Monthly Team Recap — August
August has been one of our most exciting months to date! We started rolling out the beta version of the Dether app, held our first live, TechTalk AMA on Telegram, welcomed two new members to the Dether team, held our third Ether Price Prediction Competition, and had our geospatial engineer present Dether at the world’s largest open source conference in the world!

Development and Tech
The Dether Beta App is Now Live!
The biggest news of the month is of course the rollout of the Dether beta app! Starting with our early access subscribers, we released the beta app to the Dether community in over 120 countries. We’re so glad to see the Dether community already enjoying the app, and posting their own reviews!

We’ve created a YouTube playlist to help you get started with the app here. You can also check our step-by-step guide on Medium here.
→ You can start using the Dether beta app today!
Live Telegram TechTalk AMA
This month, we hosted our first live, Telegram AMA with Dether cofounder and technical lead, Mehdi Amari! Mehdi answered community questions about the app, from encryption to token curation, and touched on future plans for Dether.

Did you miss the live AMA? We’ve put together a chat transcript just for you, so you can access it anytime. Read it here.
Dether Tech Update #6
Before lauching the Dether beta app, we wrote our sixth tech update, covering the app’s updated exchange feature, as well as other important developments, like improvements to gas price adjustments and more options in the app settings.

You can check out all of the details here!
Editorials and Community
Turkey spotlight
With the recent financial crisis in Turkey, and the spike in crypto trading in the country, we decided to take a look at how crypto is bought in Turkey, as well as some of the key Turkish figures in crypto and blockchain technology.

We covered exchanges like paribu.com, BTCTurk, Koineks, Cex and Bitit, as well as projects like Colendi and Kimlic.
Community Contribution
We are thrilled to have posted our second community contribution this month! Adal, a senior software engineer at Flipkart in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, shared his experience of trying to rent an apartment in Bangalore City with crypto, plus his thoughts on Dether.

Would you like to become a contributor for Dether? Please send your drafts to taylor@dether.io, along with your LinkedIn profile and Twitter. We’ll send you a free Dether t-shirt when we post your article and give you a shout out on our socials!
Ether Price Prediction Competition #3

We held our third price prediction competition, where we asked the community to guess the price of ether in USD on the date of Tuesday, August 7, 2018. With over 300 participants, and a final price of 409.04 in USD our winners were:
1st prize: @vikasgupta89 (10,000 DTH + a Dether t-shirt)
2nd prize: @asbekshar (5000 DTH + a Dether t-shirt)
3rd prize @therusgarian (a Dether t-shirt)
We’ll be hosting another Price Prediction Competition very soon — stay tuned, and get ready to win!
Team News
Dether Geospatial Engineer, Alex Kurth, Presented at FOSS4G2018

Dether’s very own map expert and geospatial engineer, Alex Kurth, presented Dether and original research at FOSS4G2018 in Tanzania, the largest global gathering focused on open source geospatial software.

Alex will be writing more in-depth about his presentation in the upcoming months, so watch this space!
New Members of the Dether Team
Cedric joined Dether as our QA and UX Officer, and is especially keen to help Dether develop in Asian markets. Welcome, Cedric!
The talented Inna Jaakkola also joined Dether as a designer. If you follow us on social media, you’ve probably been enjoying Inna’s personable social media graphics! Welcome, Inna!



