Understanding Blockchain Series: A 101 Noob Intro to Programming Smart Contracts on Ethereum

https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/a-101-noob-intro-to-programming-smart-contracts-on-ethereum-695d15c1dab4

At the end of May, we announced the release of the PARSEC Whitepaper and RFC. Standing for the Protocol for Asynchronous Reliable Secure and Efficient Consensus, the new consensus mechanism will power not only the SAFE Network but will also help many other decentralised projects looking to build global, permissionless networks across the world.

The release generated a huge amount of interest online and now, only a few weeks later, we’re delighted to announce that we’re releasing the actual PARSEC code itself . That’s right — as of today, you can check out the world’s first completely decentralised, open source, highly asynchronous Byzantine Fault Tolerant consensus mechanism by visiting our GitHub repo and downloading the code for yourself.

https://medium.com/safenetwork/parsec-the-release-of-the-code-91d514faaa71

Source: https://howmuch.net/articles/ico-market-2018

SIRIN LABS smartphone design.

https://www.cryptoninjas.net/2018/07/11/see-sirin-labs-final-design-for-the-finney-blockchain-smartphone/

DREP reduces hardcap

In view of the strategic industry partnerships as you seen in our Announcement channel and commercial networks we have acquired, our roadmap will see less outlay.

After a thorough reassessment of our project needs in terms of costing - now that we have these partners on board, we will be revising the fundraise amount.

To minimise the impact on our existing tokenomics and token metrics, the price per token during crowdsale will be reduced to $0.00770. The revised hardcap will be $19.8m.

Thank you community for your consistent support. We are always keen to listen to your feedback!

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Our revised hardcap is USD 19.8m

- Private Sale: 750m tokens, 30% discount, 50% of total tokens to be locked up for 90 days, to raise US$4.0m (Sold out)

- Private Presale: 600m tokens, 15% discount, 50% of total tokens to be locked up for 45 days, to raise US$3.9m (Sold out)

- Public Presale: 1,050m tokens, 10% discount, 50% of total tokens to be locked up for 30 days, to raise US$7.3m (Oversubscribed)

- Public Crowdsale: 600m tokens, no discount, no lockup, to raise US$4.6m

Source: DREP Telegram Channel

Still at rumor level: On August 10th the SEC will make its decision on a recently proposed Bitcoin ETF filed by CBOE.

https://twitter.com/Isotopes_CC/status/1017044779601887232

*Correction, within 45 days of Friday August 10th.

https://twitter.com/LilUziVertcoin/status/1016885423187091459

RSK UPDATE

RSK Releases A Public Infrastructure Service To Achieve A Hassle-Free DApp Development Experience

- Without the need of installing any infrastructure component and having an on-demand scalable architecture, blockchain developers and third-party companies can now focus on their development and their dApp’s performance.

- The news goes hand in hand with the RSK MainNet network release from January 2018, the SBTC wallets integration, the addition of more hashing power to the merged-mining process coming from different mining pool companies and a network hardening as per the latest release, to achieve a more secure smart contract protocol running on top of the Bitcoin network.

https://media.rsk.co/rsk-releases-a-public-infrastructure-service-to-achieve-a-hassle-free-dapp-development-experience/

The Central Bank of Canada reveals 5% of Canadians owned Bitcoin as of 2017, increasing from 2.9% in 2016. Canadians own >2,7 million BTC.

Source: http://www.lesaffaires.com/blogues/francois-remy/le-bitcoin-repose-surtout-dans-des-portefeuilles-quebecois/603734?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mine-de-rien-blockchain-cryptomonnaie&utm_content=10-07-2018

NULS releases mainnet

https://medium.com/@nuls/welcome-to-main-net-c077f589e30d

KuCoin is having a community vote tonight and we want to urge everyone to cast a vote. Let's show them how the FT army operates. Full info about the voting process can be found here: https://medium.com/kucoinexchange/vote-for-your-coin-telegram-action-f749362be26a

ATONOMI token unlock

ATMI token will unlock on Thursday July 12th at 2pm UTC.

We have completed the final security and audit tasks to clear the tokens for release. Once released, IoT solution developers and users of the Atonomi Network will be able to use the ATMI token to register and activate IoT devices through the Atonomi Identity Registry Network. As Atonomi enabled IoT devices interact, their reputations will evolve and enable a new level of trust and security for the Internet of Things. I would like to take this opportunity to personally thank the extended team of people that worked diligently on the project; without their commitment, this would not be possible.

Source: Atonomi telegram

Risk is measured as the changeability of returns.

Our July 13th Development update is now available to read here: https://medium.com/oysterprotocol/development-update-july-13th-2018-ac975ca973b6

Coinbase exploring potentially adding additional offerings:

https://twitter.com/coinbase/status/1017863343288115200