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This time last year we predicted there needed to be a crypto winter, something we hoped to happen sooner rather than later. As painful as it has been for everyone we believe it was the medicine the industry needed to professionalise. There was too much hype with too little value in the public market, something we had been talking about since early 2017.

ChainHack24 brought together the 50 brightest minds from Imperial College Computing, Maths, Biomedical and Chemistry departments, sponsored by Outlier Ventures and Blockchain.com. The two day event focused on building smart contract applications using OrbitDB, Sovrin, Ocean Protocol and Ethereum. With a prize pool of over £4k in cash and crypto for the best projects for Identity, Intelligence, Privacy and Incentives.

The SEC issued a public statement on digital assets on Friday 16 November, in addition to issuing cease and desist orders against two ICO issuers, Paragon and Airfox.  

Outlier Ventures was announced the one to watch in the head-to-head race for the Industry Game Changer prize at the fourth annual Growth Investor Awards, organised by Intelligent Partnership.

The long-awaited UK Cryptoassets Taskforce Report was published on 30 October 2018, following shortly after the Parliamentary Treasury Committee’s report in September.