dApp Weekly Updates📰🚀 #3: May 14th

Consensus Week & The May 2019 Crypto Boom

Howdy Everyone,

This is the third issue of the Token Valley dApp newsletter aiming to give updates on the latest news on decentralized applications (dApps) across various platforms (EOS, Ethereum, Tron, etc.). Let’s jump right in:

📺 dApp News

• Spotted at Consensus New York: eBay hints at crypto acceptance (Source)

• ALTCOINS Tron’s Justin Sun announces launch of BitTorrent wallet and token on uTorrent, BitTorrent by Q2 (Source)

• TRON (TRX) CEO Blasted on Twitter Over DeFi Advertisements (Source)

• Blockstack invests $0.5 million into a new DApp browser (Source)

• Zilliqa Boasts of Enough Throughput for All Types of Dapps, What Does This Mean for Zilliqa Price (Source)

• Tron Has The Fastest Growing Rate of All Dapp-oriented Blockchains (Source)

• 10 Ethereum DApps that are leading the gambling industry on blockchain (Source)

• Good example of great dApp funding plan from Gnosis (Source)

• MetaCartel’s new initiative to grow Ethereum’s dapp ecosystem (Source)

• New NFT Powered Collectibles Game Nifty Football Launched (Source)

• 10 Factor Dapps: Best Design Practices for Ethereum Dapps (Source)

• How to Make Money on Your dApp? (Source)

🤹 Tweets of the Week

Nuo Network⚡ @getnuo

Nuo has now surpassed @CryptoKitties in daily transactions every single day since last 2 weeks.

EOS New York @eosnewyork

“Blockchain users do not have to review all the source code associated with every dApp before using them since the components of the security model in themselves provide significant assurances for the end-user to confidently interact with the blockchain.”

medium.comEOSIO Labs™ Release: The Assert Manifest Security ModelLast month, we announced EOSIO Labs™, an initiative through which we have begun innovating in the open with regards to the future of…

TRX adds 14 new dApps:

Misha Lederman @mishalederman

#TRON DApp Report: Smart contracts, 24-hour trading volume rise significantly Growth areas for #TRX blockchain over past week: 14 new DApps +10% DAU +20% 24H txs 24 new smart contracts 100s of new nodes online Growth = Growing Usage #IAmDecentralized

ambcrypto.comTron DApp Report: Smart contracts, 24-hour trading volume rise significantlyThe Tron Foundation made headlines after the launch of several updates and developments. In the latest DApp report released by the organization, Justin Sun stated, “The number of smart contracts has increased by 24 compared with last week. 24h trading volume and DAU are climbing up steadily. Specifi…

💰 Market Review

Crypto is booming! BTC is leading the charge, but dApp platforms are close behind.

• EOS touches $6, reaching an 8-month high in its 3rd week of positive growth. Up 135% YTD.

• ETH gains 20% this week, reaching a 6-month high with 56%. Up 56% YTD.

• TRON is relatively left behind in the May 2019 boom, with 35% growth YTD.

✨ Token Valley’s dApp Pick of the Week'

Our pick of the week is SPEDN, which uses FlexaCoin on the FLEXA payment network to allow users to spend their BTC / ETH / BCH / GUSD (more coming soon) at a growing list of merchants including Starbucks, GameStop, Nordstrom, Whole Foods, and more. It was presented at #Consensus2019 this week by the Tyler Winklevoss. This announcement brought FlexaCoin’s market-cap to about 120m USD, making it nearly a #50 cryptocurrency.

Tyler Winklevoss @tylerwinklevoss

Come buy crypto merch from me with the SPEDN App using @Gemini dollars at the @FlexaHQ store at #Consensus2019

If you try it out, tweet us your thoughts @Token_Valley

Joey Krug @joeykrug

First real world real crypto purchase that was actually as easy as a credit card!

👨‍💻 Token Valley Posts

Our CEO Elias Ahonen put out an 8-part tweet-storm about regarding suggested ways to improve UX design on EOS to encourage dApp adoption. It is essentially a summary of a Token Valley Medium article published two weeks earlier:

Elias Ahonen @elias_ahonen

1/ The #eos ecosystem faces serious UX Design problems today, but progress is being made to reduce barriers to entry. We need to patch these issues if we want mass adoption of EOS & the #dApps it will support. @Token_Valley has some ideas!

medium.comChallenges of UX Design on EOS and How To Fix ThemIt’s no secret that a major barrier of entry to blockchain is just how difficult it can be to figure out what you are doing when you’re…

🏦 Token Valley News

Our Co-founder and CMO Manuel Zeiler was interviewed for Hummingbot.io’s crypto-trading newsletter regarding his previous work with trading bots. Way to go Manuel!

We ran a Twitter survey regarding the most useable dApps. EOS Knights, TronBet, PokerEOS, dmail (EOS), and Newdex (EOS) all received a number of votes.

Token Valley’s dApp submission form is now online; anyone can use it to submit a dApp for basic listing and rating on our platform. Entries have already begun coming in without any promotion. Please, share this form with any dApps you know or add them yourself! We want to hear from everyone in this ecosystem!

We are finalizing our sponsorship options this week, and will soon be coming out with a clear ‘conflict of interest policy’ in order to maintain transparency while accepting some forms of sponsorship to keep us afloat. If you want to be among our first sponsors (or just want your dApp listed for free), email us at info@tokenvalley.com.

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🤖🤣 On the lighter side..

Danke

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