Bakkt launch and Ethereum hard fork in November. EOS hacks, Ripple surge, and Stellar quietly holds

Bakkt – our initial focus is supporting regulated institutions in serving customers in this emerging asset class.
https://medium.com/bakkt-blog
ETH – Nov upgrade cuts miners and adds POS
https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/08/23/icos-hold-billion-dollars-worth-eth
“POW has a natural churn
does POS ease make it easier or harder to monopolize
Payout has to be balance between incentive to do the work vs small enough that there are many ways to earn more tokens by doing other jobs so that POS operators do not centralize the platform.
Stellar used by Barclays
https://www.americanbanker.com/news/how-barclays-aims-to-bring-a-billion-unbanked-into-the-fold