Concordium’s Newsletter, September 2022

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9 min readSep 14, 2022

General Updates 🎙️

The popular Japanese Web 3.0 game Crosslink is integrating with Concordium blockchain

Platinum Egg, the popular Japanese game company, has announced the upcoming integration of its Web 3.0 game, CrossLink, with the Concordium Blockchain.

Crosslink, which already has over 250K users, makes it easier for people with low cryptocurrency literacy to feel safe when joining the crypto space, as unlike other blockchain-based games, Crosslink does not have an initial spend to play and earn rewards.

Besides, “the emphasis on identity security built into Concordium, combined with the soft entry provided by Crosslink, will prove to be an effective catalyst in encouraging new non-crypto literate users to join the space” says Nariya Takemura, President of Platinum Egg.

Read more about it here. Download Crosslink for Android here. Download Crosslink for iOS here.

A blockchain-based backgammon is coming to Concordium

Crypto Games AG has announced the development of a blockchain-based backgammon, on Concordium.

Users will be able to trade unique NFTs and compete with others for prizes in CCD. Besides, they will be able to participate in tournaments and test their skills against people from all over the world. All of this will happen within a safe and secure environment provided by Concordium.

Although the game is still in development, users already have the opportunity to trade unique NFTs on the net-zero carbon emission NFT marketplace SpaceSeven.

Backgammon will be the first out of many games that Crypto Games AG will develop in a partnership with The NineHertz, an ISO 9001:2010 certified leading software development company with more than 1800 launched projects, a total of +575 and a state-of-the-art NFT game development division with +65 NFT games App developers and +650 NFT game.

“By harnessing Concordium’s pioneering ID layer technology, Crypto Games AG will be able to develop CryptoGammon, a p2p skill-based gambling game, in a responsible, secure, and compliant way, ensuring that players meet age requirements and can otherwise be banned” says Kapil Kumar Chairman of The NineHertz.

Royal Joh. Enschedé steps into the world of NFTs with PROxID and Concordium blockchain collaboration

Royal Joh. Enschedé, a 320-year-old Dutch printing company specialised in banknotes, postage stamps, tax labels, passports and visas, is teaming up with PROxID and Concordium to connect the world between security print products, NFTs and the metaverse.

PROxID is building an NFT platform on Concordium. In the digital world, collectible banknotes and postage stamps will correspond to NFTs acting as an ownership guarantee, which can be traded globally on a secure platform and ultimately live on in the metaverse.

Gelmer Leibbrandt, CEO at Royal Joh. Enschedé says: “NFT stamps are unique, secure and highly collectible, and RJE is one of the world’s best known independent security printers. I am sure this will appeal to many in the NFT space.”

Patrick Terranea, Founder of PROxID says: “If you want to predict the future, you have to create it. We start with valuable collectibles such as crypto stamps and banknotes and more applications will follow soon.”

Lars Seier Christensen, chairman of Concordium says: “Philately, the collection of stamps, is the world‘s largest collector‘s hobby. We believe this outstanding offering will bridge the world of traditional collectors to a new generation.”

Concordium joins initiative to secure the city of Aarhus, Denmark

At Concordium, we are proud to be part of an exciting initiative to secure the city of Aarhus and its citizens against cyber threats alongside Aarhus University, Alexandra Instituttet and many strong IT security and blockchain companies.

Learn more here.

Concordium Blockchain available for US persons

Read all about it here.

Ecosystem and Community Updates 🌐

Concordium Name Service by Bictory is launching on September 15th

No more copying and pasting long addresses, the Concordium Name Service (CNS) is set to go live on September 15th.

Use your CNS name to store all your addresses, example john.ccd. Learn more here.

SpaceSeven is launching a whitelabel solution

Spaceseven is launching its new whitelabel platform in mid-October, 2022. It enables brands, artists, and creators to develop, sell, and manage their NFTs with a custom branded site. The scalable solution includes custom branding, domain, and design.

Learn more here.

Art + Concordium

Our community’s talent never ceases to amaze! Look at these great pieces! 🎨

Tech Updates 💻

Wonder about the status of Vega? Our CTO, Kåre Kjelstrøm ran us through the roadmap and the status of each milestone. Read it here.

A new version of the Concordium Desktop Wallet is now available! 🤩

The Concordium Desktop Wallet 1.5.0 supports the Ledger Nano S Plus hardware wallet, in addition to supporting Ledger Nano S.

Download here.

Updates to the Concordium tools for Mainnet and Testnet

Updates include better support for the new smart contract v1 schema, new Docker images designed for use with docker-compose or a similar driver, and more.

Find updates for the following:

Concordium Node 4.2.3 for Docker (Mainnet | Testnet)
Concordium Client 4.1.0 (Mainnet | Testnet)
Cargo Concordium 2.1.0 (Mainnet | Testnet)

Mainnet download links (Release Notes) || Testnet download links (Release Notes).

Concordium Node 4.3.1 is now available

Reduce your node’s memory consumption and get a faster node startup time! Upgrade to Concordium Node 4.3.1 now!

Download for Mainnet | Download for Testnet.

Third-party reviews Concordium’s code; what did they find?

The consultancy group, Efiko, conducted a due-diligence on Concordium blockchain. We discussed with Efiko’s General Partner, Vincent McLeese, and the CTO, Ian Smith, their discoveries and conclusions. Read the full report.

Want to join the Concordium Team?

We are looking for talented community members to join our team! Check out the latest opened positions:

Student Analyst — Commercial
Product Manager, Core Blockchain
Software Tester
Software Developers
Site Reliability Engineer
Front-end developer
iOS App Developer
Full stack developer
Android App Developer

Upcoming Events 🗓

🗓 The Launch of CNS AMA — September 15th

With Bictory Finance and Mark Basa.

Audio AMA at https://t.me/concordium_official

🗓 AMA with Lars Seier Christensen — September 20th

Audio AMA at https://twitter.com/ConcordiumNet

🗓 Nordic Fintech Symposium — September 26th

Meet our Researcher, Danil Annenkov.

Get your tickets here

🗓 Nordic Fintech Week — September 27–28th

Meet our Chairman, Lars Seir Christensen.

Get your tickets here.

🗓 Immerse Global Summit — September 29th

Meet our CTO, Kåre Kjelstrøm.

Get your tickets here.

🗓 Infrachain Summit — October 4th

Meet our Advisor, Michael Jackson.
Get your tickets here.

Science Updates 📑

SCN 2022

Several researchers from the Concordium Blockchain Research Aarhus will be presenting their co-authored papers at the 13th conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks (SCN) including:

Matteo Campanelli, Felix Engelmann and Claudio Orlandi: Zero-Knowledge for Homomorphic Key-Value Commitments with Applications to Privacy-Preserving Ledgers.
Matteo Campanelli, Felix Engelmann and Claudio Orlandi: Zero-Knowledge for Homomorphic Key-Value Commitments with Applications to Privacy-Preserving Ledgers.
Chaya Ganesh, Hamidreza Khoshakhlagh, Markulf Kohlweiss, Anca Nitulescu and Michal Zajac: What Makes Fiat–Shamir zkSNARKs (Updatable SRS) Simulation Extractable?
Mark Simkin, Luisa Siniscalchi and Sophia Yakoubov: On Sufficient Oracles for Secure Computation with Identifiable Abort.
Chaya Ganesh, Hamidreza Khoshakhlagh and Roberto Parisella: NIWI and New Notions of Extraction for Algebraic Languages.
Diego F. Aranha, Felix Engelmann, Sebastian Kolby and Sophia Yakoubov: The State of the Union: Union-Only Signatures for Data Aggregation.
Cecilia Boschini, Ivan Damgard and Claudio Orlandi: On Access Control Encryption without Sanitization.

DIREC Seminar 2022

Concordium’s senior researcher, Daniel Tschudi and researchers from the Concordium Blockchain Research Center Aarhus will participate at the Digital Research Centre Denmark (DIREC) Seminar.

On Sept. 26. COBRA researcher, Claudio Orlandi, will be co-chairing two sessions of the seminar.
In the blockchain session, COBRA researcher Bas Spitters will give a presentation on “A formal security analysis of Blockchain voting”.
Concordium’s senior researcher, Daniel Tschudi, and COBRA researcher Jesper Buus Nielsen will take part in the session to discuss Future challenges for blockchain research.

More Science updates

The paper “Formalising Delayed Adaptive Corruptions and the Security of Flooding Networks” co-authored by Concordium’s Senior Researcher, Christian Matt, and COBRA’s researchers Jesper Buus Nielsen and Søren Eller Thomsen was presented at CRYPTO. Read the paper here.

COBRA researcher, Diego Aranha, gave a lecture on Blockchain Technology at the CyberSecurity Summer School at ITU Copenhagen, Denmark,.

Concordium’s Blockchain Researcher, Hamidreza Khoshakhlagh, who defended his PhD on Wednesday August 31st, 2022. Read his research on Cryptography for Scalability and Identity Management in Blockchain Systems here.

In the News, August 2022 📰

Our CTO, Kåre Kjelstrøm, discusses with Payment Expert how his experience at Uber and in Silicon Valley prepared him for a career in blockchain. Read the full article here.
Our CEO, Lone Fønss Schrøder, shares with MarketWatch her thoughts on the Metaverse value for automakers. Read the full article here.
Our founder, Lars Seier Christensen, shares his view on how web3 domains, like ccd.domains, can solve shortcomings of top-level domains such as .com, .net. Read the full article here.
Do you really want to be left with the Web3 equivalent of a John297415 Twitter handle? Lars Seier Christensen, Chairman of Concordium Foundation, discusses future proofing with blockchain domains. Read it here.
Our CTO, Kåre Kjelstrøm, explains how blockchain may enhance social media platforms. Read the full article here.
Will blockchain domains replace traditional website addresses? Our founder, Lars Seier, shares his thoughts with CrowdFund Insider. Read the full article here.
Why the crypto crash is fueling calls for regulation? Read the full article here.
The metaverse and Web3 could fail without identity-first security principles: Here’s how IT leaders can take action. Read the full article here.
Kåre Kjelstrøm, CTO of Concordium, details how blockchain can be used in igaming to enhance security and improve trust in the online gambling industry. Read it here.
Concordium offers a new form of delegation where a delegator’s stake is effectively distributed among all baker pools. Learn how it works and the reasoning behind this novel feature here.
Top 10 altcoins with the best growth potential in August 2022. Read more here.
Top crypto analyst says traders putting too much emphasis on the fed, names his top altcoin projects. Read more here.
The Concordium Name Service — A Comprehensive Guide. Read more here.
Crypto Games AG takes Backgammon to the metaverse on Concordium blockchain. Read more here.
Blockchain and NFTs are changing the publishing industry — Cointelegraph.
Microsoft calls blockchain domains ‘the next big threat’ and you might want to listen | TechRadar.
Taking Blockchain Down A More Mainstream, Energy-Efficient Path.
Where the optimism still lingers for cryptocurrencies | crypto, cryptocurrencies, bitcoin, decentralised finance, digital assets, regulation | FinanceAsia.
Analista revela as 5 criptomoedas que ele está comprando e diz que traders ‘dão muita bola para o Fed/ Cointelegraph’.
Crypto Games AG takes Backgammon to the metaverse on Concordium blockchain — Benzinga.
Platinum Egg brings popular Japanese Web 3.0 game to Concordium / Yahoo Finance.