Bitmain now controls nearly 51% of Bitcoin Hashrate:

https://www.ccn.com/bitmains-Mining-Pools-Now-Control-Nearly-51-Percent-of-the-Bitcoin-Hashrate/

After a somewhat successful attempt at banning deceptive cryptocurrency advertising on their popular social media platform, Facebook has loosened their restrictions.

https://bitcoinist.com/facebook-is-renouncing-its-ban-on-cryptocurrency-ads/

The Digital Currency Research Lab at the People's Bank of China has filed more than 40 patent applications so far – all as part of an aim to create a digital currency combining the core features of cryptocurrency and the existing monetary system.

"The virtual currencies issued by private entities are fundamental flaws given their volatility, low public trust, and limited useable scope. ... Therefore, it's inevitable for the central bank to launch its own digital currency to upscale the existing circulation of the fiat currency."

https://www.coindesk.com/pboc-filings-reveal-big-picture-for-planned-digital-currency/

TE FOOD (TFD) UPDATE on masternodes

https://twitter.com/TE_FOOD/status/1011874668993794048

EOS founder and CTO Dan Larimer proposes to remove the current EOS constitution and replace it with a new one covering a much smaller area of governance.

The core value proposition of a decentralized exchange (DEX), and what makes them interesting, is allowing for counterparties to find each other and trade directly on-chain, thereby not being dependent on a centralized trading exchange and taking on the associated custody risks. By making trades that settle directly on-chain, you avoid moving your crypto into an exchange wallet and facing the risk of a hack or theft.

https://medium.com/coinmonks/the-state-of-decentralized-exchanges-235064446ab0

Quadrant Protocol Partnership Network Over the course of the last month, QP have been working on building out a worldwide partnership network to ensure QP can carry the message and mission to all ends

Origin Protocol
Website: www.originprotocol.com
Telegram: https://t.me/originprotocol

-Origin is a protocol for creating sharing economy peer-to-peer, decentralized marketplaces. The protocols are used for user identity, reputation, listings, dispute management, and to allow buyers and sellers to meet, communicate, and transact.
Origin Protocol aims to make it easy for their partners and users to build DApps and create businesses and wants to ultimately serve as a central hub to access all listings.
- Roadmap is nice and tight. Demo already out (demo.originprotocol.com), mainnet launch Q3 and partners ready to push out DApps. Partner list unfortunately reads as who is who of failed projects approaching meme status level such as CanYa (it cannot), PROPY, Bee and WeTrust, but there is also NuCypher - and any adoption in this space takes it head and shoulders above the rest. Sharing economy is made for blockchain. It may never succeed, but Origin Protocol is the best try we will have before Uber, Airbnb, Fiverr, or Craigslist decide to enter the space and do their own thing.
- Token is an ERC20 and will be used as currency for all transactions built on the protocol. 3rd party marketplaces can create their own token, in which case the Origin Protocol will be used for arbitration and reputation mechanisms. To drive adoption users will be rewarded for using the platform and referring new users with the size or rewards deflating with time. From the platform setup, part of their partner CanYa, Bee,.. token values will be absorbed by the Origin Protocol token value - although those tokens have not been in the same sentance with 3 iterations of the word "value" for a long time.
- Team is diverse and competent. Matthew Liu is ex-Google, Qwiki (acquired by Yahoo) and Bonobos (acquired by Walmart). Joshua Fraser wore many hats and had CEO and CTO positions at innovative and tech oriented companies. Rest of the team has experience on blockchain projects, game design, machine learning, business development... and working in Dropbox, Paypal, Google,.. Investors (who are these days taking the role of "advisors") include Pantera ($3M), BlockTower, FBG, Hashed, Spartan, Kenetic.... "Organic liquidity" and "getting recognized by exchanges because of quality of code" should be assured.
- Max presale bonus in earlier rounds (total of $28.5M) was 42%, and the current round for only accredited investors is 10% ($6.6M). Tokens will be locked up for 1 year from the purchase date OR 3 months after platform launch, but will be usable on platform during lock. If no mainsale happens - max effective bonus will be 30%. If ALL tokens unlock at the same time 3 months after token unlock - it might get messy. If you were not in earlier rounds, this does not seem like a good flipping opportunity. But we don't care, we are in it for the tech, eh?

Although an excellent project, until full metrics are public, we are waiting on reviewing Perlin.

Note however that the current round is at 20 cent/token with a 3 month lock, while the previous round was 6 cent/token with no lock. Mainsale is rumored to be at 25 cent. At this point this one seems better to be picked up on an exchange.

A site to track Dapps treasury balances and daily changes.

http://www.dappcapitulation.com/

Swarm launched a DASH masternode fund:

https://www.finder.com.au/neufund-swarm-cryptocurrency-startups-bring-equity-to-the-masses

The Refereum Growth Engine is seeing promising data from it's beta campaigns, and we've also just shipped a new version you can see on Coinvision, with multiple new paying customers lined up. In addition, our gaming community is loving our recent partnership with EA and DICE for the huge release of the new Battlefield game. It's eye-opening for the industry to see one of the biggest entrainment mega-corporations retweet our blockchain startup. We'll also have more news on allowing additional purchasers to engage in our ecosystem via exchanges soon.

https://twitter.com/Refereum/status/1012006648368386048

Wolf Crypto are proud to team up with our Singaporean partners XSQ in bringing Blockchain to Singapore during the Singapore Blockchain Week - 17th to 20th of September 2018.

Vechain comprehensive mainnet launch guide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=Lsmg1MmjL-4

Coinbase adding GBP support.

https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/06/28/coinbase-adding-gbp-support-next-weeks/

DADI mainnet is NOW LIVE.
https://dadi.cloud/en/updates/announcements/dadi-mainnet-now-live

TOLAR presenting its 100 000 TPS prototype.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWpiaD7jjBA&app=desktop