Theta Network — May Roundup

May Highlights

• Theta partners with Play Labs startup accelerator held at the MIT Game Lab: Theta Labs will be sponsoring teams to build on the Theta testnet during the Summer 2018 cohort.

• Binance lists THETA/BTC, THETA/ETH, and THETA/BNB trading pairs.

Development Progress

• The Theta team visits SamsungVR in Dallas for prototyping. Mitch and Tim of Theta along with Andrew Dickerson, SamsungVR Senior Director of Software Engineering, have been testing Theta’s mesh streaming on SamsungVR content.

Video content

• The Crypto Lark interviews Theta Labs CEO Mitch Liu
• Mitch discussed the origin of the Theta Network

By the Numbers

Theta Token holders: 22,687 addresses (from Etherscan)

Social media stats/activity

• Theta Facebook and Twitter both top 45K+ followers
• Theta Telegram reaches 13k members

Theta in the Press

• Diginomica: Theta aims to reinvent video streaming with incentivized blockchain
• Sludgefeed: Theta: Decentralized Video Streaming Powered by the Blockchain
• MK: Theta featured in South Korea’s largest business newspaper

Upcoming Conferences

• Mitch will be speaking at the upcoming Blockchain Connect conference in San Jose, June 26th and 27th. Mitch will be speaking on the 27th on the “Blockchain Adoption in the Real World” panel. Let us know if you’re attending and come say hello to the Theta team!
• Tim (Head of Platform) and Wes (Head of Strategy) will be speaking at the Tulip Emerging Technology conference in SF this Friday. Tim will be presenting a keynote speech titled “The Video Streaming Tidal Wave”, while Wes will be featured on the “What Blockchain Means for Media” panel.

More Buzz!

• Mitch spoke at Block72’s Blockchain in Asia meetup in NYC
• Theta joins the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance