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📰 Blockmason Weekly Update: 2018–07–17

Welcome to the Blockmason Weekly Update!

Hello, Blockmason community! Another week is upon us, which means it’s time for another Weekly Update.

In this edition of the Weekly Update, Blockmason joins The Chamber of Digital Commerce, CEO Michael Chin at The Global Blockchain Forum, a new Business Development Manager joins the Blockmason team and more.

Are you ready? Let’s get started!

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Blockmason Joins The Chamber of Digital Commerce

As a base-layer blockchain technology company, Blockmason is committed to doing its share to nurture and grow the blockchain space. With that in mind, we’re excited to announce that Blockmason has become a member of the Chamber of Digital Commerce. The Chamber represents the world’s leading innovators, operators and investors in the digital asset and blockchain technology ecosystem, including start-ups, software companies, financial institutions and investment firms.

If you haven’t heard of them before, the Chamber’s mission is to promote the acceptance and use of digital assets and blockchain-based technologies. Through education, advocacy and working closely with policymakers, regulatory agencies and industry, our goal is to develop an environment that fosters innovation, jobs, and investment.

The Chamber’s current initiatives include the Token Alliance, the Smart Contracts Alliance, the Blockchain Intellectual Property Council, the Digital Assets Accounting Consortium, the Global Blockchain Forum and the State Working Group.

We look forward to being an active Chamber of Digital Commerce member and ensuring that Blockmason’s interests are well represented. Stay tuned for future updates on our relationship with the Chamber and what initiatives we are helping drive forward.

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Blockmason at The Global Blockchain Forum

Blockmason’s CEO Michael Chin recently attend The Global Blockchain Forum in Santa Clara, California. The Global Blockchain Forum is an international initiative of the Chamber of Digital Commerce.

We’ve got some footage of the conference which you can check out in this new video.

Blockmason at The Global Blockchain Forum in Santa Clara, California. See if you can spot former UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping in the video.

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Another new hire joins the Blockmason team

We’re proud to introduce a new team member who has joined Blockmason this week:

Harish Raisinghani, Business Development, North America

Harish is a seasoned generalist having worked as a systems engineer, software developer, project manager, sales support and general manager for the cleantech startup Pulse Energy, which was acquired by Yardi Systems. He is passionate about blockchain technology and has experience investing in cryptocurrencies and building smart contracts and trading bots. Harish grew up and resides in Metro Vancouver and is an Engineering Physics graduate from the University of British Columbia. At Blockmason, Harish manages business development and operations in North America.

You can connect with Harish on LinkedIn.

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Join Our Credit Protocol Hackathon

It’s not too late, our dApp development hackathon is still running.

🏆 The Challenge 🏆
Solve a consumer finance problem by developing a dApp using the Credit Protocol.

The theme of this hackathon is “consumer finance .” We are challenging you to think of some glaring problem in the consumer finance world that can be solved using blockchain technology.

For example, perhaps you want to fix peer-to-peer lending. Or create a way for individuals to fund each others’ mortgages, instead of banks. Or maybe you want to revolutionize how auto loans work using the Credit Protocol and the blockchain.

It runs from July 6th to July 20th, 2018, so there is still time to enter the competition.

You can find out more including how to enter here.

We look forward to seeing what new, unique and interesting dApps you come up with!

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Have You Joined The Blockmason Airdrop?

It’s not too late to join the community! Check out information and how to register for the airdrop.

Visit https://bountyhive.io/register and complete the signup process.

Once you are signed up, you can visit https://bountyhive.io/airdrops/Blockmason to read the airdrop rules and participation instructions.

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Try Lndr Today!

Built by Blockmason, Lndr is a peer-to-peer bill-splitting and expense-sharing mobile app for iOS and Android that uses the Credit Protocol and the Ethereum blockchain to create, manage and settle casual debts and IOUs between friends. Essentially, the “Venmo of the blockchain.”

Lndr supports dozens of currencies and allows users to settle debts in Ether (ETH). Future updates will include fiat currency settlement and support for other cryptocurrencies.

You can download Lndr for iOS on the App Store and Lndr for Android on Google Play

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That’s everything for now! Thanks again for being part of the Blockmason community. Don’t forget to add or follow us on your social media networks by clicking on the buttons below.

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