Crypto && Coffee 034
- 5 minsTechnology Recap:
Bitcoin:
- Bitcoin was back on the minds of all mainstream media outlets after the Twitter attack that occurred on June 15th, 2020.
- BigSpender, a tool for checking the BigSpender vulnerability in Bitcoin wallets has been released. This vulnerability focuses on a scenario where a user uses Bitcoin’s Replace-by-Fee (RBF) to double spend at zero-confirmations.
Litecoin:
- Mustard Wallet, a fork of Wasabi Wallet brings Tor, Neturtino filters and CoinJoins to Litecoin. Their latest release v0.1.7.0 introduces Litecoin wallet creation, sending and receiving LTC as well as enhanced mixing in Litecoin.
Ethereum:
- Ethereum released Geth v1.9.17, Mount Milgrom. This is a small maintenance release, yet enables historical garbage collection for light clients, reduces allocations for transaction pool and certain EVM opcodes, and raises the default gas limit in “–dev” mode to 12 million.
- Prysmatic Lab’s ETH2.0 client, Prysm, releases v1.0.0-alpha.16. This includes a ton of minor fixes and stability improvements.
- Quantstamp releases the full Security Audit results for the Prysm ETH2.0 client.
- Tom Borgers of ConsenSys publishes an ETH2.0 Economic Review analyzing the Proof of Stake (PoS) incentive model.
- Wanseob Lim and Barry Whitehat finally ship the first testnet of Zkopru (ZK Optimistic Rollup for privacy transactions), the privacy layer for Ethereum.
Other Chains:
- Trail of Bits releases their newest tool for smart contract verification, manticore-verifier.
- KeeperDAO, a protocol that economically incentivizes pooled participation in keeper strategies which manage liquidations, rebalances and arbitrage on DeFi applications has announced the mainnet release.
- mStable releases statement on Meta (MTA) Genesis update after there was a mismatch in incentives between some actors in Balancer/Uniswap pool launches. Following the issue, mStable has released an MTC Emission update.
- Microtick, a Shapeshift R&D project built off of Cosmos, launches to mainnet soon. This will bring decentralized short-term options to any asset.
- KardiaChain announces that they are integrating Chainlink’s market-leading decentralized oracle network for developers building DApps on KardiaChain.
- Zcash’s Heartwood is now live! This latest Zcash network upgrade improves interoperability through FlyClient support and gives miners the ability to immediately shield mining rewards in coinbase transactions.
- Enjin entered the DeFi space as Enjin Coin (ENJ) and is now supported on the Aave Protocol.
- Monero Outreach adds more merchants to their services page for those who accept Monero.
- GET Protocol integrates Chainlink VRF to further improve the blockchain ticketing solution. This will provide users a honest and transparent chance of buying tickets to an event.
- In the 12th quarterly burn for Binance, they burned 3,477,388 BNB which is equivalent to 60.5M USD worth of tokens. View the full article here.
- Electric Coin Company worked on their ECC Wallet during the Gitcoin Protect Privacy Hackathon. View the Zircles wallet and more submissions here.
- Developers are experimenting with building a Square CashApp or Venmo type wallet for Harmony ONE.
- An article was posted to ethresear.ch regarding De-Anonymization using time sync vulnerabilities. This has been a large topic before within the blockchain space, however this vulnerability poses a threat to the current work being done on the ETH2.0 beacon chain protocol.
- Stellar releases their latest Dev Digest diving into their collaboration with Samsung and new Stellar applications such as DSTOQ.
- renBTC is now available and running on Kyber Network. The renBTC token will be accessible through KyberSwap and other DApps and platforms that are powered by Kyber’s on-chain liquidity protocol. This will make it easier for users to move BTC to ETH.
- Full update on Gods Unchained from CEO James Ferguson.
- Synthetic launches dHedge, a new decentralized asset management protocol which is now live on Ropsten testnet. dHedge offers non-custodial mimetic trading for synthetic assets, using the zero-slippage and infinite liquidity trading model of Synthetix.
Mainstream Recap:
- Shapeshift introduces the Shapeshift Mobile App. Available on both Android and iOS, the app gives users access to trading, buying crypto in 120+ countries, real-time price tracking and self-custody security.
- Aave announces that Framework Ventures and Three Arrows Capital have invested $3M when the (LEND) token was $10cents and now hold over $7M worth of (LEND) tokens at the current price.
- Gemini integrates with Brave for trading and wallet support to make it easier for users to buy, sell, store, and earn crypto when using the Brave browser.
- 1850 Coffee, a J.M. Smucker Company brand, in partnership with Farmer Connect, is pushing forward into a new era of coffee transparency by leveraging IBM’s blockchain technology. Consumers will be able to trace their coffee back to it’s origins on a platform aimed to increase traceability, efficiency and fairness in the coffee supply chain.
- Crypto custodian, Metaco, secures $17M in a Series A funding round led by German-based security company Giesecke+Devrient. Others who joined the round include: Standard Chartered Bank, Zürcher Kantonalbank, and Investiere.
- Casa is working with the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) to deliver expert consultancy on digital security and Bitcoin security to activists and dissidents.
- On July, 16, 2020 Coinbase added support for Algorand (ALGO) at Coinbase.com and in the Coinbase Android/iOS apps.
This Week’s Cup of Coffee:
This week, we are getting a summer jolt of coffee from Stay Golden Coffee Company in Nashville, TN. The perfect cup to brighten up anyone’s day is Stay Golden’s _A-Okay. _This African blend comes with notes of apple, melon and a balanced finish of dark chocolate. While being a light-medium roast be sure to watch those grind sizes in order to bring out those juicy flavors. Cheers!
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