"Whats a day like in the life as an EF/Ethereum researcher?" , an interesting thread on reddit. Very few people have titles. Vitalik technically has the title of chief scientist and Aya is the Executive Director. "The Ethereum Foundation is a really fun and rewarding place to work :)", says Souptacular, the moderator of Ethereum Core Dev Meeting.
Plasma for issuing national currencies -
"Plasma implementations being almost ready :)
The base layer for a central bank currency having $5 txfees is ok; it is after all only a settlement layer""I'd obviously recommend ERC20, but launch with some well-functioning Plasma chains. Maybe each commercial bank could run one?" said Vitalik Buterin.
Proposed Constantinople Timeline
* Finalize EIPs that are being implemented: July 13th
* Client implementation: July 16th - August 13th
* Testing: August 13th - September 10th
* Testnet: September 10th - October 1st
* Launch: October 8th
This is not final and there will likely be changes.
PegasysEng is planning on releasing Java, open source, mainnet-compatible Ethereum client, Pantheon, at @EFDevcon 4.
Polkadot - announced a new chat dedicated to discussing Substrate, a framework for building standalone blockchains today that will also make it easy to connect to Polkadot in the future.
Waltonchain Global Super Master Node Recruitment Program
Cointelegraph has launched a listings platform for jobs in the crypto and blockchain industries.
Trading & Mining
Coinbase is Exploring Cardano, Basic Attention Token, Stellar Lumens, Zcash, and 0x. Underway with engineering work to add Ethereum Classic (ETC) and it is proceeding.
August 10-12, 2018: ETHIndia (Bangalore) rolled out first round of acceptances on July 13, 2018. Check out your dashboard to RSVP for ETHIndia within five days. If you didn't receive an acceptance email yet, don't worry, as they'll be doing more round in coming weeks.
March 19, 2018 - Spetmber 30, 2018: Gnosis X by Gnosis - a recurring challenge inviting developers, creators, and businesses to build customized prediction market applications on top of the Gnosis platform.
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@eyal speak on CNBC.