Harmony April Updates: Covalent, ONEWeekly, ETHAmsterdam, and Team Performance

Abhishek Purushotham
Harmony
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5 min readMay 2, 2022

In April, Harmony team members participated in multiple AMAs to answer community questions. Select members of the team also networked with hundreds of developers by attending ETHAmsterdam, Paris Blockchain Week Summit and ETHPortland. We also launched the Harmony ONE Accelerator Program, the ONEWeekly videos series and newsletter, and integrated with Covalent.

Read our April highlights below. Follow us @harmonyprotocol to stay updated.

Launches And Milestones

Harmony ONE Accelerator Program: April marked the launch of the Harmony ONE Accelerator program, which aims to help projects in the Harmony ecosystem to reach the next stage of growth through a network of strategic investors and talent. The program features the Harmony Venture Network, Harmony Talent Network, Harmony Advisors Network and the Harmony Services Network.

ONE Weekly Video Series: We have also launched the ONE Weekly video series to provide users with regular updates through easy to digest video episodes. The first two episodes are already out, which talk about iToken, cross-shard updates, inside scoops and best security practices to safeguard your funds.

Harmony Launcher DEX: The Harmony Launcher, a decentralized IGO and IDO Launchpad and Incubator, launched its DEX, which would facilitate a 1:1 Swap, LP Staking and other solutions for the Harmony Launcher token.

iToken: NFT projects can now deploy iToken, a read-only mapping of ERC721 tokens from Ethereum to the Harmony blockchain. NFT projects launched on Ethereum can use iToken to map the NFT and launch games on Harmony to increase utility and engagement. Seven blue-chip NFTs have already been mapped, and NFT projects can apply to launch an iToken on Harmony.

ONE Weekly Newsletter: To continue open development with radical transparency, we launched the ONEWeekly newsletter. The newsletter aims to provide our community with regular updates on what’s happening in the Harmony ecosystem and behind the scenes.

Team Performance Bonus: The Harmony team published the team performance review and bonus for Q1 2022.

Partnership Highlights

GM Frens: Harmony partnered with game publishers and accelerator and GM Frens. Developers at GM Frens who wish to build on the Harmony blockchain will get fast-track access to Harmony’s grant program and $300M ecosystem fund.

Covalent: In April, Harmony integrated with Covalent, a leading provider of indexing and querying solutions for blockchains with their unified API. The initial integration includes complete indexing of Harmony and enables developers to access rich, granular data to build applications faster and easier for various use cases.

XYZZY: Harmony partnered with metaverse, gaming and NFTs studio XYZZY to integrate the Harmony blockchain into new and existing XYZZY projects. One of the first integrations was with the racing game Kart League Racing.

D’CENT Wallet: Users can easily add Harmony mainnet’s cryptocurrency assets to D’CENT Wallet by simply searching for the asset’s name. The wallet also supports dual address formats for Harmony ONE accounts.

Commonwealth: To provide DAOs in the Harmony ecosystem with their own governance platform, Harmony partnered with Commonwealth, an all-in-one platform that enables on-chain communities to discuss, vote and fund projects together.

Artemis: Harmony partnered with Artemis to help Web2 developers learn blockchain fundamentals and transition to Web3.

DeFiato: The next-generation Centralized DeFi (CeDeFi) platform DeFiatop integrated the Harmony blockchain onto their platform to offer cross-chain asset transfers with other major chains.

Events And Announcements

AMAs: To address community concerns and answer questions, the Harmony core team was a part of multiple AMAs hosted on Twitter, Reddit and Youtube. The team answered questions about the block explorer, recent Google Chrome exploits and network issues, among other topics.

ETHAmsterdam: The Harmony team attended ETHAmsterdam, where they connected with thousands of developers, users, creators and market makers. The team organized multiple side events and TGI events for networking and collaborations.

Hundreds of teams participated in various Hackathons at ETHAmsterdam

BLU3 DAO: In association with the BLU3 DAO, Harmony sponsored women scholars and developers to attend ETHAmsterdam. The DAO organized various side-events and the scholars formed on-the spot hackathon teams and won multiple accolades.

Hackathon Winners from BLU3 DAO

HER DAO: Harmony also supported the HER DAO to help women scholars and developers attend the event. The DAO was a part of various events at ETHAmsterdam and sponsored scholars were part of many winning teams at various events.

Paris Blockchain Week Summit: The Harmony Europe team was at the PBW Summit in April. The team met with our existing partners and new projects to discuss partnerships and possible integrations into the Harmony ecosystem.

Network Issue: During April, users were experiencing slow transactions when using the Harmony blockchain. The Harmony team had purposely limited the block gas limit due to transaction spamming by arbitrators. The team then released a fix by making the transaction ordering deterministic based on time and witnessed a drop in bot spam transactions.

ETHPortland: The Harmony team was at ETHPortland as one of the event’s sponsors. The team participated in speaking sessions, conducted hackathons and met with hundreds of members of the ONE community to discuss how we are building a multi-chain future.

Blockchain Gender Hackathon: Harmony, in association with the Africa DAO, organized a Blockchain Gender Hackathon that featured panels with tech and gender experts, group discussions and masterclasses by NFT experts.

About Harmony

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