Safe Tuesday to all the æmazing crypto community members! Paradigm is here to keep you updated with all the recent news that appeared within the æternity project. The development continues no matter what is happening in the world. To begin with, the Jelly Swap team, powered by weiDexExchange, shared a detailed report on how they implemented the ÆS stablecoin. To recall, the idea is to have a token that represents 1 USD. The ÆS stablecoin will be pegged to DAI in a ratio of 1:1. The integration of ÆS on Jelly Swap is currently in progress.
Furthermore, Ænalytics, an explorer that allows for tracking and interacting with aeternity blockchain, was established by Kryptokrauts. Its primary focus is ÆNS, and soon it will be possible to claim, update, and revoke names using it. Another neat milestone — a demo of a decentralized messaging æpp built on æternity blockchain was just unveiled in the Forum. It is being developed by Liu Yang — a long-term Æ supporter and community member.
By the way, the æternity team started a series of Virtual Conferences in order to support, educate the community, and discuss the most relevant topics of “the shutdown period.” Do not hesitate to attend a fantastic distant event like this. Moreover, you can watch a conversation by Shantanu Sharma, host of HardForkTalks, and Yanislav Malahov — CEO & Founder of æternity, as they discuss the wonders of a decentralized world & how the æternity blockchain is working towards this. Besides, æternity’s Venezuelan community announced the winners of their 2nd hæckathon. Among them is ticketing system Æventos, transaction platform Cash Flag, and vaccination registry Revacunæ.
What’s more, æternity is hiring even amid the COVID-19 pandemic, so don’t miss a chance to join this blockchain-ænthusiastic family!
The number of subscribers in social networks and chats has a slight increase. Stay tuned for more!
Warning
The warning is addressed to the whole aeternity community, considering a new scam going around. Be careful and trust the official AE channels only.
Development
- The Jelly Swap team, powered by weiDexExchange just shared a detailed report on how they implemented the AES stablecoin. With the great enthusiasm caused by the integration of Aeternity into Jelly which enabled swaps between BTC<>AE and ETH<>AE, a new idea was born within the Aeternity community. People asked for Stablecoin on Aeternity. And Jelly came up with real implementation. The Stablecoin is called AES (Aeternity Stablecoin) and will be backed by DAI. Current progress:
- Build AEX9 token — AES (Aeternity Stablecoin) — Done
- Build HTLC contracts compatible with Jelly Swap — Done
- Build Jelly Swap AEX9 typescript package to allow easy development — Done
- Integrate AES on Jelly Swap — In Progress
Use case 1:
Let’s say you are an Aeternity developer and you receive your salary in AE. The AE token is volatile and is subject to price fluctuations. Therefore, the value of your salary is endangered. With the AES in action, you can exchange part of your salary for stablecoins that never lose value.
Use case 2:
If you are building a payment application on Aeternity blockchain, you will most probably want to use stablecoins for your services to guarantee the price.
Watch AES — Aeternity stable coin introduction by Tito Titov on YouTube.
- AES added to Jelly Stats Dashboard. You can check liquidity & providers.The first AES tokens were also minted.
- Aenalytics — an explorer that allows for tracking and interacting with aeternity blockchain. Its main focus is AENS and you’ll soon be able to claim, update, and revoke names using it. (Thanks to kryptokrauts for building it). Check the explorer via the link.
- An announcement of the released contraect-maven-plugin for aeternity. One crucial point to achieve business adoption of æternity is the ease of use and integration of smart contracts. With the contraect-maven-plugin they want to bridge this gap and allow the interaction with smart contracts by leveraging well-established languages based on the JVM like Java, Kotlin and Scala. See the article for more details.
- Slides: Smart Contracts on the JVM by Kryptokrauts.
- A demo of a decentralized messaging aepp built on aeternity blockchain was just unveiled in the Forum. It is being developed by Liu Yang — a long-term AE supporter and community member.
- Here is a simple to use transaction builder for Learning how to build Tx’s on Aeternity.
- Check the tutorial to learn what are the privileges of a Sophia smart contract owner. Set up your environment and learn when to add access-restriction to your contract methods.
Social encounters
- Superhero League: Leadership During Self-Isolation and Turbulent Times — the second Virtual Conference by æternity. Watch the recording via the link.
- Do you think COVID-19 will affect tax collection and redistribution? Listen to an interview with Matthias Langer — a tax adviser working in the blockchain and fintech sectors. He participated in aeternity’s conference in Prague last year.
- Watch the conversation by Shantanu Sharma — Host of HardForkTalks, and Yanislav Malahov — CEO & Founder of aeternity, as they discuss the wonders of a decentralized world & how the aeternity blockchain is working towards this.
- From zero to a fully-fledged aeternity decentralized application in less than 10 minutes by Milen Radkov. Milen Radkov has experience building and delivering successful complex software systems and projects for big enterprises and small startups. Software developed by him and his colleagues is being used by over 1000+ retail stores today. Milen has also extensive experience in blockchain development and is a well-known figure in Bulgaria’s blockchain ecosystem.
- aeternity’s Venezuelan community held a 2nd haeckathon and the winners are now announced: Ticketing system Aeventos, transaction platform Cash Flag, and vaccination registry Revacunae.
- Exclusive Interview by Blockmanity: Co-Founder of Aeternity Nikola Stojanow talks about investing in Indian Blockchain startups.
Q: Could you share some names and numbers from your portfolio of startups you have already invested in?
Nikola: We are proud to say that so far we have invested directly or through our acceleration program more than $2mln in 19 startups. To name a few: WeiDex (Bulgaria) — decentralized exchange for cryptocurrencies, which just recently released their cross-chain atomic swap widget called Jelly. AmpNet (Croatia) — a white-label, all-in-one platform for running energy cooperatives and energy communities. Abend (Germany) — the cashless, on-site payments platform aiming to be an “own little economy” for each festival and club around the globe. Cryptic Legends (Serbia/Malta) — blockchain-based, team management game in an awesome ancient fantasy world. SmartCredit (Switzerland) — a platform for crypto-loans creating 2-click consumer credits (money on demand) for the borrower and tools like credit tokenization, credit transferability and interest-bearing to the holder.
Upcoming events:
All the amazing aeternity events are scheduled in this calendar. Check it out not to miss anything!
- 8th April 2020 — The March meetup of aembassador Manel Ruiz at 42 Lyon was postponed due to coronavirus risk. Don’t worry, You will be able to meet him in April!
- 9th April 2020 — The third Virtual Conference — Superhero League: Covid-19 & the Future of Work. Ivan Brezak Brkan from Netokracija, Ivan Nanut from Cryptotask, and Aco Momcilovic from FutureHR Consulting are all going to discuss the future of work after COVID19.
- 16th April 2020 — The fourth Superhero League Weekly Virtual Gathering.
- 20th August 2020 — Token Summit Liechtenstein
Roadmap
- æternity Development Roadmap Update. UPDATE: æternity’s Lima hardfork was successfully executed on October 30th, 2019 at block height 161150. The æternity’s Mainnet is now running Lima Release 5.0.1. Significant milestones were reached and we are waiting for new target milestones:)
Partnerships and team members
- aeternity blockchain is hiring even amid the covid19 pandemic. A self-motivated, creative, and experienced Project Manager is needed. You’ll be coordinating the work of different departments to ensure the project’s success. Also, if you are a tech-savvy person but also good at communications, join the AE family as a Developer Advocate.
- WeTrace uses aeternity to keep personal data from Snoopers. WeTrace is a privacy-focused COVID-19 tracing app. They believe that using technology as an enabler to help trace infections efficiently will be the only solution to bring us back to a thriving society, keeping only who was potentially infected at home. Using cryptography and decentralized expertise they managed to come up with a concept where there is no central storage of data and only people that you actually met are getting informed. Besides being efficient, you don’t have to worry about your privacy because the data never leaves your device. See post. WeTrace Community Tracer App explained in the video.
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- “The most important thing to me now is to be able to read the minds, feelings of my team even at distance,” said Raghu Mohan, who is currently Building IBCmedia from home, and washing hands regularly.
- “We are kind of in war mode. We try to communicate with empathy, emotional response because social distancing cuts a lot of communication. We have online after office where we laugh, we share our favorite memes of the day..”, said Irina Obushtarova
- “Leadership during Crisis: Put one foot on solid territory and move the other to change direction to see where to go… Adaptive movement” — Gonzalo Sobral
- “For ppl to follow you it is essential that they trust you… If it’s transparent and clear why you are doing something ppl trust you… And empathy…Walk in other person shoes before making decisions about other people’s lives” — Juan Carlos Delpino
- “Leaders have to say ‘I am learning’… They need to be more agile… More innovative. How do we transfer to the digital world more in this new world?” — Çağla Gül Şenkardeş, CEO at MenaPay
- “Notes on Leadership: Our current monetary systems are based on debt… In critical times, societies can reimagine those basics of society… blockchain can offer an alternative: COMMUNITY CURRENCIES” — aeternity twitter.
- “This is a golden opportunity for alternative systems to step in and serve as a more equitable and healthy medium of exchange…” — Franz Josef Allmayer, founder & Co-creator of Integrity.Earth.
Social media metrics
The graph above shows the dynamics of changes in the number of Aeternity Facebook likes, Reddit subscribers and Twitter followers. The information is taken from coingecko.com.
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