Weekly News 9/2018 by Protocols (Ethereum, NEO, QTUM, Cardano, Tezos, RChain, Quantum Resistant Ledger, Nebulas)

Ethereum Protocol (Ethereum, Ethereum Classic)

In the news and blogs

• Stablecoins: designing a price-stable cryptocurrency by Haseeb Qureshi
• MV=P…Que? Love and Circularity in the Time of Crypto by Brian Koralewski
• A token to self-regulate tokens. But really. by TwoBitIdiot

Protocol

• Spankchain PoC implementation of generalized state channels on Github
• Plasma Implementers Call #3 on Youtube
• Ethereum Core Developers Meeting #34 on Youtube. Notes on Reddit
• Casper Research 41 by Casper Standup
• Merge blocks and synchronous cross-shard state execution and In favor of forkfulness by vbuterin
• Bridges, Plasma, and UTXO Tokens by Alex Miller
• Second FFG testnet implementation in Harmony by Vitalik Buterin
• A readable rewrite of the yellow paper on Github

Stuff for developers

• Announcing our fully featured, portable solidity debugger by Truffle
• The gas profiler from the 0x team on Github
• How To: React Native w/ Web3 + 0x.js + 0xConnect by Abraham Elmahrek
• ERC897: DelegrateProxy on Github
• ERC900: Simple Staking Interface on Github
• WasteNowForHasteLater: Optimizing Gas Costs in Time-Sensitive Ethereum Transactions by Alan Krassowski
• Eth-Watch: push notifications every time an address sends/receives a transaction by MIMIR
• Using Azure Functions to Call an Ethereum Smart Contract by Cody
• A zkSNARK tutorial and development environment on Github

Ecosystem

• MetaMask’s New UI Has Begun to Roll Out by Dan Finlay
• Enterprise Ethereum Alliance adds 83 new members on Reddit
• The Future of Ethereum Doesn’t Have Wallets by Taylor Monahan
• Cryptographic canaries and backups by Justin Drake
• Re-Fungible Token (RFT) by billy rennekamp
• The Trace Data Problem by Thomas Jay Rush
• ETHDenver Recap — What you missed and why you should have been there by Lane Rettig
• KeySplit — Tackling the hard parts of being your own bank by Nick Neuman
• Cthylla: ERC-721 Geocaching dApp + Hardware | ETHDenver Hackathon by Richard Moore
• Get to Know the 47 Projects that Make Up the ConsenSys Mesh by ConsenSys

Podcast, Videos and Interviews

• Episode #187: Vision of a Decentralized World by The Bitcoin Podcast
• Asia-Pacific Ethereum Community Meetup on Youtube
• Epicenter's Meher Roy : Blockchain Scalability, Bitcoin As Living & Indian Ecosystem on Youtube
• A top Coinbase exec explains the master plan to turn the $1.6 billion cryptocurrency exchange into the next Google by Becky Peterson
• Episode#006: MakerDAO & the Dai stable coin - Founder Rune Christensen by Block Zero
• ScalingNOW! #5: David from OmiseGo Talks to Giveth about Plasma NOW and ScalingNOW! #6: Loredana from Brainbot Talks to Giveth about using µRaiden NOW! by Giveth

Project Updates

• district0x — The District Weekly - February 24th, 2018 and Introducing District Staking
• Aragon — Aragon Team Update: February 2018
• SpankChain — SpankChain Development Update 007 — February 27, 2018
• Augur — Augur Weekly Development Update — February 28th
• Decentraland — Designing Genesis City: Roads & Urban Planning and Introducing Etheremon on Decentraland

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

NEO Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• Announcement : Submission for the 1st NEO Dev Competition by huangshuxi@neo.org
• Da Hongfei, NEO interview w/ Chico Crypto - NEOTALK @ DevCon on Youtube
• City of Zion & VDT Network - NEO News Today Podcast - Episode 4 by NEO News Today

QTUM Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• QRC20 Token Report — February 25, 2018 by Jackson Belove
• Bridging blockchain’s gaps is the next major hurdle by Nikolai Kuznetsov

Cardano Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• IOHK Cardano Weekly Technical Report by Cardano Hub
• Cardano's Ouroboros: Proving Proof of Stake can work in the wild by Ian Allison
• Cardano: a rising cryptocurrency that wants to change the world by Stan Schroeder
• Kaleidoscope – a cryptographic protocol for securely playing poker by Bernardo David
• IOHK | Charles Hoskinson at LSE, Cardano’s goals for Africa by IOHK

Tezos Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• Feb 25, 2018 9:17 PM Tezos dev update by Arthur Breitman
• Tezos Finally Plans to Launch ICO Coin After Ousting Swiss Foundation Head by Jen Wieczner

Cosmos Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• “Hello World!” The Cosmos-SDK is Ready for Takeoff and Tendermint Core Release v0.16.0 by Tendermint
• The Technicals of Interoperability—Introducing the Ethereum Peg Zone by Chjango Unchained

Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• QRL - PoW Beta Testnet on Github
• Progress Update! on Twitter

Rchain Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• Rchain Governance Conference videos: Day 1 Session 1, Day 1 Session 2, Day 2 Session 1, Day 2 Session 2, Day 3 Session 1
• Rchain Community Debrief 66 by RChain
• "Crypto Talks" on Rize: Kenny Rowe (COO of RChain) by PROPS Project
• Episode #13: An Ethereum Podcast by The Bitcoin Podcast

Nebulas Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• Nebulas Weekly Report #18 by Nebulas
• First Live Reddit AMA with Nebulas Founder Hitters Xu ON Reddit

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