transactions by proxy on Github
- Emacs in Solidity v0.1.9 on Github
- The mechanics of FunFair’s state channels on Reddit
Release
- Golem’s Brass beta is live on mainnet by Golem Project
- Digix is live – you can buy gold backed tokens on Ethereum by Digix Global
Ecosystem
- Swarm Orange Summit is May 7-11 in Ljubljana, Slovenia on Reddit
- Why 0x is not as trustless as it may seem by Dean Eigenmann. The Reddit thread on Reddit
- How Much Is a Cryptotini Worth? by Kyle Tut
- Verifying Gnosis’ multisig wallet contract on Etherscan.io by Deam
- Dex order books listing by Etherscan
- Step by step guide of “How to claim your DNS domain on ENS” by makoto_inoue
New Projects
- Perun — Virtual Payment Channels on Ethereum
Podcast, Videos and Interviews
- Hashing It Out #2: Orie Steele by The Bitcoin Podcast
- Season 3 Episode 2: Building the Future with Venture Capital with Kira Noodleman of Bee Partners by The Boost VC Podcast
- Taylor Monahan Shares Personal Experiences on Starting a Business in the Crypto Space by Crypto 101
- FunFair @ Enterprise Ethereum Alliance in London by FunFair Technologies
- Pelle Braengaard - Engineering Lead at uPort by Bitcoin Events
Project Updates
- Status — Status Town Hall // April 9th, 2018
- district0x — The District Weekly - April 7th, 2018
- Melonport — Melon project: On to phase 3
- Augur — Augur Weekly Development Update — April 11th
- Dharma Protocol — Dharma Community Update: 9 April 2018
- Decentraland — Decentraland Project Update — April 11th
Done using materials from http://www.weekinethereum.com
QTUM Ecosystem
In the news and blogs
- Qtum Turned Turbulent: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Panic by The Crypto Gazette
- Qtum has an edge over Cardano and EOS by Crypto Globalist
Cardano Ecosystem
In the news and blogs
- IOHK Cardano weekly technical reports by Cardano Hub
- Cardano (ADA) Delivers Good News As Shelley Approaches and Cardano (ADA) Roadmap Update Will Propel It To The Moon by The Crypto Gazette
Cosmos Ecosystem
In the news and blogs
Tezos Ecosystem
In the news and blogs
Rchain Ecosystem
In the news and blogs
Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) Ecosystem
In the news and blogs
- Wednesday's QRL Update on Twitter
Nebulas Ecosystem
In the news and blogs
- Creating A NAS Wallet, Sending NAS from your Wallet and Signing a Transaction Offline by Kafka
- Dive into Nebulas 1 — An Introduction and Dive into Nebulas 2 — A Quick Start by Roy Shang
- Nebulas Weekly Report #24 by Nebulas
- LLVM x Blockchains by Nebulas
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