Ethereum core devs have scheduled the Constantinople upgrade hardfork to activate in the first few weeks of 2019.

This week saw a successful, sustained, mining attack against the once-popular altcoin called Vertcoin.

Last week, it was revealed hackers used a sophisticated attack vector to sneak malicious code into open source Bitcoin wallets developed by the company Copay.

The minutes of several "private" Ethereum developer meetings that took place at the Devcon4 conference in October have been published.

This week's crypto news cycle was dominated by a contentious hardfork of Bitcoin Cash, which is itself a contentious hardfork of Bitcoin.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged the creator of EtherDelta with running an unregulated securities exchange.

This week marked the 10 year anniversary of the publication of the Bitcoin Whitepaper by Satoshi Nakamoto.

Monero, the popular privacy-centric cryptocurrency, has been successfully upgraded to use a cutting edge cryptographic technique called Bulletproofs.

The planned Ethereum hardfork, codenamed Constantinople, activated on the Ropsten test network on Saturday, October 13th.

The development team behind Augur-- the decentralized Ethereum based prediction market that launched 3 months ago-- announced a roadmap to version 2 of the platform.

The Ethereum Core Dev team voted unanimously this week to execute the Constantinople hardfork on the Ropsten testnet.

Fallout and discussion continued in the wake of "CVE-2018-17144", the Bitcoin vulnerability which was revealed and patched last week.

On Tuesday, September 18th, the Bitcoin Core team released an urgent update to the Bitcoin full node software to patch a critical vulnerability.

The third release candidate for the next version of the Bitcoin Core software is out.

A team of developers has successfully launched and demonstrated a decentralized bridge between the Ethereum and Dogecoin blockchains, dubbed "Dogethereum."

After a long period of relative silence, the Filecoin team has published an update on their progress.

The Zcash team has released version 2.0.0 of the network's node software, codenamed Sapling.

Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) #156 is nearing completion, with the pull request having been opened this week.

The Ethereum Name Service (ENS) announced a partnership with a traditional DNS registrar to create a top-level domain, ".luxe", that will resolve on both systems.

The team behind TRON announced their plan to integrate BitTorrent into the protocol, providing an incentive layer for seeding files on the platform.