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Weekly Update 2.12.2017-2.19.2017

AKASHA – Social Media Network

Slack: https://akasha-slack.herokuapp.com/

2.12.2017-2.19.2017

Users are advised that current posts and accounts may need to be reposted/recreated after alpha.

Akasha is in touch with Uport and hopes to integrate Uport into Akasha

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Augur – Prediction Market

Slack: http://invite.augur.net/

2.12.2017-2.19.2017

Blog Post: http://blog.augur.net/augur-front-end-update-february-15th/

Augur (testnet) predicted that Adele would win Grammy Album of the year!

Looking for more people to commit to the Q&A Site for developers http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/106367/augur

Development progress on the front end as discussed in the weekly update.

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Casper (Dev Channel) – Proof of Stake Protocol

Gitter: https://gitter.im/ethereum/casper-scaling-and-protocol-economics

2.12.2017-2.19.2017

Vitalik’s latest work regarding simplifying consensus and slashing conditions: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ecFPYhe7YsKNQUAx48S8hoyK9Y4Rbe9be_lCe_vj2ek/edit Cuts slashing conditions from 7 to 4 Simpler proofs Messages per round down from 3 to 2



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Colony – Decentralized Collaboration Network

Slack: https://colonyslack.herokuapp.com/

2.12.2017-2.19.2017

Whitepaper and source code coming ~Q2

Token sale later this year (probably Summer)

‘More than just decentralized Trello’

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Digix – Asset (Gold) Backed Tokens

Slack: https://dgx-public.slack.com/signup

2.12.2017-2.19.2017

Announcement: https://medium.com/@Digix/digix-global-and-monolith-studio-announce-a-strategic-partnership-to-create-a-secure-dgx-powered-71a52d1974f8#.hxi57pdpl

Blog Post: https://medium.com/@Digix/digix-core-dev-update-14-feb-2017-81b99942d5a7#.479fal83k

“As highlighed 2 weeks ago, our work space is now sponsored by SG Innovate, and we are getting support from local statutory boards for our vision.” – @kcchng

“we met with the MSFT Bizspark team in Singapore a month ago, applied to be part of the program and was successful. It is an offer of free credits to DigixGlobal to run servers / nodes on their platform” – @kcchng

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FirstBlood – Decentralized E-Sports Rewards Platform

Slack: https://firstbloodio.slack.com/signup

2.12.2017-2.19.2017

Blog Post: https://blog.firstblood.io/learn-you-some-dota-2-a9fed9288595#.l3h5w431z

“lately I’ve been working flat out on FirstBlood stuff” – @auryn_macmillan

Regarding alpha release:

“we don’t set dates, we will launch it when it’s ready.” – @auryn_macmillan

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Golem – Distributed Computing Power

Slack: http://golemproject.org:3000/

2.12.2017-2.19.2017

Discussions on the potential of the VR rendering market.

GNT listed on the Poloniex exchange.

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ICONOMI – Digital Asset Management Platform

Slack: https://iconominet.herokuapp.com/

News Channel: https://iconominews.herokuapp.com/

2.12.2017-2.19.2017

Blog Post: https://medium.com/iconominet/iconomi-invested-2-000-eth-into-the-santiment-pre-sale-4edcc1098aca#.o1svm4c3n

Delayed going public–more info here https://iconominews.herokuapp.com/2017/02/13/finally-an-update/

Current Investments: Golem, Byteball, Santiment.

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Status – Mobile Ethereum OS

Slack: http://slack.status.im/

2.12.2017-2.19.2017

Status @ EDCON! https://www.periscope.tv/w/1OdKrgdRAVlGX

Plan to introduce a set of their own DApps that add value, and are geared toward helping to drive adoption. LocalBitcoins escrow-type service Sticker/Meme market

Plan to implement Forward Secrecy. Forward secrecy protects past sessions against future compromises of secret keys or passwords.

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Swarm – Serverless Hosting, Incentivised P2P Storage/Content Distribution

Slack: https://gitter.im/ethereum/swarm

2.12.2017-2.19.2017

Swarm @ EDCON! http://swarm-gateways.net/bzz:/swarm-edcon-slides.test/

SWAP token coming soon

Mist wallet running completely on Swarm(!)

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uPort – Self-Sovereign Identity

Gitter: https://gitter.im/uport-project/Lobby

2.12.2017-2.19.2017

uPort will eventually include the ability to use multiple identities but only one is permitted at the moment.

A bug was discovered when trying to get uPort to work with Meteor, it was squashed and the latest release should work on Meteor.

It appears that lots of beta-testing is getting done.

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