

Welcome to the 45th 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.

@stan is on the speakers list for the 100X Blockchain investors summit on August 8th and 9th; This is an online event but tickets are required to attend. The 'Workshop: Trading Into Crypto Dollars in Bear Markets – Bitshares' session goes for 30 minutes on the 9th of August. I also noticed another session on the 8th of August called 'Altcoins: Beyond Bitcoin and the Ether' which has the description 'IOTA, Bitshares, Stellar'.

@taconator has compiled another Fee report for the Bitshares network for the month of June 2017. The report provide details on fee's paid for different network operations and ranks the operations in terms of network income as a percentage, Asset creation was the networks most profitable avenue last month accounting for 64% of all fees paid to the network. Check out the full report HERE

@btswolf has update the Bitshares.Community website. The website looks great and is jam packed with great information and resources. You can see for yourself HERE

@stan has been busy planning a Bitcoin sharedrop on Bitshares. The Project is known as Bitcoin United and is being planned to execute in the event of a hard-fork on the Bitcoin network. The asset being share-dropped 1:1 with bitcoin is being referred to as 'Fast Bitcoin' based on the fact it will be running on Graphene which has proven its scaleablity using 3 second blocktimes. You can find more details in the following posts The Coming Bitcoin Pitch Fork, Bitcoin Unchained - The Platform Independence Movement and Bitcoin United BTC-U Offers 3 second Confirmations and Massive Throughput.

Bitshares is ranked #3 in the Cyber.Fund leader board. The ranking is not based solely on price or marketcap but on a number of metrics including community, liquidity, internal economies, whitepapers, documentations and more. You can see the Cyber.Fund Leader board HERE

OpenLedger has been ranked #9 in the recent 'Top 10 Best Web Wallets for Cryptocurrency in 2017' report released by released by Disruptor Daily slipping in just ahead of blockchain.info. You can find the report HERE

@fav long time Bitshares advocate and passionate community member has launch 'FAVTOKEN'. FAVTOKEN is redeemable for 1 hour of time with @fav for Coaching/Consultancy/Support. You can learn more about the token HERE.

@kencode has released his weekly update for Smartcoins Wallet, BlockPay, Ledger Nano S, Stealth and BitShares Munich IVS. This week has seen lots of progress as well as the team getting their hands on the Ledger Nano S hardware wallet!. You can see @kencode's update HERE. Ken has also posted a job advertisement this week; He is looking for an Experienced C Developer - if you think you have what it takes or know someone who does you can find more details about the position HERE

@cm-steem has detailed the initial discussion regarding sharedropping Bitcoin onto the Bitshares network as a User Issued Asset(UIA). In this post he goes into detail regarding the advantages and disadvantages of such an idea and includes a comparison of technologies. You can find the post HERE.

RUDEX has released an announcement for the launch of a Peerplays (PPY) gateway service. They have also outlines transparency / audit requirements allowing anyone at anytime to check that the UIA is backed 1:1 with PPY on the peerplays blockchain. You can find out more details on their announcement HERE

OpenLedger has released an announcement that they will taking their OMNI gateways offline on the 25th of July for maintenance. You can see the announcement HERE

Investopedia has published an article which outlines the launch dates of the upcoming Openledger ICO's (OCASH, eDev.one, GetGame and Apptrade); Don't forget OBITS holders get a 5% sharedrop of these projects. You can find more details HERE

@ingemkts has proposed a design change for the Bitshares GUI and is looking for feedback on the proposal. The proposal includes tradingview integrated charts as well as changes to the current layout of the core wallet. See her designs HERE

@peerplays have started an effort to gather Graphene based articles and documentation in one place, Check out heaps of great articles and contribute any hidden gems that you know of HERE

If you are holding Open.Muse be sure to move your holdings from the Bitshares network to the Muse network in time for the upcoming snapshot and launch of their new blockchain. @robrigo has written a guide on the process HERE

The Bit20 market has suffered a Black swan. Bit20 remain active but borrowing is now not allowed. You can keep trading the current supply at the moment but the current situation will remain until the next BSIP to reactivate black swan markets is implemented. Please join the Bit20 Telegram channel if you want more details on the matter and discuss other topics about Bit20.

Hold OBITS? Have your voted? - Don't forget to vote for the future of OBITS. Voting closes on the 1st of August 2017. Make sure you make your voice heard before then. More details please see HERE

@virtualgrowth is doing a weekly market update and token give away; Check out his post and vote on your favorite asset HERE, if you leave you Bitshares username in the comment you may even be one of the lucky recipients of the token giveaway.

This weeks Bitshares hangout recording has been published and is available HERE

Current registered wallets/accounts within the Bitshares network is 375843; an increase of 3070 wallets/accounts since last week