Harmony Transparency Tuesday 2019 August 13

Dear Community, this past week, we made progress on growing our Mainnet, launching Pangaea to 84 countries, and listing on Bitmax. See the live document here.

Engineering

• Completed a rolling network upgrade on August 9, scaling to 30% external participation with 248 external nodes.
• Completed another rolling upgrade on August 12, scaling to 31% external participation with 272 external nodes.

• Introduced Effective Proof of Stake (EPoS), a new staking model that avoids stake centralization and is efficient for sharding-based blockchains.
• We created user guides and a FAQ guide for Pangaea.
• One-Click Deploy is now available for Pangaea.
• Supported new node deployment on AWS and GCP using terraform.
• Published a Post-mortem doc for the August 5th shard3 down issue.

Business

• Launched Pangaea, our take on game of stakes, receiving 1,872 signups from 84 countries in the first 108 hours.
• 317 nodes are already up and running.

• We announced a joint-acquisition of digital collectible company Quidd with our gaming partner, Animoca.
• Our total trading volume passed 200 + mil this past week.

Marketing & Community

• Listed on @BitMax_Official.
• Mentioned in an article written by Ash Egan on the #CryptoMafia, a term describing the movement of early employees who left tech giants to start their own companies.
• Held an AMA in our Telegram Community on our @BitMax_Official listing.
• Awarded our Staking Content Competition Winners with ONE tokens and Harmony merchandise.

Chinese Community

• Translated tweets and articles for Weibo and WeChat.
• Helped community members to become FN in our mainnet, held one AMA.
• Tencent wrote a tech report on our joint-acquisition with Quidd and Animoca.