NEX ICO lottery opens in a few hours at 18:00 UTC (in 3h).

In the first round, we will conduct lotteries among all registered users to select participants for the token sale. The first lottery will select up to 25k participants to contribute up to $1,000 each. A second lottery will select participants from the remaining users to fill any gaps left by participants who failed to register or wished to contribute under the maximum individual limit.
To register for the lotteries you will need the following:
An email address
Your passport or national ID number — This information must match your KYC documents
The country issuing your document

Interesting article on Binance, their revenues/profits and the value of their BNB token.

https://medium.com/@BambouClub/a-valuation-calculator-for-binance-coin-af3e18a579fc

Binance announces its own Blockchain

>As a public blockchain, Binance Chain will mainly focus on the transfer and trading of blockchain assets, as well as provide new possibilities for the future flow of blockchain assets. Binance Chain will focus on performance, ease-of-use, and liquidity. Binance Coin (BNB) will be upgraded to exist on its own blockchain mainnet, becoming a native coin.

Source:
https://support.binance.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001668872

Venchain (VEN) Update

The VeChain Foundation has formed a partnership with a major Chinese risk management and shipping firm to explore possibilities for using blockchain technology throughout its supply chain.

The partnership is expected to see the implementation of Vechain’s technology throughout LogSafer’s business. In a blog post published on their website, LogSafer said the cooperation agreement will allow the two company’s work together “to combine big data, Internet of Things, and blockchain technologies.”

https://themarketmogul.com/vechain-partnership-deal/

TE-FOOD (TFD), Electrify.Asia (ELEC) and Tomocoin (TOMO) are now listed on gate.io.

https://gate.io/article/16393

TE-FOOD was a Bronze Level Sponsor of the Global Food Safety Conference in Japan.

https://twitter.com/TE_FOOD/status/972849318523801601

First U.S. Congressional hearing to address ICOs.

"Examining the Cryptocurrencies and ICO Markets"

Stream: https://t.co/JZqWE9qQQa

Bitcoin Lightning Network released on mainnet

>Today we at Lightning Labs are announcing the release of lnd 0.4-beta! This release marks the 4th major release of lnd and the first Lightning mainnet beta, an important milestone.

Source:
https://blog.lightning.engineering/announcement/2018/03/15/lnd-beta.html

Request (REQ) new update

https://blog.request.network/request-network-project-update-march-16th-2018-mainnet-audits-bug-bounties-a-new-hire-2173b8903f5b

[DarpalRating] We went through 133 Blockchain projects Github, Here’s our Code Audit Report for February

https://medium.com/@Darpalrating/darpalrating-we-went-through-133-blockchain-projects-github-heres-our-code-audit-report-for-5c060df3af44

South Korean authorities raid 3 Crypto Exchanges

South Korean prosecutors stormed the premises of three cryptocurrency exchanges in Seoul earlier this week after a government investigation raised suspicions that top executives at the exchanges were shifting client assets into their personal accounts, local media outlet Chosun reported.

Source:
https://cryptovest.com/news/3-korean-crypto-exchanges-get-raided-by-prosecutors/

Reminder: Bittrex will remove number of coins on March 30th

>We will be removing the wallets included in the list below on March 30, 2018. Once these wallets are removed, we will no longer be able to recover these coins. Users must withdrawal their coins before March 30, 2018, in order to keep them. The coins marked with an asterisk (*) have broken blockchains or wallets that will not allow withdrawals. In those cases, the inability to withdraw your balance is not due to the Bittrex Exchange platform, but is caused by a problem with the underlying blockchain or wallet associated with that coin.

8BIT, ADC, AM, AMS, APEX*, ARB, BITS*, BITZ*, BLC, BOB, BSTY, BTA, CCN, CRBIT*, CRYPT*, DAR, DGC, DRACO, DTC, FC2, FRK, FSC2*, GEMZ, GHC, GP, GRT, HKG, HYPER*, HZ, J, KR*, LXC*, MAX, MEC, METAL, MND, MTR*, MZC, NAUT, NET, NEU*, NTRN, OC*, ORB, PRIME*, PXI, ROOT*, SCOT, SCRT*, SFR*, SLG, SLING*, SOON, SPRTS, SSD*, STEPS*, STV, SWING, TES, TIT, TRI, TRK, U*, UFO, UNIQ*, UNIT, UNO, UTC, VIOR*, VIRAL*, VPN, WARP*, XAUR, XBB, XC, XCO, XDQ*, XPY*, XQN, XSEED*, XTC, YBC*



Source:
https://support.bittrex.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001609031

Binance announces DEX building challange with 1m$ prize money

The objective of this project is to solicit prototypes of a decentralized exchange with a focus on speed and capacity, or more precisely, a dex blockchain that is low-latency and high-throughput. We will offer a prize pool equivalent to $1,000,000 USD, paid in BNB. In addition, winning team(s) may also be considered for employment.

The dex prototype should have the following features:

-Sending and receiving of the native coin
-New token creation
-Sending, receiving, freezing, and burning of tokens
-Ability to trade one token with another token (all within the same chain)
-All features mentioned above built-in natively to the blockchain
-No support for smart contracts, virtual machines or turing complete languages
-If a trade-off is required, always choose speed and simplicity over fancy features.

Bonus feature:
- Native on-chain ICO

Source:
https://medium.com/binanceexchange/binance-dexathon-845dc0cbfffe

DeepBrainChain (DBC) token repurchasing plan.

https://twitter.com/DeepBrainChain/status/974816911606169601

Electrify.Asia (ELEC)

Interview with co-founders LIVE now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbSXRt3hkr4