Excerpt from this weeks Bitshares State of the Network report

• The first Graphene Devcon was successfully held in Shanghai on the 21st of January 2018 which had over 400 participants attend. The event was so valuable the organisers are now organising a Global Graphene conference and are calling for Speakers and Participants

• @abit has announced a new Bitshares Block Explorer BTS.AI, which launched earlier this week. BTS.AI joins the 2 existing explorers Cryptofresh.com and Bitshares-explorer.io

• The BitShares Blockchain Foundation has announced 3 new worker proposals which are looking to make use of the BFF escrow program. The new worker proposals are 'Legal Council about BTS and No-action', BSIP 29 and BitShares-ui.

• @cm-steem has announced there is currently 7 active price feeds for the 'Hertz' asset and he is also offering a 750 BitUSD bounty for implementing Hertz in the btsprice python price feed repo.

• The Scorum team has announced the first Graphene testnet of the Scorum blockchain is now live.