Trustology, founded by technologists who previously worked at such banks as BNY Mellon, RBS and Barclays, has launched an iPhone-controlled crypto vault it claims is secure enough for financial institutions.

Announced Wednesday, the first version of TrustVault is available for download at the Apple UK App Store, and initially can be used to store ether, the cryptocurrency native to the ethereum public blockchain. Bitcoin and ERC-20 tokens that run on top of ethereum are to follow soon after.

Trustology closed an $8 million seed round late last year led by ethereum design studio ConsenSys and Two Sigma Ventures, a VC arm of tech-focused hedge fund Two Sigma Investments.

UMA, a smart contracts platform, is bringing the S&P 500 to the blockchain with the launch of a new ERC20 token that’ll represent ownership in the largest 500 companies in U.S. financial markets, the company announced Wednesday.
UMA, an entity affiliated with Risk Labs, a Two Sigma Ventures-backed firm, also said the new token would trade on Beijing-based decentralized exchange DDEX, to start. MakerDao, the firm behind stable coin Dai, is also involved in the new token, per the release. Investors looking to buy the token are required to purchase it with DAI.

we need prog pow to be implemented asap

There are others too, including probably Buterin who has very subtly made it fairly clear that he’s against ProgPoW.

“People are  trying  to be SEC compliant,” he says. “But, for one, nobody knows what SEC compliant means, and two, regulators have not held up—from my perspective—their end of the bargain.” Corva says the SEC has so far failed to deliver on its promises of clear, “plain English” guidance for the crypto industry, and suspects it will likely never come.

“The SEC, over a year and a half ago, said ‘come to us seeking no-action relief. Come to us for approved offerings.’ We haven’t seen a single no-action letter published,” he says

March 26, 2019 by Laura Shin :
Vitalik Buterin on Whether or Not Ethereum Is ‘Blowing It’

Impressive Memberlist of the Enterprice Ethereum Alliance (EEA)   

LVMH has enlisted a full-time blockchain team who have been in stealth mode for over a year, working closely with ethereum design studio ConsenSys and Microsoft Azure, according to two people familiar with the project.

I also don't understand why people are comparing ETH with other projects. ETH is more established and have very strong support than any other project I think we must stay strong with this side because this is most important coin after Bitcoin.

According to the English-language newspaper Tech in Asia, Singapore's blockchain accelerator is backed by the government and operated by a local venture capitalist firm, Trive Ventures. The accelerator is product-based and is intended to help startups collaborate with enterprises that may be interested in blockchain-powered products. The Tribe Accelerator is partially funded by Enterprise Singapore, which is a government entity focused on developing the country's "startup ecosystem," and also receives support from accounting company PricewaterhouseCoopers' Singapore Digital Hub as well as Icon Foundation, a blockchain network out of South Korea.

Per Tribe Accelerator, the initiative was first launched in December 2018 and has already partnered with ConsenSys. The addition of BMW Asia Group, Intel, and Nielsen can only help Singapore's efforts to strengthen its blockchain industry.

Ethereum is already well-established coin in the market and has an active development team behind the ETH when the price of ETH drops many other companies start trolling the ETH coin but we should understand ETH is fair better blockchain then those coins who are commenting negatively about the ETH coin.

On Sunday, Ethereum cofounder Vitalik Buterin called for blockchain developers to think proactively about how their work can build new systems for organizing society, instead of just tools for privacy and independence. The speech was delivered at RadicalxChange, a conference co-conceived by Buterin and economist Glen Weyl to expand the ideas in Weyl’s book Radical Markets.

"Vitalik feel fear from Tron"... LOL, are you sure? Can you give one single reference for your statement that why do you think that way? Because Justin got more followers at Twitter than Vitalik? 

so, ... according to your reasoning, you 'claim' then, that ether has no value then, because a 'fin' (= 'abbreviation' of  finney = milli-ether = pwei = petawei = 0.001 ether ) ?  

In contrast, Chapman expects Ethereum to underperform during a recession because it’s more closely entangled with the equity markets than other cryptocurrencies. Accordingly, Ethereum’s trajectory generally follows broader stock-market trends.

    “Because Ethereum is a developer-focused blockchain, it’s very much dependent on how many companies use the Ethereum platform to build their projects. If those companies were to go out of business, Ethereum’s relevance and, subsequently, its price, would undoubtedly be affected.”

New data from Alex Sunnarborg, the head of Tetras Capital which is a cryptocurrency hedge fund

Rettig, who’s is currently a part of the Ewasm (Ethereum Web Assembly) team at the Ethereum Foundation, told CryptoGlobe that there are currently several blockchain projects and networks with “zero usage, zero dApps, [and] some that still haven't even launched that have sky high valuations.”

Inspired by ZCash?  

This could prove to be a very good advantage to Ethereum's privacy features, which are almost negligible right now.

The Zcash community has very similar values to Ethereum in a lot of cases, but they are willing to be more aggressive in somewhat more centralized decision making. […] It is deciding where 20% of the Zcash inflation pool is going. And so far it’s been going to Zcash foundation and other developers. And I know that they’re interested in doing other things. I would be opposed to something that goes straight into some centralized organization. I would personally be in favor of something like that, but instead pumping the funds into something like Gitcoin.