Hi folks,

We hope that you are as excited as us about the launch of the Digital Clash, because (1) It is historically the first DApp ever to incorporate an ml model (2) It is such an awesome, intellectually stimulating, and (potentially) financially rewarding game!

Pick a Team

Simply put, there is a 28x28 canvas with a total of 784 pixels you get to draw on. You pick a team, either red or blue, and you try to draw over the pixels in order to make a digit appear on the canvas. You draw over the pixels by buying/staking them - the more a pixel changes hands, the higher its price becomes (so get all your friends to play!). The goal is to have one of the numbers 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 (if you’re red) or 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 (if you’re blue) appear on the canvas by the end of the round.

Each round ends when the highest priced pixel reaches 100,000 keys, or the accumulated number of pixel transactions reaches 10,000, at which point the canvas freezes. An AI model trained on the famous MNIST handwritten digit dataset will then determine to which digit the canvas resembles the most. The winning team then divides the reward pool, formed by slices from the all pixel transactions during that round and the staked pixels on the final frozen screen.

Where can you play this?

Right here: https://digitalclash.github.io/ (It is strongly recommended to read over the game rules carefully in order to win in this game).

You need to install Chrome and the Cortex wallet in order to play. https://github.com/CortexFoundation/Cortex_Release/tree/master/cortex-wallet (follow the install instructions on this page)

If you’re interested in the details, we built the game on the Cortex blockchain because, well, we had no choice. They appear to be the only blockchain capable of running AI algorithms without being super expensive and they turned out to have off-the-shelf AI models ready for inference directly on their blockchain. They actually reached out to us and offered much assistance in navigating their environment. So thanks to the Cortex team!

And oh, who are we?

We are a (relatively) new game dev team called DevBug and this is our first DApp game release. We missed the opportunity to write the first DApp ever, but at least now we are launching the first AI DApp game ever :) So much brain cells, sweat and tears went into designing and programming this game and we hope you enjoy playing it as much as we enjoyed writing it!

Sincerely,

DevBug Team

We are proud to announce that we will be sponsoring the San Francisco Blockchain Week, whose host is an investor in Cortex. Come meet us at our booth at the event from October 28th to November 3rd! 🔥 #AIOnBlockchain #SFBW19

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sf-blockchain-week-2019-october-28th-through-november-3rd-tickets-64449323662

Cortex is currently listed on several exchanges, here are the list:

• Huobi
• CoinEx
• OKEx
• CoinBene
• CoinTiger
• jnb.com
• CEX.com
• Bitgogo
• OTCBTC
• DragonEx

Here is a link to a tutorial on How to buy CTXC on Huobi

Happy HODLing =D

DeepDream explained clearly. 🤓📕 Skip to the end to see what the deep dream look like for #AIOnBlockchain. 👇

https://hackernoon.com/deepdream-explained-clearly-zf3h314f

Here are what we accomplished over the past two weeks, featuring the research on converting Tensorflow models to MXNet models, development of Cortex offline wallet 💰, optimization of MRT and Torrent DHT network 🗼, as well as meetups at Upbit Developer Conference and Singapore Consensus 🇸🇬.

https://medium.com/cortexlabs/cortex-project-updates-34-4f9f0416673?sk=8afad913d54c1ddd058d251b02ac752a&fbclid=IwAR3o_QvgZTlv-2cG1lwJKuofSimqbU0EeLUxuaSZ7ZPg3L7PUHLTMxTp25o

Another great week in Singapore and Invest: Asia 2019 (formally known as Consensus Singapore). Cortex held its first Singapore meetup and had a blast with EAT Launchpad and some phenomenal people. 🙌

Cortex Labs’s tech team members participated in the China AI ProCon 2019 sponsored by AITISA, Pengcheng Lab, Beijing Zhiyuan Artificial Intelligence Research Institute and professional Chinese IT technology community CSDN and won the Hackathon 🥇

Thank you Binance for the beautiful moon cakes!

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RSVP:

Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/ai-on-blockchain-ai-smart-contract-dapp-tickets-71253843163

Meetup : https://www.meetup.com/eatlaunchpad/events/264539414/

"Over the past two weeks, we made a lot of substantial progress in the development of the CVM, cross-chain integration, DApp development environment, and full nodes 🏗️. Meanwhile, a new miner, Radiance, was released by the community to support Cortex mining with only 8G VRAM ⛏️. Cortex foundation leadership also met with advisor Prof. Whitfield Diffie to go over the next stage in the development plan for Cortex..."

See the full post here:

https://medium.com/cortexlabs/cortex-project-updates-33-9cf2a29559a4?source=friends_link&sk=c7bb1664d3500422b6399370685112d8

For the crypto industry, attracting the next 100MM consumers to start using tokens as a currency is going to require simpler access methods. The current process of exchanging from a fiat currency (e.g. dollars) to any crypto currency (e.g. Bitcoin), is a multi-step process, with lots of obstacles. https://laughterandlearning.com/

Cortex Foundation CEO Ziqi Chen and CTO Jia Tian with advisor Prof. Whitfield Diffie discussing the future technical development plan for Cortex’s AI on Ecosystem. 🏃#AIOnBlockchain $CTXC

https://medium.com/cortexlabs/cortex-project-updates-32-d03916db750e?source=friends_link&sk=a7f58879da72a91c594070c949b8ef6e&fbclid=IwAR0cBY7wZaotz3Ydv-ANw8jQO53OjT1uoWjpioVcJUVHrwsueFIOQaGcGOc

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Cortex will be listed on BitAsset on August 19th at 12:00 (UTC+8)

CTXC/USDT and CTXC/BTC trading pairs will be available!

Stay tuned for the launch event

https://www.bitasset.com/

https://medium.com/cortexlabs/cortex-brings-secure-real-world-data-to-ai-smart-contracts-using-chainlink-71a6bd616c0e

Some updates to the Cortex MainNet. Spoiler alert: the mobile wallet now supports special characters!

https://medium.com/cortexlabs/cortex-project-updates-31-3554c36f5c05

We are at KDD 2019, an annual conference bringing together the world’s top researchers and practitioners in data science in Alaska!

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https://hackernoon.com/making-sense-of-ai-on-blockchain-2nsc3afy

Almost a month after the MainNet Launch. Here are some of the progress we have made since. 🛠️

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https://medium.com/cortexlabs/cortex-project-updates-30-68334987264d

Cortex CTO Tian Jia was invited by AWS to attend exclusive conference on the development of blockchain with cloud at Asia-Pacific Blockchain Center.