EtherWorld's weekly: May 28, 2017

(Blockchain Newspaper)

News

• Nasdaq - Building on the Blockchain

• Huobi is the First Chinese Cryptocurrency Exchange To Allow Ethereum Trading

• CORION announces Full-Service Blockchain Platform to Build and Manage Any Business.

• JAXX announces massive expansion, partnering and integrating with 70+top blockchain projects, exchanges &platforms to make digital currencies more accessible to masses.

Interviews

• A conversation with James Prestwich from STORJ.

• A conversation with Luis Cuende from Aragon.

Project updates

• Basic Attention Token (BAT) - Ethereum based Digital Advertising increases the cap for token sale.

• Mysterium Network – Decentralized VPN

• Prism – Shapeshift new (Asset Portfolio) platform launch.

• Pre-beta version of RigoBlock, an Ethereum based software trading project, is launched on May 18, 2017.

Developer's Update

• Roundup Round III – Update on Ethereum from Vitalik Buterin

• Ethereum Core Developers update (May 19, 2017) - Highlights and recording of the meeting.

• Ethereum organization is hiring.

• ConsenSys Academy has kicked off with the 2017 Developer Program, a highly selective and immersive 10-week online blockchain program culminating in an all-expenses-paid trip to Dubai, the first city to run on a blockchain by 2020, for a graduation ceremony and to meet leading architects of blockchains in real-world production. Developer Program graduates will be considered for immediate hire by ConsenSys. Details of the program can be obtained here. Seats are limited. Applications close July 1st, 2017.

ICO / Token sale updates

• Mysterium Network token sale starts on May 30, 2017 at 13:00 UTC.

• Basic Attention Token (BAT) crowdsale will begin on May 31st, 2017, at approximately 8 am PDT / 3 pm GMT / 11 pm CT-China.

• Patientory (Blockchain-secured medical records) crowdsale starts on 31. May 2017.

• Civic – Identity verification via blockchain. Crowdsale will start on June 21, 2017.

Upcoming Events

• IC3-Ethereum Crypto Boot Camp at Cornell University.

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