Hey guys! It’s me Newton! This is going to be a very brief summary write-up of what went on and what to expect for the future in terms of the Fintech Awards and DIONS.

If you haven’t caught up with what we had done previously, the update can be found here:

The European Fintech Award 2017

We finally are done with the European Fintech Awards with Richard presenting in the European Parliament to attendees and it was a wonderful sight to see IOC being promoted in front of various individuals that come from the banking, tech and law sectors.

I/O Coin in the end placed 2nd in the European Fintech Awards, where Tradle won the first place. Despite not winning the award, there was a great amount of interest for blockchain technology and being in the middle of it, Richard had the opportunity to meet and talk to various companies and persons during the event. Richard will write a more in-depth update on the event as soon as he is settled back, so keep your eyes peeled!

2. DIONS & the Countdown

We finally started the countdown! It’s roughly 34 days from here till the block is called! It has been a long road but after months of tests by Joel and Derek, we are confident with the release of DIONS and can’t wait for the countdown to hit 00:00:00. We’ll ensure a smooth transition over to DIONS along with contacting Bittrex and Chainz on the update.

Block call countdown can be found at: https://www.iocoin.io/

For those that have yet known about DIONS or would like to learn more about DIONS, you can find our whitepaper on it here:

http://iodigital.io/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/whitepaper_dions.pdf

In the whitepaper you can find what DIONS has to offer.

3. What to expect for the future?

Well, that is another question to answer another time. Till then, you can refer to our Roadmap to see where we are now:

If you want to stay in touch, here are several places to go to:

For any queries in regards to staking, downloads and other queries, please see our FAQ page on:

https://iodigital.io/faq/

If you have any questions, feel free to come down on slack/telegram

That’s it folks!

NewtonC