Weekly News 4/2018 by Protocols (Ethereum, NEO, QTUM, Cardano, Tezos, Rchain, Nebulas)

Ethereum Protocol (Ethereum, Ethereum Classic)

In the news and blogs

• A personal look at the early days of Internet vs blockchain today by Pelle Braendgaard
• Opening Remarks at the Securities Regulation Institute by Chairman Jay Clayton
• Exploring blockchain for better business by National Research Council Canada
• Bitcoin Wallet Maker Ledger Raises $75 Million for Security Push by Marie Mawad
• NASA Awards Grant For Ethereum Blockchain-Related Research by Westerndawn

Protocol

• Notes from Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #31 [1/12/18]
• Casper v0.2 Networks and More Consensus on Github
• Turbo-Geth status by Alexey Akhunov
• Detailed analysis of stateless client witness size, and gains from batching and multi-state roots and Simple Casper light client by vbuterin
• Smart Contracts for Bribing Miners by Patrick McCorry, Alexander Hicks, and Sarah Meiklejohn

Stuff for developers

• Tackling Ethereum scalability issues by Vojtěch Šimetka
• Microraiden Bug Bounty Update by
  Raiden Network
• Mythril - Smart Contract Security Analysis Web API
• Smart Contract Upgradeability using Eternal Storage by Facundo Spagnuolo
• Javascript client for interacting with the Ethereum Alarm Clock and Utility Solidity library composed of basic operations for tightly packed bytes arrays on Github

Ecosystem

• Smart Contract Cover: A Safety Net for Ethereum Smart Contracts by Hugh Karp
• Introduction to Proof of Location by Ryan John King
• EthDNS: an Ethereum backend for the Domain Name System by Jim McDonald
• Using an In-Browser Ethereum Wallet? Here’s Some Things You Should Know by John Backus
• On decentralization of blockchain oracles (Part 1) by Oraclize
• Different Approaches to Ethereum Identity Standards by Pelle Braendgaard

New projects

• LegalFling - mobile app which records sexual consent in a legally binding agreement

Project Updates

• Melonport - Melon IPFS Front-end v0.6.0
• Aragon - Launch of Aragon Nest
• Funfair - Kick off 2018
• Gnosis - WIZ turns OWL
• district0x - Development Update
• OmiseGo - OMG Network Validation
• Request Network project update (January 19th, 2018)-Announcing a $30 Million Request Fund
• Grid+ Progress Report - 01/23/2018
• Colony Q1 2018 Update

Done using materials from http://www.weekinethereum.com

NEO Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• A Detailed Explanation to NEO Smart Contracts Debugging by robbie wang
• Weekly Report #26–2018.01.19 by Tyler

QTUM Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• Qtum’s Patrick Dai on China Global Television Network by Qtum
• How Solidity Events Are Implemented — Diving Into The Ethereum VM Part 6 by Howard
• Qtum Forges Ahead with Development of Its x86 Virtual Machine and Expanded Network by Shawn Gordon
• Qtum’s New Partnership to Launch China’s First Blockchain Hub by nasdaq.com
• Blockchain is taking us to the moon (and beyond) AMA w/ Jeff Garzik Jan 24 2018 6:30 PM PST (+8 GMT) on Reddit
• Why 2018 Will Be The Year Of Ethereum And QTUM by storeofvalueblog.com

Cardano Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• 19.1.2018 - Cardano Foundation Chairman, Michael Parsons appeared on BBC World News today and 24.1.18 - Cardano Foundation enlist FP Complete for independent 3rd Party Audit of Cardano Blockchain by cf_jonmoss
• Cardano (ADA coin) Founder Interview: Charles Hoskinson on Youtube
• Cardano: A New Disruptor in the Cryptocurrency Market? by Thomas Smith
• History of Cardano 2015-2018 (Git Visualization) on Youtube

Tezos Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• OCamlPro 's live demo of a multisig contract entirely written in the Liquidity smart-contract language & live deploy on @tez0s 's alphanet on Twitter
• The Tezos GitLab is showing plenty of developer activity, but the Foundation continues to be at war with the project's founders by Brian Patrick Eha
• Tezos: Crypto-Anarchists Appeal to Swiss Government by www.finews.com

Rchain Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• Episode 61 of Rchain Community Hangout
• Rchain Exclusive chat Lawrence Lerner & Nash Foster: Making the Blockchain Industry Ready! on Youtube

Nebulas Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• Nebulas Weekly Report #13 Jan. 22th, 2018 and Nebulas Sponsors the Research Project of Zcash Co-Founder by Nebulas
• Nebulas AMA Series #1 Testnet on Youtube

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