Want to get more involved in the crypto space? Here’s a small list of upcoming events for the next week you can attend or monitor:
Network Upgrades & Hard Forks: NEBLIO (NEBL) TestNet Hard Fork
Airdrops: VTHO (Vechain Holders)
ICOs Ending: Trippki (TRIP), Online (OIO), Hirefreehands (HFT), GreenX (GEX), Bettium (BETT), AI Crypto (AIC), Ligercoin (LIGER)
ICOs Starting: EPIK Token (EPIK), Open WiFi (OPP*)
Blockchain-related Events: Discon – Distributed Consensus (Colorado), New York Fintech Week – 2018 (New York)
Network Upgrades & Hard Forks
NEBLIO (NEBL) TestNet Hard Fork – August 1st 2018
The Neblio team has planned a hard fork on their testnet on August 1st, 2018 as part of a network upgrade. As noted by the team, this hard-fork will require a mandatory neblio-Qt/nebliod software upgrade. Neblio is a project that aims to provide open-source blockchain products and services to drive business value.
Airdrops
VeChain (VEN) Holders – VTHO Airdrop – Airdrop on August 1st 2018
VeChain is a platform offering Blockchain-as-a-Service to businesses for products and information, designed to enhance supply chain management processes. To celebrate the launch of the VeChain (VEN) mainnet, the team has provided 100 million VTHO tokens to be airdropped to all Binance users holding VEN. These tokens will be split between all VEN holders in proportion to their percentage holdings of total VEN balances held by all Binance users at the time of the snapshot.
ICOs
ICOs Ending:
Trippki (TRIP) – Ends 2nd August 15:00 GMT
Start price: $ 0.1875, Funds raised: $ 1.05 M, Funding target: 3,600 ETH, Funding cap: 27,500 ETH, Coins offered: 80.00 M (40.00%). Trippki is a hotel booking channel and decentralized travel rewards platform. In the Trippki model, guests are rewarded for completing their stay with the TRIP token, an ERC20 token based on the Ethereum blockchain.
Online (OIO) – Ends 31st July 00:00 GMT
Start price: $ 0.04000, Funds raised: $ 43.93 M, Funding target: 5,000,000 USD, Funding cap: 50,000,000 USD, Coins offered: 1.75 B (70.00%). Online.io is implementing a decentralized ecosystem which claims to combine all the necessary features for a faster, safer, and more private Internet browsing experience.
Hirefreehands (HFT) – Ends 31st July 00:00 GMT
Start price: $ 0.05000, Funds raised: -, Funding target: 2,000,000 USD, Funding cap: 10,000,000 USD, Coins offered: 249.50 M (50.00%). Hirefreehands is a decentralized online freelancing platform for digital services. HFT is an ERC20 utility token designed to be used by clients and freelancers within the platform, where entrepreneurs, businesses and enterprises hire & work with affordable talent on-demand. HFT will be used as a means of payment on the platform.
GreenX (GEX) – Ends 31st July 00:00 GMT
Start price: $ 0.2000, Funds raised: -, Funding target: 2250 ETH, Funding cap: 225,000,000 GEX, Coins offered: 225.00 M (60.00%). GreenX is an ecosystem aimed at assisting investors by providing eco-friendly projects to invest in. The ecosystem contains two platforms, the “GreenX Capital Market” aimed at developers looking for funding on Green Energy projects and the “GreenX Global Exchange” which is a secondary marketplace to exchange and trade currently owned Green Energy projects and equities.
Bettium (BETT) – Ends 31st July 00:00 GMT
Start price: $ 0.05000, Funds raised: -, Funding target: 7,500,000 USD, Funding cap: 30,000,000 USD, Coins offered: 600.00 M (60.00%). Bettium is a platform enabling users to engage in p2p sports betting against each other. The platform offers users a series of tools, ranging from machine learning services to established experts to improve forecasts and strategy.
AI Crypto (AIC) – Ends 31st July 00:00 GMT
Start price: $ 0.004610, Funds raised: $ 4.75 M, Funding target: -, Funding cap: 50,000 ETH, Coins offered: 5.00 B (50.00%). AI Crypto is an Ethereum-based platform where members can acquire and provide data used for training models for AI. Users that are willing to provide their idle resources of computing power to create data needed for artificial intelligence research are compensated in AIC coins.
Ligercoin (LIGER) – Ends 1st August 00:00 GMT
Start price: $ 0.02925, Funds raised: -, Funding target: 4,000,000 EUR, Funding cap: 41,000,000 EUR, Coins offered: 2.03 B (75.00%). Liger is a gaming platform based on the Ethereum blockchain. Liger’s team aims to build a platform that allows users to play on Online Casinos, Online Fantasy Sports and Sports Betting Platforms.
ICOs Starting:
EPIK Token (EPIK) – Starting 1st August 00:00 GMT
Start price: $ 0.1774: Funding target: -, Funding cap: 38,000 ETH, Coins offered: 100.00 M (50.00%). BLMP (Blockchain Licensing Marketplace) is a B2B2C blockchain company processing B2B2C transactions and providing value through efficiency, traceability, and security. BLMP is pioneering licensed virtual goods and the mission of BLMP is to connect the intellectual property licensing industry with digital platforms. The EPIK token powers BLMP’s B2B blockchain licensing platform and is used to facilitate the creation, distribution, and sale of licensed virtual goods.
Open WiFi (OPP*) – Starting 1st August 00:00 GMT
Start price: $ 0.2721, Funding target: 4,000,000 USD, Funding cap: 40,000,000 USD, Coins offered: 142.00 M (3.55%). Open WiFi is recruiting 25 million WiFi Hotspot Hosts with a view of becoming the largest guest WiFi community in the world.
Events
Discon – Distributed Consensus
When: August 3 – 4, 2018
Where: Boulder, Colorado
Discon is due to take place in Boulder, Colorado this year and aims to explore emerging research, ideas, technology and culture surrounding the blockchain space. This two-day event will include a series of talks by leading industry figures such as Charles Haskinson (CEO & Founder, Cardano IOHK; Co-founder, Ethereum). Other featured speakers include Jordan Earls (Co-founder & Lead Developer, QTUM), Alex Stokes (Co-founder, Polaris), and Greg Foss (Head of Global Security Operations, Logrhythm).
Presentation topics include: blockchain in the music business, smart contracts, bitcoin mining, blockchain cybersecurity, cryptocurrency hacks, cryptocurrency taxation, ICOs and game theory in blockchain to name a few. For a full schedule please click here.
When: July 31 – August 2, 2018
Where: Times Square, New York
The New York Fintech Week will bring together a series of leading figures within the fintech and blockchain industries. Over the course of the three-day event, attendees are able to take advantage of several panel discussions, networking events, and company presentations. There will be three main conferences to look out for: Finpitch: Pitch Day, Blockchain Innovators, and Fintech Disruptors.
Finpitch: Pitch Day – July 31st 2018
This is a half-day conference aimed at showcasing a series of projects looking for funding. Each pitch lasts for 5 minutes with 3 minutes of Q&A from VCs.
Blockchain Innovators – August 1st 2018
This event will involve an extensive line-up of industry speakers and a room full of high quality delegates.
Fintech Disruptors – August 2nd 2018
This conference focuses on broader trends in Fintech. It will explore what’s happening from a global perspective and include sessions on payments, regulation, capital markets, investment, insurance and banking.
Speakers during the fintech week will include Ari Zoldan (CEO, Quantum Media Group LLC), Ivan Soto-Wright (Founder & Managing Partner, HODL.vc) and Wyatt Meldman-Floch (CTO & Co-founder, Constellation Labs) among many others. For a full agenda along with details of panel discussions and speakers during the week, please click here.
