Excerpt from the Bitshares State of the Network report

• The BitShares Blockchain Foundation (@bitshares.fdn) will receive the draft of the legal opinion letter from PaulHasting by the end of the week.

• @Stan Larimer will be talking at Virginia Tech on April 19th. Stan will revisit the fact that Bitshares, Steem and EOS spawned from Virginia Tech and then follow it up with seven of the top blockchain trends for 2018.

• @Bitspark will be hosting the first Graphene focused meetup in Hong Kong on the 26th of April 2018. The first event will be an introduction for the meetup group and discussions of Graphene projects

• Trusty.Fund has announced a mobile investment wallet based on BitShares. The product is designed to be simple to use as a solution for new users or people who do not have the financial background for trading.

• Easydex this week announced their open beta launch of EasyDex.Net. Easydex offers users a password recovery option by giving the user the option to store an encrypted copy of their password with EasyDex during account creation.

• This week HUOBI.PRO has listed Bitshares/USDT trading pair on their exchange following Bitshares/Bitcoin trading pairs added a few weeks ago.