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• The 2018 Global Graphene Blockchain Development Conference has successfully concluded in Shanghai. With over 40 speakers and over 1000 attendees from all over the world this conference was a massive success!. @jademont as one of the organisers has uploaded a gallery of pictures and video recordings of the event which can be found HERE

• Annemieke Dirkes announced the launch of the Graphene Foundation which has been founded as a Dutch Non-Profit Organisation (Website: graphene.community). The foundation will have 3 key representatives which are divided geographically. Alfredo Garcia (@oxarbitrage) will represent USA, Fabian Schuh (@Xeroc) for Europe and a China representative to be announced.

• Annemieke Dirkes announced the upcoming BitFest conference to be held on the 21st, 22nd and 23rd of September 2018 in Amsterdam.

• eXeBlock has announced Development of Bitcoin Payment Sidechain that will allow all Bitcoin owners direct access to the Company’s Graphene based decentralized applications. eXeBlock has invested nearly 1,000 hours in programmer and development time on the sidechain, which is nearing completion.

• Hungarian Cryptocurrency Foundation has announced the launch of Nowcoin on the Bitshares blockchain, The NowCoin Market Game was invented to create a social ecosystem for Nowcoin, with holders motivated to enter and hold Nowcoin, and with merchants interested in supplying services to the network members in exchange for Nowcoin.