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$670 Million: bitcoin Futures Post Record Daily Volume as Market Recovers

bitcoin futures volume reached an all-time high on Wednesday, peaking near a combined $670 million between regulated US exchanges CME and CBOE. On Chicago exchange CME, traders exchange more than 11,000 contracts, worth an equivalent 56,010 BTC. According to CME’s bitcoin Reference Rate (BRR) for April 25, those contracts equate to more than $497 million in … Continued

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Week in Ethereum News
April 26, 2018
Ethereum News and Links

Protocol

Danny Ryan published the Casper FFG EIP.  Economic security analysis.  Stakers should earn a positive return if online 50-67% of the time (presumably this assuming your offline time is uncorrelated to other stakers being offline)Last Friday’s core dev call.  Lane’s notes.Latest Plasma implementation callOMG Plasma Cash repoLatest Casper callJavascript implementation of CBC CasperHsiao-Wei Wang: Minimal sharding protocol extensionSharding idea threads: As-fast-as-possible shard chains with notarization, Staggered periods across shards, Cryptoeconomic aggregate signatures for the main chain, RNG exploitability analysis assuming RANDAO-based main chain, Fork-free RANDAOLiam Horne’s quick comparison of state channels, side chains, and Plasma 

Stuff for developers

Zeppelin: proxy patternsNew release for Haskell web3 libraryWeb3.py v4.2.0 with local private key signingParity tutorial on writing smart contracts in WASM for KovanReversing Solidity code, part 2Tutorial on building a social platform for ERC721Techniques for using Unreal Engine and ERC721
React Service Worker may thwart web3 injection in AndroidParatii.js preview – put a video stream and get a playable urlDecentraland SDK alphathe architecture of Bounties NetworkHow Bloom is trying to solve UXAWS launches Blockchain TemplatesCrux, a secure enclave for Quorum written in Go 

Releases

Solidity v0.4.23Geth v1.8.6Exthereum – new Eth client written in Elixir.  Github.MyCrypto desktop alpha 

“Is live” on mainnet section

AirSwap is live.  Clean and easy UXAion main net is liveEthorse is live – parimutuel better on price of EthCanYa service marketplace alpha is liveAdchain is live — first token curated registry on mainnet 

Ecosystem

How uPort’s identity model preserves privacy with offchain data and new accounts for each dappParity is decoupling the UI from the clientThe ENS Blacklist. Benny Giang on the different categories of blockchain integration in gamesGriff Green’s latest Open Block Explorers Now! callBatchOverflow: A few tokens I had never heard of implemented a non-standard function in the token standard and a hacker found an overflow.  bitcoin maximalists temporarily got very excited.DNS servers got hacked, leading some MEW users to be compromised.  Never click ignore on a certificate warning for MEW/MyCrypto.  More on the hack.Connext’s two way payment channel on RinkebyStatus is starting an incubator aimed mostly at mobile friendly dapps 

Governance and Standards

Parity: we have no intention to split the Ethereum chain, refuting media misinterpretationsLane Rettig essay on Ethereum governance, forks and recovery optionsAlex Van de Sande on past and future Eth recoveryEIP1015: recovery through future issuranceMartin Holst Swende on EIP210: blockhash refactoringAll about ERC948’s subscription modelsEIP1035: Transaction execution batching and delegation 

Project Updates

Updated OmiseGo strategy aiming at a crypto exchange this yearIconomi q1 financial reportWhere blockchain fits into CellariusDigixDAO governance modelVideo demo of Balanc3Video demo of OpenLaw employee offer letter and Openlaw video demo of Australian real estate saleBloqboard, a Dharma debt relayer, is live on KovanColony: bounties aren’t the future of work, but salaries with reputation0x: compliant p2p trading through a permissioned liquidity pool 

Interviews, Podcasts, Videos, Talks 

EthLondon talks: NexusMutual, Liquidity Network, and BlockColliderConsenSys Dev AMA with Christian ReitwießnerLaura Shin on the other side of the mic with Software Engineering DailyI chat with Coinbase’s Dan Romero3 min outtake of Vitalik Buterin’s appearance on HBO ViceBernhard Mueller and Maurelian talk Mythril and Solidity securityJoe Lubin interviews Stephen Wolfram at SXSWMyCrypto’s Will O’Beirne on Hashing It OutKarl Floersch on Epicenter 

 Tokens 

Howard Yeah: Why Ethereum could be worth $1.7 trillionAndreessen Horowitz planning crypto fund.Kleros token sale overviewKyberNetwork is thinking through new uses for its tokenParametric hurricane insurance for Puerto Rico using EtheriscMougayar on the state of the token marketWayne Chang: Buidl, but go talk to your token users, learn, iterate.  On that note, Makoto Inoue’s review of his coworkers’ UX issues when using his dapp 

General

Gavin’s slides on Substrate, the underlying stack of Polkadot. webassembly, libp2p, Rust and Javascript implementations.Vitalik on Weyl and Posner’s new book, Radical MarketsKraken’s position on regulation.  >25% of their employees in compliance.The #MeToo message from China that has gotten lots of media attention.  (click the ‘Convert to UT8’ button)Tyler Cowen: skeptical on blockchains but realizes the possibilities are thereEther Capital begins trading on Toronto stock exchangeCoincenter: No, Ether isn’t a security

Dates of Note

Upcoming dates of note:

April 27-29 – Hackital Eth hackathon in Washington, DCMay 3-5 – Edcon in TorontoMay 7-11 – Swarm Summit in LjubljanaMay 10 – Fluidity Summit on finance (NYC)May 10 – CryptoCup opens for World Cup predictionsMay 11-12 – Ethereal (NYC)May 15 – Kleros saleMay 16-17 – Token Summit (NYC) May 17 – Blockchain, Accounting, Audit, and Tax conference (NYC)May 17-19 – Melonport hackthon in ZugMay 18-20 – EthMemphis hackathonMay 19-20 – Hacketh (Warsaw)May 25 – 28th – EthBuenosAires hackathonJune 1 – Blockchain for Social Impact Conference (Washington, DC)

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