CUBE Dubai Blockchain Summit Speech. CUBE participated in the Dubai Blockchain Summit as a presenter. Many companies visited CUBE Booth with interest in CUBE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2SMY2ORbcU

PinkPi Final Stages & Big Partnership on the Horizon

The PinkPi device is closer to launch than ever before. The code is in the final stages of getting checked for security, functionality, and overall ease of use. Since the announcement of the device just a few months ago, we have made great strides in planning a global adoption of Pink and getting PoS systems into more hands making PINK more secure and more reliable. This product will take PINK to the next level by branching us out into crypto specific hardware devices, launching our new arm PinkLabs. The goal with this device has always been to help bring more people into crypto by introducing an easy to use PoS device that runs on ultra low energy, doesn’t take up a lot of space, and is affordable for everyone.

PinkLabs will be a hardware specific arm of Pinkcoin and will be used to develop crypto themed devices that will aid in the mass adoption of Pinkcoin and cryptocurrencies. Our first line of products will be focused on the staking (PoS)&(FPoS) of Pinkcoin through various devices starting with the PinkPi device, built on top of Raspberry Pi’s fleet of boards.

Lastly, we will be announcing our partnership with an amazing organization, TBA by end of this week, that will act as our hardware supplier/designers and main resource and partner for PinkLabs. They have been in the hardware industry for over a decade, have extensive knowledge on the devices we will be designing, and will be an invaluable partner for Pink helping us reach new audiences and new services. They have distribution channels setup across the globe and the resources to help us push these devices for mainstream adoption.

Look out for our announcement on our new partner within the week. And yes, this device will be able to be purchased with PINK.

https://medium.com/@Elypse_Pink/pinkpi-final-stages-big-partnership-on-the-horizon-f84b60afbe8

Melbourne-based eSports teams Bombers and ORDER ramping up Pro League preparations

MOST of Melbourne might be caught up in the Australian Open this week but there are two local teams with a different global sport on their screens quietly preparing for the launch of their own season this weekend.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/more-sports/melbournebased-esports-teams-bombers-and-order-ramping-up-pro-league-preparations/news-story/bcb4769f87bbf465ee5219b166f96b38?utm_content=buffercebb4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Obsidian Roadmap 2018

OBSIDIAN SECURE ANONYMOUS MESSENGER
I've started to develop what has now become the 'OSM' within my company in 2014 and open-sourced the code base for the Obsidian project. Development is now continuing in a private repository to protect us a bit from too much copying. Current releases and issue trackingis available here. Currenly I and Daniil, who is paid by OPL are the active devs on the project. These are my development goals for OSM in the near term:

Planning Q1 2018 (OSM)
Next OSM beta for Android on 19th January
Create a test plan and implement UAT testing (current task)
Approach the v1.0 features and quality till mid-February
First Windows 10 beta (after complete rewrite) till end of January
Hire a qualified C#/iOS developer who is able to reuse the current common OSM code base and concentrate on iOS UI.
Altogether Android, iOS and Windows 10 releases should be neat, production quality apps and available from the app stores till end Q1 2018.
First version of the OSM platform API

Planning Q2 2018 (OSM)
Integrate the ODN C# wallet into OSM, to also allow for sending ODN in messages.

Planning Q3/Q4 2018 (OSM)

https://obsidianproject.org/roadmap
Decentralization of messaging nodes.

EDCON is Coming
https://blog.kyber.network/edcon-is-coming-503e7db73134

Kyber Network is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of this year’s Ethereum Development Conference (EDCON) in Toronto, Canada. Held at Ryerson University from May 3rd to 5th, the event will bring together Ethereum communities from all corners of the world, including the foremost Ethereum experts of today. Expect presentations from notable names like Jun Hasegawa, Joseph Poon, Gavin Wood, and of course, Vitalik Buterin. Loi Luu, founder of Kyber Network and Smartpool, will also make an appearance to speak about Kyber Network and decentralized exchange landscape.Organized by LinkTime, EDCON aims to foster greater communication, collaboration, and growth within the Ethereum ecosystem. Ethereum developers, businesses, investors, and enthusiasts will converge on this conference to discuss new trends and technologies. This is the second iteration of EDCON, the first taking place in Paris last year with great success. The tagline for this year’s meeting is “Never Forget Why You Started”, a timely call for Ethereum stakeholders to regroup, remember the principles of innovation and decentralization, and renew their passion for the technology.

Announcing OmiseGO Town Hall 0x1

On January 31st at 3:00 AM UTC, we will be having the very first OmiseGO virtual town hall to kickoff 2018. We believe this is a great chance for the community to interact with the OmiseGO team, hear updates, and get your questions answered.

As we’ve seen from other live streams, fielding live questions can be chaotic. To make sure the best questions get surfaced and to give the team a proper chance to prepare answers we’re going to take questions in a Reddit thread.

https://blog.omisego.network/announcing-omisego-town-hall-0x1-338a7b7ea897

Huobi Pro is one of the largest crypto currency exchanges in China. It caters to millions of users across 130+ countries, which will grant AdEx additional exposure to project supporters.

Here is the latest list of exchanges that support AdEx:

Bittrex
Binance
Huobi
Gatecoin
Liqui
HitBTC
EtherDelta
Upbit

AdEx Listed on Huobi Pro

ADX tokens are now available on the Huobi Pro exchange. AdEx deposits will be open from 10:30 pm GMT on January 18.

There will be two trading pairs available — ADX/BTC and ADX/ETH, and trading will commence at 11:00 pm GMT on January 19. ADX withdrawals will be available from 22:30 GMT on January 22.

Huobi Pro is one of the largest crypto currency exchanges in China. It caters to millions of users across 130+ countries, which will grant AdEx additional exposure to project supporters.

Here is the latest list of exchanges that support AdEx:

Bittrex
Binance
Huobi
Gatecoin
Liqui
HitBTC
EtherDelta
Upbit

https://medium.com/the-adex-blog/adex-listed-on-huobi-pro-64f183d0ed64

Bringing Identity To Crypto

We partnered with Jumio to offer secure identity verification, which can be linked to a Byteball address and used on demand
To be relevant in the real world, we need more anchors to the real world. One of them is identity.

Starting today, every Byteball user can link his Byteball address to his real world identity. The user’s personal data is verified by Jumio, the leading provider of identity verification services, and stored in the user’s Byteball wallet. At the same time, a hash of the personal data is stored on the public DAG and signed by a trusted attestor. The attestor also serves as a witness, so it is already trusted.

This attestation allows the user to prove to anybody that his Byteball address is linked to a verified person, without disclosing any personal information. It also allows to reveal the private information to individual service providers on demand, and the service provider can easily verify authenticity of this information using the hash stored on the public DAG.

https://medium.com/byteball/bringing-identity-to-crypto-b35964feee8e

I join the company of signatures and avatars, I will promote the Skara project on the forum, good luck in developing the team 

Joined twitter Proof of authentication post

Bytom Weekly Report（2018.01.08）

Development progress:
1. [dev] Test bytom v0.3.0 and track the issue # 246 (spend problem).

2. [dev] Complete the full nodes integration test for the related api of “net-info” and “key”.

3. [dev] Add the function for adding webbrowser library in order to achieve configurable opening/closing browser.

4. [dev] Optimize the contract compiler and complete the development of functions for controling versions and calling for third-party modules in contract. The functions are under relatedly testing.

5. [dev] Reconstruct the algorithm of POW mining to enhance its safety and stability, and make it more adapted to the AI ​​chip.

6. [dev] Further refine the JSON API documentation and resolve clear the undeleted “delete-account” issue # 253 in the cache.

7. [dev] Complete the development and test for pay-to-script-hash address transaction and merge it into dev. This function supports multiple signed address transactions.

8. [dev] Create transaction behavior of create-address and start the front-end work, reconstructing part of accesstoken’s code.

9. [dev] Design HD wallet, refering the generation rules to add addresses in BIP44, in order to rebuild wallet database.

Business progress:
1. Bytom Testnet 0.3.0 Scope released, achieving the visual client.

2. Two developers will join Bytom at the end of the this month and after the Chinese New Year.

3. Theformal verification paper of Bytom artificial intelligence-friendly POW algorithm will be released this month.

*Note*: Completing the Bytom POW mechanism requires three steps: (1) algorithm design and coding, (2) algorithm proof and (3) hardware chip design and deployment. The first two steps have been completed and the third step is currently under way.

4. Bytom cooperates with SpaceChain and they will deploy Bytom AI chip on the SpaceChain satellite in the future.

5. Bytom will work with COOIX to jointly develop data authentication, user authentication system and credit rating system based on Bytom.

6. Bytom will work with iCube to build cross-chain mutual recognition of assets, circulation, mortgage loans and other qualifying financial services applications.

https://medium.com/@Bytom_Official/bytom-weekly-report-2018-01-08-65ea4d6f54d4

Modex is scouting for talent: Blockchain developers wanted!

Companies are becoming more and more interested in incorporating Blockchain solutions to optimize their businesses. Banks, financial institutions, government agencies, insurance and tech companies are showing increasing interest in running Blockchain platforms to better service their clients and users and to optimize the efficiency of their own businesses.

As a result, the demand for Blockchain developers has been on the rise and is expected to thrive in the new year. Modex is among the first platforms to invite talented developers to showcase their talents and get rewarded for it, while presenting them diverse and creative projects to work for.

The Modex Smart Contract Marketplace helps Blockchain developers get paid for their development skills and rewards them up to 1,500 MDX, just for joining the platform. Moreover, Modex will offer developers the chance to create and sell smart contracts to businesses which are looking to build and implement Blockchain apps, but don’t have Blockchain developers on staff. Registered developers will be rewarded by businesses that want to use the smart contracts they create.

“Modex will provide developers and businesses an easy to use Smart Contract Marketplace — a forum for developers to showcase their skills and offer Smart Contract solutions to end-customers and contributors.”, explains Mihai Ivascu, CEO and Founder of Modex. “This will provide a way for the real-world community to easily find smart contracts that meet real-world needs, without having to scout developers and manage one-off development for their individual project. At the same time developers will be able to build a reputation and pipeline based on their accomplishments, allowing them to get clients and gain recurring revenue against the on-going sale of their smart contracts.”, adds Ivascu.

Businesses can use smart contracts for all sort of situations, ranging from financial services (such as loans, or recurring payment programs), to insurance premiums, breach contracts, property law, rental agreements, credit enforcement, legal processes, crowdfunding agreements, and much more.

“The Modex Smart Contract Marketplace will start by focusing on Ethereum based smart contracts, and over time it will add the ability for various protocols that also support smart contracts to be utilized. Modex is considering protocols such as: Coco, Komodo, NEM, Waves etc.”

The Smart Contract Marketplace will hugely benefit the community by both providing a revenue source for smart contract developers and by making the blockchain technology more approachable and easier to implement for businesses.

“With Modex, developers can sell their smart contracts to thousands of businesses worldwide. Think of it as the blockchain’s app store. If you’re a blockchain developer and you develop a smart contract, you can sell it on Modex and get to serve potentially tens or hundreds of businesses. Once you upload a smart contract, it goes through a thorough security audit and penetration testing. This makes your work much safer and more valuable in the end.”, explains Mihai Ivascu.

https://blog.modex.tech/modex-is-scouting-for-talent-blockchain-developers-wanted-12396f840e81

Edgeless Casino registration and boarding starts now

Edgeless Casino registration and boarding starts now. Last month, Edgeless acquired a casino license and became the first licensed casino that is using Ethereum smart-contract technology. The official launch of Edgeless (0.2) and the new smart-contracts on Ethereum main-net is on the 18th of January. Players will be able to make EDG deposits or other cryptocurrency deposits through a Shapeshift EDG gateway. Winning withdrawals will be unlimited and instant.

https://medium.com/edgeless/edgeless-casino-registration-and-boarding-starts-now-63ce58e16e45

LUCYD AND GRAVITY JACK FORM STRATEGIC ALLIANCE Gravity Jack to Provide Augmented Reality apps for Lucyd Smartglasses

Lucyd have announced a strategic alliance with Gravity Jack as we move into 2018. Gravity Jack will begin development of new augmented reality apps for Lucyd, thus proving advantageous for both companies.

https://latestcrypto.news/2018/01/06/lucyd-and-gravity-jack-form-strategic-alliance-gravity-jack-to-provide-augmented-reality-apps-for-lucyd-smartglasses-2/

Kin — Structuring for Success

Kin is a digital sharing economy of equal opportunities. In our 2018 product vision post we detailed where we want to focus and what our main product efforts will be — the ones that we believe will drive Kin usage and adoption among users and developers. In order to accomplish that, we needed to rethink the way the teams are structured and ask ourselves if we are structured in the best way — a way that will enable us to win and accomplish our goals.

https://medium.com/kin-contributors/kin-structuring-for-success-1cdbf4e174be

A Technical Overview of the Lamden Tau Blockchain

The original whitepaper outlines most of the tooling that will be produced as part of the Lamden platform. However, there is not much included information on the Lamden Tau Blockchain, although we have written about some of the features in other piece of content, such as the interoperability of the chain, the Turing incomplete smart contracting language, etc. This will serve as an official overview of the Lamden Tau Blockchain that will be produced. Based on community feedback, this will be the first deliverable of our project so token holders can begin to utilize this technology as soon as possible.

https://blog.lamden.io/a-technical-overview-of-the-lamden-tau-blockchain-42a3f4295c1f

Weekly Burst Report #18 – 01/07/2018

The Weekly Burst Report is a report published every Sunday meant to centralize and outline the important Burst information of the week.
https://www.burstcoin.ist/2018/01/08/weekly-burst-report-18-01-07-2018/

Monaco on CNBC's Squawk Box. Kris Marszalek, CEO of Monaco Card discussed the crypto industry and the future of payments with Bernie Lo on CNBC's Squawk Box (Asia). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxrrqkon-yA

IUNGO at the Dubai International Blockchain Summit 2018

IUNGO Network was delighted to attend the Dubai International Blockchain Summit at the beautiful Atlantis Hotel on the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, UAE.

IUNGO Advisor Simon Cocking gave the opening Keynote speech at the beginning of the day and chaired the final panel of experts to close the day. IUNGO Board member and Ex LinkedIn Executive Dylan Sharkey spent the day meeting with Gulf Venture Capitalists, Crypto Funds and HNWIs as well as giving on-location interviews to Bloomberg Middle East, CNN and the local Arabic press. A CNN Marketplace Middle East documentary on Blockchain and the Crypto world is going to include a profile of Mr. Sharkey and his involvement as a core member of the IUNGO Leadership Team. Shooting begins this week at IUNGO’s Middle East HQ in Emirates Towers.

More details on the IUNGO Dubai roll out, Government and Commercial Partnerships and media coverage to follow so watch this space for more updates.

Please see some photos of the day below. For those of you in Northern Europe and the US we hope the palm trees and sunshine don’t make you too jealous!

https://medium.com/@iungo/iungo-at-the-dubai-international-blockchain-summit-2018-fcced92f5c79