Airbnb looks to be reversing its course on crypto after previously stating that it had no plans to start accepting Bitcoin.  According to one of the articles featured this week from CoinDesk, the company’s “future success will … depend on our ability to adapt to emerging technologies such as tokenization, cryptocurrencies [and] new authentication technologies.”  Maybe the explosive growth of Travala (AVA) prompted the change of heart, or maybe the acquisition of the ChangeTip project and team helped convince the higher ups that blockchain is here to stay, or maybe it was a fake out all along.  Regardless, this is good for crypto adoption.  Another featuerd story this week covered IBM's patent for "Gaming consensus protocol for Blockchain."  This signals yet another big company seeing the possibilities of blockchain gaiming and jumping in.  Our newletter also featured Kunta Labs:

Atlanta based Kunta Labs, the entity behind the Kunta Protocol is a research team dedicated to democratizing cryptoeconomic protocol design, and removing the engineering friction between developing custom decentralized ecosystems, and engineers wishing to do so.  Stay tuned for the weeks to come to learn more about Kunta Labs!

You can read the newsletter in its entirety here:  Newsletter #135