Welcome to the 50th Bitshares State of the Network (BSotN) report. A weekly report focusing on the changes in the ecosystem and track longer term changes in a effort to identify emerging trends and changes in the Bitshares platform.

Bitshares - State of the Network - 29th August 2017

The Bitshares State of the Network Reports seeks to combine raw data from a wide range of metrics and combine them into meaningful information to identify emerging trends and changes in the Bitshares network.

Observation from this week

This section will highlight any observations made while analysing the data.

• HERE and the announcement of her involvement in the BHC HEREToni Lane Casserly (@tlc) The Joan of Arc in Bitcoin and Blockchain Technologies; has joined the Billion Hero Campaign! you can find out more about Toni on her Steemit introduction post

• This week the founders of door.one have announced and upcoming project to launch a new exchange on the Bitshares network. Door.one will have a web and mobile presence which are both currently in development.. Looking at the announcement they have a very aggressive roadmap. You can find more information HERE

• HERE@taconator has released a fee report for the Bitshares network for the month of July. The report goes in to a lot of details as to operations and fees collected. During the month of July; 698,000 BTS were collected for 16,700,00 operations (within 3,280,000 transactions). See the full report

• BSIP-0023 Titled: Sharedropping an UIA against an external cryptocurrency distribution snapshot and BSIP-0024@cm-steem has drafted 2 new BSIP (Bitshares Improvement Proposals) - Titled: Locking Bitshares away as 'Bitshares Influence' for voting privileges on the BTS DEX. @cm-steem has written a number of the previously published BSIP's and these two as with the previous ones are well written proposals with a huge amount of detail on there subject matter.

• HERE@richcg has been working on an updated design for the Bitshares.org website. You can view his latest progress

• HEREStealth Bitshares... This feature is not well known as it is somewhat complex to execute in its current form (don't worry @kencode is working on fixing that!). An old but good article was linked in telegram this week and i thought it might be useful for some newer viewers to at least know that Bitshares Stealth is an option. The post written by @vikx titled 'Anonymity and decentralization: an application for the stealth (hidden) transactions of the Graphene / Bitshares / Steem' can be found

• HEREArticle released on medium this week titled 'Unbanking the Banked' written by @michealx over-viewing Bitsparks recent migration plans to Bitshares and what it means for the movement of money globally. You can find the article

• Pirates without borders - 'Pirates Without Borders is an international association of Pirates. Unlike PPI it accept individuals as members and is itself a member organization of Pirate Parties International.'@stan has mentioned on telegram this week that he has an upcoming interview with the community from

• HERE, if you leave you Bitshares username in the comment you may even be one of the lucky recipients of the token giveaway.@virtualgrowth is doing a weekly market update and token give away; Check out his post and vote on your favorite asset

• This weeks Bitshares hangout recording has been published and is available HERE

• Current registered wallets/accounts within the Bitshares network is 394154; an increase of 9925 wallets/accounts since last week

• The last asset registered this week is asset #1625 and it is named 'POCKET' registered by 'virtual-growth' with no description but he has made a post about this token which you can find HERE

Smartcoin issueance chart showing weekly change since the start of 2017

Door.one concept art - more details HERE

Quantity of Transactions and Operations - Full report HERE

Fee's paid by day - Full report HERE

@stan is Planning the 2018 Global Reset

Bitshares Distribution

This sections seeks to analyse the current distribution of the network. We look at the current supply, top 100 hodlers, Orders on the Bitshares Decentralized Exchange (DEX), Reserve pool balance and Income growth.

Profit/Expenses from the Bitshares Reserve Pool

The chart below show historic profit/expense from the Bitshares Reserve Pool where a positive number represents a W/W profit and a negative number means a W/W expense; Bitshares expenses include witness and worker pay and income includes network fees.

BTS Trading

Looking at the most active trading pairs for Bitshares (BTS). Data displayed is a 24 hour snapshot as taken on the date of this report and not a reflection on the week as a whole.

Worker Proposals

This section will identify the current approved and pending worker proposals

Active Worker:

• 201708-bitsharesui
• Alfredo Garcia - Core Development for Second half of 2017
• 201707-bsip18
• Refund400k

Proposed Worker

• Soledger - Vikram/Agent86 - Project administration & essential maintenance
• Fund to pay dividend

DEX: Most Active Markets

This section will show the BTS markets within the DEX and seek to highlight the most active markets.

The most active base pair is BTS and the top 3 pairs are CNY, USD and PPY

Smartcoins

This sections seeks to analyse the current supply and market capitalisation of the Bitshares Smartcoins.

Referral Stats

This section will track user referrals, to gauge active refers overtime. The chart below shows in blue the total number of referred users and in orange the new referrals for this week.

Vote Proxies

This section will track the change in proxy voting

Committee Members

This section will track shareholder approval of committee members

Active Witnesses

This section will track top 25 active witnesses and the changes in support

Top 100 Distribution including Exchanges

This section looks at the top 100 rich list and compares account balances, this section will seek to identify changes in ownership which may lead to interesting investigations and early warning signs of upcoming projects

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