Theta Token — April Roundup

April Highlights

• Theta Labs adds new members to the Blockchain Advisory Council: Shoucheng Zhang (Danhua Capital) and Ma Haobo (aelf)
• SLIVER.tv partners with Twitch to launch Tilted Trivia — coming soon: Theta Tokens will be earned by all viewers/participants that play Tilted Trivia on Twitch!

• New limited time items on SLIVER.tv that can ONLY be purchased with Theta Token — limited numbers of Nano Ledger S and PlayStation 4, Google Play and iTunes gift cards, plus more to come!
• SLIVER.tv reaches 5m visits in March! Lots of viewers available to try out the Theta testnet channel coming in late Q2.

Development Progress

• The first prototype demo video of the Theta Network is out!

• “Building the Theta Protocol: Part III”: Check out Jieyi’s (CTO) Medium post on Theta’s use of off-chain payment channels to increase transaction throughput.
• “Building the Theta Protocol: Part IV”: Jieyi’s follow up blog on the off-chain Resource Oriented Micropayment Pool

Influencer videos

• Ken the Crypto
• John Acquaviva (Spanish)

By the Numbers

Token stats (from Etherscan)

• Theta Token holders: 20,713 addresses
• No. of transfers: 59,116 (since inception)

Social media stats/activity

• Theta Facebook and Twitter each over 40K+ followers
• Our subreddit r/thetatoken got a much-needed makeover courtesy of Kawaii Crypto!

More Buzz!

• Theta Design Contest — Thanks to everyone who participated, and congrats to our winners Shahid Hajat, Kawaii Crypto, and William Saunders!
• Theta Labs hires Method Communications as our new partner for press relations