Debitum Network gets recognized as a top 10 Fintech startups from Lithuania by Fintech News Switzerland. Receiving recognition gives us assurance that the project which we are building is an anticipated one and the market is highly interested.
https://twitter.com/DebitumNetwork/status/1006496658119708677

FUNFAIR TECHNOLOGIES NOMINATED FOR TWO CATEGORIES AT TECH & BLOCKCHAIN AWARDS
https://funfair.io/funfair-technologies-nominated-for-two-categories-at-tech-blockchain-awards/

Meet Shane Cole — Head of Product at Datum
Datum has been rapidly growing since our founding in June 2017, and this could not have been achieved without a dedicated and talented team! This article belongs to a series of interviews introducing you to Datum team members and some behind-the-scenes tidbits.
https://blog.datum.org/meet-shane-cole-head-of-product-at-datum-6a15896ca02d

Dataeum Ambassadors Program



We are proud to announce the new Dataeum Ambassadors Program that will reward our most loyal community members. We are grateful for the huge support our project has received and we want to give something back to the people who believe in our vision and support us.

The new Dataeum Ambassadors Program will enable the most active members in our community to receive a higher bonus during our public presale.

How it works?
We have created a knowledge test that contains 10 questions. Starting from today, everyone will have the opportunity to take the test and 10 people who perform the best will become our new Dataeum Ambassadors. In case we have a tie score between members, the first 10 people who complete the test successfully will be chosen.

Once you become one of our Dataeum Ambassadors you will enjoy a better rating within our community, and of course a better bonus, based on your activity. The details of the program will be explained to the ten lucky winners
https://medium.com/@dataeum/dataeum-ambassadors-program-b99226f4af6a

OriginTrail Development Update: v0.9a Explorer Released on June 4th
https://medium.com/origintrail/origintrail-development-update-v0-9a-explorer-released-on-june-4th-8be8c3946ffb

The latest version of our OriginTrail network node software 0.9a, Explorer, is proudly seeing the light of day today, as scheduled. We have been working on implementing new data standards and many improvements, especially in the privacy layer of the protocol.

Explorer is the last true “alpha” release, as two weeks from now we are launching the first beta release candidate (RC), the Lunar Orbiter, which is the final release before the testnet launch, scheduled for June 29th.

Waltonchain Invited to 2018 Global Digital Summit
https://medium.com/@Waltonchain_EN/waltonchain-invited-to-2018-global-digital-summit-28fec82ccd77

From June 1 to 2, 2018, the 2018 Global Digital Summit co-organized by Baidu Cloud, Bizcn, NetEase Blockchain Planet and other well-known enterprises was held at Swiss Grand Hotel Xiamen, Fujian Province, China. Waltonchain was invited as a global leader in blockchain + IoT. At 4 PM on June 2, Waltonchain COO Monitor Chan (Chen Zhangrong) delievered a speech on the theme “The IoT Revolution in the Blockchain Era” and participated in an interview with the media at the scene.

How Bytom (BTM), CyberMiles (CMT), Lunyr (LUN) Have Changed Information Circulation?
https://stocksgazette.com/2018/02/01/how-bytom-btm-cybermiles-cmt-lunyr-lun-have-changed-information-circulation/

Last week was definitely one to remember for Zichain, with all the international events, amazing conferences and great people to talk to. Zichain was off to a great start from the go, when our team travelled to China to attend the Big Data Industry Expo 2018 in Guiyang (May 26–29). The Zichain CFO and Co-founder Andrey Gunin delivered a great presentation about BAMP at a conference dedicated to the digital asset management industry, while the Zichain CEO and Co-founder Khachatur Gukasyan took a different route and first stopped over in Hong Kong to sit down for an interview with BCI — a local blockchain media of talented professionals. They discussed a number of issues that the crypto industry is now faced with, talked Zichain and its future and contemplated the Europe-Asia blockchain cooperation. https://medium.com/zichain/last-week-was-definitely-one-to-remember-for-zichain-with-all-the-international-events-amazing-32cbcf113492

Round 4 of Voting: Apps and Data Types
https://medium.com/dock-io/round-4-of-voting-apps-and-data-types-51b19d010679

So far we have had three rounds of voting for the Dock community. In the first vote, the community decided when DOCK tokens should be unlocked. The second vote asked what the Dock team should prioritize on the platform next. The third vote invited the community to decide what language Dock should be translated into next and what benefits/features they wanted.

Now that we’ve successfully integrated Remote.com with the Dock protocol, Round 4 of voting focuses on portable features beyond just profile information such as writing samples or other apps centered around job searching.

What is lacking in the current OTA model (and present on the Smart Trip Platform)
https://medium.com/@smarttripplatform/what-is-lacking-in-the-current-ota-model-and-present-on-the-smart-trip-platform-bdfdc634c80b

When we describe the concept of our platform to outsiders (especially people connected to the travel industry), the same question pops up again and again. Why another travel-booking platform? Aren’t the existing OTAs enough?

It’s true, OTAs (Online Travel Agencies) are everywhere and own huge shares of the market, especially for hotel bookings and plane tickets. In fact, they have overtaken the industry so much that many small travel businesses cannot survive without joining an OTA network. For example, if you have a family hotel, you absolutely have to have a page on Booking.com — otherwise all tourists who stay at other places that are already listed there. If you search on Booking.com and find a hotel for a good price, why would you search for others on Google?

However, OTAs rarely provide truly good conditions for affiliated travel businesses. For instance, a hotel usually pays 20% off each transaction to Booking.com. AirBnB has a different pricing policy: property owners pay 3% (the payment processing fee), while most of the actual cost is transferred to the customer, who pays 5–15% depending on the amount. If a hotel wants to be featured in the Recommended list of properties, than Booking.com fees rise to 35%! As you can imagine, this results in either a severely reduced revenue for the hotel or… correct, in a price increase! Hotels and customers both lose, but the OTA wins.

Things are more complicated in the tours & activities market. You see, no OTA has yet succeeded in overtaking this huge but very, very fragmented market. Just think of it: treks, city tours, wildlife, safaris, cultural excursions, cruises, adventure sports, culinary trips… It’s like a whole world of opportunities, so no wonder that the largest players in the industry (Booking.com, AirBnB, Expedia, and others) are now busy buying startups that work in this market. On the other hand, many companies are developing software for tour & activity providers, to allow them to accept bookings online. Yes, that’s right — over half of businesses in this segment don’t have any online booking system at all!

So how do you book with such a company? Let’s say you want to go on a birdwatching trip in Costa Rica somewhere. Usually you’d need to fill in a booking request, after which the company will send you an invoice and an agreement. You need to print out the agreement, sign it, scan it, send it back to the company and pay your deposit via a bank transfer. If you don’t live in Europe or the US, then the transfer can take a week or even more. This is very frustrating business, but unfortunately such travel service providers don’t really have anywhere to turn. A convenient aggregator platform hasn’t been created for them yet.

Smart Trip Platform aims to solve both issues: high fees charged by existing OTAs and the absence of a good resource for more niche travel providers. What we are building isn’t an aggregator, however — quite the contrary. An aggregator (a classic OTA model) is a highly centralized system where travel businesses aren’t allowed to communicate with customers until a transaction is made. Think of Booking.com: their hotel pages don’t include email addresses or phone numbers. Only once you book, you get a phone number in an email. AirBnB does allow you to exchange phone numbers once you’ve paid the booking deposit, but before that you have to use the “contact the host” form on their site.

We are proposing a radically different model. On Smart Trip Platform, travel businesses and their clients will be able to communicate directly via chats and chatrooms, negotiating prices freely. The trick is that transaction costs on our platform will be much lower than what they can get outside of the platform. This way, there will be absolutely no reason for them to try and arrange a booking in some other way. Since Smart Trip Platform is decentralized and will run on a carefully chosen distributed ledger, our operational costs will be minimal.

RightMesh Crowd Contribution Period Instructions



Here is the information you’ve been asking for and will need in order to contribute to the RightMesh AG Crowd Contribution Period on May 30th at 13:00 CEST.

We are honoured that you would like to join us on our journey to connect the next billion, and we thank you for your support!

Remember, you must be Whitelisted by Bitcoin Suisse in order to participate. If you have not yet passed KYC/AML or been Whitelisted, please reach out directly to @aldrin_dsouza on Telegram for fast-track assistance.

Our Crowd Contribution is in two phases:

1 Low individual cap for contributions during the first 24 hours to ensure maximum opportunity for participation.
2 After 24 hours, the individual cap is lifted, and you can then contribute additional funds up to the maximum amount you are Whitelisted for.

Prior to contributing, you should carefully consider the Terms and Conditions here and all other materials available concerning RightMesh and RMESH, to the extent necessary. Please consider consulting an appropriate lawyer, accountant, or tax professional should you deem it necessary.
https://medium.com/rightmesh/rightmesh-crowd-contribution-period-instructions-39273c68122d

MMO Coin: An In Depth Fundamental Analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdWmqyuTBxc

We're going to break down how the cryptocurrency MMO is doing recently, where they were, and where they are at now! MMO coin is a really exciting project that is trying to bring cryptocurrency to the gaming industry. They have an awesome community, and are already listed on a couple exchanges. we are still waiting on the white paper to come out, but they're code is open source for all to view and to audit. Follow along with Justin as he goes over the fundamental analysis of MMO, and breaks down just what makes this project awesome and a very good potential hold. Their tiered staking is a very interesting opportunity to collect on some crypto dividends! Also, we are going to go over how to receive your FREE MMO Coin, in an exclusive cracking crypto MMO coin giveaway! Be sure to hop into the Discord trading chat, if you have any questions at all. Thanks for watching, I hope you enjoy this video!

E-CHAT WEEKLY DIGEST: SECURITY UPGRADE

e-Chat weekly digest volume 3 is out now. We are sharing our latest development results. The application has received an update of the profile and new security features. https://investors.echat.io/news/article/1241

An Introduction to Blockchain by Dr. Jemma Green

Power Ledger Chairman Dr. Jemma Green gives a keynote on May 21st at the Governance and Risk Management event in Perth, where she explains blockchain technology to the crowd and the impact it will have on traditional governance and risk practices. Following Jemma, Professor Greg Morrison outlines the Smart Cities grant Curtin University and Power Ledger received  and the project that came from it, RENeW Nexus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PKCKb7lMAU

Announcement | Ink Weekly Development and Progress (5.21–5.27)

Technology：

[INKchain]

1. The transfer fee related interfaces were improved, and the fee calculating function was added to the SDK;
2. The design of contract account system was completed, which added contract account related functions and was compatible with the original account system;
3. The tendermint related modules were improved to be compatible with INKchain;
4. The unit test for the startup of tendermint orderer was successful.

[INK-XC]

The requirement review of the cross-chain token transfer application was finished, and the development was started.

[INKstone]

1. The loading speed of Remix IDE was improved;
2. The INKstone v0.5 was fully tested, and officially launched.

Applications:
[IP platform]

The INKubator IP crowdfunding platform will be online soon.

https://medium.com/@inklabsfoundation/announcement-ink-weekly-development-and-progress-5-21-5-27-88f23b1772d8

DECENT.bet Cryptopia Delisting

As no doubt many of you have by now noticed, Cryptopia have decided to move ahead with an aggressive delisting action and have halted the trading of twenty-five alt tokens. Unfortunately, the DECENT.bet token was one of those delisted by Cryptopia.

Why Did This Happen?
To date, the justification we have received from Cryptopia is exactly the same as what was sent to token holders. They have identified and recategorized our token as a ‘Financial Product.” Cryptopia has a number of unique compliance requirements to adhere to as a registered Financial Service Provider in New Zealand.

What Does This Mean Moving Forward?
In terms of DBET on Cryptopia itself, all trading of the identified tokens has been immediately halted. Customers have four weeks to remove their tokens from the exchange. Trading can be continued on our alternative exchanges, such as hitbtc, and the storage of tokens can be in a supporting exchange,the DBET wallet,or MyEtherWallet.

As for direct alternatives and solutions, we will continue to actively pursue listings on high-volume exchanges as well as develop our own strategic partnerships and solutions to overcome possible liquidity issues.

One of the largest resulting concerns from Cryptopia’s actions is of course whether or not DECENT.bet itself is a security or a utility token. It’s important to note that Cryptopia’s actions are not a quantifier to this concern whatsoever. Not only is the exchange beholden to a different legislative environment than what defines a ‘security,” but as noted by their internal team this action is largely precautionary.

DECENT.bet has, and always will, operate from the strictest possible regulatory adherent perspective. From day one we have done everything necessary to ensure our long-term viability, which includes things such as gaining appropriate legal representation as well as the application, and gaining, of industry relevant gaming licenses.

Overall, we view this as a speed bump. Our product offering has not changed, our goals haven’t changed, and we will continue to work as hard as ever to deliver disruptive technology to the gaming world. We have a host of comprehensive new developments that we have been working hard on in the background and we can’t wait to share them with our wider community. The big news is still coming, and we hope you are just as excited as we are.
https://medium.com/@decentbet2017/decent-bet-cryptopia-delisting-f7a16224ec7b

AirPod’s Pre-Sale is On Today!

In less than two hours Grega Mrgole, AirPod CEO will introduce the AirPod ICO to the broader cryptocurrency audience in CryptoKonf 2018, the biggest Blockchain, FinTech, Compliance, Cryptocurrency and ICO Conference in SE Europe.
AirPod presentation at opening will start at around 9:30 a.m. CET and will be transmitted over live stream. We invite you all to follow it.
Link will be published on our Telegram group and other official channels.

https://medium.com/airpod-blog/airpods-pre-sale-is-on-1af1a7cec61e