Concordium Monthly Newsletter — November
General Updates 🎙️
Web3 ID and Updates to the Concordium Roadmap
The Concordium Web-Wallet is now available
We are happy to introduce the new Concordium Web-Wallet. Run the Concordium Wallet directly in your browser and easily connect to different dApps.
You can also use the wallet to authenticate yourself to dApps, and have seamless access to signing messages and transactions within the wallet.
Download it for Mainnet | Release notes | Learn how to set up your wallet
Keep your Web-Wallet in sync with your mobile phone wallet. Download the new version of our Android mobile wallet.
Sellix adds Concordium’s CCD token as a payment method
Sellix, an all-in-one platform for anyone to sell digital products online, announces that they will allow customers of Sellix merchants to pay using CCD.
CCD will be offered as an available payment method for all businesses and enterprises, retailers, and many more using Sellix platform. Additionally, use cases building on Concordium will be able to use Sellix as a platform to sell digital products.
Read more about it here.
BictoryEX Will List All Concordium Projects For Free
The Bictory Finance team has celebrated the recent achievement of Integrating the Concordium blockchain and listing the $CCD Token on the 10th of November.
The team has also concluded that all projects building on the Concordium blockchain for the next two years will get a free listing on BictoryEX.
Not only will this strengthen the symbiotic relationship between Concordium and Bictory Finance, but it’s also a significant opportunity and launchpad for projects on Concordium in terms of cost and growth.
Read more about it here.
Top Metaverse, Exarta, is Coming to Concordium
Exarta, a U.K based metaverse recently featured in the Business Leader Magazine’s Global Top 32 Metaverse Companies, is coming to Concordium.
Using Concordium’s ID layer to build safe and authentic environments, Exarta plans to go multi-chain, bridging serious gamers and brands from existing blockchains.
Read more about it here.
Seier Capital launches a 10M Euro Fund to support new blockchain-based projects
Seier Capital, owned by the Concordium Founder, Lars Seier Christensen, has announced an investment of €10 million to expand the Concordium ecosystem.
The funds will be used to finance projects to build on or integrate their dApps on the Concordium chain.
Learn more here. Apply for a grant here.
Pixpel and Concordium bring insurance policy to Web 3.0 gaming
Pixpel, an early-stage Mexican based start-up has been awarded the “Free and Open Grant’’ by the Concordium Foundation to bring an innovative type of “insurance policy” concept to the NFT gaming market.
The soon-to-be-launched P2E platform will provide a variety of services, including an NFT marketplace and insurance policy to ensure the play-to-earn sector can match Concordium’s signature commitment to safety and accountability in every aspect of Web 3.0.
Read more about it here.
Concordium blockchain partner unveils novel solution to combat greenwashing with the world’s most data-driven carbon offsets
Concordium is proud to raise the bar for carbon credits and announce a partnership with Carbotanix (CTX), one of the most data-driven carbon offsets on the market.
In an effort to restore trust in the offset process by making it data-driven and transparent, Carbotanix’s carbon offset token is going to be built entirely on the Concordium blockchain.
Read more about it here.
Concordium partners with Versus metaverse to expand beyond Ethereum Mainnet to combat steep gas prices
NFT battle game Versus, which features an Animal-Crossing-inspired open-world multiplayer metaverse, is adding Concordium to its ecosystem allowing players to explore unique arenas in collaboration with major brands.
Concordium’s state-of-the-art, science-based ID layer allows Versus to perform identity checks and provide accountability without sacrificing privacy, and it can even offer verified gamers a fun and unique in-game experiences like battle tournaments and competitions.
A playable beta version of Versus will be ready in Q4, 2022. Read more about it here.
Next-Gen announces partnership with Concordium
Next-Gen announces a partnership with Concordium to reshape education. Through DAO-based educational grants, Next Generation will provide access to global qualifications and work to address the needs of neurodivergent students.
Read more about it here.
Concordium partners with Playbase.GG to connect trusted commercial partners to esports teams and gamers
Concordium will connect trusted commercial brands to gamers by partnering with Playbase.GG, a solution by software development company Ragebite, to deliver an Esports 3.0 platform.
With the help of smart contracts, and with Concordium’s ID layer seamlessly ensuring that each wallet is connected to a real identity, Playbase.GG aims to eliminate problems such as fake accounts, fake match score results, unverified or unpaid prize pools, and even prize pools maliciously changed during the tournament playoffs.
Read more about it here.
Ecosystem Updates 🌐
Bictory Finance launches Web3 domains on Concordium to simplify transactions on the blockchain
The Concordium Name Service (CNS) went live on the 22nd of September and was met with outstanding demand immediately. Over a thousand CNS domains were claimed within 72 hours of launch and the number of registered domains currently sits close to 3,000.
Community members can also form their domain name club and earn up to 5% commissions from primary sales of names under that club.
Register your CNS Domain here. Apply for a CNS Club using this form.
Unilever teams up with Exarta as it steps into the metaverse
Unilever Pakistan has teamed up with our partner Exarta to explore ways it can use Web3 technology to transform marketing strategies and other business areas.
Exarta is working closely with Concordium to bring a Zero Knowledge Proof ID layer to the Metaverse.
Read more here.
Spaceseven launches a new site and product roadmap
Spaceseven launched a brand new site for NFT creators and artists and will be releasing even more tools and features to enable NFT creators and collectors.
Learn more here.
AesirX, a Next-Gen Partner, releases updated roadmap
AesirX provides privacy-first actionable digital experiences. AesirX is reshaping the world of digital marketing — leading a new age of mature Web2+Web3 technology that’s open source, democratised and exactly what consumers deserve.
The company, which is a Next-Gen.io partner, recently released an updated roadmap offering a privacy-first solution planned entirely on using Concordium’s Zero Knowledge Proof ID layer to protect personal information and prevent abuse of personal data.
Learn more here.
Tech Updates 💻
Our wCCD demo dApp is live
You can now use the new Concordium Web Wallet to connect to our wCCD Demo dApp.
Follow our guide here.
Download the Web wallet
Check out our wCCD tutorial.
Concordium Node 4.5.0 is now available
Upgrade to the Concordium Node 4.5.0 for improved memory usage, easier recovery from crashes, and an even better GRPC API for developers.
Download for Mainnet | Release notes.
A new generation of the Concordium Android Wallet is now available
A new generation of the Concordium Wallet for Android is here. Download the new version to enjoy our new recovery phrase feature for a hassle-free migration to new mobile phones.
The new Concordium Wallet for Android uses a secret recovery phrase to generate your private keys, simplifying the process to restore an account if you require to migrate to a new phone or if you lose access to your phone/app.
This version also supports easy portability of accounts between the mobile wallet and the Concordium Web-Wallet.
Download the new Android Wallet here. Learn more here. Or read the FAQs to learn how to migrate from the Concordium Legacy Wallet to our new generation here.
Updates to the Concordium tools for Mainnet and Testnet
The new version contains added support for importing keys from the soon-to-be-released Concordium Wallet for Chrome.
Find updates for the following:
Mainnet download links (Release Notes) | Testnet download links (Release Notes).
Community Polls and Memes ✨
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Recent Events 🗓
Upcoming Events 🗓
🗓 AMA with the Concordium Commercial Team — November 9th
Meet our Head of Business Solutions, Torben Kaaber.
Audio AMA: Concordium Telegram
🗓 AMA on Concordium Name Service (CNS) — November 23rd
Hosted by Lone Fønss Schrøder. Meet the Bictory Team.
AMA: Concordium Telegram
🗓 Theory of Cryptography Conference — November 7–10th
Meet our COBRA Researcher, Luisa Siniscalchi.
🗓 ACM CCS 2022 — November 7–11th
Meet our COBRA Researcher, Jesper Buus Nielsen.
🗓 ZKProof 2022 Workshop — November 15–17th
Meet our COBRA Researcher, Simon H. Kamp.
Science Updates 👩🔬
COBRA Updates
Asiacrypt 2022 (December 5–9, 2022)
The following papers from COBRA researchers and their co-authors were accepted to the conference:
- Matteo Campanelli, Bernardo David, Hamidreza Khoshakhlagh, Anders Konring, Jesper Buus Nielsen: Encryption to the Future: A Paradigm for Sending Secret Messages to Future (Anonymous) Committees.
- Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, Christian Matt, Ueli Maurer, Guilherme Rito, Søren Eller Thomsen: Practical Provably Secure Flooding for Blockchains.
TCC 2022 (November 7–10, 2022)
TCC 2022 is organised by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). The following papers by COBRA researchers were accepted:
- Michele Ciampi, Emmanuela Orsini, Luisa Siniscalchi: Four-Round Black-Box Non-Malleable Commitments from One-Way Permutations.
ACM CCS 2022 (November 7–11, 2022)
The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) is the flagship annual conference of the Special Interest Group on Security, Audit and Control (SIGSAC) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The following papers will be presented at the conference:
- Bernardo David, Bernardo Magri, Christian Matt, Jesper Buus Nielsen, Daniel Tschudi: GearBox: Optimal-size Shard Committees by Leveraging the Safety-Liveness Dichotomy.
- Diego F. Aranha, Chuanwei Li, Claudio Orlandi, Mark Simkin: Laconic Private Set-Intersection From Pairings.
ZKProof (November 15–17, 2022)
The following talk by COBRA researcher Simon H. Kamp will be given at the workshop:
Simon Holmgaard Kamp: ZK Primitives — Curve Trees: Practical and Transparent Zero-Knowledge Accumulators
In the News, October 2022 📰
- 5 Ways CFOs Can Maximise Blockchain Technology. Blockchain technology integration in mainstream economics is on the horizon. What do CFOs need to know to be ready? Read the full article here.
- Banking in the Metaverse: How Concordium and Royal Joh. Enschedé sees the future of virtual banknotes in the metaverse. A must-read article by Gelmer Leibbrandt and Lars Seier Christensen. Read the full article here.
- Meta, in partnership with Kunsthal Charlotteborg and Dansk Kvindesamfund, recently launched a limited and unique NFT collection, using Spacesevens Whitelabel platform. Read the full article (in Danish) here.
- Crowdfund Insider has released an articulate piece about the Concordium Name Service. Read the full article here.
- Start minting NFTs on the Concordium blockchain! In this article, Boğaçhan Yiğitbaşı covers the basics and helps you set up a development environment. Read the full article here.
- ETH Zurich partners with the Web3 Foundation and the Concordium Foundation to continuously promote blockchain innovation and development. Read the full article here.
- Lars Seier Christensen, chairman of Concordium Foundation, on the benefits of blockchain as the crypto winter deepens. Also on blockchain and gambling and how Concordium can improve safety and transparency. Read the full article here.
- Lars Seier Christensen believes that blockchain technology can change the traditional financial sector in the future. It will bring more security and efficiency around transactions. Read the full article (in Danish) here.
- An op-ed by Lars Seier Christensen regarding Harnessing the Power of Blockchain to Protect from its Dark Side. Read the full article here.
- Lars Seier Christensen believes that MiCA is a positive step for the EU’s crypto sector. Read the full article here.
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