With the market going through a period of consolidation, here are three projects with significant developments that should draw attention to their respective platforms and native currencies.

High Performance Blockchain (HPB)

High Performance Blockchain is a new combination of hardware and software blockchain architecture. It includes a chip accelerator engine and underlying blockchain platform, and is designed to achieve performance extensions for distributed applications. It is an easy to use high-performance blockchain platform, combining industry depth to meet the business needs of the real world, and provide speed and scalability.

Why High Performance Blockchain?

After finalizing their bounty campaign, the HPB team launched their official wallet on September 10 with an eye on their MainNet going live on September 24. The HPB MainNet launch has been pushed back a number of times and to have it finally take place will be a significant step forward for the team.

Tezos (XTZ)

Tezos is a decentralized blockchain which features a governance model that sees every user have a stake in the decision-making process, and Tezos’ self-governing ledger provides a way of validating transactions, and a way for rules to be updated and to evolve, and transactions are governed by a formal verification code which makes it possible to implement secure smart contracts.

Why Tezos?

After going through an extended period of turmoil, the project is set to launch its Mainnet on September 17 with the team recently confirming the date via an official tweet. As upgrades to Tezos without hard forks, with stakeholder consensus being used to dictate project direction, it was expected that Tezos could rival Ethereum as a smart contract platform and the Mainnet launch will do much to stimulate the Tezos community.

Obsidian (ODN)

Obsidian is a fork of Stratis, and is a C# blockchain based on the STRAT coin. The platform hosts the obsidian secure messenger (OSM), and focuses on secure and private communications, simplified money transfers, and bot/api integration. It also incorporates a masternode system with 10% Annual Proof of Stake.

Why Obsidian?

Obsidian will bring to life the ODIN Blockchain project which will announce a series of developments and releases over the month of September, and these are sure to draw attention to the platform’s capabilities. These include:

September 17th:

ODIN Blockchain launches

ODIN PoW Pre-mine Begins

September 20th:

Play Store submission

September 21st:

ODIN Claim registrations close at 15:00 UTC

ODIN PoW Pre-mine ends/ ODIN PoS Pre-mine begins

Obsidian Snapshot takes place between 18:00 and 18:05 UTC; Estimated Block heights: 510,677 – 510,682

September 26th:

Claim Statuses are updated

September 28th:

ODIN Wallet public release

Redemption begins

How did the coins perform last week?

With the exception of BTC which grew by around 1% over the week, both WAVES and PAI outperformed the market, which increased by 3.6% (Monday $195B, Sunday $202B). WAVES jumped by 15% and is currently trading at $2.24, and PAI improved by 5% and is currently trading at $0.019.