Bitcoin

In the news and blogs

• World’s third largest Bitcoin mining pool F2Pool started signaling for Segregated Witness
• Bitcoin Foundation applied to the court to seek cancellation of BitLicense
• The Bitcoin Unlimited mining pool ICO launched by Chandler Guo has been terminated due to not reaching expected targets for funding

Ethereum*

In the news and blogs

• Casper Stage 1 Implementation Guide released
• Exclusive Interview with Vitalik Buterin by Cointelegraph
• Google Creative Lab created digital book powered by Ethereum
• Smart Contracts: The Good, the Bad and the Lazy by Gideon Greenspan

Podcast

• Carl and Jarrad from Status talk with Blockchannel
• Aragon talks to Coin Interview
• Status talks to Patrick Long from WeTrust
• CoinFund’s Jake Brukhman talks to Blockchannel
• Gilles Fedak from iEx.ec talks to Epicenter

Protocol updates

• Ethereum Core Devs Meeting video and notes
• Geth 1.6.0 released with lots of new stuff

For developers

• Getting Started as an Ethereum Web Developer by Alex Miller
• Empty Dapp Template code is HERE
• Repo for Solidity design patterns
• State channels wiki by Ledger Labs

Ecosystem

• Trustlines Network: The original Ripple idea on Ethereum

New projects

• Token — a private and secure messaging app, a user controlled Ethereum wallet, a browser for Ethereum apps
• BRAID — Psychothriller to be funded on WeiFund platform
• KYC-Chain — Enhanced KYC powered by Ethereum
• Resilience — Decentralized basic income
• CharityChain — charity fundraising platform
• Smart Market Protocol - decentralized market platform

Project Updates

• Augur — Weekly Dev Updates HERE and HERE
• Gnosis
  • Model of Token Sale Responsibility
  • Bug Bounty Round 2
• Golem — Announcing release 0.5 for Ubuntu and macOS
• Melonport — Melon protocol v0.1 released
• REX — April Announcements
• Colony — Q2 Update
• FirstBlood alpha released to token sale participants
• EthBits has raised about 400k USD so far, Lunyr — 950k, Humaniq says 3.9m (tough to verify)
• iEx.ec
  • Successfully raised $14 million (in less than 24 hours)
  • Audit results by Manuel Aráoz
• Pre-ICO of SONM successfully raised 10 000 ETH during April 16th
• Storj
  • Token migration plan and the oncoming token sale announced
  • Opportunities from moving to Ethereum
• Aragon released white paper
• Matchpool — Alpha Dev Plan, Transparency Policy and Updates
• WeTrust
  • Final crowdsale metrics
  • The utility of Trustcoins
• ENS (the Ethereum Name Service)
  • ENS is part of Foundation’s Bug Bounty program
  • Updated ENS now deployed on Ropsten testnet

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

Ethereum Classic

In the news and blogs

• TradeBlock launched The ECX Index: a real-time USD-equiv spot rate for Ethereum Classic
• White Hat Group extends ETC withdrawal period
• 2 additional developers are joining the ETCDEV Team
• Ethereum Classic Public And Private Keys: A Little Enlightenment by Dr. Seberino

Podcast

• This weeks “Let’s Talk ETC!” recording has been published. It contains Joel Dietz talk about Distributed Governance

Protocol Updates

• SputnikVM update: new testing infrastructure; implementation for most basic operations.
• Emerald updates: transfer and approve tokens from same interface; fully working transactions, with status update and MORE

For developers

• Decentralized naming service on ETC

Monero

In the news and blogs

• The hardfork went successfully, more information about it can be found here
• An Empirical Analysis of Linkability in the Monero Blockchain by Andrew Miller, Malte Moser, Kevin Lee, Arvind Narayanan
• Monero v0.10.3.1 CLI for Android

Podcast

• Monero Monitor Podcast #2: An interview with Howard Chu

Bitshares*

In the news and blogs

• @virtualgrowth is doing a weekly market update. Check out his post here
• This week Bitshares hangout recording and Beyond Bitcoin hangout recording have been published

Protocol updates

• Alfredo Garcia (Bitshares Core Dev) has been focusing on the Bitshares Stealth project. You can find more information about it here
• @svk released a new Bitshares client (v2.0.170418). This release contains bug fixes as well as some new features

Project updates

• New versions of Blockpay (v1.5.10) and Smartcoins wallet (v1.5.14) are expected to be released this week. More information on what to expect in the upcoming releases of both applications is here
• Peerplays has announced a release of testnet wallet

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

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