Weekly News 1-2/2018 by Protocols

Ethereum Protocol (Ethereum, Ethereum Classic)

In the news and blogs

• What ICOs should look like in 2018 by Jan Phillip Hofste
• Roadmap for Turbo-Geth by Alexey Akhunov
• The case for Ethereum maximalism by Eli Dourado

Releases

• Parity 1.7.12 and Parity 1.8.5 beta

Podcast, Videos and Interviews

• Vitalik Buterin, Creator Of Ethereum, On The Big Guy Vs. The Little Guy by Unchained Podcast
• The Future of Tech, with Chris Dixon – [Invest Like the Best, EP.69]
• CryptoKitties – Ethereum’s New Killer App with Arthur Camara
• CoinDesk's Most Influential in Blockchain 2017 – Joe Lubin
• When New Tech and Dated Policies Collide a Conversation with Vitalik Buterin

Protocol

• Q4 Roundup by Ethereum Team
• Ethereum scalability research and development subsidy programs by Vitalik Buterin
• Alpha Casper FFG Testnet Instructions
• Casper Research 35
• Minimal Viable Plasma by Vitalik Buterin
• Privacy on Ethereum is too expensive by Clearmatics

Stuff for developers

• Enterprise Ethereum: Private Transactions with Quorum by Didil
• ERC: Renting Standard for Rival, Non-Fungible Tokens and A New Advanced Token Standard on Github
• Rinkeby (clique consensus) "testnet/private" blockchain explorer
• A zkSNARK tutorial and development environment

Ecosystem

• Decentralized Exchange Order Tracker
• 6 Questions to Ask When Considering Blockchain Solutions for Enterprise by ConsenSys

Project Updates

• Status - 2017: The year you made us. Celebrating a year of community.
• ICONOMI in 2018
• Melon Dev Update — December 2017
• Aragon - Aragon Team Update: December 2017
• 0x - Development Update #4 — December 2017 T
• KyberNetwork - KyberNetwork‘s Ropsten Testnet Release and Tutorial

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QTUM Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• Mainnet Ignition v0.14.13 - Mandatory Update - callcontract bugfix, save/restore contract data on Github
• Qtum (QTUM), cryptocurrency and blockchain for the business by Kiel Thompson
• Qtum Partners With Baofeng To Become Bigger Than Bitcoin And Ethereum by Payment Week
• Qtum Foundation, Trusted IoT Alliance, and Chronicled Develop Blockchain IoT Cases by Ken Briodagh

Tezos Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• Arthur Breitman of Tezos - An overview of the team and community development on Youtube
• Statement Concerning The Tezos Crowd Contribution And The Tezos Foundation by Company Announcement

Cardano Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• A Cardano development update from Charles Hoskinson, co-founder and CEO of IOHK by cf_jonmoss
• The next release of the Cardano roadmap is out
• Hoskinson Talks Third Gen Blockchain by Mike Troiano
• Quick Update from Charles on Youtube

NEO Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• NEO Council Monthly Report – December by malcolm@neo.org
• NEO Founder Says It's Time for Regulators to Step In by Bloomberg
• City of Zion release Neon Wallet v0.0.9 featuring QLC support by Global Blockchain G3 Summit event report by neonewstoday.com
• NEO Plug-in Wallet Demo — The Art of Security and Convenience by robbie wang

Cosmos Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• Latest in Cosmos—December Update by Tendermint
• Cosmos: Many Chains, One Ecosystem on Youtube

Nebulas Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• Nebulas Weekly Report #11 Jan 8th, 2018 by Nebulas
• How to Join Nebulas Testnet and Tutorials of Nebulas on Github

Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• Get ready for QRL launch! by Peter Waterland
• Breaking Bitcoin With a Quantum Computer by Jeff John Roberts
• The quantum computing apocalypse is imminent by Shlomi Dolev

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