Request Network Project Update (April 13th, 2018) — Digix partnership, Kick Start of Crowdfunding and Accounting DApps, New Listings

https://blog.request.network/request-network-project-update-april-13th-2018-digix-partnership-kick-start-of-crowdfunding-3486c65314d2

Electrify (ELEC) is extremely excited to announce that we have signed an MOU with TEPCO. The partnership will see Electrify work to integrate its system in Japan's electricity infrastructure.

https://e27.co/exclusive-singapore-startup-using-blockchain-build-p2p-electricity-marketplace-inks-major-mou-20180413/

Vechain (VEN) UPDATE

Introducing Assetlink, a Joint Supply Chain Management Application of Xiamen Innov, Corelink, and VeChain.

In late December 2017, VeChain and Xiamen Innov Information Technology Co. LTD (Innov) announced together their combined efforts to integrate VeChainThor technology in a broad range of solutions.

https://medium.com/@vechainofficial/introducing-assetlink-a-joint-supply-chain-management-application-of-xiamen-innov-corelink-and-4ce7d114f118

Kyber Network (KNC) UPDATE

https://blog.kyber.network/kyber-network-lists-its-first-stablecoin-20fb6ba35d6?gi=8536a192ed36

Nucleus Vision (NCASH) UPDATE

We’re excited to announce a pilot with Paytm, the Alibaba backed, Indian fintech giant. Under this program Nucleus Vision will increase user engagement with Paytm app at the point of sale. Know more https://bit.ly/2EILO70

2018 - the year of the security token?

https://medium.com/@tatianakoffman/your-official-guide-to-the-security-token-ecosystem-61a805673db7

RVN/Bittrex

On blockchain governance.

"...I believe governance is the most vital problem in the space. Other fundamental problems like scalability are arguably best approached by using governance to set the right incentives for people to solve them. Yet little research has gone into governance and it feels poorly understood."

https://medium.com/@FEhrsam/blockchain-governance-programming-our-future-c3bfe30f2d74

After about a month and a half of development, the TokenGen explainer video is finally here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP0CT3gAAXk

From NEO Amsterdam Conference:

NEO Foundation will be split into different departments.

If you have received strange tokens in your wallet in the last few days, you are witnessing a new type of spam.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8ccrp2/is_the_exploitmined_just_powhio_token_the_first/

Binance 3rd Quarterly Token Burn
https://support.binance.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002684252

Helium (HLM) Update

https://www.heliumlabs.org/v1.0/blog/apr-14th-developersfinance

For those who don't know, HLM is a X11 node based (service & masternodes) coin, that will be launching 'soon'. Will now be based off Pivx, not Dash.

https://heliumpay.com/

Technical Architecture
* Total Coin Supply 20m
* Block release is 7% per year
* Block reward: 45% miners; 45% master nodes; 10% project development funding, users chosen funding.
* PoW only algo X11 (with a review being made to change to something else after we fork off DASH code).
* Block time 2.5 minutes
* Difficulty 2222222/(((Difficulty+2600)/9)^2)
* Difficulty retargets using Dark Gravity Wave (created by Evan Duffield)
* Download clients (tbc)
* RPC-Port 9998