Weekly News 8/2018 by Protocols (Ethereum, NEO, QTUM, Cardano, Tezos, Quantum Resistant Ledger, Nebulas)

Ethereum Protocol (Ethereum, Ethereum Classic)

In the news and blogs

• Why Decentralization Matters by Chris Dixon
• Tokens Targeted Airdrops by Primoz Kordez
• Lessons From MakerDAO by Nick Tomaino
• Banks Begone: UN’s World Food Programme Builds on Ethereum Blockchain Money Transfers by Samburaj Das
• Ethereum Scaling Solutions and Tradeoffs by Matt Condon
• The Fundamentals of Discount Tokens by Alex Felix
• The Inside Story of the CryptoKitties Congestion Crisis by ConsenSys

Protocol

• Presentation by L4 Researcher Li Xuanji on Youtube
• "Crypto-economics in Casper” by Jon Choi on Youtube
• Investigating Short Term Scaling Solutions for Ethereum by Web3 Foundation Team
• Witnet’s sidechains and bridge by Adán Sánchez de Pedro
• Casper Research 40 by Casper Standup
• Ethereum Scaling Solutions and Tradeoffs by Matt Condon

Stuff for developers

• Drizzle: reactive Ethereum data for front-ends from Truffle by Truffle
• JavaScript Library for Dharma Protocol by Brendan Forster
• Ethereum Remix Solidity IDE, electron edition on Github
• Espresso – Solidity test framework on Github
• Securing Local Storage for dApps by Raul Glogoveţan
• Storage Allocation Exploits in Ethereum Smart Contracts by Stefan Beyer
• Automated Smart Contract Security by Tyler J Kuhn
• Dissecting an Ethereum Honey Pot by Alex Sherbuck
• Safely explore a known honeypot contract using a forked network on Github
• Overflow – tooling platform from MyCrypto team by Daniel Ternyak
• ERC892: Permission standard on Github
• Finding The Greedy, Prodigal, and Suicidal Contracts at Scale by Ivica Nikolic ́, Aashish Kolluri, Ilya Sergey, Prateek Saxena and Aquinas Hobor

Ecosystem

• Ethereum Community Fund: $100m from Cosmos, OmiseGo, Golem, Maker, Global Brain, and Raiden to support ecosystem infrastructure by Ethereum Community Fund
• First part of bounty paid for the foundation of the Dogethereum bridge by Alex Van de Sande
• Colorado Coin – the EthDenver mealtracker has now become an ERC20 token by Kevin Owocki
• Saving The Planet: Making It Profitable To Protect The Commons by Simon de la Rouviere
• MyEtherWallet: The Reincarnation by MyEtherWallet
• Introducing The Stable Fund, $45 million for the MakerDAO Ecosystem by The Stable Fund

Podcast, Videos and Interviews

• Archive of video streams from EthDenver by EthDenver
• Jackson Palmer interviews FOAM’s Ryan John King by Jackson Palmer
• Firefly Hardware Wallet - CryptoKitties by Richard Moore
• #222 Amir Bandeali & Will Warren: 0x Protocol and the Decentralized Exchange Frontier and #223 Kyle Samani & Tushar Jain: Multicoin - Emerging Frameworks for Cryptoasset Investing by Epicenter Podcast
• An Interview with Conrad Barski of Forward Blockchain by True Process

New Projects

• Cellarius - Transmedia Cyber Punk Franchise

Project Updates

• Status - Status Alpha 0.9.14 Release Notes
• district0x - district0x Dev Update - February 20th, 2018
• Augur Weekly Development Update — February 21st

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

NEO Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• City of Zion release Neon Wallet v0.1.4 with NRVE scripthash update and NEO sponsoring START Hack and HackCU hackathons – Feb 23rd – 25th by Dean Jeffs
• NEO Blockchain Quick Start Guide for .NET Developers on Github
• NEO APAC Mini-Tour by malcolm@neo.org
• NEO Smart Contract Development(II) an Additional Exploration of Mission Impossible by robbie wang

QTUM Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• Happy New Year! — Qtum Mainnet Performance February 9–15 by Jackson Belove
• The Future of On-Chain Governance & Smart Contracts by Jordan Earls and Blockchain's Future by Qtum's Patrick Dai at Google Shanghai by Qtum Foundation

Cardano Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• IOHK Cardano Weekly Technical Report by Cardano Hub
• Scottish Blockchain Meetup: February 2018 by Product Forge
• 20.2.18 - Cardano Foundation and Z/Yen explore threat of quantum computing to blockchain security by cf_jonmoss
• IOHK | Dr. Peter Gaži, presenting Ouroboros at MIT. by IOHK

Tezos Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• 2018-02-17 Tezos dev update by Arthur Breitman

Quantum Resistant Ledger (QRL) Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• The Final Countdown: mainnet progress update by Jack Matier

Nebulas Ecosystem

In the news and blogs

• Nebulas Weekly Report #17 and Decentralization is the Essence of Blockchain by Nebulas

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