Weekly News 39/2017 by Protocols

Ethereum Protocol (Ethereum, Classic …)

In the news and blogs

• Byzantium hard fork scheduled for October 17 on block 4,370,000. Notes from Today's Ethereum Core Developer Meeting #25 on Reddit. Youtube. Agenda
• What is Ethereum Metropolis: The Ultimate Guide by BlockGeeks
• Huge Ethereum Mixer by Satoshi•Fund
• Interactive coin offerings white paper by Jason Teutsch and Vitalik Buterin. Explanation post
• SEC Announces Enforcement Initiatives to Combat Cyber-Based Threats and Protect Retail Investors by SEC
• Women in crypto by Linda Xie
• Cryptoasset Valuations by cburniske
• How Blockchain and ICOs Are Changing the Funding Game for Startups by Tomio Geron
• Stop getting phished. Here’s how: by MyEtherWallet
• An Alleged Ethereum Hacker Gave Back $3 Million And Nobody Knows Why by Jordan Pearson
• Private Data on Public Networks by Andres Junge
• The Power of Prediction Markets by Nadja Beneš
• Announcing Our Migration To An Open Source Messaging Platform by Tatu Kärki
• Why Decentralized Exchange Protocols Matter by Fred Ehrsam

Podcast

• Seoul Ethereum Meetup: Vitalik Buterin, Karl Floersch and Thomas Greco
• New York City Ethereum Meetup: Peter Czaban, Parity Technologies
• The Syndicate podcast: Cryptocurrencies, ICOs and the Future of Public Markets with Joey Krug of Pantera Capital
• Epicenter podcast: Azure’s Matt Kerner talks Coco Framework
• Vitalik Buterin Interview - The Story of Ethereum
• Episode 3 of An Ethereum Podcast: Jan Isakovic from Cofound.it

Protocol

• ethdasm – EVM disassembler
• State Specifiers and STATICCALL by Niran Babalola
• Testing ECIP-1017 New Monetary Policy by ETC Development Team

Release

• Solidity v0.4.17 released
• Major ETC Updates & Upgrades: Geth, Emerald, EVM

Stuff for developers

• Make your own Truffle box
• Remix IDE update
• iExec SDK tutorial

Ecosystem

• LocalEthereum.com opens October 21

New projects

• Kudos Project - a protocol to better evaluate and compensate service providers for sharing economy marketplaces. Whitepaper
• Balanc3 - Quickbooks for Token Launches, supported by ConsenSys
• GitCoi - incentivizing open source software with tokens. Blog announcement
• Project Onyx - incentivizing test driven software development
• dYdX - derivatives on 0x

Project Updates

• Raiden Network - The Raiden Network Token Model
• 0x - the 0x ecosystem
• Aragon - community governance explained
• Bloom - weekly update
• Decentraland - registration for the Terraform Event
• Render - token sale registration started
• WeTrust - community update
• Digix - progress update
• district0x - mission, vision and values
• ethPay - ethPay is live
• ICONOMI - how to buy into a Digital Asset Array

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

Bitcoin Ecosystem (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dash ….)

In the news and blogs

• Bitcoin Developers Reveal Roadmap for 'Dandelion' Privacy Project by Rachel Rose O'Leary
• A Month On: Almost No One Uses Segwit by trustnodes
• Segwit2X: the broken agreement by WhalePanda
• “That’s not Bitcoin, this is Bitcoin.” by StopAndDecrypt. Reddit discussion
• Litecoin Creator Charlie Lee Publicly Opposes SegWit2x by Joseph Young
• The Curious Case of Bitcoin’s “Moby Dick” Spam and the Miners That Confirmed It by Aaron van Wirdum
• The Blockchain Is the Internet of Money by Tunku Varadarajan
• The 3 Amigos Podcast Episode 18 by Joël Valenzuela
• First Dash Conference = Wow by Joe Moraca

Ripple Protocol

In the news and blogs

• How XRP is Faster than Any Other Digital Asset – or Cryptocurrency! and Is XRP About to Go Mainstream? by xrphodor

Cryptonote Protocol (Monero, Bytecoin)

In the news and blogs

• Monero Integrations Update on Reddit
• Episode 14 of the Monero Monitor Podcast: John Tromp on Cuckoo Cycle & John McAfee on Monero
• Episode 25 of Block Digest: Monero’s Riccardo Spagni Talks Crypto Scams & Anonymity

Done using materials from http://monero-observer.com

Graphene Ecosystem (Bitshares, Steem***, Golos, )

In the news and blogs

• BitShares-Based SEC-Compliant Tokens & Exchange by @stan
• Coingate announced the integration of Bitshares into their payment gateway service allowing merchants to accept payments via Bitshares (BTS)
• A weekly market update by @virtualgrowth
• This week’s Bitshares hangout recording available here
• The second episode of the Digital Sovereignty Series released
• Weekly Steem Stats Report by @penguinpablo

Done using materials from https://steemit.com/@steempower

NEM Protocol

In the news and blogs

• Episode 12 of Inside NEM Blockchain: Community, Global Events + MeetUps