coinbase vulnerability
https://hackerone.com/reports/300748

HackerOne

Coinbase disclosed on HackerOne: Ethereum account balance manipulation

The researchers noticed an issue with our ETH receiving code when receiving from a contract. This allowed sending of ETH to Coinbase to be credited even if the underlying contract execution failed....

⁠ICOs Need Fresh Regulatory Guidelines From SEC
Initial Coin Offerings regulated by 80-year-old Securities laws need contemporary regulations to thrive. #ANALYSIS
https://goo.gl/PnD5Ys

0.00227102 - that number of Bitcoins at the moment would have been for every inhabitant of the planet with an equal distribution of coins.
http://bitcoinsperperson.com/

$300,000,000 NEW TETHERS IN ONE DAY.

Full technical write-up, video demonstration and proof-of-concept code for Ledger hardware wallet vulnerability.
https://saleemrashid.com/2018/03/20/breaking-ledger-security-model/

Saleem Rashid

Breaking the Ledger Security Model

In this post, I’m going to discuss a vulnerability I discovered in Ledger hardware wallets. The vulnerability arose due to Ledger’s use of a custom architecture to work around many of the limitations of their Secure Element.

projects rated by their code

darpal rating went through 133 blockchain projects and their codebases to make a rating based on development activity. it is based on number of commits, commit quality, popularity of the library, number of contributors and release frequency. the top looks like this:

1. lisk
2. eos
3. cardano
4. aeternity
5. ethereum
6. particl
7. bitcoin
8. augur
9. 0x
10. tron

the result is much cleaner than of cryptomiso, however i still see some problems with this list. it excludes forks, however particl is a bitcoin fork and tron is an ethereumj fork. tezos is not included in the list because is uses gitlab instead of github.

https://medium.com/@Darpalrating/darpalrating-we-went-through-133-blockchain-projects-github-heres-our-code-audit-report-for-5c060df3af44

Medium

[DarpalRating] We went through 133 Blockchain projects Github, Here’s our Code Audit Report for February

March 15th, 2018; by Darpal Rating team

off-chain whitelist

bluzelle has paid $12k in fees to whitelist 7.5k users. this article proposes an scheme that can eliminate those fees. users are given messages signed by the contract owner that contain contract address along with user address. this signature is passed along with the transaction and can be verified on-chain and used for access control.

https://medium.com/@PhABC/off-chain-whitelist-with-on-chain-verification-for-ethereum-smart-contracts-1563ca4b8f11

Medium

Off-Chain Whitelist with On-Chain Verification for Ethereum Smart Contracts

Many token sales have used a whitelist process in the last year, where only approved users are able to contribute. This is almost always…

binance dexathon

the exchange to offer $1 million prize to an external team that implements a decentralized exchange that meets their standards. they also offer a $10k participation grant to university teams. binance has announced recently that they are channeling significant resources to blockchain research. it will allow to build a decentralaized exchange on top of yet to be developed binance chain.

https://medium.com/binanceexchange/binance-dexathon-845dc0cbfffe

Medium

Binance Dexathon

Decentralized Exchange Coding Competition

https://elementus.io/blog/which-icos-are-affected-by-the-parity-wallet-bug/

Bitcoin & Bitcoin Cash hashrate % of total