Vitalik Buterin Co-founder of Ethereun’s second largest cryptomeda recently spoke for the first time about its most anticipated upgrade to Ethereum 2.0 that is on the Serenity project during the Ethereum Devcon 4 developer conference in Prague. According to him, the project involves several features that the team has been talking about for years to develop.

Buterin said that over the years during the research and construction of the project, many new features were combined and now they are brought together. The PoS-Proof of Stake Casper protocol that will be used by the platform for the upgrade will provide other protocol enhancements that make up the Serenity project.

Developers believe that Serenity will make Ethereum’s energy-efficiency and scalability potential much higher and could increase a thousand times compared to its current statistics.

Buterin also added that before the release, developers will make some final adjustments. These include the Stability Protocol specifications and the test networks between clients, this network integrates at least two implementations of Ethereum 2.0.

The subsidies were granted to approximately 20 groups and people working on the development of blockchain in the platform, the aim is to increase the diversity of customers, promote usability, scalability and security, building tools and enabling the development of decentralized applications (dapps ) and smart contract technology.

The purpose of the incentive is to develop the research and benefit the network participants, providing their participation in decision making and the growth of the Ethereum network, as these contributions to the ecosystem are very important in the development of new solutions.

Companies like Prymatic labs and Status, Spankchain, Kyokan and Connext, were subsidized.

Entering a business like this in blockchain was considered a breakthrough in real estate, Ryan Serhant, an entrepreneur in the business and idealizer of the project, recommends tokenization as a new financing method as the best alternative for investors.

It will allow the purchase and sale of real estate, more safely and without indiscipline as is common in traditional bank financing, also protects the buyer from fraud at the time of purchase of the property, this creates more confidence and liquidity to investors.

The project is a partnership between Propellr, a creative, management and service platform for digital assets and Fluidity, a specialized platform for tokenization and smart contracts.

The news is that from 2019 the PSG will issue its own currency token, giving fans access to exclusive offers, such as meetings with players or participation in certain games.

In addition to the benefits, PSG will allow token fans to decide on less strategic matters related to the team, such as team options or opponents in friendly matches, summer tours, colors and uniform logo.

Paris Saint-Germain is taking advantage of the growth of the crypto-coins market and believes that token creation through blockchain technology will have a major impact on the club’s overall business strategy and it’s relationship with fans.

This PSG start has encouraged other European clubs to embrace the idea of ​​blockchain and crypto-coins.

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) – since 2013 are a form of financing for the development of new cryptocurrencies projects.

This year the ICOs raised more money in the first three months than in the entire 2017 year, with US$ 6.3 billion, ICO financing in the first quarter of 2018 was 18% higher than the one raised in 2017.

The average funding and financing rates on these projects are greater than ever, in the first quarter of 2018 it accounted for 59% of all ICOs that received capital in 2017.

Despite the regulatory risk there is still a great interest of the projects in selling tokens, a recent example was the sale of Telegram for US$ 1.7 billion, guaranteeing an extra volume of ICO sales in the first quarter, which even without it raised US$ 4.6 billion, or 85% of the total for 2017.

When a set of assets has equal values, they are defined as fungible. For example, one US dollar has the same value as any other US dollar. In the world of criptomoedas assets, fungibility promotes high liquidity among tokens within an ecosystem. When all tokens in a particular blockchain are identical, multiple transactions can occur quickly without the attendees worrying whether the tokens store the same value.

A non-fungible asset, however, is not the same as its counterparts. The example of a non-fungible asset is any kind of collectible item. A shirt from the Brazilian national team, for example, signed by Neymar will have much more value than any other official shirt.

CryptoKitties is one of the first projects built during the Beta version of ERC-721 and since November 2017 has already moved more than US$ 12 million in buying and selling, the game allows collectors to buy rare kittens that cross each other develop more and more characteristics differentiated, which consequently leaves them more expensive.

In addition to the world of collectable CryptoKitties, CryptoKitties presents another interesting side. In the future physical assets will be represented in the blockchain and the NFTs may have practical utility, land, houses or company stocks can be traced and acquired through an ERC-721 blockchain. Applications developed by Ethereum, such as Decentraland, are already building virtual worlds in which non-fungible assets can be traded between users in the ecosystem.

The success of CryptoKitties shows that people can recognize unique value and scarcity in the blockchain, and are eager to do so.

The new report was titled “Evolution of Blockchain Technology: Insights from the GitHub Platform” and published yesterday 08/11/2017 – the professional services company extracted information from the development platform, which makes the code available to more than 86,000 block chains, including large projects such as Bitcoin .

Together, the study presents the course of technology development through various implementations (starting with Bitcoin ) making a return to 2009.

The Deloitte report indicates that in 2016, the largest volume of new block chain projects (both organizations and individual users) has been implemented to date. By comparison, fewer than 15,000 were created in 2015. Data for 2017 only includes the first six months of the year, but nearly 25,000 GitHub projects were created during that period.

The report also included data in the major Blockchain repositories on GitHub . Of these, Bitcoin was the largest activity with 627 total contributors and almost 12,000 followers. The Go-ethereum (or Geth ), the software client maintained by Ethereum non-profit foundation, attracted 149 employees so far with 5,603 followers.

The report also provides geographic information on the pace of Blockchain’s development so far, noting that San Francisco plays the largest number of users in the GitHub code repository with 1,279 users and 101 organizations. London marked the second largest with 919 projects in total, followed by New York with 774.

“It is also worth noting the high level of activity in China, specifically Shanghai and Beijing. In both cities, most projects refer to encryption and exchange of crypto-coins, with an emphasis on scalability, “the report says.