Without a doubt, it’s been a very busy past few weeks for Hedera Hashgraph. Join me as we recap the recent August 1st update and announcement, some industry notoriety gained for hashgraph along with a look at 3 new projects that have joined the hashgraph ecosystem.
Plus, I also wanted to extend my sincere gratitude to you, my audience. Few days ago, I recently reached the 1,000 subscribers milestone. This wouldn’t have been without you. Thank you!
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Recapping the Recent Announcement from Hedera Hashgraph
In case you missed it, Hedera Hashgraph has raised $100 million to date and has recently announced their accredited investor crowdsale. I thought to point out some key resources available where you can go to gather further information around this.
Hedera’s Announcement: https://tinyurl.com/yag87fro
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Leemon & Mance Video Update: 
Hedera Hashgraph Website: https://www.hederahashgraph.com/
Crowdsale FAQ: https://tinyurl.com/y7za7s23
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Coinbase Custody Explores Additional Token Support
Recently, Coinbase announced their plans to explore the support of 34 additional crypto assets for their Coinbase Custody services for institutional clients. Hedera Hashgraph was also included as part of the tokens being explored and considered.
Coinbase Blog Post: https://tinyurl.com/y7se6by8
George Gilder’s “Life After Google”
Hashgraph also gets a special mention within acclaimed writer George Gilder’s new book, “Life After Google.” According to Gilder, hashgraph is “perhaps the most formidable new play” within the distributed ledger space.
George Gilder’s Book: https://tinyurl.com/ya7u9ecp
More Projects Join the Ecosystem
Recently we learned of 3 more project that have announced their plans to use Hedera Hashgraph, which includes:
Alto
Alto is a decentralized platform with a suite of tools for game developers, item creators and players, built around the blockchain's item-first economy. Alto enables cryptoitems and Initial Item Offerings (IIO) by using the ERC721 standard smart contract, commonly referred as Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT).
Website: https://alto.io/
Announcement: https://tinyurl.com/ybunjwcc
Telegram: https://t.me/alto_io
GitHub: https://github.com/alto-io
Noia Network
Noia (or Network of Internet Acceleration) is a high-throughput content delivery network (CDN) and middleware layer based on widely dispersed network of edge caches and relay nodes. NOIA utilizes the spare bandwidth from household computers, routers and data-centers in order to implement a distributed ledger-based delivery layer integratable with both Web/App or Dapp architectures.
Website: https://noia.network/
Announcement: https://tinyurl.com/y78aubgp
Telegram: https://t.me/NoiaNetwork/
GitHub: https://github.com/noia-network
OLPortal
OLPortal is a decentralized messenger DApp on neural networks with the functionality of Artificial Intelligence dialogues. OLPortal offers users the ability to create messages automatically using neurobots that composed answers to messages within selected chat applications. Users need only to confirm the suggested variants of the bot’s answers to messages.
Website: https://olportal.ai/
Announcement: https://tinyurl.com/y7wxh7vd
Telegram: https://t.me/olportal_ai
Update from the Gossip Guy
In addition to achieving the subscriber milestone, we also announce the next Weekly Gossip in Hashgraph taking place on Saturday 18 August, 2018 at 11am EST / 3pm UTC. Make sure not to missing. As a reminder, be sure to join us on the “Gossip Groups” Discord server as we’ll be using this throughout the livestream.
Gossip Groups: https://discord.gg/XwA6eA7
Hashgraph Links:
Hedera Hashgraph Website: https://www.hederahashgraph.com/
Hedera Hashgraph Telegram Channel (General): https://t.me/hashgraph
Hedera Hashgraph Telegram Channel (News): http://t.me/hashgraphnews
Developers Discord Server: https://discord.gg/FFb9YFX
Meetup Events: https://www.meetup.com/pro/hashgraph/
What is Hashgraph?:
Hashgraph is a data structure & consensus algorithm that is fast, secure and fair.
What is Hedera Hashgraph?:
The Hedera hashgraph platform provides a new form of distributed consensus. The platform is lightning fast, secure, and fair. Hedera enables and empowers developers to build an entirely new class of distributed applications never before possible.
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