Markets

• Price per Bitcoin BTC is at ~$4393 USD (+3.7% from last Monday)
• Price per Ether ETH is at ~$321 USD (-5.8% from last Monday)
• Price per Bitcoin Cash BCH is at ~$560 USD (-6.67% from last Monday)

Articles

• Central Banks Can't Ignore the Cryptocurrency Boom by Bloomberg
• China Central Bank Says Initial Coin Offerings Are Illegal by Bloomberg
• After Contact By SEC, Protostarr Token Shuts Down Post-ICO by Forbes
• Blockchain In The Supply Chain: Too Much Hype by Forbes
• Bitcoin Is The New 'Gold' by Forbes
• Dark web finds bitcoin increasingly more of a problem than a help by CNBC
• Burger King has launched its own cryptocurrency in Russia called ‘WhopperCoin’ by CNBC
• Hong Kong tech startup plans up to $150 million token sale for environmental credit market by Reuters
• Russian govt wants to protect public from bitcoin trading as it resembles ‘financial pyramid' by RT
• Exclusive: An Inside Look at Kim Dotcom’s Bitcoin-Based Payments Platform by Fortune
• Toothpick Takes Top Prize In 'Silicon Beach' Ethereum Hackathon by Fortune
• The first ICO unicorns are here by Techcrunch
• Bitcoin Price at $10,000 For GBTC Shares, Trading at 120 Percent Premium by Cointelegraph
• Bitcoin Drops Below $5,000 as Crypto Markets See $13 Billion Sell-Off by Coindesk
• European Union is Joining UN to Help Refugees Using Ethereum Technology by Altcoin Today
• Bitcoin's Academic Pedigree by Acmqueue
• The bear case for crypto by Preston Byrne
• Why Bitcoin Matters by Marc Andreessen

This week’s new initial coin offerings (ICOs)

• Grace is building a charity fundraising platform that provides an incentive mechanism for advocates to promote charitable causes.
• Grace’s Advocate Incentive Mechanism rewards advocates financially by giving them a percentage of the fund raised.
• The reward is provided in Grace’s own ERC-20 ethereum coin GRCE.
• The reward percentage is set during the creation phase of each campaign.
• Grace is creating 120 Million GRCE tokens in total.
• 80% of this will be sold in the token sale at an exchange rate of 3,000 GRCE per ETH.
• The presale period plans to release 20 million GRCE with 20% bonus token reward.
• It is scheduled to start on September 4, 2017 and last 7 days or until the cap is reached.

• Matryx is a platform that enables and incentivises collaboration in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
• It consists of a ethereum based bounty system, a library of digital assets, and a marketplace.
• Bounties are posted with the intention to fulfill specific problems, from mathematical proofs to 3D designs.
• The bounty poster can select a submission and use it as the parent for a new batch of community revision.
• When the poster is satisfied, a winner is chosen.
• All contributors, not just the final winner, are rewarded with Matryx’s cryptocurrency MTX.
• The company behind Matryx, is Nanome.
• They have previously created and launched two VR applications for mathematics and nanoscale design collaboration toolkits on the Steam platform.
• There will be exactly 314,159,265 MTX created. The presale of MTX tokens start on September 6, 2017.
• The exchange rate is set at 1165 MTX per ETH.
• To participate in the presale, minimum investment is 75 ETH.
• Investment of 150 - 300 ETH receives 10% discount, investment of 300 ETH or greater receive 15% discount.