

Welcome to the 76th 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 section will highlight any observations made while analysing the data.

@fox has announced the release of the official Bitshares Core Developer worker proposal on the Bitshares network. This worker proposal named '201803-bitshares-core' is now live and the community can cast their vote within the Bitshares wallets. I am happy to report that within this week support has pushed this worker into being actively funded (your votes are still required if you want to ensure this team is well supported into the future). Find more information HERE

AEX exchange (formally known as BTC38) has announced that they have issued GAT (Global AEX Token) on the Bitshares blockchain. GAT is similar to Binance's BNB token and can be used as transaction fees or used for voting on new coins listings; AEX will also use a percentage of the exchange income to buy back GAT tokens from the market. Gat tokens will be distributed via a daily airdrop (that needs to be claimed each day) to BTC, BTS, ETH, LTC and NSS tokens holder on the exchange. More information HERE

A new team of application developers has made themselves known to the community this week with the release of the email-notifier for BitShares DEX. The Notifier allows Bitshares users to subscribe to email alert for account changes such as Transfers, Fill Order execution, or, soon, breach of collateral ratio. The code for the notifier is open source and there are instructions available to run the service on your own node; alternatively the team is offering the service to the community for 50 BTS per user for a lifetime subscription. The team have also confirmed, that it's building a wallet application (named Trusty) on top of BitShares, and they plan to also open-source the SDK framework used. You can find the source code and information to run the service or subscribe to their service HERE. Keep an eye out for this team on upcoming Beyond Bitcoin / Bitshares talk hangouts. If you want to get in contact with this team you can reach them via the telegram account @trustyarm.

The BitShares Blockchain Foundation (@bitshares.fdn) has released a post that provide some insight to the complexities of listing with exchanges in today's legal focused landscape. The article also expands on advice from the legal counsel and their recommendations to ensure that Bitshares has the best chance and navigating the legal framework. They also touch on the accounting process and issues with the website bitshares.org. This is a long article but it is a great read to get an idea of the work being performed by the foundation in the background. Find full details HERE

The BitShares Blockchain Foundation (@bitshares.fdn) have requested that BTS holders consider seven BitShares Improvement Proposal (BSIP) proposed by the Bitshares Core Developer (BSIP-0030 - BSIP-0037) focused on improvements to the BitShares protocol. The BSIP's are proposed as worker proposal and available to be voted on with the Bitshares wallets. You can see a full list of the BSIP's HERE and find the announcement HERE

@cm-steem has announced that Hertz is now live on the Bitshares DEX. Hertz is an Algorithm Based Asset which is pegged to the USD, backed by BTS and has its price feed modified to oscillate using a sine wave with 14% amplitude and a 28 day period resulting in a settlement price range fluctuations between $0.86 and $1.14 depending on the current cycle position. More info HERE

@full-steem-ahead / Verbaltech2 has released his monthly Witness report which includes details of new hardware on order, resource usage on currently nodes and updates on price feeds being delivered. See the full report HERE

@agorise has been running some incentives programs for starting up Cryptocurrency related meetups in your local city. The latest giveaway has up to 1000 BTS reward for starting your meetup before the 29th of March. More info HERE

The Beyond Bitcoin Bitshares weekly hangouts have now moved to the Discord platform. You can join the Bitshares Discord HERE and also catch the latest hangouts streamed live on YouTube HERE

This week’s Bitshares hangout recording has been published and is available HERE