

Welcome to the 44th 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.

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.

This weeks report lacks some details due to Cryptofresh data being re-indexed after the Bitshares patch released the day prior to my data collection. I hope to have a full report as normal next week. Any affected data has been removed and to make up for it i have included a few more pictures and videos.

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

BitUSD is still worth $1 USD (this should not be a surprise to anyone)

Peter Conrad (@cyrano) has had his worker proposal (HERE) accepted by the Bitshares shareholders. This worker proposal relates to the development and implementation of BSIP-0018 titled "Revive BitAsset through buying Settlement Pool".

@michaelx has released an article on huffington post titled "Please don't change Bitcoin, you'll break it!". The article relates to Bitcoin, BitShares and the Hero and the niches that each technology addresses. You can view the original article HERE or @stan has also shared the content on Steemit HERE

@kencode has released his weekly update for Smartcoins Wallet, BlockPay, Ledger Nano S, Stealth and BitShares Munich IVS. This weeks update sees 2 new developers enter the team focused on the Ledger Nano S integration and Stealth! There is also updates for Blockpay and a new release of the Smartcoins Wallet. You can see his update HERE. This week has also seen the release of BlockPay "S" v1.5.13 which can be found HERE

Ronny Boesing (CEO of OpenLedger) will be on the main Stage at the State of Digital Money 2017 Conference, Los Angeles, CA, July 22 2017 (Openledger 25% off Discount Code HERE). Also on July 30-31 Aviva Õunap, CMO of OpenLedger ApS on the Main Stage at Finwise 2017 Global Blockchain Summit in Shanghai, China, presenting the OpenLedger ecosystem and upcoming ITOs, including GetGame, eDEV.one. OCASH and APPTRADE

Ronny Boesing (CEO of OpenLedger) has announced upcoming sharedrops on OBITS holders for 5% of the following projects OCASH, eDEV, GetGame and Apptrade. There was also a mention of a QORA sharedrop in the next few days (given the posting date of this article this looks to be another QORA sharedrop in addition to the one conducted 1 week ago). Check out his full announcements HERE

OBITS voting is happening again. If you are an OBITS holders your personal username and password sent in the memo of a 1 BTS transaction from 'obits-voting'. Check your wallet for the TX and see the memo for your credentials. Example: 'Vote for OBITS - Let your voice be heard! Dear OpenLedger user! You have received this message as you are currently listed as an OBITS holder. We invite you to take part in the voting process offered connected to our monthly OBITS buyback&burn feature. Your personal login/password for voting are: ************* / *********** To take part in the voting we invite you to please visit the following page: obits.io/vote'

@virtual-growth has presented an idea in the last Whaletank hangout for a trading contest based on the Bitshares network. You can listen to his presentation HERE or see his written concept HERE

Congratulations to @mrehqe and @robertdurst10 on winning some Bitshares swag from @robrigo in his raffle

This week has seen the 'BitsharesDEX' telegram channel break the 2000 members mark and remains one of the most active channels of communication for the Bitshares community.

Bitshares user 'Spike Spiegel' has done a great job creating and maintaining the Bitshares thread on Bitcoin Talk. You can see his work and show your support HERE

Dan Robles has introduced BitShares/Steem/EOS ecosystem to engineers from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Dan has also been working from some time on digital currency called 'Quant' focused toward engineers to store value in infrastructure. See his video HERE

@stan this week has mentioned a couple of quotes from the PR firm Digital Launch in relation to the HERO campaign. "The time is now for us to strike without question. A little more organizing and we will go full force. The market is ours for the taking and the market is ours for the setting.". "This is a perfect event for us to take advantage of".

@fav has created a unified graphene discord server. To join this channel and keep up with the news on all Graphene chains please follow this link 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.

This weeks Bitshares hangout recording has been published and is available HERE

Current registered wallets/accounts within the Bitshares network is 372773; an increase of 11467 wallets/accounts since last week