Hello! This is the third edition of our weekly overview of various cryptonetworks, contributing to the future of blockchain technology. This time we decided to include Ambrosus in our digest! The AMBteam is still working on a marketing strategy for public communications, that is why no news appeared. To recall, Ambrosus is a blockchain-powered IoT network for food and pharmaceutical enterprises, enabling secure and frictionless dialogue between sensors, distributed ledgers, and databases to optimize supply chain visibility and quality assurance. In our update you can also find:
Blockstack — a decentralized computing network, and app ecosystem;
Bluezelle — a project that gives dapps a place to store data that is secure, tamper-proof, and highly scalable;
Chainlink — a decentralized oracle system helping smart contracts to get data sources from outside the blockchain at any timeand that are reliable;
Enjin, building a suite of user-first blockchain products that enable anyone to easily create, manage, distribute, and integrate blockchain assets;
Harmony — a fast and secure blockchain with crucial innovations in state sharding and peer-to-peer networking.
Polymath — a decentralized platform that makes it easy to create security tokens, and simplifies the complex technical challenges of creating a security token, aiming to bring the multi-trillion dollar financial securities market to the blockchain.
Enjoy!
Ambrosus
No updates. The team is still working on communications. All the updates should occur according to the plan announced in this post — Communications and Outreach for Ambrosus Ecosystem.
The graph above shows the dynamics of changes in the number of Ambrosus Facebook likes, Reddit subscribers and Twitter followers. The information is taken from Coingecko.com.
Blockstack
- NYC Blockstackers — join CEO & Co-founder, Muneeb Ali, and Jude Nelson at Blockstack’s “Growing Internet Ownership” meetup on 28th January. Learn more about SIP-007, the launch of the Stacks 2.0 blockchain, and updates on the Clarity smart contract language.
- Final Stacks 1.0 Hardfork Successful, Preview Stacks 2.0. It’s been a long-standing tradition for Blockstack PBC to release an annual hard fork update. The latest, which completed on January 17th, materialized the Blockchain.com Stacks (STX) distribution. In the process, the full set of addresses from the Blockchain.com distribution were granted Stacks tokens, bringing the approximate number of Stacks holders from around 5,000 to well over 300,000! The STX for these new owners is locked for a year. This latest hard fork is important because they anticipate it to be the last one Blockstack PBC itself will initiate and actively execute.
- (TENTATIVELY RESCHEDULED TO FEB 5TH) Blockstack Community Stacking Q&A. Jude Nelson (Engineering Partner at Blockstack PBC) and Xan Ditkoff (Growth Partner at Blockstack PBC), are holding a community session to discuss any questions or comments related to Blockstack’s recent SIP-007 proposal and potential breakthrough consensus algorithm.
- Meet the Winners: Can’t Be Evil Contest Part 3. Check the winners in those categories:
Bluzelle
- Curie Technology Preview #3: Bluzelle DB’s COSMOS-powered Proof-of-Stake Consensus. A multi-node swarm showing how super-majorities are critical for their Proof-of-Stake consensus to work.
Cosmos-powered features:
They demonstrate the current version of the Bluzelle DB in the context of how consensus works in different scenarios. Here is a brief outline:
- Running a multi-node swarm and showing who the validators are. They explain what a super-majority is (66% of votes), and how having a super-majority of the agreement is critical to operations.
- Running a transaction on the swarm and showing success. This ensures the operability of the consensus network.
- Intentionally turning off one of the validators. Showing how they have lost the super-majority and how the network is considered unsafe, and stalls (instead of unsafely continuing to process requests).
- Trying to run a transaction when the network is stalled. This also strengthens the Network further by ensuring that rules can be set by regular clients to ensure bad operations do not continue and get away with, and there will only be operations happening only upon validators’ approval.
- Bringing back the turned-off validator and recovery. Showing the network recover AND that the transactions attempted while it was down, were not lost, and now “play back”.
- Crypto VIP Signal™ will host AMA with Bluzelle on 28th January. Top 4 best questions get 200$ Rewards!
Chainlink
- ICON, a popular public blockchain from South Korea is planning to integrate with Chainlink’s oracle network. The initial implementation of Chainlink on ICON will be an ICX/USD pricing oracle that can be utilized by any ICON DApp. This integration will allow ICON Dapps to easily build financial products and market places based on the USD equivalent of ICX.
- ALKEMI, an open finance prime brokerage platform, joins the Chainlink ecosystem! Alkemi will use off-chain price data via Chainlink oracles to enforce price thresholds (for unlocking assets pre-expiry date) set by on-chain liquidity providers. Both Alkemi and Chainlink are built on Ethereum making integration quite simple. Looking ahead, there is strong alignment on vision as both companies aim to eventually become blockchain agnostic in an effort to foster wider adoption and interoperability.
- BetProtocol is connecting with Chainlink to provide decentralized Esports and Sports Oracles for all of the gaming platforms. More information here.
Enjin
- The all-in-one Enjin Platform features a UI for creating blockchain assets, along with SDKs & APIs for integrating them with your games — all without writing any blockchain code, using the tools and languages you know best. Get notified when it launches here.
- Don’t forget to check the nickname generator by Enjin. That’s solid!
Harmony
- Going smoothly as planned, they have successfully finished the first rolling upgrade of Harmony mainnet in 2020 to get ready for the token swap. The released version is v1.2.1. The official release page on GitHub is here. The upgrade contains security fixes, cross-shard transaction bug fixes, and enhanced RPC APIs to support better explorer and wallet integration.
- Check out the highlights of “User Adoption of Blockchain Technology in 2020” featured in hackernoon! Very exciting to see COO Li Jiang quoted & Harmony highlighted among the next-generation blockchain infrastructures.
- Harmony Token Swap — Launching the native ONE token. This means, you’ll now be able to exchange your interim BEP2 and ERC20 tokens for native Harmony ONE tokens. Be cautious in ensuring you only use the official swap partners listed below. All participants in the Harmony ecosystem will be completing the migration over the coming days.
- Harmony announced swap platforms:
Polymath
- Polymath Head of Tokenization Graeme Moore presenting to lawyers earning The Osgoode Certificate in Blockchains, Smart Contracts, and the Law.
- Reminder: The first v3 only module in the Polymath Token Studio will be pushed in early February. So, if you still have a v2 ST-20 token, upgrade now to take advantage of the new modules! If you need to upgrade your v2 token to v3 — here is the guide.
That’s all for today!
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