Elrond Q3 Report

Main points:
Tech — Technical development is going very well. We’ve Implemented state sharding and Secure proof of stake. Several VM’s are integrated and we’ve reached unprecedented results for smart contract transactions. We continue to push on this front, and are excited to be on track for launching mainnet targeted for December

Validators & dev — Number of validators have been growing steadily in preparation for the Battle of Nodes competition, first economics proposal has been presented, and staking calculator released by the community. Several dev tools have been in the works, and will be released in the coming weeks

Biz — We secured 9 partnerships with relevant crypto projects, like Chainlink and Holochain, and blockchain alliances, like IoT Alliance & Binance Chain Alliance. Additionally we have been working with a few large renowned enterprises on some substantial collaborations we intend to announce in the coming period

PR & Exposure — Elrond has increased presence at the top blockchain events, strengthened its reputation, and has been featured in top technical and crypto press outlets

Community — Elrond has seen significant growth on all relevant community channels, with tens of extremely passionate members going the extra mile, and supporting Elrond on all fronts — big shoutout to them

dApp — The first dApp built on a sharded architecture called CryptoBubbles.io has been very well received by the community. We had several gaming tournaments, and will continue to do others in preparation for the mainnet when the game will be played with real money

Huge thanks for your continuos support!

Read the full report on our blog:
https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/elrond-q3-report-33a3a6b6612b

Last week in summary

1️⃣ Seoul D.FINE keynote [Korea Blockchain Week] - https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1178595148168597504?s=20
2️⃣ Battle of Nodes announcement - https://battleofnodes.com
3️⃣ Elrond Q3 report - https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/elrond-q3-report-33a3a6b6612b
4️⃣ Weekly Tech Update - https://twitter.com/radu_chis/status/1180202182861344769?s=20
✅ Community contributions Wave 3 🔚

We are excited to welcome @twokey_official into the Elrond ecosystem!

2key Network is now part of the first batch of projects that capitalize on the highly scalable, secure and cost-efficient Elrond Protocol.

2key Network’s smart link technology will provide the opportunity to improve user onboarding in all of Elrond Network’s consumer and enterprise dApps, thereby boosting user acquisition.

Through this partnership, 2Key Network’s novel Layer-2 protocol will be used atop the first Layer-1 solution that leverages Adaptive State Sharding in conjunction with the Secure Proof of Stake consensus. Simultaneously, Elrond gains a powerful new means of pushing dApp growth on its blockchain, furthering the team’s ambition of making a blockchain for mass usage.

Full announcement: http://bit.ly/elrond-2key

@BinanceExchange will support Elrond Staking

In collaboration with Binance we’re glad to be able to offer pre-mainnet staking to our supportive community.

More details ⬇️⬇️
https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/360034987511

New partnership

Smart contracts running on Elrond’s innovative sharded architecture will gain access to trustworthy data delivered efficiently via @BandProtocol's data layer.

Full annoucement here: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/elrond-smart-contracts-get-access-to-band-protocols-data-provisioning-layer-through-strategic-ddff4888ba6f

Last week in summary
1️⃣2key partnership
https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1181195968215166978?s=20
2️⃣Battle of Nodes - recap (Ben’s video)
https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1181869905181888513?s=20
3️⃣Binance Staking
https://twitter.com/binance/status/1181920797050335234?s=20
4️⃣Devcon 5 meetups
https://twitter.com/LucianMincu/status/1181535751214731264?s=20
5️⃣Weekly Tech Update
https://twitter.com/iulian_pascalau/status/1182697654859509761?s=20
✅24 hours CryptoBubbles tournament

Last week in summary

1️⃣Band Protocol partnership - https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/elrond-smart-contracts-get-access-to-band-protocols-data-provisioning-layer-through-strategic-ddff4888ba6f
2️⃣Community Contributions [Wave 3 summary] - https://medium.com/elrond-community/focusing-on-the-future-49fa602a297c
3️⃣Elrond HQ Validators Meetup - https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1184870170973687810?s=20
4️⃣Battle of Nodes - Client version 1.0.31 released - https://news.1rj.ru/str/BattleOfNodes/24
5️⃣Weekly Tech Update - https://twitter.com/sasurobert/status/1185280728801726469?s=21
✅San Francisco Blockchain Week participation ann.

Join us tomorrow (23rd of October) for a Periscope AMA session with @beniaminmincu on @ElrondNetwork’s twitter at 3PM UTC.

Let's discuss Elrond's progress, next milestones & implications.

Comment your questions here: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1186609123489714176?s=20 and watch @beniaminmincu answer them live!

Elrond AMA recap for October 23

Main points
✅ We’re on track for the December mainnet launch
💯 Recently we had a lot of progress on tech, community and business
⚡️ From now on we have a laser focus on the mainnet launch
🆕 Introducing Elrond Personas: Validators, Developers, Beneficiaries


Summary and trannoscript - http://bit.ly/elrond-AMA-recap

🇺🇸 Here we come!

We are thrilled to be part of San Francisco Blockchain Week and discuss all things Elrond.

Read this thread to see what’s planned between the 28th of October and the 3rd of November 👇🏻💥

https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1187744887959097345?s=20

Last week in summary

1️⃣ Live AMA - Elrond's progress, next milestones & implications - https://www.pscp.tv/w/1BRKjqRWDeVxw
2️⃣ Professional staking infrastructure integration with Dokia.capital - https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/elrond-validators-to-run-on-dokia-capital-professional-staking-infrastructure-adc99a74ad3e
3️⃣ Elrond AMA trannoscript & summary - http://bit.ly/elrond-AMA-recap
4️⃣ San Francisco Blockchain Week events thread -
https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1187744887959097345?s=20
5️⃣ Weekly tech update - https://twitter.com/lucianmincu/status/1187813773010259968?s=21
✅Battle of Nodes - Phase 1, Round 3

"After seeing the excitement and amount of people that have joined the event, we decided to increase the prize pool to $60.000, as a sign of respect for the amount of attention and resources you guys decided to dedicate for helping and challenging us." Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO

Rewards for issue discovery, testnet operation and community support

- Vulnerabilities - $20.000
- Top 7 accounts - $4.850
- Leaderboard - $32.500 for +800 nodes
- Community - $2.500 for 7 champions

Official prizes and more details here: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/battle-of-nodes-prize-pool-spl-it-80e167fa4878

We’re very excited to announce starting a collaboration with the Samsung blockchain ecosystem.

Here’s a video previewed yesterday at the Samsung Dev Conference: https://youtu.be/vgI1DbH1gFc

Challenge: find Elrond in the video 👀

More detalis on this soon 🙌


RT: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1189944011349360642?s=20