HelloEOS Weekly Vol. 15( Oct. 15~ Oct. 21)

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EOS Mainnet Updates

EOSIO 1.4.0 Release d. Deterministic Snapshots, Cloud Server Performance, and updates to the EOSIO Contract Development Toolkit. EOS.IO 1.4.1 is then released to fix a critical bug, a bad assert logic when deferred transaction receipts are present (#6036).

A proposal of changing the current value for target_block_cpu_usage_pct from 1000 (10%) to 2000 (20%) is approved. Tests were performed on the CryptoKylin testnet.

According to eosflare.io, till the end of this week, there are already more than 410,000 EOS accounts on the Mainnet.

EOS NewYork calls for a REX Referendum.

Block.one News

Brendan Blumer tweets:" If you are an #EOSBP, tell the #EOS community why you deserve their votes." Most of the major BPs replied the tweet with their reasonings.

Block.one:"Block chain will offer Africa opportunities to build trust and transparency, solving challenges faces by its local communities and improving thir welfare, making the way for Africa to play an even bigger role on the global economic satge."

Daniel Larimer hints that he is now developing a univeral wallet for all the chains and apps.

Block.one President Rob Jesudason writes that the financial system can ill afford to ignore the blockchain's benefits for tackling issues such as money laundering and KYC.

#BuiltOnEOSIO: Canada's Eva takes Ride-Sharing Local.

DApps& Tools

Lucky Fruit Machine, developed by StartEOS, is officially launched.

MyWish has completed the airdrop snapshot, the airdrop will be performed in 3 weeks. Scatter v9.4.0 Released, now supports deep linking! For more details please visit Github.

CANADA announced a beta release of their free dfuse streaming API for EOS.IO.

WhaleExchange, an EOS based Decentralized Exchange, officially launched.

Security Issues

EOSBet is hacked again, the third time. 140,000 EOS was stolen and transferred to Bitfinex and Poloniex.

WorldConquest is hacked. The hacker only left the project team 0.0155 EOS in their contract account balance.

EOS Cafe Block released a contract vulnerability warning in Medium. As they claimed in the article, "all parameters from notifications need to be explicitly checked, contract name and action name alone are not sufficient."

Slowmist security team releases an article to explain the "false notification" vulnerability.