Bring on 2021: What’s happening this year on CENNZnet?

Nicole Upchurch
CENNZnet
Published in
3 min readDec 31, 2020

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2020 was a big year for CENNZnet, but it’s nothing compared to what’s ahead. With our mainnet up and running, live tokens on the network and public staking on the way, 2021 is going to be the most exciting year on CENNZnet yet!

Community is what drives CENNZnet, and as we move towards a fully decentralised self-governing network it’s you who will need to step up to drive our success. So in line with our commitment to full visibility, we want to give you some more insight into the specifics of our strategic direction for the coming year.

So what’s happening on CENNZnet in 2021?

The main objective

With the launch of our mainnet and the migration complete CENNZ is now fully integrated and can be used directly to power the CENNZNet blockchain. Our key focus for 2021 is going to be increasing the number of quality DApps building on CENNZnet. Both from our partner network and from new developers who want to leverage the technology we have been building. Why is this the focus? First and foremost because CENNZnet at its very core is a blockchain designed and built to support decentralised application ecosystems. We believe that by bringing together great ideas, awesome technology and a loyal decentralised community we can create a fairer future for everyone, by putting us back in control of our data, our privacy, and our lives.

The other big benefit of getting more high quality DApps (like Sylo) on our network is that this leads to more transactions. Within our dual token reward system, more transactions on the network equal higher blockchain CPAY rewards for our staking community. Not only does this benefit our internal community, it also raises the profile of $CENNZ and future demand.

How do we achieve this?

Big dreams need a big plan — and fortunately, we have both.

The drive to recruit more quality DApps is going to be led by our brand new community developer team. They have been brought on for the sole purpose of pushing the unique benefits of CENNZnet to the dev community and supporting people who want to build on our network. They will also play a key role in enabling our existing ventures in the ecosystem who are not currently ‘blockchain-enabled’ to move more quickly into the blockchain space.

On top of our new DApp supergroup, we will also be spearheading a number of exciting tactical growth efforts. These will be:

  • Events: Focusing on both small and large-scale events in New Zealand and internationally.
  • Online learning opportunities: Creating tutorials, interactive activities and thorough technical documentation to support new DApp builders.
  • Grants and bounties: Continuing and increasing our grant and bounty programmes to embrace the open-source community.
  • Leveraging our extensive partner network to activate new experiences
  • Education campaign: Establishing a set of evergreen resources to educate the developer community on the fundamentals of our tech and how to maximise the resources available to create a great DApp on CENNZnet.
  • Increasing liquidity, it’s important that CENNZ is available to trade in more and more places to make it attractive for developers to work with.
  • Digital awareness campaigns: Running broad-reaching digital campaigns to increase CENNZnet brand awareness.

Community makes the dream work.

As always we are ever grateful to our tireless CENNZ community. Your support is what drives this project, and it’s what will ultimately make it a success. We are so excited for what next year will bring and we hope you will join us in promoting CENNZnet and watching the network go from strength to strength!

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Nicole Upchurch
CENNZnet

Not going to win a Pulitzer, but I don’t completely suck either