The Qtum team is back in the office preparing for many upcoming events in the near future. Patrick is in Beijing, doing mostly business development, while John and Stella are preparing for the upcoming meetup in Tokyo and Blockshow conference in Singapore. Mike and Brett will travel to Colombia to speak at the Labit Conference in early December.

The new development roadmap will be released within days, it took a bit longer than expected to finalize the design and wording. We have been working a lot behind the scenes to help our Decentralized Applications deploy their smart contracts. There are a few other projects interested in building on Qtum, so we’ll let them announce their plans if they chose to build on our platform.

The Qtum Slack is open again, if you would like to talk with the team directly, please enter your e-mail address for an invitation:

Qtum v.1.1.0 Wallet Update Provides Native Custom Token Support

It is now easier to interact with Qtum custom tokens (Decentralized Applications, etc) in the QT wallet. You will need to update to the newest version 1.1.0 Qtum Ignition Main Network wallet:

Here is the new functionality in from this update:

v1.1.0: Add GUI support Qtum QRC tokens, allowing full management of tokens on the Qtum blockchain from the Qt wallet

Sending to a contract no longer requires ABI data, allowing easy participation in simple crowdsale contracts

Staking Qtum Tokens from a Linux Virtual Private Server

The Qtum team prepared a guide for anyone interested in using a VPS to stake their tokens:

Demonhacks 2017 Hackathon in Chicago Report

The winners of the Hackathon in Chicago were recently announced, let’s take a look:

The Qtum challenge prize was awarded to the best project to deploy on our platform:

We gave $200.00 to each winner on the team, and a spacesuit. We had 2 submissions at the event:

Medicoin

Using blockchain, we are enabling patients to access and share their medical information with whoever they see fit without compromising its integrity or their privacy.

What’s next for MediChainRx?

We set out to create a safe and reliable platform where patients are the primary owners of their medical records. We would also like to move to using Qtum. Our next steps are to finish building out the MVP, make it easy to get onto the platform, work out its security issues, and take it into the market. We believe everyone that interacts with the healthcare system can benefit from improved access to their medical data, regardless of socioeconomic background — so we plan to proceed with low prices and an open source business model.

Metherium *WINNER*

Methereum will revolutionize the way every college, university and lender can provide financial aid and permanent records like transcripts and visas for students. For far too long, the financial aid institution has had a bureaucratic approach to accepting and processing loans, which takes weeks to months during processing and leaves the student at a severe disadvantage when making payments or applying to jobs.

Qtum DAPP Updates:

Ink

Ink recently raised 800,000 Qtum in their presale, for more information please see their website and blog:

Medibloc

This project is about to launch their November 13th pre-sale:

Their blog has a lot of recent content:

Vevue

Vevue’s ICO started at Qtum block 35,000, and has raised over 22,000 tokens so far.

They recently released a ‘feature request’ video:

Bodhi

This Decentralized Application will launch their token sale on November 20th, for more information, please see their website:

They will also be doing an airdrop to Qtum holders. You will need to have possession of your private keys to claim these tokens (don’t have your Qtum on an exchange, use the Qtum or Qbao wallet). They will announce this event at least 1 month in advance, so remember to keep an eye on their project. Here is the press release in Chinese:

Community Content

User “JB395” published his weekly Qtum Main Network results:

A Korean community member published an app on the Google Play store called Happy Qtum. This application notifies you if you staked a block

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