In this Monthly report, we will give a summary of the most important updates that happened in the VeChain ecosystem during March 2019.

VeChain

March 7th – Registration for the VeChain Summit 2019 has opened. Read everything you need to know about this event in our writeup:

The VeChain Summit 2019 will be held on Apr 18 in SF. With speeches from Foundation members, a Developers challenge, product releases as well as speakers from DNV GL and the BMW Group, you don't want to miss this one-day event! #CreatingValuableTXs $VEThttps://t.co/ONrGuT2d4X — VeChainInsider (@vechaininsider) March 10, 2019

March 20th – Vechain’s Executive Financial Report Vol. 6 was released. Key highlights are that the circulating supply increased with 2% to 69% of the total supply. 11 full-time employees were hired and the Economic Nodes Reward Pool was lowered by 2.5 billion VET, as stated in the whitepaper.

March 28th – VeChain has announced that Dr. Dan Boneh will speak during the Summit. Dr. Boneh is co-director at the Center for Blockchain Research at Stanford and best known for his many publications in the field of cryptography.

March 28th – A presentation by Sarah Nabaa on how enterprises will use the VeChainThor blockchain during the IoT Asia event.

Why is blockchain a game-changer in IoT? @Sarah_Nabaa will present how enterprises such as @DNVGL have deployed real world dApps which leverage on IoT and #VeChainThor as part of their digital transformation. #creatingvaluableTXs IoT Asia livestream👉 https://t.co/lrj4lP9yTX — VeChain Foundation (@vechainofficial) March 28, 2019

March 29th – VeChain has announced that X. Eyeé, the Blockchain Ambassador at Microsoft Azure, will be one of the speakers during the VeChain Summit 2019.

Ecosystem Projects

March 4th – OceanEx announces that it will list Plair (PLA) on its exchange platform. Read all the details here.

March 8th – Safe Haven (SHA) has announced that it will integrate its solutions on the Bitrue exchange. Bitrue also announced the listing of the SHA token a few days later.

March 12th – Safe Haven releases the SafeKey FIDO2, offering hardware encryption for both the 2FA and U2F standards.

Another milestone reached, the SafeKey FIDO 2 is now available for the Safe Haven and VeChain community. FIDO 2, the secure key for your digital life. #SHA #VET https://t.co/PBQghbL4L5 — Safe Haven (SHA) (@SafeHavenio) March 12, 2019

March 12th – OceanEx Amsterdam meetup in which Nan announced that the OCE token will be listed on March 31st!

March 20th – OceanEx lists DECENT.bet (DBET) with a DBET/VET trading pair.

March 26th – Plair releases the Plair Alpha test guide ahead of its Alpha release. Make sure to read it to make the most out of the Plair alpha.

March 28th – Safe Haven gives more details on its Node Program. The snapshot date from which the monitoring of Nodes will start is May 1, 2019, 1300 UTC. Read all the details here.

March 28th – OceanEx announces the OCE Club (BETA), in which OCE token holders will get rewards and benefits for holding OCE. Read more here:

In anticipation of the listing of OCE on March 31st, we are pleased to announce that OCE Club (Beta) is launching on April 2nd! #OCEListing #OCEClub 🚀OCE Club (Beta) — Serving Our Token Holders With Unparalleled Trading Experience: https://t.co/538ZfIWWnr — OceanEx Official (@OceanexOfficial) March 28, 2019

March 29th – Everscore, a blockchain solution to store your personal high scores and accomplishments was announced. Read more here.

March 31st – Safe Haven announces the release of the Safe Haven Inheritance Platform (SHIP). The SHIP will now start with a closed BETA program with some of the team’s future partners. Once the closed BETA is finished, the platform will open up for a select group of community members. Read more here.

Team members

March 13th – An interview by CryptoLiveLeak with VeChain’s USA country manager Jason Rockwood during the MIT Bitcoin Expo. He gives a demonstration of what VeChain is capable of.

March 25th – An interview with Jason Rockwood where he talks about his background and role in VeChain can be read on GoCryptoWise.com.

‘The community is the heart and soul of VeChain’ – Jason Rockwood Country Manager

March 29th – Sunny Lu sharing a picture of their new office in Beijing.

Some new thinking from the Carbon Initiative meeting. The right way of Blockchain technology roadmap should be from Technical Consensus, up to Business Consensus, up to Governance Consensus. Quite exciting, all the way up to change the world step by step. pic.twitter.com/0eViO2PCvO — Sunny LU, VeChain (@sunshinelu24) March 29, 2019

Community

March 6th – Are you a developer and would you like to learn more about how to create dApps running on the VeChainThor platform? Check out these great guide:

Thank you, A Byte Ahead, for the three high-quality dApp Development Tutorials submitted in the VeChain Developer Bounty! We look forward to more of your work and the work of those inspired by you. https://t.co/LMTagWh6cF — VeChain Foundation (@vechainofficial) March 6, 2019

March 13th – Community member CryptoShark showing of his Comet avatar in real life.

March 15th – Want to find out more about the CometVerse and how you can customize your Comet? This is the guide to read!

March 20th – Pepi Punami has created a custom network for the VeChainThor blockchain, allowing him to push the chain to its limits and see what the VeChainThor blockchain is capable of.

I did some incredible testing on the new #VeChain #Thor CustomNetwork option and wrote a little story about it. Prepare for some big blocks! #vet $vet $vtho

VeChain CustomNetwork — The BFC Story https://t.co/dx5P4cWV4G — Pepi Punami (@PepiPunami) March 20, 2019

March 28th – VeChainstats.com is a great website that I personally use all the time. I know the owner has invested a lot of time (and money!) into this project. Please show him some support and send him some VET!

Anyone adding value to the ecosystem deserves a special shoutout and today I'd like to give a special one to https://t.co/wgmnca9BEe which provides valuable information to all of us out of the owners own pocket. Kindly consider making a donation to keep the site badass #VeFam — DontShowMeTheMemelines (@DMemelines) March 28, 2019

March 31st – An interesting writeup by one of Ethereum’s core developers and how ETH’s governance has failed.