Last week in summary

📡 Automatically import Ethereum smart contracts into Elrond
📨 Tales of War — A Letter from the Front Line
✔️ Elrond Partners with Everstake for Staking Delegation Services
🔁 ERC20 option has been added for Elrond on the Binance exchange
🛠 Weekly Tech Update
✅ Second community contribution campaign

In preparation for mainnet launch, we are opening a Delegators vs Operators survey. Please give us a realistic indication about what you intend to do with your ERD holdings at the mainnet launch.

Your honest answer helps us make Elrond better.

*This is a private and safe form.

https://forms.gle/94su3HnNqExxAFoK8

We are excited to announce that Elrond will provide the infrastructure layer for @OrionProtocol, the CEX & DEX liquidity aggregator with cross-chain trading.

The mutually beneficial partnership will provide Orion Protocol with the needed high throughput, low costs and fast execution times, while the Elrond blockchain gains yet another partner operating on top of it to further prove its capabilities and readiness for adoption.

“Levelling the playing field between centralized and decentralized exchanges, in order to bring liquidity in the fragmented crypto space, is an important step towards a truly free and direct marketplace. Orion Protocol has the right tools and approach for achieving this goal, and needs fast infrastructure & interoperability to come to life. We are pleased to support their vision and to enable their goals with Elrond’s high throughput and fast finality.” said Beniamin Mincu, CEO & Founder of Elrond.

Read more on our blog: http://bit.ly/elrond-orion

Elrond validators to be included in @stakefish’s service offering

At Elrond we strive to lower the barrier of entry for our validators so that basic computer skills and entry-level PCs are sufficient to join our network and earn ERD rewards. We however want to make sure that even Elrond supporters without the time or resources to set up their own nodes can put their favorite cryptocurrency to work for them. 

We are therefore happy to announce that stakefish will run Elrond validators on behalf of anyone interested in their Staking-as-a-Service offering.

“Participants in the Elrond network are our core focus, regardless of their available resources or skills. By joining forces with stakefish we are now able to recommend a trustworthy professional blockchain infrastructure operator to all our supporters that need one.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO

Read all about it on our blog: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/elrond-validators-to-be-included-in-stakefishs-service-offering-d0bb9c5325a

Last week in summary

🔀 Asynchronous Cross Shard Smart Contract calls with Callbacks
🛣 Elrond will provide the infrastructure layer for @OrionProtocol
🐠 Elrond validators to be included in @stakefish’s service offering
🛠 Weekly Tech Update
🧵 Community contribution review
📝 Delegators vs Operators survey

We are thrilled to announce that Stake Capital will run Elrond validators on behalf of anyone interested in their Staking-as-a-Service offering.

“The array of projects we support on behalf of our customers is carefully selected to make sure our visions are aligned and sustainable value is created for all involved. After interacting with the core team and joining the Battle of Nodes public testnet event, we are confident Elrond is a project fully fitting our criteria, that we are happy to support moving forward.” said Julien Bouteloup, CEO Staking Capital.

More info: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/elrond-validators-to-be-included-in-stake-capitals-service-offering-5c8b88665914

Introducing Battle of Nodes Shadowshards - with a $30.000 total prize pool over two hardcore weeks, newcomers will get the chance to join veteran validators in an all-out-battle where everything goes.

All about it👇🏻
https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/battle-of-nodes-schedule-next-steps-8725e735967b

In a few minutes (2 PM (UTC)), we are going live for our AMA session. Tune in here https://pscp.tv/ElrondNetwork, to find out the latest info about Battle of Nodes, developments and to have a glimpse of what is still to come.

Make sure to have your questions ready 👀

We are very grateful for having such a supportive community!

Special thanks to everyone who attended the Elrond AMA on Friday! We appreciate your attention, questions and involvement! As we have promised, here you have a summary of the AMA, as well as an extended version of it:

✅Mainnet code ready, phased launch imminent
🔍Ongoing parallel audits
⚖️500.000 ERD limitation has been removed
🔨Mainnet pre-staking with 20-30% annual yields
🔐Goal of staking +50% of circulating ERD supply for security reasons
🆕Battle of Nodes - Shadowshards

Full recap and more: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/elrond-ama-recap-exciting-phase-1-launch-staking-and-next-steps-df927d74c07a

Retweet: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1203691096963997697?s=20

Last week in summary

🎥 Live Periscope AMA
📜 Elrond AMA highlights
🤖 Automatic network update via noscripts
🛡 Battle of Nodes - Shadowshards
🧰 ERD staking support&more via @StakeCapital
🆕 Elrond was listed on @EN_Hitbtc, after comm poll (63%)
🛠 Weekly Tech Update

The Battle of Nodes story: analysis and lessons to be drawn 🛠️

And ideas for builders and leaders fighting for the Elrond future to unfold 💡

https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/battle-of-nodes-songs-of-valor-6fcb6a45cc2e

Last week in summary

📱 ERD x Samsung available now in Korea, US, Canada, UK, Germany, Switzerland and Spain.
🐞 Debugger for Rust Smart Contracts completed
🛡 Battle of Nodes recap - Songs of Valor
⚔️ 2 x Battle of Nodes Shadowshards attacks. Blockchain self-recovered
🛠 Weekly Tech Update

We are excited to announce the Elrond MainNet bootstrapping process

Through this process we will address functionality, security, performance, and gradual decentralization in a logical order via 3 dedicated steps:

Phase 1 - tackle network security from an economical perspective
Phase 2 - deploy the code on trusted validator set, enabling progressive feature activation
Phase 3 - decentralization to the point where Elrond only operates a minimum fall-back infrastructure

Phase 1 - Start staking, earn rewards, and reach economic security threshold

- 23-29 December
- 17%-32% rewards annually
- we are aiming for 50% of circulating supply or 5 Billion ERD to be committed and pre-staked

Elrond is imminent, read all about it here: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/the-elrond-bootstrapping-process-2f2a7ea7cd89

In preparation for the staking event, we will be swapping ERD tokens from BEP2 to ERC20.

ERD BEP2 tokens will be burnt periodically on the Binance Chain and minted in the exact same amount on Ethereum.

You can follow these actions by carefully checking our BEP2 token address, ERC20 token address.

Stay tuned, Elrond is imminent.

Last week in summary

📌 Elrond Mainnet Phase 1 staking details released - up to 32% annual rewards
💸 Binance soft staking distribution & suspension
💳 $ERD available now in Atomic Wallet
🧵 Staking rewards on Proof of Stake networks
🛠 Weekly Tech Update
#RateMyNode contest