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Aion: Trust Wallet Adds support, Dashboard V2.1, New video tutorials and Documentation for Maven and IntelliJ Java developer tools, Makkii Wallet by Chaion release, Cranberry — a loyalty program that rewards miners launch, Staking and holder voting details will be released soon

Paradigm
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13 min readApr 10, 2019

Biweekly update 27th March — 10th April

This is not financial advice.

During the last two weeks, Aion team made progress with development. They have released v2.1 of the Dashboard and published Aion first internal Showcases. New video tutorials released on how to use the Aion Dashboard, how to use AIWA, how to use the Aion Faucet. Documentation for Maven and IntelliJ Java developer tools was published. As for social encounters, Matthew Spoke attended TOKEN 2049 in Hong Kong and published a monthly video update. More speakers confirmed for The Aion Rebuild Conference, the second incarnation of the Aionex conference which is coming at the end of April. Mike Mason continues to answer community questions at Weekly Community AMA on Aion official subreddit at the end of each week. Aion ecosystem is impressive and it continues to flourish. Aion Connect is live, and there are a lot of projects build on Aion. These weeks list of Aion dApps and projects enlarged with the addition of August, Cranberry & NCCGroup. Makkii Wallet for Android released by Chaion. Aion community also constantly grows. However, there is a slight fluctuation in the number of subscribers of Aion social media channels these weeks. And last but not least — Trust Wallet Adds support for AION. Stay tuned for Aion Network updates in the coming weeks!

Development

GitHub metrics
Developer activity (from Coinlib.io)

Aion Dashboard V2.1:

The team has released v2.1 of the Aion Dashboard 39.

Information from Aion Dashboard on April 10th, 2019.

New Features:

● Addition of a feedback form in the website’s footer for the community to provide inputs

● Addition of a page-size picker on tables to allow users to extend the number of elements in a page

● Addition of page-picker on tables to allow users to navigate among the pages easily

● Filter by date range for Blocks and Transactions Lists View; default view displays blocks and transactions within the last month

● Filter by date range for Tokens and Contract Lists View; default view displays tokens and contracts created within the last year

● Addition of a Dark Mode option

Improvements:

● Improved responsiveness and mobile usability of the dashboard

● Improved table content to be more easily copied and have right-click functionality

● Added footer to include links to other areas of the Aion foundation

● Improved the alignment of page margins and other minor UX changes

● Replaced “contract creation” with actual links to contract

● Improved navigation between account and contract view of an address

● Improved messaging on the dashboard to be more accurate

● Improved querying on the database structure through structural changes (addressed further below)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed issue of missing transactions

• Fixed issue of missing internal transfers

• Fixed issue of misrepresented token information

Rich list/Distribution of Coin holders is already being developed and will be part of the next release.

New tutorials:

The Aion dashboard is a handy tool to use when creating and debugging your smart contracts. John takes us over A quick guide runs over the basics of what the dashboard is, and how to use it.

Aion Dashboard.

Need some Aion for developing your blockchain application? Kimberly goes over this super quick tutorial on how to get some free Testnet AION coin to test your dApp with.

Get your testnet AION here.

The Aion WAllet (or AIWA for short) is a handy Chrome extension that allows you to interact with the Aion network within the browser. John provides a short introduction into how it works, and what you can do with it.

Other Aion Tools.

Documentation for Maven and IntelliJ Java developer tools

Maven is an excellent tool for speeding up blockchain application development on Aion. In this video, Kimberly runs us through how to install Maven on Windows 10.

Maven Installation.

Install the latest stable build, or load the bleeding-edge edition.

Want more info on how to build Java applications on the Aion network? Checkout

  • Aion Docs
  • Aion University with comprehensive guides and documentation to help you start developing with Aion as quickly as possible, as well as support if you get stuck.

Showcase — A new monthly ceremony:

Showcases are a monthly recurring set of presentations to create information symmetry both internally and externally. Showcases are an opportunity for Aion Foundation teams to share progress they’ve made in the previous four week period. They come prepared with talking points in a consumable group format that covers a 10 minute period (presentation, demo, etc.) In attendance are the members of the presenting “pod” and all “pod leads”.

Check out the latest showcase (March 21st, 2019) here.

Social encounters

Aion Foundation founder Matt Spoke shares updates on Rebuild Conference, the staking roadmap, coin-holder voting system, and Cranberry — miner loyalty program.

Karim, Bounties and Grants Manager, discusses the tools built for AVM through the grant program.

Matt Spoke speech at TOKEN2049 on March 13th, 2019.

Matthew Spoke — CEO -AION

Jun Li — Founder — Ontology

Jack Lu — Founder and CEO — Wanchain

Qingkai Liang — Co-founder — Celer Network

Rong Chen — Founder — Elastos

Josh Choi — Director of Public Affairs — ICON

This panel discusses the latest developments within interoperability, scalability and how a decentralized future might look like.

Upcoming events:

There will be speakers from Aion, Web3, Ethereum, The Atlantic, Algorand, Bitcoin (core), Messari, IBM, The Former Privacy Commissioner of Ontario and more.

See also a blog post with details on the Conference and Rebuild Conference new video.

Check out Rebuild Conference Twitter.

Source: Eventbrite.

Rebuild Conference continues adding speakers. Consensys, Rootstock, Cosmos, Polkadot, Algorand… all confirmed to speak at Aion Conference.

Source: @MattSpoke.

Reddit:

Finance

Token holders and the number of transactions dynamics (from Aion Explorer)
  • Tokenomics:

Monetary Policy

Token Use Paper

Forum (Economics)

Aion Asset Profile by Messari

Roadmap

Right on target (Phase 1: Kilimanjaro 2018 Complete).

Phase 2: Denali

  • Aion Virtual Machine (AVM) Version 1

This AVM is a custom-built, lightweight, performant, and stable VM that leverages key characteristics of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), providing concurrency and robustness within a blockchain-specific context. The AVM is responsible for running applications on top of Aion. The AVM will include its own scripting language.

  • Aion Scripting Language

The Aion scripting language is used for writing chain logic that runs on Aion-Everest and potentially any connecting/participating network. The Aion language is compiled into AVM bytecode and executed by the AVM. The Aion language provides the following features: Defensive programming, Blockchain runtime environment, Blockchain context injection, Security.

  • Proof-of-Intelligence Consensus Algorithm

An economic measure to deter denial of service attacks by requiring participants, solvers in Aion-Everest, to perform artificial intelligence (AI) computation. The intent is to motivate the creation of AI-specific or specialized hardware that could be used for machine learning and neural network training in the future.

2019:

Phase 3: Everest 2019

  • Participating Network Bridging
    The generic bridge protocol is designed to enable the atomic movement of value and data between heterogeneous networks. This will enable the development of cross-blockchain contract logic and free-floating token supplies.
  • Complete Validator Nomination
    The Hybrid DPoS / PoI consensus mechanism aims to achieve high performance while providing a fair and decentralized validator set. This is achieved through a token staking system and partly through a novel verification algorithm based on concepts used in modern neural networks called Proof-of- Intelligence.
  • Aion Virtual Machine (AVM) Version 2

See also Aion roadmap release schedule (tentative):

Aion team splits the scope of projects within the blockchain space between:

  1. Tinkerers: Those that innovate use-cases on top of a blockchain platform, using existing tools that are available.
  2. Tool Builders: Those that seek to expand the toolbox.

The best roadmaps are ones from projects that have a statistically viable sample to draw requirements from, ones that must be diligent and organized about roadmaps for their impact to downstream dependencies. Aion team found similarities within roadmaps for these projects that convinced them of the effectiveness:

  1. Thematic Consistency
  2. A Logical Breakdown
  3. Clarity of content

Beyond the principles mentioned above, here is a structural format Aion believe is a good representation of what should be included in a roadmap.

Source: Aion blog.

In the coming weeks Aion will be releasing their roadmap to the public with this format as their guide. The roadmap takes into account work being undertaken across the Foundation from research, to production development, to ecosystem funding, documentation and more. From all the things they looked at, arguably the most important was “Recommendations”, a roadmap feature they only saw from the React project.

Partnerships and team members

A Secure Multi Coin Wallet and Browser for Android and iOS.

Source: Aion blog.

Trust Wallet has been very busy adding new coins to its secure mobile wallet and browser. Among those coins now supported is AION. Trust Wallet has been known for some time now as one of the worlds best mobile wallets for cryptocurrency. It is secure, multi-currency, anonymous, and tied to some advance web3 functionality you can’t get elsewhere like a dApp browser and decentralized exchange.

Dear McKinsey: Blockchain Isn’t An Overlay and You Can’t “Occam” Your Way to a New Paradigm by Alex McDougall, Bicameral Ventures.

You can see the list of Aion partnerships on Aion Connect.

Ecosystem

Makkii has a very easy and friendly user interface, users can get started quickly. In this wallet, users can create and recover existing AION wallets, send and receive AION coins, and look up transactions. Makkii does not collect any user’s sensitive personal information, like phone number or email address. Only minimum wallet information is encrypted and stored on your phone.

Besides working as a hot wallet, it also supports integrating with the cold wallet — Ledger. Use an OTG cable kit to make connection between Android phone and Ledger device, a user can import and manage ledger accounts in Makkii.e

Source: Aion blog.

The makers Chaion see the future of Makkii as a digital asset hub connecting the Blockchain network and multi-domain business scenarios. The ultimate goal of Makkii Wallet is to create a decentralized, cryptocurrency market for AION communities to help people gain convenience, mobility and security in their daily life.

They encourage users to submit all technical bugs to GitHub, as well as discuss on Aion forums for conversation and inquiries.

Download Makkii for Android

Source: Aion blog.

August, a Toronto-based digital studio, is launching Cranberry — a loyalty program that rewards miners for mining AION. By signing up with Cranberry, Aion miners can earn AION for simply being loyal miners to the Aion network.

How to Join

After registering with Cranberry, miners will receive PLAT tokens for the AION they provably mine. PLAT is an ATS tokens on the Aion network and is the native token used by Cranberry.

Once registered, as a miner earns PLAT tokens, they can use them to buy tickets in the weekly draws. Weekly prizes total more than 4,000 AION and if no one wins, they are carried over to the next draw. There is also a guaranteed weekly 1,000 AION prize — so someone wins every week. Pop over to Cranberry’s FAQ page to learn more.

While the initial launch is focused on miners, the team has hinted that they plan on engaging other network participants, such as developers, coin holder, and node operators. All of whom can contribute to the expansion of the Aion ecosystem.

If you’re a miner, make sure you register here. If you’re not a miner and would like to try, it’s very simple to get started with a pool.

Check out first payout from Cranberry mining reward game.

Other:

Projects Building on Aion:

Fifth-9.com:

• SPRXS.io

• Digital Liquidity Factory

Centrys.io:

• THÉO (theoproject.io) (with Syná wallets)

• Agora (beta.agora.theoproject.io)

• Spiro (centrys.io/enterprise)

Community dApps:

• BondWithFriends.com

• AionRoulette

Ecosystem builders:

See also Aion Connect.

Rumors

Twitter:

My new favorite movie trailer! Featuring the AVM. On Unicorn Watch Video.

Walked by the old office where we wrote the @Aion_Network white paper in early 2017, and where Nuco used to operate. I’m amazed by how much much we’ve accomplished looking back.

Source: @MattSpoke.
Source: @kesemfr.
Source: @aionpool.

Active Reddit discussions:

Source: Aion subreddit.

Other:

Aion listed on Everipedia.

Social media metrics

Social media activity
Social media dynamics
Social media dynamics

There is a slight fluctuation in the number of subscribers of Aion social media channels. The number of Aion Twitter readers decreased by more than 20% during these weeks.

New Developer Subreddit — r/AIONgineering: 37 members on February 12th, 2019; 46 members on February 26th, 2019; 46 members on March 12th, 2019; 47 members on March 26th, 2019; 48 members on April 9th, 2019.

Twitter — Average number of retweets is 15–30 for one post. The number of followers has increased by 5 thousand over the last week.

Facebook — 10–15 likes per publication.

Reddit — Threads with 2–10 comments. The community is quite active discussing latest news, development, mining, token price and possible partnerships.

Information from Cryptocompare.com

The graph above shows the dynamics of changes in the number of Aion Reddit subscribers, Twitter followers and Facebook likes. The information is taken from Coingecko.com.

Aion Community is the new unofficial community-run Telegram channel for humor, memes, and trading discussion.

Discord — Active discussions on the latest updates and mining.

Aion forum — Discussions on mining, news, network statistics etc. Popular topics:

Top:

Global Telegram Channels:

  • Korea — Kakao chat
  • Russia — @AionNetworkRU
  • Poland — @Aion_Poland
  • Spanish — @AionNetworkES
  • Kenya — @AionKenya
  • Netherlands/Belgium — @AionBenelux
  • India @Aion_India

See also the community-built Aion Telegram Bot and Aion Newsfeed — feed of Aion’s YouTube, Blog, and Twitter posts and project updates.

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