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News

• United Nations Pilots Ethereum for Aid : The UN’s World Food Programme implemented an aid program on the Ethereum blockchain and delivered aid to 10,000 Syrian refugees via that system. They now plan to scale that system and roll it out to over 100,000 refugees in Jordan as soon as August.

• Oil Giant BP to Test Blockchain Technology With BTL Group

• Europe's First Cryptocurrency Fund Launching From Zug Valley

• Ethereum Google Searches Rise Above Bitcoin For the First Time Ever

• Apple co-founder Wozniak bought bitcoin at $700 for fun: 'Now I'm way up'

• Factom (FCT) to work with Japanese social security system

• Bancor Network Token (BNT) with ‘massive malicious attacks’ raised more than $125 million.

• New Study Finds That 3 Million+ People Use Cryptocurrencies

• "This is me socially precommitting that I will not be an advisor for future ICO projects." - Vitalik Buterin.

• Russian Central Bank Group Prepares 'Masterchain' Ethereum Fork for Testing

• Kathryn Haun Joins Coinbase Board of Directors

Project updates

• Token hackathon winner

• Status Global hackathon winner

• IOTA Token on Bitfinex, Hits $1.5 Billion Market Cap, ranked under top 10 currencies.

• Status Network Token Bug Bounty

• ShapeShift AMA w/ Erik Voorhees.

• Aventus Social Bounty Campaign

• Trustlines network : POC released.

• SONM- Join alpha test

New Projects

• Rex- Featured on Blockchain Innovation podcast

• FunFair- Gaming and casino platform

• TenX- ETH and BTC account info

• district0x - Community Advisor Program

• Eth.social - Meetups on blockchain.

• PassLfix - p2p parcel delivery service.

• BlockApps - A Management Dashboard For Blockchains

Developer's Update

• Ethereum Core Developers update (June 16, 2017).

• Sharding research in mind map form.

• Analyzing Token Sale Models by Vitalik Buterin.

ICO / Token sale updates

• Status Token Sale - June 20, 2017

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

• The Bolenum ICO - 15th of July 2017, at 8.00 GMT - 14th of August 2017. Bolenum is a cryptocurrency and financial services provider targeting the African continent for a start and then expanding globally.

• TenX : TOKEN SALE START on 24 JUNE 2017, 1PM (UTC). Token sale FAQ

• AdChain Token launch – June 26, 2017
  AdChain, the blockchain-based open protocol for the digital advertising industry is developed in partnership with MetaX and ConsenSys to tackle fraud and transparency issues in the digital ad industry. The adTokens (ADT) will grant holders the right to participate in the adChain platform. The sale will fund further product development and innovation to help streamline the $175 billion digital advertising supply chain.

• SONM- Raised over $30M

Upcoming Events

• Blockchain competition - Last date to enter July 30, 2017.

• Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Saint Petersburg – St. Peterburg, Russia on June 22, 2017.

• How Blockchain is Revolutionizing Accounting - Thursday, June 22, 2017 hear executives from PricewaterhouseCoopers, Accenture, SAP, and Vertex discuss the future of accounting on blockchain. Check out the full schedule of talks and panels and register for the conference before next week.

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