The BitShares Team has released an updated version of BitShares-Core (2.0.171019). This update is to address issue #433; a bug where a new asset was created and the fee wasn't paid in CORE assets. You can find the new release on github HERE

The BitShares Blockchain Foundation initiates the ‘Blockchain Academy Project’ which aims to provide the BitShares Testnet to students for educational purposes. Saxion University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands is the first university to team up with the BitShares Blockchain Foundation to participate in the project which aims to familiarize students with the possibilities of the BitShares Blockchain. You can find more information HERE

Ronny Boesing (CEO of OpenLedger) has announced plans for further development of specific features on the Bitshares network and is asking for the communities help to determine which features should have priority. The proposed features are 1) Implementing a virtual machine (like Ethereum’s’ Virtual Machine) into Graphene, 2) Implementation of the Atomic Swap mechanism, 3) Creation of Fee Backed Asset and 4) Trustless (decentralized) BTC gateway. Voting closes on the 9th of November. You can view the whole proposal and cast your vote HERE

The BitUniverse team have released a new version of their 'Bitshares Wallet & Trade' mobile app (v 1.2.0.12). You can find the announcement HERE or find the wallet on the app store HERE

OpenLedger and MVP Asia Pacific have teamed up with Holy Angel University to Create Blockchain Innovation Lab. Ronny Boesing (CEO of OpenLedger) said “The announcement today of the inclusion of Blockchain and Cryptocurrency to the 2018 HAU curriculum will enable MVP and OpenLedger to stay at the forefront of legal and technical advancements in these rapidly evolving industries”. You can find more information HERE

@kencode has released his ‘The Agorise Report’ which includes updates from all the project he is working on including Stealth, Ledger Nano S, Graphenej, Mobile wallets and Point Of Sale systems. You can find his full report HERE

The OpenLedger team has announced the following: ‘OpenLedger is growing rapidly, and over at our R&D OpenLedger branch office in Minsk, Belarus, the staff is increasing weekly. In order to prepare for the future, October 1st of this year we moved into a new business environment, covering the top two floors of a business with 6 floors, which will allow us to host up to 200 team members. So far, we have 60 employees in this office. The beauty is that we now own the offices we use, adding extra weight to our future endeavours.’

Joel and Travis from 'The BAD Crypto Podcast' have entered the top referrer’s this week hitting 535 referrals, They are also the issuer of BADCOIN, which they are distributing to their listeners, Great job Guys!.

@estefantt has released the latest composition of the BIT20 index fund. Bit20 runs an algorithm that creates its new composition. By this process, it always includes the most promising coins. You can find more information on this week composition HERE

PSA: PoloniEX's Bitshares wallet is 'poloniexwallet' NOT 'poloniex'. There are warnings built into the Bitshares wallets regarding this account but it seems the last couple of weeks has seen some users who attempted to transfers BTS from Bittrex to PoloniEX accidently transfer their BTS to this name squatter. As a result the fake 'poloniex' account now controls over 2 Million Bitshares and has reached the Top 100 BTS holder list.

This week’s Bitshares hangout recording has been published and is available HERE

Current registered wallets/accounts within the Bitshares network is 447984; an increase of 6623 wallets/accounts since last week