What happened — Timeline of events?
At 11:58 CET on January 18th, 2022, user @Kanto explained on discord that he could not deposit funds on Gate.io « due to technical maintenance ».

At 12:27 CET, our core-dev acknowledged the problem, and explained we were in contact with Gate.io …

Here’s all the information you need to get started with Alephium ! And if that’s not enough, come talk to us on Discord, Telegram or Reddit !

If you’re looking for dev/mining info, you’ll find it at the end of this post !

🐥 What is Alephium?

Alephium is the first live Layer 1 sharded blockchain scaling and improving on Bitcoin core technologies, Proof of Work & UTXO. …

Alephium mainnet is live and fully functional since November 8th, 2021. We are now focused on building and enriching tooling for wallets, mining, explorer, bridges, DeFi, dApps and NFT’s, as well as expanding our community of developers, miners and users.

During December, almost everyone from the team was able to…

It’s been a month since the Alephium mainnet launch and many positive things have been accomplished thanks to the amazing community that has gathered around the project. People from all over the world, exchanging tips, tricks and ideas, building and improving upon Alephium.

By design Alephium is public, open and decentralized. However, true decentralization can only be achieved if the community is involved at every level of the project, from mining to development but also content creation as well as project awareness initiatives. …

Alephium has made great progress lately and a lot of work has been put down on various repositories. It’s time for an update!

Full-Node

For starters, 2 new versions of the full-node have been released with various fixes improving many areas. We released v1.1.5 which supports fixed-size array for our smart contract language and includes many improvements for our UTXO endpoints with better error messages, better validations, and more tests. Meaning that from this…

Alephium is thrilled to join forces with the oldest Fintech association in Switzerland and one of the oldest still active Bitcoin Associations in the world.

Alephium is thrilled to join forces with the oldest Fintech association in Switzerland and one of the oldest still active Bitcoin Associations in the world.

Bitcoin Association Switzerland (BAS) forms an active community of enthusiasts who organize events, resolve open legal questions and provide a contact point for media inquiries…

Mining is a critical component of the maintenance and development of a public ledger. It is the process of validating transactions and adding them to the Alephium blockchain. In addition, mining will be the only way to issue new Alephium tokens.

To ensure that only Alephium miners can mine and validate transactions, a consensus protocol has been put in place. In Alephium, this is called “Proof-of-Less-Work” (PoLW).

For this process to be decentralized it is important to have as many miners participating as possible. Hence, in order to incentivize the mining…

We live in an age of constant change and technological progress. The Blockchain industry is a great illustration of that. Blockchain is about decentralization, and how to foster interoperability better than through cooperation?

Alephium is humbled to join Cardano, Digibyte, Ergo, IOHK, Komodo, Nervos and TopL in the UTXO Alliance…

Lausanne, Switzerland — November 9 th, 2021

Alephium, the first operational sharded blockchain bringing scalability, ETH-inspired smart contracts, and improved energy efficiency to Bitcoin’s proven core technologies, has launched its mainnet just two months after announcing the closing of $3.6M pre-sale.

text says, Alephium. Mainnet Launched, on an abstract and colorful background

Cheng Wang, Core Developer of Alephium said: “After over 3 years of development under the radar, we are proud to announce the launch of the Alephium Mainnet. It’s made to support powerful, scalable yet user-friendly decentralized applications and protocols. …

Alephium

The 1st operational sharded blockchain scaling and improving on PoW & UTXO to deliver a highly performant, secure and energy efficient DeFi & dApps platform.

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