Concordium’s Newsletter — August, 2022
General Updates 🎙️
300-year-old Dutch printing company enters Web3 thanks to a collaboration with Concordium
Royal Joh. Enschedé, a 300-year-old Dutch printing company of secure products like banknotes, postage stamps, tax labels, passports and visas is stepping into the world of NFTs thanks to a collaboration with Concordium.
This collaboration builds a bridge between the physical and the digital world: the tangible world of postage stamps and their digital twins, so-called crypto stamps. This development adds a 21st century element to security printing and offers stamp owners and collectors a new platform to collect and trade, whilst safeguarding ownership and uniqueness of the original stamp. This will also position Royal Joh. Enschedé as the world’s first security printer to incorporate Augmented Reality into stamps and banknotes.
Postage stamps become Tangible NFTs
Postage stamps have been popular collector’s items for nearly 160 years, and now, thanks to Web3 collections can expand beyond the physical world.
Collectors will own unique postage stamps with a connected NFT that can be traded globally on a secure platform and ultimately also be used in the metaverse.
“The crypto stamp opens up a global market that will appeal not only to the classic stamp collectors but also to collectors in their teens, twenties and thirties who buy, save and trade NFTs. This is naturally very appealing for our main customers — over 60 national postal organisations worldwide.” says Gelmer Leibbrandt, CEO of Royal Joh Enschede to Cointelegraph.
Recommended article: Blockchain and NFTs are changing the publishing industry.
Concordium welcomes Go developers with a new Software Development Kit
Concordium launched a new Software Development Kit that enables Go developers to more easily create applications on the Concordium blockchain.
Go helps you make faster scalable backends. Learn how to connect your backend to Concordium and make it even faster, more reliable, and globally accessible.
You can download the Go SDK from our open source repository: https://github.com/Concordium/concordium-go-sdk
Concordium releases .NET Software Development Kits
A new .NET Software Development Kit (SDK) is available, making Concordium accessible to the huge community of .NET developers.
You can now build decentralized applications on top of Concordium and interact with smart contracts using tools and languages from the Microsoft technology stack supporting .NET on tooling such as VSCode and Visual Studio, across .NET Framework/.NET Core/.NET Standard.
Download Concordium’s .NET SDK from our open source repository:
https://github.com/Concordium/concordium-net-sdk
A New Version of Concordium’s Desktop Wallet is live! Upgrade!
You can now upgrade your Desktop Wallet to 1.5.0 in both Testnet and Mainnet. This new version supports the Ledger Nano S Plus hardware wallet, in addition to supporting Ledger Nano S.
Download it here.
Concordium Node 4.2.3 is here!
We have released a new version of the Concordium Node for Testnet and Mainnet. If you are a node runner please upgrade.
Concordium Node 4.2.3 for Docker is available now!
Some improvements have been made to the Docker node version. The new Docker images are designed for use with docker-compose or a similar driver.
It is recommended for Linux node runners to migrate to the new Docker distribution.
Update the Concordium Client and cargo-concordium
Concordium Client and cargo-concordium have been updated to better support the new smart contract v1 schema
Find the download links here.
Concordium at CRYPTO 2022
The paper “Formalizing 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 will be presented at CRYPTO 2022 on August 16th.
CRYPTO 2022 is known as one of the most prestigious conferences on all aspects of cryptology. This year it will be held from August 13 to 18 2022, on the campus of the University of California. Find the full program here.
Read the paper at https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/010.
Community Updates 🎙️
CNS Pricing
Bictory has released the registration price structure for CNS Domains, with the option to pre-order a domain name. Learn more here.
Due to some upgrades to provide a better user experience, Bictory extended the Concordium Name Service launch date. As soon as these integrations are complete, a more precise launch date will be announced.
If you’d like to Pre-Order a domain name on the Concordium Name Service (CNS). Please send a mail to BT@bictory.io
Recommended article: Will blockchain domains replace traditional website addresses?
SpaceSeven Giveaways
Spaceseven, in collaboration with CryptoDevons, is hosting a new giveaway.
Don’t miss out on the chance to pick up an exclusive, limited edition NFT, from the CryptoDevon series.
Stay tuned and remember to follow their socials to stay up-to-date on future giveaways.
Here are the winners of our Meme Contest!!
Congratulations once again to all three of you🥂
Updates from Concordium Blockchain Research Center Aarhus 🔬
CRYPTO 2022
Several papers co-authored by COBRA have been accepted at the largest and most prestigious conference in cryptology, CRYPTO 2022, including:
- Christian Matt, Jesper Buus Nielsen, and Søren Eller Thomsen: “Formalizing Delayed Adaptive Corruptions and the Security of Flooding Networks”
- Jesper Buus Nielsen, João Ribeiro, and Maciej Obremski: “Public Randomness Extraction with Ephemeral Roles and Worst-Case Corruptions”
- Damiano Abram, Ivan Damgård, Claudio Orlandi, Peter Scholl: “An Algebraic Framework for Silent Preprocessing with Trustless Setup and Active Security”
Find out when each paper will be presented in CRYPTO 2022’s program.
FMBC 2022
The paper “Finding smart contract vulnerabilities with ConCert’s property-based testing framework” co-authored by Mikkel Milo, Eske Hoy Nielsen, Danil Annenkov, and Bas Spitters will be presented at the 4th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Blockchains (FMBC 2022) taking place in Haifa, Israel on August 11.
CCS 2022
The paper “Laconic Private Set-Intersection From Pairings” co-authored by Diego Aranha, Chuanwei Lin, Claudio Orlandi, and Mark Simkin, was accepted for CCS 2022 which will take place in Los Angeles, US, from 7 to 11 November 2022.
The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) brings together information security researchers, practitioners, developers, and users from all over the world to explore cutting-edge ideas and results.
CSF 2023
COBRA researchers, Benjamin Salling Hvass, Diego F. Aranha, and Bas Spitters, will present their paper “High-assurance field inversion for curve-based cryptography” at The Computer Security Foundations Symposium 2023 (CSF).
CSF 2023 will take place from July 10 to 14 2023 in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
The Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) is an annual conference for researchers in computer security, to examine current theories of security, the formal models that provide a context for those theories, and techniques for verifying security.
In the News 📰
- Our founder, Lars Seier, sat down with Cointelegraph to discuss blockchain’s potential to transform and disrupt industries. Read the full interview here.
- Our founder, Lars Seier, discusses How blockchain can tackle piracy in entertainment | with Technology Magazine.
- Lars Seier speaks with Wealth Briefing on taking blockchain down a more mainstream, energy-efficient path.
- Concordium’s CTO, Kåre Kjelstrøm, explains Crowdfund Insider how blockchain may enhance social media platforms.
- Our CEO, Lone Fønss Schrøder, discussed with E-Crypto News our ID-Framework and how ID can help the demand for decentralised applications. Read the full interview here.
- Our CEO, Lone Fønss Schrøder, shares with MarketWatch her thoughts on the Metaverse value for automakers. Read the full interview ⬇️
There’s real value for auto makers in the metaverse. Those who say it’s just a play world are wrong. — MarketWatch - Our founder, Lars Seier Christensen, discusses The Future Of Regulation, Key Will Be Working With US Regulators with Crowdfund Insider.
- Our CEO, Lone Fønss Schrøder, sat down with CoinJournal to discuss how self-sovereign identities are vital to create trust on the blockchain. Listen to the full interview
- Concordium’s CEO, Lone Fønss Schrøder, discusses with UK Tech News regulation and the future of Web3. Read the full interview ⬇️
In the struggle between crypto and regulators, only the future will determine a clear outcome. But a mature, trustworthy blockchain would benefit everyone . - Our CTO, Kåre Kjelstrøm, discusses with Payment Expert how his experience at Uber and in Silicon Valley prepared him for a career in blockchain.
- Our CEO, Lone Fønss Schrøder, discusses why Christine Lagarde’s call for a crypto lending regulatory framework could be the key to growing trust in blockchain technology. Read this insightful piece here
- “We are going to see at least a part of the world’s economy migrate, the way it did to the internet, to the blockchain. It’s very important that it’s built correctly and with deep cryptographic understanding.” says Lars Seier to CityWire Asia, read the full interview here.
- Lars Seier discusses how Blockchain is Key to Eradicating Twitter Bots and Finalising Elon Musk’s $44bn Acquisition.
- Top Crypto Analyst Names His Top Altcoin including CCD
- Top Altcoins with the best growth potential.
- GRID News / Why the crypto crash is fueling calls for regulation
