IOST Bi-Weekly Report | CCID Ranking, Blockchain Education, Listing & Partnerships

Zhen
IOST
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5 min readMay 6, 2021

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

From here, we would like to express our gratitude to our community for your continued support. Your advice is welcomed and valued here.

A. Technical Development

[Development]

  • Exploration of new functionalities for IOST Mainnet
  • Exploration of more DeFi integrations

[Operation and maintenance]

  • IOST internal systems upgrade and optimization
  • IOST tools restructuration

B. Community Growth & Mainnet Statistics

Disclaimer: Third-party developers develop all IOST DApps. The information provided here does not constitute any investment advice. All content provided here is intended for education only. IOST bears no responsibility or liability for any loss which players may experience. Please contact the DApp team directly for any questions.

C. Ecosystem Development

IOST Partners Polkadot’s Cross-Chain Privacy Protocol Raze Network

Raze Network is to offer privacy-preserving functionalities to the transactions and data coming in and out of the IOST ecosystem. By integrating IOST dApps/wallets with RazeVM, one will be able to use the Efficient Σ-Bullets algorithm, a self-developed algorithm based on the Σ-Bullets encryption proof mechanism of the open-source project Zether to encrypt their account balances and transactions, and able to set up Raze or enhanced IOST Account to take advantage of the Private Payment Channel.

On top of the technology cooperation, Raze Network & IOST shall mutually benefit from the co-marketing efforts to expand our communities.

IOST’s Hat-Trick in the CCID Global Index

Another blockchain ranking, another back-to-back winning by IOST. Once again, IOST successfully leads the basic-tech category in the latest ranking by the Center for Information and Industry Development (CCID), under China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology released on 20 April 2021.

IOST Drives Blockchain Education in Switzerland’s University of Zurich

IOST will once again be sponsoring the International Summer School Program 2021 “Deep Dive into Blockchain”, which will be held by the Blockchain Center of the University of Zurich (UZH) in Switzerland for three weeks starting July 4, 2021.
The 2021 summer school program will be taught by industry blockchain experts such as Tezos, IOTA, IBM Hyperledger, and CARDANO, as well as professors from various disciplines from several universities, who will engage in interactive classes with students from around the world.

IOST/INR trading on WazirX

IOST/INR trading is live on WazirX and you can buy, sell, trade IOST in the INR market.

First Music NFTs Auction Starts on IOST NFT Marketplace TokenLink

After collaborating with Manga artists with NFTs, the Platinum Egg team released the first audio track NFTs by music creators on their IOST marketplace, TOKENLKINK.
Notably, this audio track can be used as a game item on CrossLink game, and every time it is sold to a new buyer, the audio creator will earn 10% loyalty to the sale price.

How to Create & Issue Your Own NFT on Lootdex

In addition to the one-click quick NFT release function for regular users, Lootdex also provides developers with more complete NFT issuance functions through contracts, featuring issuance in batches, customization of NFT attributes, NFT face value, decomposition, etc. In the future, with the increase in the number of assets and the improvement of their quality, Lootdex will launch the NFT auctions and NFT blind box sales functions gradually.

Join the IOST Community!

Supported by Sequoia, Matrix, ZhenFund, and other major investors, IOST is an enterprise-level blockchain platform developed for online service providers.

The IOST project team is currently mainly composed of R&D personnel focusing on blockchain distributed technology. The team is formed by experienced blockchain industry experts who have graduated from world top universities such as Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Tsinghua University, and Beijing University.

With a two-year-old mainnet, IOST has swiftly risen to become a world-leading public chain renowned for its numerous government collaborations and enterprise partnerships around the world. IOST is one of the Big Four public chains with a rich user base and real applicability alongside Ethereum, EOS, and TRON. 500,000 community members, over 20 countries worldwide, over 400 nodes, top staking economy, and growing.

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 programs, please visit here.

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.