Ethereum FoundationGrants Program Wave 5 - The first grantees of 2019: The Matter, LeapDAO, Py-libp2p, Ethereum on ARM, Goerli testnet, Shadowlands, DeepSEA.
ConsenSys Grants is now accepting applications. Grants will be awarded in 2019 to projects that are building the foundational infrastructure, tools and components required to improve the developer and user experience of Ethereum. Apply today!
AMA about Ethereum Leadership and Accountability in response to a Reddit thread. Vitalik Buterin Disclosed Non-Ethereum Cryptocurrency Holdings
Sparkpool Freezes The Mysterious 2100 ETH Transaction Fee. They received the 2,100 ETH payout after mining block number 7,238,290 on the ethereum blockchain worth $300K.
Vlad Zamfirwould be joining New York-based startup CasperLabs, in a paid role, to work on a new blockchain protocol and will continue his research on “governance” and “Proof-of-Stake” for the Ethereum Foundation, a role which will remain paid.
Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) is joining IBM, Johns Hopkins, and other prestigious institutions at this first-ever Scholars in Blockchain International Scientific Conference on March 12. Chair of EEA Technical Standards Committee Conor Svensson will be participating in the panel discussion on the role of enterprises in supporting blockchain research.
Other blockchain News
Bitcoin Cash (BCH): Roger Ver pledges to support any cryptocurrency that works and heralds economic freedom.
NEO Cofounder Praises the Ethereum Dev Community, Talks About the Future of Blockchain Tech and NEO 3.0
EIP-615: Subroutines and Static Jumps for the EVM. Incorporating changes for a later PR into the original proposal.
Projects
New Project / Protocol
MolochDAO White Paper on using a grants DAO to fund public goods.
Certik: DeepSEA/Blockchain - A language to write verified Ethereum contracts
Monoplasma: A simple way to broadcast money to millions of people.
Trustless Atomic Loans (TAL): Borrow and lend crypto on your terms from the safety of your wallet
Plasma watchtower: a watchtower that monitors for invalid transactions on plasma chains
Rhombus: Connect your smart contract with real-world data.
rust-miximus: a MVP, WASM compatible zkSNARK of barrywhitehat's original Miximus.
Lahja is a generic multi process event bus implementation written in Python 3.6+ to enable lightweight inter-process communication, based on non-blocking asyncio. v0.11.0 released
Project and Protocol updates
Stability Fee Increase: February 22nd. The Maker Foundation Risk Team will place a proposal into the voting structure to raise the Dai Stability Fee by 0.5%, for a new rate of 1.5%.
Pantheon Release series highlighting our IBFT 2.0 feature. In part 2 we will write about our new permissioning feature.
Uniswap passed Lightning Network for the #3 DeFi project!!
Miscellaneous
Exchange, Minning, Wallet and Trading
Coinbase has acquired Neutrino, a blockchain intelligence platform. They believe it will play an important role in legitimizing crypto, making it safer and more accessible for everyone.
Bitmain announces next generation 7nm ASIC chip for SHA256 mining, delivering breakthrough energy efficiency for Bitcoin Mining
Binance DEX is now up for public testing where users can create their own wallets and interact with the trading platform’s interface.
CoinMarketCap added Methodology page for listing process.
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