IOST Bi-Weekly Report | Q3 Initial Contribution Report, New Game featured, IOSTABC Update, and Perpetual Contracts on MXC!

Zhen
IOST
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5 min readOct 21, 2020

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IOST Bi-Weekly Report is a publication to share IOST’s latest community development, global market expansion, and ecosystem developments with the IOST community.

The IOST Foundation thanks our community for your continued support. Your advice is welcomed and valued here.

A. Technical Ecosystem

[Development]

  • Assistance for DAPP development team to develop and audit code
  • Support community developers and answer related questions.

[Operation and maintenance]

Performed supplementary tests to improve mainnet stability

B. Community Growth & Mainnet Statistics

C. Ecosystem Development

MXC Exchange launched IOST/USDT perpetual contract

At 12:00 on October 13th, the MXC Exchange launched the IOST/USDT perpetual contract, boosting the liquidity of IOST. Perpetual contracts support adjustment of 1–50 times leverage and support full or partial positions. The contract adopts the weighted arithmetic average price of multiple platforms to form a reasonable price.

IOST NFT x CROSSLINK, a GPS-Linked Blockchain Strategy Game is Now Online

Introducing to you a new smartphone game application “CrossLink”, live on AppStore and Google Play aiming to be an IOST NFT-empowered game for blockchain mass adoption. “CrossLink”, an innovative game that connects reality and the virtual world, will offer you a completely new gaming experience that combines GPS and games! Summon heroes anywhere on earth to challenge the extraterrestrial life! Win battles with raid bosses and earn luxury rewards- the adventure is yours!

Platinum Egg Team, a leader in Japan’s blockchain gaming industry, which has released the 2019 blockchain horse racing breeding game “Crypt Derby”, is now integrating IOST smart contracts for the new innovative CrossLink game.

Play Your Heroes and Win the Battle Against Extraterrestrial Monsters!

Link your heroes to the GPS to get them to their destination in-game, defeating enemies and even leaving the game itself to earn items and equipment. Train your heroes to expand their range of activities and join forces with other players to fight enemy bosses. You can earn rewards for your efforts. You can control your own heroes to fight, or leave them alone and let the game heroes decide what to do.

Play it on Appstore & Google Store now!

The initial Q3 partner node ranking results & sneak peek on the incoming new partner node starlight program.

Partner and Servi Node contribution report submission for Q3 2020 has now officially concluded and initial rankings have been assessed by the IOST Foundation Committee. In total, 85 nodes successfully submitted valid reports across 5 categories.

The IOST Foundation awards for the 2nd quarter of 2020 were based on contributions made between March 10 and June 30. Therefore, contributions will be awarded in the 3rd quarter for a total of 92 days from 1 July to 30 September 2020.

In this evaluation period, a total of 11 nodes successfully achieved tier 1 status, earning the highest rewards of 1.65M IOST each. In addition, the foundation has adjusted the total Tier 1 node reward amount in this quarter according to the actual situation. It is worth mentioning that the tier 2 partners will also receive a higher amount of contribution rewards. Each tier 2 node can get 882,192 IOST as contribution rewards.

For disputes of rankings, kindly submit to the IOST foundation by 23:59, October 21st, 2020 (GMT+8).

IOSTABC Now Supports Display of Original Contract Code- IOST Blockchain Explorer Feature Update

Blockchain browser is the crucial platform for searching blockchain information, and viewing of the recorded contents recorded in each. IOST is the world’s fourth public chain project with a large number of users, big block height, and a number of transactions, a blockchain browser is indispensable and important for the IOST ecosystem.

As a window for users to directly experience the IOST network, the IOSTABC browser is the simplest and most complete infrastructure service in the IOST ecosystem.

In the next development milestone, IOSTABC will offer IOST users with new feature iteration — Iostabc.com supports displaying the original contract code from now!

Join The IOST Community!

IOST’s Node Program is widely praised as the globally leading staking program by numerous blockchain research institutions with attractive returns, low risk, and ease of use are some of the key program highlights. To learn more and participate in one of the world’s top staking program, please visit:

https://www.iostabc.com/producers

If you would like to hang out with the IOST community on chat, social media or to discuss product development, we have something for everyone:

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Zhen
IOST
Editor for

Senior Community manager, editor, and translator at IOST.