Weekly (29/07–04/08) News (Bitcoin, DASH, Ethereum, Ripple, Stellar, Monero, Bytecoin, Bitshares, EOS, STEEM, XEM, Byteball)

Bitcoin & DASH

In the news and blogs

• Bitcoin UASF Proposal Quietly Activates — to Little Effect by Alyssa Hertig
• The Birth of BCH: The First Crazy Days of “Bitcoin Cash” by Aaron van Wirdum
• Instructions for safely splitting your BCH from your BTC by Bitcointalk, Bitcoinmagazine and Electrum
• These Bitcoin Exchanges and Wallets Are Supporting Bitcoin Cash by Joseph Young
• Bitcoin Cash Explorer
• CBOE plans to launch bitcoin futures, announces agreement with Winklevoss brothers’ digital currency exchange by Evelyn Cheng
• Dash News Weekly Recap — Dash Aerosports, Roger Ver, Bitcoin Cash, China & More by Dash Force News
• Dash CEO: We’ve Had Nearly 2,000 Downloads on the Apple App Store by Anthony Mandelli
• Dash Wallet for Android — Beta Program
• BlockCypher Proposal Review and HBPay Dash POS Beta System Review by Joe Moraca

Ethereum

In the news and blogs

• Augur REP Token Critical Vulnerability Disclosure and Serpent Compiler Audit by Zeppelin Solutions
• A Note on Metcalfe’s Law, Externalities and Ecosystem Splits by Vitalik Buterin
• Parity multi-sig wallet bug
  • The WHG has Returned 100% of the Rescued Funds to their Rightful Owners on Reddit
  • Monetary Authority Of Singapore Issues Digital Token Guidance by Matthew De Silva
  • Chinese Blockchain Association Aims to Regulate ICOs by Richard Kastelein
  • A New Vision: Ethfinex by Bitfinex
  • Web 3.0 And Ethereum Classic by Christian Seberino

Podcast

• Enterprise Ethereum Alliance London Meetup talks are now available by Conor
• Simon de la Rouviere talks Curation Markets

Protocol

• Ethereum Core Devs Meeting #21. Agenda. Hudson’s post-call notes
• @cnLedger on Twitter quotes Vitalik on WeChat as saying they’re coding a test version with sharding in Python
• KEVM: A Complete Semantics of the Ethereum Virtual Machine
• High Accessibility Blockchains through tokenized PoS communication channels
• Solidity implementation of a Patricia-Tree to verify sidechain EVM transactions
• August 1st DEV Update by Ethereum Classic Development Team
• Ethereum Commonwealth development updates on Reddit

Stuff for developers

• DEF CON 25: Porosity by Matt Suiche
• React component to ensure Web3 is available before your app renders
• Boobies on the blockchain: storing images through input data served through Etherscan

Releases

• Parity v1.7
• Solidity v0.4.14
• Emerald Wallet — v0.4.0 Beta 1

Ecosystem

• Scaling Blockchains with Apache Kafka by Alex Miller
• Etherspinner: a fidget spinner whose “state is stored on the Ethereum blockchain and whose client code is hosted on IPFS

New projects

• zeppelinOS — the operating system for smart contract applications

Project Updates

• Gnosis
  • Breaking the Silence by Nadja Beneš
  • The Gnosis MultiSig Wallet and our Commitment to Security by Martin Köppelmann
• ICONOMI
  • ICONOMI platform is now open for registration by Tim M. Zagar
  • ICONOMI financial report — Q2 2017 by Ervin U. Kovac
• Decentraland
  • Announcing Decentraland’s Genesis City by Franco Zeoli
  • Chatting With Ari Meilich: Project Lead at Ethereum-Powered Decentraland by Franco Zeoli
• Grid+ — Blockchain’s AOL Moment by Karl Kreder
• district0x — Ensuring transparency at district0x by Alexander Khoriaty
• Digix token vulnerability report
• Livepeer Network Phases by Doug Petkanics
• First Melon Manager Competition in Retrospect by Melon Project
• Etherplay — August 2017 Update
• Aragon
  • Team Interviews: Oliver, Aragon’s Senior Full Stack Web3 Engineer by Tatu Kärki
  • Founder Stories: New Kids on the Blockchain — Silicon Valley’s Sinking Ship by Rahul Singireddy

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

Ripple & Stellar

In the news and blogs

• Ripple’s Product Suite is Growing by Asheesh Birla
• SCB with ripple in full page cover Thai magazine on Reddit
• Worldlink Joins Ripple`s XRP Ledger by Scott Roudebush

Monero & Bytecoin

In the news and blogs

• Bitmixer’s Exit and Darknet Market Chaos: How Monero Stands to Benefit by Jamie Holmes
• Monero traffic stats
• The New official Bytecoin Blockchain on Reddit
• New Bytecoin MacOS Wallet Coming Soon: BCN Wallet For Mac In Tunnel and Bytecoin Coming To Bitrex, Kraken, Bitfinex, Live-In by cryptocoindaddy.com

Releases

• Bytecoin Wallet 1.1.8

Bitshares*, EOS & STEEM

In the news and blogs

• @stan Larimer has done a podcast with Richard Jacob from Future Tech Podcast. You can listen to the interview HERE
• Bitshares core developer Alfredo (@oxarbitrage) has released a road map relating to his active employment from the Bitshares blockchain. You can find more details about the task list and the road map in general HERE
• @michaelx this week in telegram has mentioned the creation of a new Bitshares Wallet and UI (possibly multiple wallets)
• @full-steem-ahead has released his monthly Witness Report for his Bitshares witness ‘Verbaltech2’. You can find his report HERE
• @kencode has released his weekly update for Smartcoins Wallet, BlockPay, Ledger Nano S, Stealth and BitShares Munich IVS. You can see his update HERE
• A weekly market update by @virtualgrowth
• This week’s Bitshares hangout recording has been published
• Top 3 EOS Project Issues According to Vitalik Buterin by JP Buntinx. More details on Reddit thread
• A weekly Steem Stats Report by @penguinpablo

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

XEM

In the news and blogs

• Tech Bureau Japan Launches Cryptocurrency Fundraising Medium, “COMSA”
• Blockchain Global to power NEM exchange in Melbourne by Asha McLean
  *Voting Module exclusively in Nanowallet release 1.4.3 by Julian

Byteball

In the news and blogs

• Byteball v1.10.0 released: new voting feature and bugfixes