Informative: Different crypto announcements January/February
ICON
ICON Mainnet will officially launch on January 24, 2018, one week before 2018 ICON Annual Summit.
2018 ICON ANNUAL SUMMIT: THE GENESIS
On January 31, 2018, ICON team will host its 1st ICON Annual Summit titled “The Genesis”, appropriately at one of the most iconic, tallest skyscrapers in the world — Lotte World Tower. Also appropriately, this event is timed just before the Lunar New Year.
VeChain
https://www.vechain.com/#/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Vechain/
DNV GL will host a Q&A session on Facebook Live with VeChain On the 24th of January
Who is DNV GL? DNV GL is an international accredited registrar and classification society headquartered near Oslo, Norway. The company currently has about 13,550 employees and 350 offices operating in more than 100 countries, and provides services for several industries including maritime, renewable energy, oil & gas, electrification, food & beverage and healthcare.
Who is promoting this event? DNV GL has promoted this event through its official Twitter account. It is important to note that DNV GL has called it big news, not VeChain.
The Apotheosis will be capstoned by a special rebranding event with DNV GL to celebrate this journey. We initially planned to schedule this event for the middle of January. We are thrilled to announce that we will be scheduling this event to February 26th.
Stellar Lumen
Stellar going to be listed on one of the biggest Turkish exchange on the 24th of January
Recently there was a Stellar meetup in Singapore according to this person who attended it, Lindsay (who works for Stellar) said that Stellar will release their roadmap at the end of January for 2018.
One thing that’s awful about cryptocurrency is going from fiat to cryptocurrency or vice versa. FairX recently announced that they are going to solve this problem by…you guessed it — using Stellar.
Stripe got on board with Stellar in the early days which was impressive enough, but the partnerships are still rolling in now. Over the last few months we learned that IBM are getting involved which is a very good vote of confidence for the Stellar team. It’s not every day that a Fortune 500 company gets involved with cryptocurrency.
IOTA
IOTA (MIOTA) Part Of Ongoing Blockchain Business Camp, Tokyo. To begin with, a foreign company would have had to apply to attend the Business Camp between 20th October and the deadline of 24th November, 2017. After which, the TMG would select the worthy companies and announce them on the 15th of December. The then selected companies would then fly over to Japan by early January for a pre-seminar on the 15th of the same month.
The second networking event at the Blockchain Business Camp is scheduled for the 23rd of this month; with a third on the 16th of March. During this period, there will also be business meetings, networking, mentoring and opportunities for companies to pitch their ideas to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
We are happy to be hosting an AMA together with North America's Bosch Connected Devices & Solutions on the 25th of January 1PM CT. We will actually post the AMA thread 2h before that(11AM), and then around 1 PM they will start to answer the questions.
Thanks for the info, especially stellar seems like something I should look into more.