A lot can happen in the world of crypto in a very short time. So allow me to share you a bunch of valuable information as a part of my curation efforts and you can start following for more.

Binance CEO Outlines Three Keys to Crypto Success

I've been with Binance from the old days where it was doing 80 million USD in trading volute and since those days I've been calling it the best centralized exchange on the planet. the experience has been mostly smooth so far. Some coins have increased their price by factor of 10 or even more just by th news of a Binance listing confirmation.

The Full Article

Now here is the most interesting and most valuable part for me.

We don’t publish any hard metrics. But fundamentally, if you have a good project, we will list it. And we don’t have a contact person for you to talk to. People come up to me and say, ‘Hey CZ, I’ll give you $20 million to list my coin.’ I’m like, ‘I don’t need that money, thank you.'”

“What we do is we don’t negotiate, and we don’t ask for a price. The project team, when they submit an application, they tell us what they want to pay. And you can say zero, which we will accept. And we have listed coins that have said zero.

Another great part is that Binance understand its position and the fans of the service. Anybody who has been around the project should have seen how they've been adding one useful feature after the other while offering smaller trading fees and intuitive UX.

“There’s a lot of dodgy stuff that goes on in the crypto space. We want to be the most ethical, most powerful exchange. So that’s our philosophy. We really want to protect users. We actually don’t say that a lot publicly. But people understand it. People are smart. So people tell other people we’re a good exchange.

https://bloks.io

This one claims to be the fastest EOS block explorer. I haven't benchmarked and confirmed this.But I can say that the website is easy to use and offers great deal of useful information. Nothing is too flashy but everything is very functional. the website reminded me a lot of https://steemdb.com whi9ch is an excellent website to discover things about STEEM.

Source
Few of the account information that is given are:

• Balances of all airdrops
• Filtering actions based on type (RAM/Account/Producer)
• Breakdown of RAM/CPU/NET usage
• Proxy information
• Token transfers

Bitshares Updates

The wallet was recently updated. Except for a tutorial I got, there wasn't really any noticeable changes. the update was more about performance and connectivity making Bitshares DEX more comparable with centralized exchanges. Still there is the problem of 3 second blocks while centralized exchanges deal with mere milliseconds. But that's not a major issue in my eyes. After all all Tx are treated and processed equally at equal 3 second intervals.

The bigger update happened 5 weeks ago and the details on the Github page looks impressive. (but I have to say that my programming knowledge is limited)

Consensus changes:

BSIP26: Refund Order Creation Fee in Originally Paid Asset when order is cancelled
BSIP27: Asset Issuer Reclaim Fee Pool Funds
BSIP29: Require owner authority to change asset issuer
BSIP30: Always Allow Increasing Collateral Ratio If Debt Not Increased
BSIP31: Update Short Position's Margin Call Price After Partially Called Or Settled
BSIP32: Always Match Orders At Maker Price
BSIP33: Maker Orders With Better Prices Take Precedence
BSIP34: Always Trigger Margin Call When Call Price Above Or At Price Feed
BSIP35: Mitigate Rounding Issue On Order Matching
BSIP36: Remove expired price feeds on maintenance interval
BSIP37: Allow new asset name to end with a number
BSIP38: Add target collateral ratio option to short positions
Bugfix #184: Potential something-for-nothing fill bug
Bugfix #214: Proposal cannot contain proposal_update_operation
Bugfix #453: Multiple limit order and call order matching issue
Bugfix #588: Virtual operations should be excluded from transactions
Bugfix #868: Clear price feed data after updated a bitAsset's backing asset ID
Bugfix #890: Update median feeds after feed_lifetime_sec changed
[Bugfix #922 / #931 / #970] Fixed missing checks when updating a smart coin's bitasset options E.G. force settlement delay, backing asset ID or etc;
[Bugfix #942] Fixed missing asset authorities check for "from" account when claiming from a withdraw permission.

API changes:

extensions field of call_order_update_operation changed from an array to an object, which affects all related API's E.G. get_block, get_account_history, get_relative_account_history and etc. Due to this, old version of cli_wallet won't be compatible with new API nodes when that operation would occur in result.
[Issue #862, PR #872] Improved pagination of list_assets node API
[Issue #863, PR #871] Node get_ticker API now returns time stamp of latest block instead of server time
[Issue #811, PR #861] Added get_full_account command/API to cli_wallet

Other changes:

[FC PR #36] Support Boost 1.64-1.65
[FC PR #43] Fixed a memory leak issue in TCP socket destruction
[FC PR #44] Fixed Diffie-Hellman shared key computation (related to memo encryption)
[Issue #727, PR #880] Added stack trace printing when node crashes (only for boost 1.65)
[Issue #878, PR #927] Made number of I/O threads configurable (can be manual or auto)
[Issue #805, PR #840 / #919 / #937] Improved logging level and messages; added logging options about log-rotation
[Issue #837, PR #848 / #839] Added cli_wallet to Docker
[PR #938] Fixed an issue that may cause the node to store incorrect block ID to disk when switching forks
[Issue #582, PR #813] Fixed macOS witness node crash issue when being used as an API server
[Issue #776, PR #816 / #955] Fixed missing notification to RPC clients when changes occurred on some types of objects
[Issue #888, PR #954] Fixed an integer overflow issue when checking whether a price feed has expired
[Issue #864, PR #865] Fixed a cli_wallet transaction signing issue when creating proposals with transaction builder
[Issue #859, PR #801 / #817] Fixed macOS and Ninja build errors introduced in last release
[Issue #136, PR #928] Fixed an asset supply calculation error in test case
[Issue #943, PR #869 / #945] Improved a few assertion error messages
[PR #850] Removed unused asset cache from cli_wallet
[PR #918] Fixed in-code documentation for set_desired_witness_and_committee_member_count command/API in cli_wallet
[PR #804] Refactored node.cpp and application.cpp for easier testing
[PR #851 / #853 / #854 / #855] Fixed several compiler warnings

there certainly is a lot you can learn simply by taking a good look at a project's Github page. So remember to check out Github occasionally if you want to stay ahead of the game.

BitShares Revised Whitepaper

This is the new 9 page whitepaper from BitShares Blockchain Foundation covers all the basics of The Bitshares blockchain. You can read it at https://www.bitshares.foundation/papers/BitSharesBlockchain.pdf and share around for th education of those who don't know much about it. Except for the Komodo DEX, I don't even see anything to call a competitor to Bitshares at the moment. You can try the following whitepaper/article by @dantheman on DPOS Consensus Algorithm for further education: https://steemit.com/dpos/@dantheman/dpos-consensus-algorithm-this-missing-white-paper