Rivetz CEO Steven Sprague is an advisor to Bob’s Repair. They recently asked him to join their Telegram channel for an AMA with their community. This is a lightly edited transcript of that chat.

The Po.et Roadmap: More Value, Faster
https://blog.po.et/the-po-et-roadmap-more-value-faster-3dcf339f771f

The Gutenberg Era is all about defining and building the decentralized platform for marketplaces that drive creativity, distribution, and monetization of creative works. We’re building features needed by partners to increase the number of creative works registered on the open Po.et platform.

SyncFab Community Presentations at General Assembly Santa Monica and Stanford Blockchain Venture Summit
https://medium.com/@SyncFab/syncfab-community-presentations-at-general-assembly-santa-monica-and-stanford-blockchain-venture-9921be31dca?platform=hootsuite

March was a very busy period for SyncFab Community engagement with several presentations and activities which we wanted to share with you. SyncFab hosted a community gathering meetup presentation at General Assembly Santa Monica in March. SyncFab Community Engagement Team, Ram Maurer, led the group presentation and discussion on the intricacies of the Smart Manufacturing Blockchain. Ram also spoke to the size and composition of the traditional precision manufacturing market which is positioned to grow substantially with the application of Blockchain, IIoT, Smart and Advanced Manufacturing technologies.

Equitybase’s 5/5 Track Rating https://medium.com/equitybase/equitybases-5-5-track-rating-796d29066b54

We are glad to share with you some good news — Equitybase has been given 5 out of 5 rating by TrackICO Rating Agency

TrackICO is a platform that was established to provide its users reliable information about the best Initial Coin Offering projects.

The experts of this rating Agency highly appreciated the prospects of our project.

We remind you that our sale of the coins has already begun 2018, and now you can become the owners of BASE Tokens on our website equitybase.co

Meet the TenX team - Compliance and Legal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fGgbOTMq4Q

In this new video series, you get to learn more about the humans behind TenX. Our first episode covers the Compliance and Legal team.
At TenX it is our mission to make virtual currencies spendable anytime anywhere.

Bounties, it’s time to claim your SOCX tokens

It has been a pleasure working together with you over the last several months. We just wanted to inform you that there will be a total of 1,618,280 SOCX equally distributed among all our 1800 bounties. We apologize for it taking so long, but due to over 1800 bounty participants, we had to rethink our approach to distribution of the bounty tokens after the ICO in late January.
https://medium.com/@socialx/bountys-its-time-to-claim-your-socx-tokens-614c73dc468e

Top 20 games of 2017 – DMarket Awards

The gaming industry produces new titles and fresh editions of famous series in rapid succession. The year of 2017 was full of a wide range of games: nice, awful, and totally great! Playing them all is an impossible mission; but trying the best games of 2017 is almost the  duty of a dedicated gamer – who knows, maybe the best adventure is waiting just around the corner?

We on DMarket have prepared for you guys this list of the top games of last year. Each of them is a masterpiece of the gaming culture and may be able to hit the spot in your gaming personality.
https://dmarket.com/blog/top-20-games-2017/

The HOQU project has attended a special conference at the Blockchain Residence

The HOQU project, represented by Co-Founders Alexander Duzhnikov and CVO Roman Kaufman have attended a special conference at the Blockchain Residence organized by IDABC in collaboration with the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation.

The HOQU team was invited to attend a business lunch with German Klimenko, the founder of LiveInternet. The event was also attended by various journalists, representatives of state authorities and various startups and projects.

The representatives of HOQU gave an in-depth presentation of the fundamentals of conducting token sales, shared their own extensive experience on the matter at large, and gave valuable insight on the techniques applied by the project in the course of its own token sale. The presentation aroused great interest among the audience and extended well beyond the allocated hour into more than two due to the multiple questions posed.

Upon the end of the conference, the HOQU team was invited to become lead speakers at the WBSummit event, one of the most eminent crypto world platforms in Russia.

The HOQU project continues to develop as the team is doing their utmost to maintain the standard they have set for the platform and its stakeholders. Stay tuned for more news and updates from HOQU.

https://blog.hoqu.io/the-hoqu-project-has-attended-a-special-conference-at-the-blockchain-residence-70b3f7a76671

Barbarian Investor Show Episode 10 - TrustedHealth: Specialised Health Ecosystem on Blockchain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8evok0zcaw&feature=youtu.be

Barbarian Investor Show Episode 10 - Host Adam Jason talks with the  founder and CEO of TrustedHealth, a blockchain-based, patient-led and doctor-guided cooperative focused on life-threatening diseases.
TrustedHealth's goal is to source the best methodologies for delivering improved health outcomes for patients, and ensuring that these are accessible to patients all over the world.

ACChain Roadmap for 2018

When you are part of a project, we hope it’s because you believe in it. The team behind ACChain emphatically believe in the technology — that’s why we are part of building it.
We’d like to share with you some of the roadmap for 2018 for ACChain. There’s almost so much, it can barely be contained in one post. But we will try.
https://medium.com/@ACChain/acchain-roadmap-for-2018-8fa2f76473a3

ETHLend Unleashes Alpha 0.3 (Kogia) to Ethereum Testnet



With the user experience in focus, ETHLend is proud to present to you today the newest version of the decentralized application running on the Kovan testnet. This is definitely the biggest achievement for the ETHLend team, who have been busy working over the past few months to meet the milestones, new fee structure and additional functions for the new release. https://blog.ethlend.io/ethlend-unleashes-alpha-0-3-kogia-to-ethereum-testnet-6cf17b9a8500

A Long-term Bounty Program for Shareable Contents

Are you a designer, a social influencer, or a writer? Do you want to share your understanding and perspectives on the Loopring Protocol or DEX in general? If so, this LEAF bounty program is right for you.
The recent panic[1][2] in the marketplace is just another reminder that the future of token trading needs to happen in a decentralized and trustless fashion. This speaks to the very essence of why we are building Loopring and we believe it’s incredibly important to share this message with the broader cryptocurrency community. That is why we are looking to reward community members, through our recently announced LEAF fund, to create compelling content that really drives home the message of what Loopring is trying to accomplish in a fun and meaningful way that is easy to interpret.
https://medium.com/loopring-protocol/long-term-bounty-program-for-shareable-contents-586e8e1f9235

Deconomy conference in details

In addition to the wide response of the Korean crypto-community from the first IZX business trip to Korea, the reason for the soon return of our team to this country again was the large-scale Deconomy conference in Seoul.

The conference was organized at the highest level: a comfortable place of helding — the Walkerhill hotel, which gathered about 2 thousand participants; world famous speakers; stylish and beautiful booths of various projects. There were booths of about 15 projects of different focus — advertising platforms for ICO, social networks based on the blockchain, content protection systems. Our gaming platform has gathered a lot of interested persons around us, as the game industry remains on the leading positions in the interests of modern society.

Among the known personalities, the members of the IZX team managed to interact with Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum creator, Roger Ver, a well-known businessman in the crypto-community and also we managed to communicate with CEO and founder of AirAsia — Tony Fernandes.

At the end of the event people most interested in IZX project were invited by team to have a dinner together with our partners from US VR Global.

From US VR Global there were Ramelle Ashram Ramli, Executive Chairman, Daniel RA Wha Hyun, Chief Operating Officer, Jaime Terauds, Director — Business Development. The IZX team was presented by Alexey Zagainov, the president and co-founder of IZX project, our asian adviser Abas A Jalil and Nikita Kuptsov, Communications Director. David Hwang, our new Korean adviser, also supported us. At the dinner we showed a joint presentation with US VR Global.

Now we are going to Kuala Lumpur to hold a series of important meetings. Follow our news! And thank you for being with us!
https://medium.com/@izetex_project/deconomy-conference-in-details-b0ec05cee27f

Etherparty Announces Global Crowdfunding Contest Valued at $300,000

VANCOUVER, Canada — Etherparty Smart Contracts Inc. (“Etherparty”), a Vancouver blockchain technology company, is excited to announce the Rocket Three for Free contest, which will offer three projects or startup companies the opportunity to win full use of Etherparty’s cryptocurrency crowdfunding platform, Rocket, free of charge.

The anticipation surrounding the launch of Etherparty’s crowdfund creator has been steadily growing for months, and with the imminent arrival of Rocket, Etherparty has decided to hold a contest for startups looking to crowdfund using cryptocurrency. The smart contract solution developed by Etherparty called Rocket can be used on Bitcoin or Ethereum and is valued at USD $100,000.

Starting today, April 4, 2018, and running until April 30, 2018, applicants can submit a report, detailing their project, white paper and token purpose and functionality, along with company information including team LinkedIn profiles, social media channels, and Github, if public.

Once all of the applications have been submitted, short-listed companies will be interviewed by Etherparty’s leadership team, and the three winners will be announced in May. In addition, outside of the three winners, Etherparty will be selecting up to 100 projects that will be able to receive a discount to launch their crowdfund with Etherparty.

“The contest is an amazing chance for a few young companies to harness the latest in crowdfunding technology at no cost, and no risk,” said Kevin Hobbs, CEO at Etherparty.

Each winner will receive free token and crowdfund smart contracts, along with $20,000 worth in marketing services, to support their business and crowdfunding initiatives. The Rocket contest is looking to reward the best of the best, and Etherparty is excited to see what the community has to submit.

“We are looking for blockchain projects that are innovative and exciting, and we especially love projects that are problem-solving a large or global issue.”

Only one submission per startup is allowed, and each submission must contain all of the required information to be eligible. To learn more about the Three for Free contest, visit contest.etherparty.com/threeforfree.

For continued updates, visit etherparty.com and subscribe to the company mailing list. You can also join the Etherparty conversation via Telegram, or on Facebook, Twitter, and BitcoinTalk.
https://blog.etherparty.com/etherparty-announces-global-crowdfunding-contest-valued-at-300-000-24d954797d6d

Cloud Industry Trends 2018



Now that the cloud computing industry has successfully managed to outlive its initial hype — something that isn’t done too often- we are witnessing the ever growing adoption garner strength as the fundamentals that the cloud was built on continue to stand strong. Here are a few storage trends that all cloud users should be aware of as they continue to manage their storage effectively. https://medium.com/iagon-official/cloud-industry-trends-2018-16f262c5989a

New Partners of BitSchool: Pinmo



We are most pleased to announce our new strategic partnership with Pinmo. Pinmo is a North America based digital marketing platform with a 55,000 user base that provides targeted marketing based on build-in Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms.

This partnership is very important to both BitSchool and Pinmo as it will enable BitSchool to mass-market its AI apps and allow Pinmo to explore the new lucrative global eLearning markets. BitSchool will partner with Pinmo to aggressively target the global eLearning market and introduce a new eLearning marketing paradigm where BitSchool’s effective, fun and game-featured learning apps will be sold like games which exactly matches the purchase pattern of the younger generation customers. The partnership also enables the BitSchool On-Demand Tutors to effectively advertise their service worldwide. We are looking forward to usher in the new eLearning marketing paradigm together, where could-be-boring learning tools are actually traded like ‘cool’ and ‘exciting’ games! You all stay tuned!
https://medium.com/bitschool/new-partners-of-bitschool-pinmo-880d9d0ea7d

COIN Protocol and Smart Contracts V2.0



The blockchain industry has proven to be fast moving with rapid adoption and evolution. With the advances of technology and innovation, previous standards and protocols are being replaced resulting in increased performance and efficiency.

At Coinvest, our goal is to develop and deploy solutions as quickly as possible in order to gather feedback and continuously iterate. A repeated cycle that ensures that we are collaboratively working with our partners and overall community to develop solutions that meet our customer needs. Ultimately, to push the envelope against any or all competition.

When we first started development of the Coinvest smart contracts and the COIN protocol seven months ago, the tools and standards available to-market enabled us to deploy an initial version of our protocol that achieved unique innovation — one that is still unparalleled in the today’s world of cryptocurrency investing (by removing the requirement to physically hold cryptonized assets to retain asset value). With advancements in BIP and new standards, we have advanced our technology to optimize performance, efficiency, and simplicity.
https://medium.com/@CoinvestHQ/coin-protocol-and-smart-contracts-v2-0-d69a44eea538

Tomochain — 0chain Partnership Announcement



TomoChain ​(Tomocoin) is pleased to announce our partnership with 0chain to help grow its decentralized consumer application ecosystem. D-app developers on TomoChain can use 0chain for a fast, free, guaranteed decentralized storage.

Additionally, 0chain can help Tomochain create chains specific to Tomo’s needs and optimize our performance, especially for portions of our applications, such as AI modules, as the blockchain requirements are different.

0chain is developing several groundbreaking protocols, including 2D-BPoS consensus, self-forking, storage, and inflation protocols to achieve massive scalability, a fast finality, and a free dCloud.

TomoChain is a blockchain project that utilizes its PoA (proof-of-authority) blockchain technology to offer fast confirmation, and minimal transaction fees for d-app developers and token issuers, while keeping ​compatible with Ethereum’s smart-contracts and other Ethereum protocols. https://medium.com/tomochain/tomochain-0chain-partnership-announcement-9b4dacdcc10a

"Build your Dream" Commercial Platform Launch
Get connected to the Commercial Platform Beta Early Access Program (EAP) and start building with Dragonchain (Release Schedule based upon DSS) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZy3Y5Y37q0&feature=youtu.be