Conflux Network Monthly Progress Report — May 2021
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5 min readJun 9, 2021
Public Chain
- Diem code transplanted; interaction of algorithms between PoS and PoW achieved.
- BLS signature algorithm VRF algorithm integrated.
- The VRF-based leader election and committee rotation implemented in the PoS code.
- V1.1.4 of node procedure released and implementation of RPC partly improved.
SDK
- V1.6.2 JS-SDK released. Optimized address format conversion performance, published JS-SDK’s own documentation site.
- V1.0.9 GO-SDK released, added RPC middleware feature.
- Conflux developer documentation optimization, added new documentation.
- Built arm64 docker image for conflux-rust.
- Faucet Dapp developed.
Scan
- Now supporting search feature by token name/symbol.
- Supporting to preview transaction and show method info in transaction list.
- Added 6 statistics charts.
- Optimized ~40 UI items.
- Optimized the data query performance.
Portal
- Updated phishing detect list.
- Fixed a bug that treats internal contract address as user address.
- Blocked tokens without decimal method on “add token” page.
Infura
- Supported memory cache to increase query performance.
- Supporting load balance with fullnode cluster.
- Supporting health management of fullnode cluster.
- Upgraded the public RPC service on testnet.
- ForTube announced a strategic partnership with Conflux, launched $bCFX and started the “New Token Mining” campaign on May 11th.
- Conflux is now live on Messari-the leaders in crypto research, insights and data.
- Conflux partners with Verox AI bringing AI technology to Conflux. Our partnership will focus on merging AI and DeFi, with the benefits of an AI crypto investment manager.
- Stably will be joining the Conflux ecosystem, helping to connect the blockchain-based digital economy to the existing financial world through stablecoins and open finance APIs.
- We hosted AMA #2 with our Founder Fan Long. Fan spoke with the English-speaking community covering what we accomplished in Q1, current developments, and answered community questions live.
- Conflux sponsored the Open DeFi hackathon by putting up a $5,000 bounty to build a native crypto-backed stablecoin.
- Peter hosted a Conflux 101 workshop during the Open DeFi hackathon covering topics like Conflux developer tools, cross-chain asset mechanism, and transaction sponsorship.
- Conflux hosted an AMA in our English Telegram channel with Oasis to promote our partnership.
- Conflux LATAM took part in their first webinar with Blockchain Academy Chile. The webinar introduced developers in Latin America to Conflux and our Ecosystem.
- Fan Long spoke with Forkast News and the Wall Street Journal on China’s recent crypto policy news.
- Conflux hosted an AMA in our English and Spanish Telegram channels with grant recipient Sacred Finance. Sacred is a new privacy DApp, based on ZK- SNARK technology and platformed on the Conflux. If you missed the AMA, you can find the recap below.
- Conflux LATAM hosted a voice AMA on our Spanish-speaking Telegram channel.
- Sami joined the Messari Analyst call to chat about Conflux.
- Sami spoke at NFT.NYC about NFT and DeFi. Conflux will be sponsoring NFT.NYC this year taking place Nov 1- 3 in New York City.
- Kim and Camilla who lead our Global Marketing team spoke at CMX: Communities in Blockchain and Crypto.
- Camilla from our Global team spoke at the Women in Blockchain Twitter Spaces panel.
Conflux released our 6-month progress since Mainnet on our official Medium. Highlights include:
✅ More than 10 million transactions have been processed by the network since mainnet launch.
✅ 220,000 unique wallet addresses actively holding CFX.
✅ TVL has grown to $104 million.
✅ Deployed more than 1,500 unique smart contracts.
✅ ShuttleFlow has processed more than $164 million in cross-chain asset transfers.
✅ More than 900 nodes across 26 countries.
- Christian was invited to an online AMA live stream organized by LBank.
- Conflux Africa Lead Ehis was invited to an online AMA on Telegram organized Binance Africa.
- Conflux held an auction for a collector’s edition of ConFi’s Pizza Day NFT on MoonSwap & Tspace.
- Ting Song’s work is displayed at an exhibition themed “Hymn to Youth· Original Aspirations in A Century” on Zhihu.
- Co-hosted the Creation experiment for “A Masque For Thinkers and Artists” with Crypto C; it generated 26 ideas.
- A video channel on Wechat is available under the name @Conflux中文社区
- A series of popular science videos titled “ConFi’s Comment on NFT” has been produced, together with tmtpost.com and chaindd.com.
- The third batch of ConFi memes is available.
- A new Weibo account @烤仔ConFi is available, which will observe the impact of blockchain technology and decentralized culture on the real world and traditional finance.
Offline Events
- The 2021 China Collegiate Programming Contest (CCPC) final was held in Beijing. A total of 95 participants from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing Jiaotong University, and other universities visited Conflux and exchanged ideas on May 28.
- Christian from our team in China was invited to speak on a panel at the “Emerge — NFT Crossover Exploration” event.
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