Week in Internet Computer (#ICP) News, Sep 30 , 2023

Important announcements

• ICP Asia Alliance is a $20 million effort launched by @dominic_w from @dfinity to promote Web3 adoption throughout Asia and enable people, organizations, and communities to utilize game-changing Web3 and AI technology.

• @TheGame_Company has partnered with the InternetComputer to revolutionize the gaming experience.

• Thomas Locher 's workshop on crafting Bitcoin Smart Contracts on the InternetComputer at the @tbc_munich Conference in Munich, Germany.

Governance

• Proposal 124816, New Wasm Instrumentation.

New Release

• Proposal 124854/124855, Upgrade NNS Canister.

New Nodes Provider Proposal

• Proposal 124810, Register Latitude.sh datacenters in London and Sydney as ld1 in Europe,UK,London and ns1 in Oceania,AU,New South Wales.

• Proposal 124809,Register two Latitude.sh datacenters as ld1 in England,UK,London and ns1 in Oceania,AU,New South Wales

Events This Week

• @kylelangham, Director of Data and Analytics at DFINITY, delivered a powerful keynote speech at Ai4.

• Sep 25-27, The Edge: Global AI & Web3 Investment Summit.

• Sep 28, ICP Asia Alliance Launch Event, HongKong.

IC Protocol Updates and Forum Digest

• New SNS ability to mint SNS tokens & revised thresholds for voting

  • Sep 29, Two changes to SNS proposals are proposed: increasing voting power from 3% to 50% for critical proposals and adding a new proposal type for SNSs to mint new tokens.

• Feature Request for Sovereign Decentralized File Storage

  • Sep27, Daniel the CTO of the Swop, announced the app demo which allows users to create personal asset canisters using a wallet and provides a file explorer for managing files on chain. It features code-free autonomous canister creation, a familiar interface, drag and drop file upload, and supports Plug, Stoic, and NFID. The app is currently in whitelisted beta, open for early access.

• C wrapper for the IC rust Agent (gaming)

  • Sep 29, Zondax has created a C wrapper for the IC rust Agent, enabling easy deployment for C++ projects on IC, particularly beneficial for game developers using Unreal Engine. GitHub - Zondax/icp-client-cpp: Internet Computer - Client C/C++

SNS Updates

• Upcoming Sonic SNS

  • Sep 30, Swap in progress and still have 8 days left for joining.

• Upcoming Nuance SNS swap

  • Sep 30, Swap in progress and still have 2 days left for joining.

Applications & Builders

• Total Staked ICP: 251’179’598 ICP (49.6%)

• Developer Tools & Docs

  • Developer weekly update September 27, 2023: introduce the new releases of dfx v0.15.0 and the Rust CDK v0.11.0.

• New members in Ecosystem: Big Welcome!

  • CBIndex: a one-stop toolkit and protocol for decentralized investment and crypto assets management with the vision of POWERING BETTER CRYPTO INVESTMENTS.

• Global R&D Meeting: Sep Meeting key notes

  • vetKeys - Mock implementation and bounties with $24K Prize Pool.

  • HTTP gateway protocol - deprecating the Service Worker:

  Drop support for the Service worker as an Http Gateway implementation.

  • Ethereum RPC Canister, Dfinity-managed service that acts as a gateway to smart contract-based blockchain abstract away much of the complexity and lower the barrier to entry for building Ethereum intergrations on IC.

  • Stable Structures: BTreeMap V2, a new BTreeMap that supports unbounded keys and values.

• Ecosystem Projects Highlights:

  • Sep 28, Introduced Wallet v2.0.2 with enhanced connectivity to both #InternetComputer and #EVM chains.

  • OpenChat: Sep 30, recent new features in private work communities include mentioning everyone in a channel, creating user groups, following chat threads for message notifications, and setting display names for only community members..

  • DISTRIKT: Sep 27, announced another round of airdrop to active users and contributors.

  • Origyn: Sep 28, #ORIGYN introduced the next evolution of its #tokenomics and governance model with the launch of ORIGYN Tokenomics 3.0.

  • BABY AROF: Sep 29, BABY AROF plans to open a deli to be the first restaurant to be linked to the standard DIP20 token. BABY AROF commits to share 20% of the net sales profit with its token community within the specified framework!

Community Updates

• ICP.Hub Balkans shined at the @cryptoadria_com Conference in Banja Luka. Paving the way for ICP's future in the Balkans.

• ICP Asia Alliance Launch Event in Hongkong gathered ICP.Hubs from & countries!@icphubsg @ISLACamp @CrewsphereIN @ICPhubkorea @IcpSynergylabs @DISRUPTIVES_Hub

• ICP ambassador @kamalrhubbard presented ICP @BlkBlockchainDC.

• The Department of Interdisciplinary Courses in Engineering hosted an expert talk on "Blockchain Technology: Applications in Digital Transformation" Deepak Goyal, Co-founder of Crewsphere: ICP India Hub joined as speaker.

• Kushite ICP.Hub wrapped up the @ETHSafari 2023 with #ICP beach party.

• ICP Conference Talks #13 revisiting @danostrovsky talk from @icp_cc

Update Coming Events

• IC Related Events

• Oct 3 - 4, CV Summit 2023, Zug, Switzerland

• Oct 4 - 6, Swiss Blockchain Capital Day

• Oct 17 -20, CoinAgenda EMEA, Dubar, UAE

• Industry Events

• Oct 4 - 6, Swiss Blockchain Capital Day

• Oct 24 - 26, European Blockchain Convention, Barcelona

• Oct 24 - 25, Blockchain Life 2023, Dubai

• Nov 16, Wiki Finance Expo Sidney 2023, Sidney, Australia

• Nov 29 - 30, Policy Summit, Washington

General Regulations

• Crypto investment firm Paradigm is launching a new public policy arm, the Policy Lab, to promote innovation-friendly lawmaking and policymaking in the US.

• The US SEC has postponed the review of applications from BlackRock, Invesco, Bitwise, and Valkyrie for listing the first Bitcoin exchange-traded fund in the US.

• Coinbase approved by Bermuda Monetary Authority to offer perpetual futures trading, non-US.

Industry News

• Lumerin, a hash power marketplace, enables Bitcoin miners and non-miners to trade capacity on the Arbitrum network, increasing their chances of earning rewards without rapidly depreciating equipment through smart contracts.

• Korea's KB Securities, NH Investment & Securities, and Shinhan Investment Securities announced the signing of a business agreement for the formation of a consortium of token-based securities companies to enter the #token securities market.

• Asset management giant #Franklin Templeton filed a 19b-4 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (#SEC) regarding the Bitcoin Spot #ETF application, which includes joining the Chicago Board Options Exchange's (CBOE) supervisory sharing agreement.

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