Extract from this weeks Bitshares State of the Network Report

• A new version of the Bitshares reference wallet has been released this week (v2.0.171101). This newest release contains updates to the Voting UI which follows on from the stylish updates to the user dashboard from the last release.

• Due to an unforeseen event, new code in the BitShares back-end, that was supposed to only active by end of November, caused a disagreement with block production nodes. Witness nodes rolled back to previous version of the core software for a speedy resolution to the issue.

• Bitspark has announced that it has received funding from ‘RGAx’. The innovation accelerator of Reinsurance Group of America is one of the world's largest life reinsurance companies.

• AEX Exchange has listed smartcoin markets suggesting these markets will be trading soon alongside BTC which is the only other base pair. The base pairs listed on AEX are BTC, BitUSD, BitJPY, BitKRW and BitCNY.

• @Stan Larimer will be the guest speaker at a bitcoin meetup in Austin Texas next Monday.