Bitcoin & Dash

In the news and blogs

• One Week Into SegWit, Hardware Wallets Lead the Pack in Slow-But-Sure Roll Out by Aaron van Wirdum
• Bitcoin Cash: Who Supports the Fork And Who Doesn't by Alyssa Hertig
• Dash News Weekly Recap by Dash Force News
• The 3 Amigos Podcast Episode 15 by Mark Mason
• Cryptocurrency Dash Team Schedules Free Conferences in Venezuela by Joshua Althauser
• CoinDesk released its Q2 2017 State of Blockchain report

Ethereum*

In the news and blogs

• Seeing Ghosts: Vitalik Is Finally Formalizing Ethereum's Casper Upgrade by Alyssa Hertig
• China has banned ICOs by Jon Russell
• Brief Analysis of China’s Ban on ICOs by Lindsay X. Lin
• 'Misunderstanding': Vitalik Buterin to Create New Entity for Russian Bank Deal by Rachel Rose O'Leary
• Decentralized social media is peer-to-peering into the future by Jake Brukhman
• The Bear Case for Crypto by Preston Byrne
• OpenBazaar: What Happened to Bitcoin’s eBay Killer App? by Andreas Brekken
• Perkins Coie Joins the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance Legal Industry Working Group by Richard Kastelein
• Chainside Launches Segwit-Compliant Python 3 Bitcoin Library ‘BTCpy’ by Jamie Redman
• Validator is a service of the State of Geneva (using Ethereum to date and sign official digital documents)

Podcast

• Coinbase's Ehrsam on Bitcoin and the Future of Blockchain by Bloomberg Video
• Ethereum DApp Creators // Issue #15 JAAK by Status
• Peter Czaban talks Polkadot on Epicenter
• BlockChannel podcast with Cent
• Let's Talk ETC! (Ethereum Classic) #23

Release

• Emerald Wallet - v0.5.0 Beta 2 released

Stuff for developers

• C# to EVM compiler
• Jim Posen video on Coinbase’s payment architecture
• Your First Truffle Dapp — An attempt at a beginners guide to the Truffle Framework — Part 4 by Hugh Knight

Ecosystem

• Progress in Dynamic Gas Price Estimation by ETH Gas Station
• Raiden testnet deployed
• ClassicEtherWallet supports DEX tokens and ECNS contracts by default now on Reddit

New projects

• RenderToken - distributed GPU rendering. Whitepaper
• EzEther - a localbitcoins-like service for Ether from India. Video demo
• Bloom - credit scoring using Ethereum/IPFS. Whitepaper
• Lendroid + 0x - Decentralized Lending and Margin Trading for ERC20 tokens

Project Updates

• Melonport - Melon August update
• Toshi - Developer Update — Get Ready for Mainnet Launch
• Iexec update
• Gnosis - A Sneak Peek into the Gnosis Management Interface
• Status - development update
• Neufund - rebrands as community-owned fundraising platform. Whitepaper v2
• 0x - Announcing 0x Portal
• Radar - Radar Relay Technical Overview
• adChain - PCLR voting walkthrough
• Decentraland - whitelist update
• Digix - dev update
• district0x - dev update
• Ethfinex - roadmap released
• FirstBlood - dev update
• Golem - developer news
• OmiseGO - airdrop update
• SingularDTV - airdropping of airdropped OMG tokens to SNGLS holders
• REX - contribution period roundup
• TenX- dev update
• Variabl- roadmap released

*Done using materials from http://www.weekinethereum.com and http://dappdaily.com

Ripple & Stellar

In the news and blogs

• Ripple Launches New Mumbai Office to Serve India’s Digital Economy by Sarah Marquer
• Introducing the Stellar Partnership Grant Program

Monero**

In the news and blogs

• Bitcoin Hardware Wallet Ledger Begins Monero Integration by Joseph Young
• Monero quarterly update by Monero Research Lab
• Monero Dev meeting summary and logs released
• Monero Devs are still looking for help to test the upcoming GUI release

**Done using materials from http://monero-observer.com

Bitshares***

In the news and blogs

• Bitshares Developer Alfredo released the first public version of the Bitshares Block Explorer
• Stan Larimer, Dylan Howard and Michael Taggart gave an interview to Ernest Hancock from Freedom Phenoix accompanied by Davi Barker from Bitcoin not Bombs
• @stan Larimer gave an interview to Todd Horwitz from 'The Bubba Show' featured on the LibertyTalk FM network
• @michaelx published an article titled 'Smart Investment for the Middle Class: BitShares'. You can read the full article here
• John Gotts of Stokens.com and Michael Taggart of Bitshares gave an interview to Richard Jacobs from Future Tech Podcast discussing the coming SEC crackdown
• Bitshares witness 'verbaltech2' published his monthly witness report. You can view the update here
• @virtualgrowth is doing a weekly market update and a token giveaway. Check out his post and vote on your favorite asset here; if you leave your Bitshares username in a comment you may even be one of the lucky winners of the token giveaway
• In accordance with previous commitments, @blockchained announced the launch of their next gateway for a Graphene-based blockchain, this time it is for GOLOS and GBG. You can find more information in their announcement here
• A weekly market update by @virtualgrowth
• This week’s Bitshares hangout recording available here
• Beyond Bitcoin Hangouts changed days to Saturday at 13:00 UTC. More information here

***Done using materials from https://steemit.com/@steempower

NEM

In the news and blogs

• JAFCO Invests $15 Million USD in ICO solution Company Tech Bureau

Byteball

• New consensus algorithm and private untraceable payments announcement