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block.one and Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital Announce Joint Venture for New $325 million EOS.IO Fund
Weiss Cryptocurrency Ratings Report give EOS highest investment grade alongside Ethereum
Dan Larimer’s (block.one CTO) other projects scored comparatively high with Steemit receiving 'B-' and Bitshares 'C+' while the Bitcoin community we're outraged by Weiss awarding it a 'C+' investment grade.
Weiss have clarified the ratings are primarily “To help investors reduce risk and find the coins with the most upside potential” and intend to release more detailed ratings covering Risk, Reward, Technology and Fundamentals in future versions of the report.
source: https://weisscryptocurrencyratings.com/ratings/thank-you-for-your-feedback-130
EOS.IO Dawn 3.0 Alpha Announcement
New features in this release include deferred transactions - which supports features such as lost password recovery, staking pools, a new currency contract, and a new emerging token standard.
source: https://steemit.com/eos/@eosio/dawn-3-0-alpha-announcement
Introducing EOS Tracker: Real time viewer for EOS Blockchain
has created a ‘block explorer’ for the block.one Dawn 2.0 tesnet at http://eostracker.io. The block explorer lists blocks, transactions, accounts and messages and has listed a number of enhancements he's already working on.
Dan Larimer explains DPoS and BFT in EOS.IO
team have produced two videos of the block.one CTO explaining the evolution and operation of Distributed Proof of Stake (DPoS) from Bitshares and Steem to what we have today with EOS.IO.
These technical presentations are currently one of the best sources of information on how EOS.IO will provide the levels of performance and reliability to support the needs of commercial blockchain applications. Dan goes into to detail on how DPoS combined with Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) will support blocks times of 0.5 seconds with 99.9% finality.
You can review both videos from the
EOS New York announce intention to become Block Producer
have introduced themselves and announced their ambitions to represent the EOS community as block producer.
EOS Block Producers will form the backbone for a community launched blockchain based on the EOS.IO software and the
source: https://steemit.com/eosnewyork/@eosnewyork/we-are-eos-new-york-an-introduction
Complimentary 'Building Apps with EOS' workshop for developers
Building an EOS development environment from source!
Source: https://steemit.com/eos/@eosphere/building-an-eos-development-environment-from-source
Made with ♥ for the EOS Community!
EOS.IO Github Development Activity
We saw a big shift in activity this week from last, no doubt related to the merging of the Dawn 3.0 Alpha Code to the default master branch.
EOS.IO Crowsale Stats
Crowsale contributions have been fairly consistent over the week, with the daily USD equivalent averaging around the $26 million for the period. It will be interesting to see if this average falls next week based on the recent weakness in crypto assets.
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