The last asset registered this week is asset #1888 and it is named 'BRIDGE.LTC' registered by 'cryptobridge' with no description.

Current registered wallets/accounts within the Bitshares network is 416673; an increase of 6881 wallets/accounts since last week

This week’s Bitshares hangout recording has been published and is available HERE

@virtualgrowth is doing a weekly market update and token give away; Check out his post and vote on your favorite asset HERE , if you leave you Bitshares username in the comment you may even be one of the lucky recipients of the token giveaway.

A LTM (Life Time Membership) only channel has been added to the Bitshares Discord. Entry to the channel can only be gained by verifying your account with @fav which can be done on Discord. There are plenty of other channels for various projects and topics so head over and join the conversation. See HERE for more details.

@richcg has developed a new iteration of the Bitshares website concept. You can view his latest update HERE

OpenLedger has added deposit and withdrawal gateways for WAVES and INCENT tokens to the Bitshares DEX.

STEALTH FBA has started selling on the Bitshares DEX this week ahead of the STEALTH public testnet opening up. STEALTH is the first Fee Backed Asset (FBA) on the network, you can learn more about FBA's HERE

This week has seen Bittrex's wallet (bittrex-deposit) increase by 25 million BTS. As a result they have overtaken PoloniEx for the single largest wallet in BTS terms.

While collecting the data for this report I noticed that on the 19-09-2017 the Bitshares DEX had a 24 hour trade volume totalling 15.4 million USD.

This week has seen a 180% increase in orders on the DEX (as seen sampled from the top 250 accounts in BTS terms).

BitSilver has been affected by a global settlement event which has prevented the smartcoin from being borrowed into existence. Current supply is still trading as normal but no new BitSilver smartcoins can be created at this time. Never fear BSIP-0018 is being tested on the testnet at the moment that will allow assets in this situation to be revived. You can find out more about this BSIP HERE . If you would like to learn more about global settlements @estefantt has written a good post HERE

@Jeremypeng and the BitUniverse team have released and announcement today open sourcing their new Bitshares Wallet and Trade mobile application. The app is currently available for download from the google playstore HERE . You can view their announcement HERE and you can view the code on their github page HERE

Transwiser has announced they will be shutting down their Chinese operation under the Transwiser branding and replacing current services with Magic Wallet. You can see the official announcement HERE and see Magic Wallet HERE

@Stan has done an interview with Giselle Koy ( @gisellekoy ), the interview is part of the "My Digital Sovereignty" series. You can view the full interview HERE

@Stan has done an interview with radio host Kerry Lutz this week. This interview covers everything from bitcoin, the billion hero campaign, ICOs and the Token Exchange Self Regulating Body (TXSRB). You can find the interview HERE

A new version of the Bitshares reference wallet (light client) has been released this week (version 2.0.170915). You can find more information on the release HERE

The Bitshares TESTNET has successfully hardforked. The hardfork includes BSIP0018 and some minor consensus upgrades. Testing is being performed before being given the all clear for the changes can be merged into the Bitshares production network.

Bitshares has broken it old record by achieving 920,000 Operations in 1 day! Which gives it a 24 hour average of 10.64 Operations per second (i.e on the 13th of Sept, every second 10.64 operations (transfers, order creates/cancels/fills, account creation, asset creation, voting ect) occurred on the Bitshares Blockchain)

This section will highlight any observations made while analysing the data.

The Bitshares State of the Network Reports seeks to combine raw data from a wide range of metrics and combine them into meaningful information to identify emerging trends and changes in the Bitshares network.

Welcome to the 53rd Bitshares State of the Network (BSotN) report. A weekly report focusing on the changes in the ecosystem and track longer term changes in a effort to identify emerging trends and changes in the Bitshares platform.

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Bitshares Distribution

This sections seeks to analyse the current distribution of the network. We look at the current supply, top 100 hodlers, Orders on the Bitshares Decentralized Exchange (DEX), Reserve pool balance and Income growth.

Distribution Balance Change W/W Change W/W % BTS Supply 2,599,428,201 174,634.00 0.01% BTS Stealth 269,289 - 0.00% BTS in Open Orders (DEX - T250) 10642815.83 6,096,271.00 184.63% Reserve Pool 1,001,144,443 -174,633.00 -0.02% RP Accumulated fees 134,957 7,031.00 11.52% Collateral (top 250) backing Smartcoins 407179005 -27,038,820.00 -6.39% Top 100 Total 1,456,273,066 -5,945,577.00 -0.39% Top 100 - minus Exchanges 413,206,774 905,735.00 0.23% Exchanges 1,043,066,292 -6,851,312.00 -0.61% Non Exchanges 1,556,361,909 7,025,946.00 0.47%

Profit/Expenses from the Bitshares Reserve Pool

The chart below show historic profit/expense from the Bitshares Reserve Pool where a positive number represents a W/W profit and a negative number means a W/W expense; Bitshares expenses include witness and worker pay and income includes network fees.

BTS Trading

Looking at the most active trading pairs for Bitshares (BTS). Data displayed is a 24 hour snapshot as taken on the date of this report and not a reflection on the week as a whole.

Market Last Price Price USD 24hr Vol BTS 24hr Vol USD Vol % Vol % Change W/W BTC 0.00002149 0.08 142,544,303.69 11,967,252.62 48.07 -4.9% CNY 0.49854128 0.08 151,907,857.83 11,488,281.56 51.2% -54.4% ETH 0.00029585 0.08356504 2,052,899.11 171,550.59 0.7% 9.0%

Worker Proposals

This section will identify the current approved and pending worker proposals



Active Worker:

Proposed Worker

DEX: Most Active Markets

This section will show the BTS markets within the DEX and seek to highlight the most active markets.



The most active base pair is BTS and the top 3 pairs are CNY, USD and Open.BTC

Smartcoins

This sections seeks to analyse the current supply and market capitalisation of the Bitshares Smartcoins.

Asset Supply Price Market Cap BTS Market Cap USD Supply Change W/W BTS 2,599,428,201 0.07968527 2,599,428,201 $207,136,138.04 0.007% BTS Stealth 269,289 0.07968527 269,289 $21,458.37 0.000% Reserve Pool 1,001,144,443 0.07968527 1,001,144,443 $79,776,465.25 -0.017% Accumulated fees 134,957 0.07968527 134,957 $10,754.08 5.496% BitUSD 3,097,205 12.04 37,290,348 $3,097,205.00 -20.170% BitCNY 55,139,687 1.86 102,559,818 $8,172,506.77 2.782% BitEUR 79,246 14.43 1,143,520 $91,121.68 -19.261% BitBTC 50 46,991 2,358,948 $187,973.42 -10.357% BitGold 90 14466.49292 1,301,984 $103,748.98 0.000% BitSilver 8,820 190.4131829 1,679,444 $133,826.97 -2.906% Ruble 1,510,971 0.2046 309,145 $24,634.28 -27.937% HERO 1,175 1,923 2,259,525 $180,050.86 -33.428%

Referral Stats

This section will track user referrals, to gauge active refers overtime. The chart below shows in blue the total number of referred users and in orange the new referrals for this week.

Account Referrals Change W/W bitshares-munich 4743 37 btsabc 3226 34 compumatrix1 2384 0 jianjolly-0 1743 0 digital-nomad 1589 0 sdr 1497 20 stormheart 1145 0 cryptofresh 804 1 fav 564 0 cryptocurrency3 543 0 openledger 528 0 ebit 471 7 gn1 449 0

Vote Proxies

This section will track the change in proxy voting

Account Opinions Followers Weight (M) Weight Change (M) bitcrab 65 46 249.5 -11.3 xeroc 37 193 214.3 -3.3 baozi 29 64 65.6 4.5 fav 22 96 41.4 0.6 bitshares-munich-wallet 17 19 14.6 0 abit 43 455 14.4 2 laomao 35 4 10.4 -13.7 dahu 24 3 8.5 0 hellobts 30 19 7.9 0.1 blckchnd 23 424 7.7 0.1

Committee Members

This section will track shareholder approval of committee members

Account Votes (M) Votes Change (M) bitcrab 676.1 -35.1 abit 649.4 -32.2 xeroc 637.5 -10 bhuz 618.8 -33.2 bunkerchainlabs-com 608.6 -13.6 witness.still 600.8 -4.6 clayop 548.7 -33.4 openledgerdc 444.7 -4.3 chris4210 401.8 -6.3 ebit 395.3 -1.6 harvey-xts 282.4 -25.4

Active Witnesses

This section will track top 25 active witnesses and the changes in support

Rank Witness Votes Missed Missed W/W 1 in.abit 1.6.35 733.3 703 2 fox 1.6.16 729.9 3360 1 3 verbaltech2 1.6.34 725.9 1681 4 roelandp 1.6.74 697.9 14 5 openledger-dc 1.6.76 688.9 512 6 blckchnd 1.6.75 679.1 618 7 witness.yao 1.6.71 661.9 3541 8 elmato 1.6.20 659.8 4173 9 delegate.baozi 1.6.37 659.7 1465 10 bhuz 1.6.17 656.9 1563 11 xman 1.6.64 652.9 1625 12 witness.still 1.6.69 638.1 8934 1 13 sahkan-bitshares 1.6.73 621.5 803 1 14 xn-delegate 1.6.59 619.9 2763 1 15 rnglab 1.6.45 598.2 1893 16 delegate-1.lafona 1.6.28 597.3 1571 17 xeldal 1.6.22 567.8 1878 18 delegate.btsnow 1.6.40 519.9 5486 983 19 crazybit 1.6.84 497.6 80 1 20 delegate.ihashfury 1.6.26 426.9 869 21 mr.agsexplorer 1.6.24 416 5720 22 delegate.freedom 1.6.63 410.5 4859 23 wackou 1.6.18 375.6 1803 3 24 cyrano 1.6.21 361.2 3198 362 25 abc123 1.6.65 352.5 1270 3

Top 100 Distribution including Exchanges

This section looks at the top 100 rich list and compares account balances, this section will seek to identify changes in ownership which may lead to interesting investigations and early warning signs of upcoming projects

Rank Account Balance(inc orders) Orders Change W/W Change W/W % 1 bittrex-deposit 260,954,245 0 25,883,422.00 11.01% 2 poloniexcoldstorage 230,001,204 0 - 0.00% 3 poloniexwallet 115,418,078 0 -9,492,347.00 -7.60% 4 yunbi-granary 100,000,000 0 - 0.00% 5 jubi-bts 77,509,125 0 -5,132,244.00 -6.21% 6 bitcc-bts-cold 76,192,928 0 -8,000,001.00 -9.50% 7 chbts 73,881,725 0 -3,214,056.00 -4.17% 8 btschbtc 50,000,990 0 - 0.00% 9 bterdeposit 20,868,105 0 -2,493,974.00 -10.68% 10 aloha 20,248,167 0 - 0.00% 11 stan 13,939,681 0 - 0.00% 12 btercom 13,049,112 0 - 0.00% 13 echocold1 12,847,656 0 - 0.00% 14 tsuratsura-3557 12,200,671 0 - 0.00% 15 evan 10,659,692 0 - 0.00% 16 yun-bts 10,286,630 0 -13,527,305.00 -56.80% 17 tom-bitshare 9,564,243 0 3,692,559.00 62.89% 18 getch-bts 9,533,359 0 - 0.00% 19 cass 9,449,918 0 - 0.00% 20 virtual-ventures 9,318,078 0 - 0.00% 21 roje 8,850,419 0 - 0.00% 22 ibilitlan-scoltock 8,673,958 0 - 0.00% 23 cievia-waugaman 7,990,213 0 - 0.00% 24 bitcc-bts 7,793,417 0 5,793,417.00 289.67% 25 graphene2015 7,744,451 0 - 0.00% 26 invictus 7,494,364 0 - 0.00% 27 jiny2 7,438,984 0 - 0.00% 28 haeassa-granovsky 7,431,931 0 - 0.00% 29 abinia-rivard 6,550,563 0 - 0.00% 30 keebler-kahn 6,500,770 0 - 0.00% 31 bitcoinindonesia 5,772,487 0 190,467.00 3.41% 32 fericia-brick 5,766,623 0 - 0.00% 33 btszhqxf 5,734,712 0 - 0.00% 34 hnnr8 5,460,997 0 - 0.00% 35 linhan 5,425,095 0 - 0.00% 36 cadord-ozois 5,423,173 0 - 0.00% 37 spring 5,365,475 0 - 0.00% 38 yoyow.team 5,294,153 0 - 0.00% 39 xhunter 5,192,094 0 - 0.00% 40 jeraud-kanze 5,172,698 0 - 0.00% 41 jy2017 5,126,581 0 - 0.00% 42 brother-john 5,074,573 0 - 0.00% 43 enki 5,026,479 4,404 -96,201.00 -1.88% 44 arbor4 5,008,537 0 - 0.00% 45 geravia-mackinnon 4,777,691 0 - 0.00% 46 tyrone-shoelaces 4,665,298 0 - 0.00% 47 oh-bts 4,417,085 0 613,399.00 16.13% 48 btsxzzh2 4,348,432 0 - 0.00% 49 synergy3 4,256,644 85 -85.00 0.00% 50 quonael-lievesley 4,087,235 0 - 0.00% 51 slim 4,057,640 0 - 0.00% 52 coldstorage1 4,000,000 0 - 0.00% 53 super-bts 3,999,990 0 - 0.00% 54 wesley-waugaman 3,921,027 0 - 0.00% 55 abit 3,909,791 0 241,837.00 6.59% 56 bitcc-bts-withdrawal 3,795,686 0 1,795,686.00 89.78% 57 bts1998 3,582,340 0 64,533.00 1.83% 58 jackkang 3,482,959 0 - 0.00% 59 goodc0re 3,341,671 0 50,720.00 1.54% 60 laplap5 3,341,271 0 - 0.00% 61 chsend 3,315,047 0 -2,463,910.00 -42.64% 62 alexna64 3,288,683 260,088 -1,162,733.00 -26.12% 63 jaehyuk 3,227,053 0 - 0.00% 64 bafohald-degeorge 3,189,866 0 - 0.00% 65 scottmclane 3,177,126 0 - 0.00% 66 wind-flower 3,174,192 0 - 0.00% 67 wys 3,139,515 0 41,250.00 1.33% 68 zhanzhang 3,047,694 0 - 0.00% 69 null-account 3,011,947 0 - 0.00% 70 lao-wallet 3,000,973 0 - 0.00% 71 billion-hero-prize 3,000,000 0 - 0.00% 72 serg 2,969,262 0 - 0.00% 73 tel-911 2,909,136 0 - 0.00% 74 wzm1 2,885,166 0 - 0.00% 75 tong-xin 2,777,893 0 - 0.00% 76 escrow-qqxmk 2,715,506 0 715,506.00 35.78% 77 mybak 2,702,924 0 544.00 0.02% 78 hardfork2 2,545,413 0 - 0.00% 79 satoshi-pie 2,541,024 0 - 0.00% 80 chainsquad 2,528,015 0 - 0.00% 81 hodor 2,509,880 0 - 0.00% 82 dark-angel 2,505,777 0 268,382.00 12.00% 83 thread 2,495,016 0 - 0.00% 84 oraclechain 2,487,869 0 - 0.00% 85 dev.bitsharesblocks 2,419,672 0 - 0.00% 86 koocaa 2,414,544 0 387,336.00 19.11% 87 roland.sun 2,411,118 0 2,382,527.00 8333.14% 88 jogger2 2,403,888 0 - 0.00% 89 spook 2,296,849 0 - 0.00% 90 anonymous 2,290,224 93,000 970,093.00 73.48% 91 freedom35 2,235,570 0 -161,277.00 -6.73% 92 nana-roseannadana 2,209,986 0 - 0.00% 93 yvg1900 2,201,037 0 - 0.00% 94 kedaliwin-tefft 2,192,433 0 - 0.00% 95 talos 2,161,539 0 - 0.00% 96 mostar 2,157,442 0 - 0.00% 97 storj 2,153,980 0 329,995.00 18.09% 98 top-quants 2,128,009 0 - 0.00% 99 wackou 2,117,257 0 -2.00 0.00% 100 bilbo-baggins 2,113,427 0 - 0.00%

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