Platform maintenance has been successfully completed! aBOT and the Internal Exchange are both up and running! All updates and fixes have successfully applied and tested https://twitter.com/arbitragingco/status/1079026178986467328

Adel’s Gabriel Dusil has been published on CIR magazine. Gabriel discusses some of the opportunities this technology has within the insurance industry https://twitter.com/adelphoi_io/status/1079028527918432256

As we look back on 2018, we can all agree it has brought us several things: memories we’ll never forget, a community that continues to advocate what Dragonchain is all about, and an ambitious roadmap that is now officially complete. While we’re firing up our engines to power up those Dragons at full speed for 2019, let’s look back on some of the most memorable moments and achievements of 2018 that made it in our shared eternal journal.

Patientory 2018 Q4 Updates

Our Founder & CEO, Chrissa McFarlane shares her updates for the 2018 Q4.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcG2tnYRL2U&feature=youtu.be&a=

We are exploring the possibility of Point of Sale (POS) Checkout to rollout on Q2. The goal is to provide merchants with a POS native UTRUST app. Any connected mobile device worldwide (Android/iOS) will be able to receive #cryptocurrency payments in physical stores https://twitter.com/UTRUST/status/1078745272199643136

Announcement: Obsidian ($ODN) will be the first alt-coin to be used as a way to anonymously sign in to ODIN mobile apps. https://twitter.com/ObsidianCrypto/status/1078748791698849792

2018: Year in Review with STK Token
This past year passed incredibly quickly! It started out strong, with 2017’s year end ICO excitement trailing into the year. It gave us great momentum and energy going into 2018, and our team is incredible proud of the technological advancements, partnerships and overall progress we’ve made over the past year. https://medium.com/stk-token/2018-year-in-review-with-stk-token-4c4461a5107b

Decred: Governance and Funding Reimagined
“Decred’s killer feature is good governance, and with good governance, you can have any feature you want.” – Placeholder VC https://51pct.io/decred-governance-and-funding-reimagined/

MIDAS CASH ON TOMOCHAIN

In the past 3 months, our R&D department has been exploring Tomochain on Testnet to find a solution for one of our ambitious projects that aims to challenge Ebay’s Model on Blockchain. As many of you know, the lengthy block confirmation time and the high gas price have made it a great challenge to auction, bid or make use of the smart contracts. NewCater, backed by Regulus Investment and Capital Holdings, will begin to use the tech developed by Midas to solve this problem. Our technologists and scientists shall assist the NewCater team to integrate our solutions into their Bidding/Auctioning Platform, using much of our proprietary technology such as Midas Wallet, MasPay and now - Midas Cash (MCASH). NewCater team has won many prizes for their solutions in several Hackathons, most recently the First Prize at Tomochain's Hackathon on the 22nd July 2018.

https://blog.midasprotocol.io/midas-cash-on-tomochain/?fbclid=IwAR23DWtG9HG6hECDoIC6xTHSVoZY036VmKBXtTcBUpcisARUOgOTCH4Iaf4

Kyber Network: Putting ERC-20 Tokens to Work

What is the main use of ERC-20 tokens as of today? Kyber Network addresses this problem with its on-chain liquidity protocol, which allows decentralized token swaps to be integrated into any application, thus enabling value exchange to be performed seamlessly between all parties in the ecosystem. Using this protocol, developers can build innovative payment flows and applications, including instant token swap services, ERC-20 payments, and financial DApps.

https://medium.com/lumiwallet/kyber-network-putting-erc-20-tokens-to-work-afa2f79ca62

GoMedici published an article by Alex Sitnikov, the Exscudo CTO: The Future of Authentication: What Will Replace Login-Password Pairs?

GoMedici is one of the leading fintech media named after The MEDICI family of 15th century Florence.

https://twitter.com/ex_scudo/status/1075669628058329088

WandX Founder & CEO Abhinav Ramesh AMA Wednesday, December 19th at 10am EDT

WandX is strategic decentralized infrastructure development partner based in Bangalore, India. Wandx is launching the following products: Aion Coin with Ledger integration within the WandX wallet, a decentralized exchange that has a unique feature called Basket Protocol and node infrastructure for decentralized applications.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AionNetwork/comments/a43e1x/wandx_founder_ceo_abhinav_ramesh_ama_wednesday/

Valuable Insight From The HOQU Q&A of December 10

On December 10, the HOQU project has conducted the 3rd Q&A session between project founder Alexey Shmonov and the community.

The questions were received from numerous community members and contained important issues that the project’s founders were ready to answer in full.

Priority was given to questions which were asked before the Q&A session, but that did not stop the HOQU founder from answering a considerably greater number of questions that were posed by the community.

https://blog.hoqu.io/valuable-insight-from-the-hoqu-q-a-of-december-10-38aac03c35a6

Types Of People Should Consider Investing In The AutoBlock And Why?
Blockchain is the technology that underpins cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. But today, the technology is not limited to digital currencies alone. It is becoming mainstream as various industries come forward to utilize the underlying principle of the blockchain. Among the industries, the automotive sector is looking for blockchain solutions as it enters a new era of digitization. A research form Frost and Sullivan reveals that the total automotive industry’s spending on blockchain technology is expected to mount to USD 1.5 billion by 2025. One such solution that is positively disrupting the automotive industry is the initiative called the AutoBlock.
https://www.theautoblock.com/blog/types-of-people-should-consider-investing-in-the-autoblock/

STK to use Chainlink to Bridge Real Life Data with Blockchain



STK will be the first crypto payment solution in North America, providing users access to their money anytime, anywhere, and regardless of what the currency type, including cryptocurrency. Currently, transactions don’t settle in real-time on the blockchain and merchants that accept cryptocurrency are limited which cause roadblocks in mass adoption. The STK Token will be used as an utility in the STACK app to enable real-time transactions with cryptocurrency through the use of state channels. State channels are a technique for making off-chain transactions with almost the same security guarantees as an on-chain operation. It provides the speed required for STACK’s point of sale purchase mechanism: at the moment of purchase, the user sends STK Tokens to STACK in exchange for STACK using their liquidity pool to make a fiat purchase through MasterCard.

https://medium.com/stk-token/stk-to-use-chainlink-to-bridge-real-life-data-with-blockchain-e960df06ca3a

Reggie Middleton Pitches Veritaseum's P2P Capital Markets Application to 27 African Stock Exchanges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBrPzxrBFN8&feature=youtu.be

Introducing the world of blockchain-based P2P Capital Markets to 27 of the largest stock and securities exchanges on the African continent at the African Securities Exchange Association annual conference in Lagos, Nigeria.

Weekly Report

- Order Manager and Price Notification service now work correctly with BitTrex exchange.

- Portfolio Manager design was improved. We changed our color palette that is used for our result generated as a circle diagram to make it more pleasant.

- The Arbitrage Module was improved and now you can see the notification that the withdrawal of the currency is locked.

- After the result is generated for Portfolio Manager and Global Price Analyzer there is now a link that takes you to the last result without reloading the page, which makes site navigation more comfortable.

https://medium.com/@ftecfound/weekly-report-e5b34f35aec