ICON (ICX) added as donation currency. Read the official announcement below. — Official announcement: MARCH 14, 2022, KYIV, UKRAINE — The official website for Aid For Ukraine, an initiative that raises funds from the crypto community for the benefit of Ukraine’s military and humanitarian needs, has officially launched. The initiative is powered by the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, FTX, and…

Recently, some in the community may have noticed a big increase (by ~10 million ICX) to ICX circulating supply. The supply increase was related to the previous announcement regarding ICONFi’s support for ERC20 ICX: “To kick off this offering, the ICON Foundation has partnered with ICONFi to mint the first…

Check out the latest updates on ICON 2.0 and BTP development — ICON 2.0 As part of January’s development roadmap update, we mentioned some ICON 2.0 revisions and upgrades that were progressing through the Berlin and Lisbon testnets. We are excited to announce that this process is complete; by the middle of February, the updated version of ICON 2.0 had been deployed to the…

The first step in a two-phase BTP launch strategy — In the BTP section of our most recent Development Roadmap Update, we shared that we had come across an unforeseen obstacle: unsustainably high gas consumption fees incurred when executing BMV contracts. Since first encountering this challenge, we have explored various alternative design solutions and have expanded the BTP development team…

December 31st, 2022 will be the last day you can swap your ERC20 ICO tokens to native ICX tokens on ICONFi. — All ICO participants still holding the ERC20 ICO tokens will have until the end of this year to complete the swap to native ICX tokens. Please make sure to swap your tokens before this service is no longer provided. ICONFi currently runs two very similar token swap services, which may…

The ICON Foundation is proud to announce that Geometry Labs has soft launched a new version of the ICON tracker. Upgrades to the tracker include improvements to responsiveness, new streaming APIs, and an open backend that can be used or extended by other projects across the ICON community. The tracker…

Including changes to ICON 2.0, CPS and BTP Roadmap communication — ICON 2.0 There are a number of ICON 2.0 upgrades and revisions that are in the pipeline and have been making their way through the Berlin and Lisbon testnets. Following the completion of testing, they will be pushed to ICON 2.0 Mainnet. Among the changes include: Increasing the main P-Rep count from…