Bitshares - State of the Network - 21st August 2018

Welcome to the 97th 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 - 21st August 2018

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.

• OpenLedger has introduced some of their UI/UX improvements. I have included a few of the new screenshots below but you can find the official release HERE

• @clockwork has released an annimated gif showing the bitshares companion application in action. The Gif shows the companion app running in the background and then responding to the user clicking a voting link via a we browser. you can see the demo HERE

• Jerry Liu (bitcrab), Committee Member of BitShares, Founder of @TheGDEX, and Founder of Spring Capital is speaking at BitFest Amsterdam

• Google recently published "Blockchain Activity" on the Google Assistant platform, enabling its use instantly on all Google Assistant supported devices - potentially billions of users have blockchain activity statistics at their fingertips without the need to install any new apps (other than the Google Assistant app). You can find out more HERE

• btspp-witness (1.6.131) has rocketed through the ranks to become an active witness getting 349.7 Million votes in the last 7 days

• blocktivity.info has added new blockchains to their list of monitored coins. You can now compare all the regulars with projects likes of GOLOS, WAVES and SCR. Check out the latest Blockchain Activity HERE

• @blocktivity has released the latest composition of the Bit20 and Twentix cryptocurrency index fund. On the 21st day of every month, an algorithm runs that creates the new composition. You can find more details about the Bit20 composition HERE or the Twentix composition HERE

• The Beyond Bitcoin Bitshares weekly hangouts have now moved to the Discord platform. You can join the Bitshares Discord HERE and also catch the latest hangouts streamed live on YouTube HERE

• Current registered wallets/accounts within the Bitshares network is 1066828; an increase of 4599 wallets/accounts since last week

Smartcoin issuance chart showing weekly change since the start of 2017

OpenLedger UI/UX improvements - looks great! - source

Bitshares Companion application example - Voting - source

Quintric team at Chain Xchange conference

Jerry Liu (bitcrab), Committee Member of BitShares, Founder of @TheGDEX, and Founder of Spring Capital is speaking at BitFest Amsterdam

BitFest Amsterdam - 21st to 23rd of September 2018 - source

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.

Distribution	Balance	Change W/W	Change W/W %
BTS Supply	2,652,785,832	2,321,255.00	0.09%
BTS Stealth	285,272	134.00	0.05%
BTS in Open Orders (DEX - T250)	12698261	-	0.00%
Reserve Pool	947787322	-2,321,255.00	-0.24%
Collateral (top 250) backing Smartcoins	466,709,298	-	0.00%
Top 100 Total	1,484,160,236	-	0.00%
Top 100 - minus Exchanges	716,624,871	-	0.00%
Exchanges	767,535,365	-	0.00%
Non Exchanges	1,885,250,467	2,321,255.00	0.12%

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.

Market	Last Price	Price USD	24hr Vol BTS	24hr Vol USD	Vol %	Vol % Change W/W
USDT	0.10408057	0.10411225	29,342,965.28	3,054,962.10	53.8%	-9.2%
BTC	0.00001614	0.10	21,669,340.41	2,247,650.66	39.7%	-52.0%
ETH	0.00037552	0.10502743	3,025,216.33	317,730.70	5.5%	-62.3%

Worker Proposals

This section will identify the current approved and pending worker proposals

Active Worker:

Proposed Worker

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, Bridge.BTC and Open.BTC

Smartcoins

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

Asset	Supply	Price	Market Cap BTS	Market Cap USD	Supply Change W/W
BTS	2,652,785,832	0.1040	275,967,082	$275,967,081.76	0.088%
BTS Stealth	285,272	0.1040	29,677	$29,676.61	0.047%
Reserve Pool	947,787,322	0.1040	98,597,519	$98,597,518.97	-0.244%
BitUSD	10,440,394	9.53	99,496,955	$10,350,584.63	-2.132%
BitCNY	135,866,234	1.392	189,125,798	$19,674,597.87	-2.214%
BitEUR	76,379	10.98	838,641	$87,243.16	-6.952%
BitBTC	50.7	61,431	3,114,552	$324,004.20	-0.588%
BitGold	189.4	11,364	2,152,342	$223,906.29	-0.053%
BitSilver	21,761	141	3,068,301	$319,192.78	0.000%
Ruble	6,828,200	0.141	962,776	$100,156.80	-0.848%
HERO	725	1,572	1,139,700	$118,562.03	-2.291%

Active Witnesses

This section will track top 30 active witnesses and the changes in support

Rank	Witness	Votes	Missed	Missed W/W
1	in.abit 1.6.35	702.8	792
2	bhuz 1.6.17	678	1942
3	verbaltech2 1.6.34	667.2	4135
4	abc123 1.6.65	663.4	1428	7
5	rnglab 1.6.45	646.8	2397
6	xman 1.6.64	644.9	1854	7
7	elmato 1.6.20	644.6	4483	1
8	xeldal 1.6.22	640.4	2825
9	witness.still 1.6.69	640.1	9423	1
10	sahkan-bitshares 1.6.73	631.6	1558	26
11	fox 1.6.16	630.2	4692	3
12	roelandp 1.6.74	627.9	144	5
13	xn-delegate 1.6.59	627.9	3713	1
14	blckchnd 1.6.75	624.4	1031	2
15	delegate-1.lafona 1.6.28	564.5	5002	2
16	crazybit 1.6.84	562.3	775	8
17	bangzi 1.6.116	561.2	39	3
18	witness.hiblockchain 1.6.105	544.9	754	19
19	witness.yao 1.6.71	531.8	4058	2
20	magicwallet.witness 1.6.110	529.3	142	2
21	delegate.freedom 1.6.63	528.3	4994	1
22	clockwork 1.6.117	519.3	103	3
23	openledger-dc 1.6.76	517.3	809
24	gdex-witness 1.6.120	462	80
25	winex.witness 1.6.101	407.9	1163	6
26	delegate-zhaomu 1.6.98	386.4	1486	2
27	btspp-witness 1.6.131	349.9	0
28	zapata42-witness 1.6.129	294.2	0
29	mr.agsexplorer 1.6.24	281.1	9130	230
30	delegate-clayop 1.6.27	250.7	5200

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