Concordium Progress Update, November 2021

Maria Amalia

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Concordium

9 min readNov 9, 2021

General 🎙️

Rust Ecosystem Sponsorship Program

The DevX Initiative by Concordium has announced the launch of its Rust Ecosystem Sponsorship Program to help address one of the biggest challenges of many Open Source communities: the support of maintainers. Concordium believes it is essential to support work within Rust that helps keep the ecosystem running, including maintenance, review, organization and coordination. The Concordium Foundation has given an initial endowment of $100,000 to the DevX Initiative to distribute throughout the Rust Ecosystem.

“It is essential that those who choose to maintain Rust feel empowered and supported by the commercial stakeholders who benefit the most from their work,” said Ernest Kissiedu, who co-created the DevX Initiative with Concordium’s Chief Marketing Officer Beni Issembert.

Read more about the Rust Ecosystem Sponsorship Program here.

Sponsoring Josh Triplett from the Rust Language Team

The DevX Initiative by Concordium is excited to announce it will be sponsoring Josh Triplett from the Rust Language Team. He will help guide the sponsorship program together with Ernest Kissiedu from Rust London and Mara Bos, the lead of the Rust Library team.

The DevX Initiative will support Josh in his work as the co-lead of the Rust language team and his work on the Library and Cargo teams.

“I believe the DevX Initiative has an ideal model for supporting Open Source development, with a long-term view and a focus on sustainability and scalable development.” remarked Josh Triplett.

Concordium believes it must contribute to the Rust Ecosystem beyond its commercial scope to strengthen the Rust community and support the programming language’s growth and adoption through the DevX Initiative.

DevX aims to be a dynamic, practical dialogue with the Rust community rooted in the philosophy of reciprocity as a principle.

The DevX Initiative has a Roadmap that outlines the ways it aims to contribute to the Rust Community beyond providing funds for sponsorship.

New Releases!

On October 18th, Concordium released its new Desktop wallet, please remember to download the new version here. You can read the official release notes here.

Concordium has released Alpha Centauri 2.0. This new protocol update took effect on Mainnet on October 13th, and it adds three new transaction types to the set of supported transactions.

The new node software is now available for Windows and Mac as well as Linux, you can download it here. Please make sure to upgrade as soon as possible to keep up with the chain. Learn more about it here.

Concordium has released its upgraded integration with Ledger. Please read the official release notes here.

CIS — 1 Concordium Token Standard is here!

Concordium has developed a standard interface for developing both fungible and non-fungible tokens using smart contracts, Concordium Interoperability Standard 1 (CIS-1). The standard allows a smart contract to contain multiple fungible and non-fungible tokens, and is inspired by other standards such as ERC1155 and FA2. CIS-1 (also referred to as Concordium Token Standard) is providing functions for transferring the ownership of tokens, authenticating other addresses to transfer tokens and for other smart contracts to access token balances.

In a nutshell, CIS-1 is a framework that defines the “must haves” and optional features that a developer can define when creating a token on the Concordium blockchain. This includes both the details describing a token (such as its name and quantity), as well as the how to manage this token. Other applications, such as wallets and exchanges, can then integrate the token using this standard.

You can find the specification of CIS-1 here.

Concordium has been nominated as “Blockchain Project of the Year”

AIBC, the global event on emerging technology, has nominated Concordium for Blockchain Project of the Year at the AIBC Awards, held on the Malta Week, Nov. 21. Go vote for Concordium at https://aibc.world/aibc-awards-2021-shortlist/.

Concordium on the road 🎆

Throughout the following months Concordium will be attending different events around the world, and we are hoping you can meet us there! Here some of our next events:

Concordium takes the stage at Blockchain Economy Dubai

Lars Seier Christensen, Chairman of Concordium Foundation, will take the stage at The Blockchain Economy Expo, happening this 14–15 of November, as part of the World Expo in the Dubai Exhibition Centre.

The WORLD EXPO has been held for 170 years and for the first time, blockchain will be introduced to the world at the same level as countries, international organizations and other traditional businesses.

Concordium is also a proud sponsor of the Blockchain Economy Expo. If you would like to join the event, you can find more information at

https://blockchaineconomy.global

Concordium presents “Ethics in Tech and the Challenge of Web 3.0” at the Real Estate Tokenization & Decentralized Tradi

Concordium’s CMO, Beni Issembert, has been invited to discuss Ethics in Tech and the Challenge of Web 3.0 at the Real Estate Tokenization and Decentralized Trading Webinar, occurring this 17th of November, at 9:00 am EDT. You can register for the webinar here:

https://digishares.io/registration-webinar

Concordium is coming to Amsterdam

Concordium is proud to be a Platinum partner sponsor of Blockchain Expo Europe.

Come and meet our team this 23–24th of November at our meeting booth, stand #137, in RAI, Amsterdam. We are looking forward to meeting our community in the Netherlands!

Besides, Concordium’s Advisor, Michael Jackson will take the stage to explore whether a public permissionless chain has any place in a business context. Do not miss it! You can register here: https://blockchain-expo.com/europe/

If you can’t join us in Amsterdam, subscribe to our Youtube channel to get a notification when we publish the recording.

We will also announce a meet up in Amsterdam really soon! Join our Telegram and do not miss the announcement.

Concordium at The Conference.NFT

Concordium is joining The Conference.NFT as a platinum sponsor, and our Founder and Chairman of Concordium Foundation, Lars Seier Christensen, will get on the stage to discuss more about NFTs. Join us this 27th of November, from 11:00 to 18:00 at Kyiv, Ukraine.

Find out how to join here: https://thenft.wtf

Blockchance Europe 2021. For a positive future

Concordium is a Gold sponsor of Blockchance Europe, our commercial team will be waiting for you at our meeting booth, come by and meet the team, on 2–4th of December, at Hamburg’s Chamber of Commerce. You will also be able to listen to our Chairman, Lars Seier Christensen, present “Blockchain’s Place in a Regulated World” in the main stage. Learn how you can join here.

Concordium takes the stage at Blockdown to talk about Ethics in Tech

Concordium’s Chief of Marketing, Beni Issembert, will take the stage at Blockdown to talk about Ethics Tech. It will livestream on the 3rd of December, from 14:00 to 22:00, in News BTC, Bitcoinist, Cryptoslate, Crypto News and Crypto Noticias. Learn more here.

Dev 🤖

Come and review what our tech team has been working on this past month:

[Concordium-base] — 4 authors have pushed 3 commits to main and 7 commits to all branches. On main, 4 files have changed and there have been 18 additions and 8 deletions
[Concordium-documentation] — 11 authors have pushed 53 commits to main and 104 commits to all branches. On main, 32 fileshave changed and there have been 3,908 additions and 1,618 deletions.
[Concordium-node] — 6 authors have pushed 37 commits to main and 79 commits to all branches. On main, 53 fileshave changed and there have been 2,551 additions and 808 deletions.
[Concordium-client] — 3 authors have pushed 10 commits to main and 10 commits to all branches. On main, 10 files have changed and there have been 519 additions and1,301 deletions.
[Concordium-network-dashboard] — 3 authors have pushed 11 commits to main and 11 commits to all branches. On main, 20 files have changed and there have been 419 additions and 305 deletions.
[Concordium-wasm-sc] 3 authors have pushed 3 commits to main and 4 commits to all branches. On main, 20 files have changed and there have been 673 additions and 447 deletions.
[Concordium-rust-sc] -3 authors have pushed 4 commits to main and 4 commits to all branches. On main, 21 files have changed and there have been 3,569 additions and11 deletions..
[Concordium Ledger app] — 2 authors have pushed 38 commits to main and 41 commits to all branches. On main, 373 files have changed and there have been 2,513 additions and1,696 deletions.
[Concordium Desktop Wallet ] — 3 authors have pushed 71 commits to main and 99 commits to all branches. On main, 135 files have changed and there have been 2,244 additions and1,110 deletions.
[Concordium Rust SDK ] — 2 authors have pushed 4 commits to main and 4 commits to all branches. On main, 9 files have changed and there have been 15 additions and20 deletions.

Communities 🤖

Rust and DevX Initiative

The Release of a new Rust Edition, say hello to Rust 2021
The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.56.0. This stabilizes the 2021 edition as well. Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. Learn more here: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/10/21/Rust-1.56.0.html

The DevX Initiative Announces its Rust Ecosystem Sponsorship Program
The DevX Initiative by Concordium is excited to launch its Rust Ecosystem Sponsorship Program. This program aims to help address one of the biggest challenges many Open Source communities face: the support of maintainers. Learn more here: https://medium.com/concordium/the-devx-initiative-rust-ecosystem-sponsorship-program-a11a481b70f3

Security Advisory for rustc
The Rust Security Response WG was notified of a security concern affecting source code containing “bidirectional override” Unicode codepoints: in some cases the use of those codepoints could lead to the reviewed code being different than the compiled code.
https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/11/01/cve-2021-42574.html

Rust Edition Experience Survey
https://www.guidedtrack.com/programs/kfqw8vs/run
This is a survey about how developers write and edit Rust code.The results will be published on Always Bet On Rust in a future blog post.

Japan

On October 27th, the blockchain EXPO was held at Makuhari Messe, in Japan. Concordium set up a panel at the Japan Blockchain Association booth and participated with community members starting development on the Concordium blockchain.

Research

Concordium at The Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC 2021)
COBRA’S team will be presenting their paper, Random-index PIR and Applications at The Theory of Cryptography Conference in Raleigh US.
The conference will be held from the 8th-11th of November

Insights 📖

Concordium’s advisor, Michael Jackson, sat down with Paul Barron at Tech Path to discuss Concordium’s technology, regulation, self sovereign identities, our upcoming RegDeFi lab, and more! Watch the full interview here: