Earlier this month, during the Devcon conference, the folks at Plasma Group teamed up with the developers of the Uniswap Exchange to run a demonstration they called the "Unipig Exchange".

This week, a broad swath of the cryptocurrency community met in Osaka, Japan for Devcon, a mega-conference hosted by the Ethereum Foundation.

On Friday, September 27th, Bitcoin developer Rusty Russell disclosed the nature of a critical vulnerability in all major Lightning Network implementations.

This week, the team behind Filecoin launched a test network and laid out a schedule for a real mainnet launch as early as March 2020.

Earlier this month, members of seven different teams developing Ethereum 2.0 clients met for a week-long event, to code and debug together, and succeeded in getting all seven clients talking to each other.

This week saw the completion of two audits of the "ProgPoW" hashing function, which might replace Ethash as the algorithm used for mining on the Ethereum network.

Prominent Bitcoin developer Pieter Wuille recently announced a project, called Miniscript, which aims to make writing Bitcoin smart contracts easier.

The Dharma Protocol team announced this week that they're shifting the vision of their product.

This week, the MakerDAO community completed a series of on-chain, token-weighted polls related to the assets which will be added to the forthcoming multi-collateral Dai upgrade.

This week, the teams at Summa and Keep announced their collaboration on a trust minimized Bitcoin-Ethereum bridge called tBTC.

The security team at Coinbase published a detailed post-mortem on a hacking attempt they thwarted in June.

The Zcash community is debating whether to extend its protocol level developer funding mechanism.

It's one of those weeks where nothing jumped out at me in the crypto world on the technical front.

This week, the sitting President of the United States weighed in on Bitcoin.

The team of researchers developing the specifications for Ethereum 2.0 has announced they've frozen the spec for the network's initial phase.

This week, the tech news cycle was dominated by the announcement of the long rumored, highly anticipated cryptocurrency from Facebook.

This week, the team behind MakerDAO published an updated set of metrics tracking the adoption of the decentralized DAI stablecoin.

This week, the Tezos blockchain network successfully deployed its first backwards incompatible upgrade via an on-chain vote.

This week, cryptography researchers from Microsoft published a paper detailing a method for generating efficient zk-SNARK proofs without a trusted setup.

This past Friday marked the deadline for submitting Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) to have them considered for inclusion in the network's next upgrade.