In this article we make an effort to pre-collect some of the most important Altcoin development and progress dates for the month of August. We showcase possible forks, releases, airdrops and anything that could potentially interest our readers and help them with their market decision making.

Please note that this is a non-complete lists as there are hundreds of active Altcoins on the market.

Announcements

Date: 1st of August



Source: Medium

OCN aims to build and fuel the next generation decentralized sharing economy with the help of smart contracts, AI and Big Data. Differentiation from similar projects will be made with the minimising of operating costs, autonomous compliance, incentivized participation and the monetization of services.

The first snapshot of OCPay, an airdrop to OCN holders, will be made on the first of August. OCPay will offer a wallet and a payment gateway for OCN with direct merchant integration. The wallet will be able to manage, store and track a wide range of cryptocurrencies.

Cardano (ADA) roadmap release



Date: 10th of August



Source: cardanoroadmap.com

Cardano (ADA) has been on of the most hyped projects in late 2017/early 2018. The project revolves around offering a smart contract platform with a new PoS approach by IOHK, that according to certain papers should be more decentralized and scalable compared to the leading smart platforms today. While ADA is currently centralized, the decentralization of the network should begin soon and the roadmap should also offer some good surprises.

Safe Exchange Coin (SAFEX) launch of MainNet



Date: Latest on 10th of August



Source: safexnews.net

While Safex is only traded on smaller exchanges after the de-listing from Bittrex, it didn’t stop the project from moving forward with the planned developments. Safex aims to build a decentralized marketplace for items and services that aims to compete with the centralized ventures like Amazon, Ebay and Alibaba.

Holding SAFEX tokens will earn you an income in the cryptocurrencies used on the marketplace. Fees will be 5% and several major coins will be accepted for payments. According to initial calculations a yearly 25-26% ROI would be realistic with moderate use of the marketplace.

High Performance Blockchain (HPB) MainNet launch



Date: By the end of August



Source: gxi.io

High Performance Blockchain offers a new approach to the problem of blockchain scalability. HPB claims that it will offer millions of transactions per second in theory, with the platform utilizing both a software and a hardware solution to achieve this. The software architecture consist of the above mentioned two components. The core nodes that maintin the network will include a hardware acceleration engine embedded with software to maximize throughput. The Blockchain Offload Engine (BOE) will include the hardware, firmware and matching software. The first batch of the BOEs will be given out for free to the community in order to strengthen the network.

According to the official roadmap by the end of Q2 2018, HPB will launch it’s MainNet.

WePower (WPR) energy tokenization of Estonia



Date: By the end of August



Source: Medium

WePower is a project that aims to tokenize the energy sector and to build a marketplace that connects buyers and sellers of excessive energy. This would allow the consumer to decide on what energy he would prefer and would also give birth to a competitive energy market.

By the end of the August, the company behind WPR plans to fully tokenize the Estonian energy sector. the team is working together with several partners and engineer teams to apply WePower’s innovative technology to an existing country’s energy sector.

News recently came out showcasing the actual status of the partnerships here.

IoTeX (IOTX) testnet beta launch



Date: By the end of August



Source: Medium

IoTeX is a decentralized network for the internet of things that is powered by a privacy focused blockchain. The project will use a redesigned PoS consensus algo to achieve higher TPS rates labeled RDPoS, additionally scalability will be achieved with a Plasma-like technology known from Ethereum’s scalability plans. Privacy will be enabled by Ring Signatures and Bulletproofs.

After the recent release of the Alpha version testnet featuring transaction, block handling, gossip protocol and RPC features, we will soon be able to see the beta testnet in August that might come with a full support of scripting, Virtual Machine (VM) and cross-chain communication between sub-chains.

Zeepin (ZPT) MainNet launch



Date: By the end of August



Source: Medium

Zeepin has been on of the more hyped NEO based token sales that also managed to raise a bit more than $60 million. The project aims to build a distributed ecosystem for content creators that provides protection and recognition to those who deserve it. While also connected the creators to the users, the platform also offers comfortable management of copyrights and the ability to crowdfund projects.

Zeepin will launch its MainNet by latest the end of the August from the Netherlands.