IOST Bi-Weekly Report | Pushing Blockchain Applications With Numerous Strategic Collaborations

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6 min readFeb 25, 2020

IOST Bi-Weekly Report is a publication to share IOST’s latest community development, global market expansion and ecosystem developments with IOST community.
The IOST Foundation thanks our community for your continued support. Your advice is welcomed and valued here.

A. Technical Ecosystem

[Development]

Release of 4th batch of quarterly contribution awards
Technical support for two new BP nodes
Optimized CI: Updated AWS dependency version
Optimization for iost.io official website
Release of iWallet v0.2.5
Community Technical Q&A Support
Release of LOL January airdrop
Improved account and permissions section in technical documentation.

[Operation and maintenance]

Performed node’s technical communication for access and exit

B. Community Growth

C. Mainnet Statistics

D. Ecosystem Development

1. IOST X Liebi | Interoperability Breakthrough With The Launch Of Cross-Chain Bridge

Liebi, a Chinese development team with rich experience in the field, is chosen to work with the IOST development team on the seamless IOST cross-chain bridge that enables the transfer of the information, transactions and asset values between IOST and other blockchains. Through the IOST cross-chain bridge, IOST blocks can be easily forwarded and mapped to different blockchain networks through the relay chain.

For users, IOST cross-chain bridge enables cross-chain asset transactions, and other services in the relay chain, e.g. DeFi, DEX, Staking, etc. It can bring extra liquidity for the asset and enhanced security to users.
For developers, IOST cross-chain bridge can enable cross-chain smart contract interoperation, reduce multi-chain development costs, realize multi-chain user sharing, data interconnection, and interoperability.

2. IOST HIVEHack Hackathon in Japan Successfully Held

On February 20-21, 2020, IOST jointly hosted the HIVEHack hackathon with the well-known private university Kindai in Japan, who provided the venue and incentivized their professors and students to participate in the Hackathon.

It is worth mentioning that this hackathon was not exclusively for developers, but also blockchain enthusiasts who do not have any developing skills. In addition, IOST co-founder Terry, Japan’s leading blockchain developers and blockchain industry practitioners all participated as lecturers and corporative speakers.
In the future, IOST will popularize blockchain technology in Japan through more educational activities and the resources of Japanese universities, to further enhance IOST’s project awareness among young developer groups and tap into more promising blockchain industry talents and outstanding developers.

3. IOST’s "One-Click Token Launch" Function Officially Released

The brand new “One-Click Token Launch” function was developed by IOST TOOL, an IOST developer partner node. Being a professional blockchain developers team, TOOL has extensive experience in developing dApps for multiple public blockchain projects such as Ethereum and EOS.
In the future, IOST TOOL team will also develop more tools based on the IOST mainnet: lease gas, create accounts, DApps exploration and more. A complete solution for everyday usage that helps newcomers quickly enter the IOST world!

4. IOST X ROAD | Working Together to Boost Adoption of The Internet of Vehicles

Recently, IOST and ROAD have reached a strategic partnership in which both parties will explore common areas in multiple blockchain application scenarios.
ROAD will join the IOST ecosystem and open vehicle data to IOST as well as assist IOST in building a decentralized IoV node and open APIs to the IOST network. In the future, both parties will have a large amount of data exchange and the yet traditional payment services that are enabled on ROAD will be open to evolving with the smart contracts on IOST.

5. Jetstream, a Full-Featured Chrome Extension Wallet to Officially Support IOST

Until now, there were many mobile wallets supporting the IOST ecosystem, but the only desktop wallet available was iWallet, till now.
Recently, a new member joined the IOST "Wallet Ecosystem Family" - Jetstream, this wallet was developed by the South Korean Q.E.D development team. As a Chrome extension wallet, Jetstream has smooth interaction and complete functions. In addition to experiencing basic functions such as Web-based DApp and token transfer, there are IOST mainnet account creation support, cross-chain support, NFT asset support, IRC-20 tokens support, multi-language support, node partner voting support and other functions.

6. IOST X Suterusu | Providing Layer 2 Privacy Protection and Enabling More Application Scenarios for IOST

On 10 February 2020, IOST reached a strategic partnership with the privacy protection centered project Suterusu, both parties will carry out in-depth technical cooperation on blockchain privacy protection and applications. Suterusu will use their zero-knowledge protocol ZK-ConSNARK to build a Layer-2 sidechain for IOST enabling functions such as private transfers, private finance and private contracts on IOST, also, it can provide IOST based DeFi projects higher levels of privacy protection. Through this partnership, IOST will achieve on-chain data privacy protection; this will greatly broaden the practical application of IOST public chain technology and will also provide more privacy and security services to the IOST mainnet users.

7. IOST x INT | A Push for the Internet of Things Adoption

On 12 February, 2020 the Foundation announced the technical cooperation with INT Chain- a company that has accumulated vast application experience and enterprise resources in the field of IoT. In the future, both parties will jointly develop and accelerate the application of blockchain + IoT in the real world; this will also become IOST’s establishment in the field of the Internet of Things.
In the future, INT Chain and IOST will continue to further explore the field of IoT and promote the combination and application of blockchain + IoT. Jointly expanding the application of blockchain and the Internet of Things in multiple fields such as industrial fields, public fields, business operations and communication, so as to promote the prosperity of the digital economy and the real economy.

E. DApp Development

Battle of Destiny’s Official Launch on IOST Mainnet

On February 14th, the medieval card battle game, Battle of Destiny, was officially launched on the IOST mainnet. This version is a beta version that will not delete the save files. Along with this beta, there is also a one-month opening season. Users who make it to and stay in the season leaderboard from February 14, 2020, to March 14, 2020, will get an exclusive card skin.

Battle of Destiny is a fast-paced, easy-to-play medieval card battle game created by FoundGame Corporation. With a balanced scoring system, dozens of skills and combined with nearly a thousand cards. Battle of Destiny is a fast and challenging war TCG card battle game, better other CCG card games by far.

Join The IOST Community!

With a mainnet that is one-year-old, IOST has swiftly risen to become a world-leading public chain renowned for its numerous government collaborations and enterprise partnerships around the world.

IOST’s Partner Program is widely praised as one of the best staking programs globally by blockchain research institutions for its attractive returns, low risk and ease of use. To learn more and participate, please visit: https://www.iostabc.com/producers

If you would like to hang out with the IOST community, we have something for everyone:

International English Telegram Group: t.me/officialios
IOST Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/IOStoken
Jimmy Zhong Twitter: https://twitter.com/jimmyzhong_iost
Slack Developer Community: https://invite.iost.io
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/IOStoken
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/IOSTofficial
Facebook Group: http://bit.ly/IOST-FB-Group

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