-Bitshares has been approved by the Token Exchange Self-Regulating Body (TXSRB) along side Bitcoin, Steem and others on the Clean Token List. You can get more information on the TXSRB HERE.

-A new BHAP (Big Heroic Audacious Projects) has been proposed, Project 'Rebuild Houston' is proposed as one of the projects in the Billion Hero Campaign's and will focus on providing support to the city of Houston which has been devastated by Hurricane Harvey. You can find out more about the project HERE

• Bitshares Developer Alfredo has released the first public version of the Bitshares Block Explorer this week! Check out bitshares-explorer.io to see his progress thus far. Alfredo has also mentioned that ongoing development is still in progress.

• @roelandp has submitted a worker proposal for shareholder consideration. The Worker Proposal titled:'201709-steemfest' is for sponsorship of the Graphene based Hackathon to be conducted at the 2nd annual SteemFest event in Lisboa (first week of November). The worker proposal is attempting to raise $6666 USD which will be used for prize money as well as organisational costs. If successful Bitshares will have the opportunity to have an introductory talk at the start of the hackathon, a 20 minute session in the main event, being a Focus Chain sponsor on all printed matters and SteemFest related materials and the creativity of up to 60 developers who will create and demo projects at the SteemFest main event.
  @michaelx in telegram has hinted at an upcoming sharedrop to Bitshares holders as early as mid September, more details will follow in the coming days as to the project being launched and the sharedrop. To be eligible for the sharedrop users will need to hold their BTS in one of the supported Bitshares wallets (BitsharesDEX, OpenLedger, RuDEX ect..). Funds stored on a centralized exchange will be excluded from the sharedrop (because in reality the exchange owns your Bitshares; you, their customer just owns a promissory note). Stay tuned to @stan and the Bitshares Twitter account for more information.

• The team from YOYOW have announced that the YOYOW tokens have been listed on the Binance Exchange and they have launched a international YOYOW Wechat group. Find out more HERE