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

1/ The Elrond team is still in office, pushing everything to kickstart the staking program 🛠️
We are making good progress on all fronts, so here's a short status update on where we stand 👇

2/ The staking smart contract has been written and is currently reviewed
In fact, given the importance & risk of this smart contract, we are doing 3 security audits at the same time

3/ The first audit is done, with feedback being implemented right now
The second audit is taking a bit longer, expected to be done & with feedback implemented on Wednessday
The third audit will be done on Thursday

4/ Given the aggressive schedule we are working on, it's very hard to get these audits done as fast as we'd like, especially during Christmas time
In addition to the security audits, a new staking page & how to guides are also being prepared

5/ Here's a summary of @ElrondNetwork Phase 1 staking details:

Time: Phase 1 will begin as soon as audits are done
Rewards: for securing the network are 17% - 32% annualized
Goal: to stake is 50% of circulation supply

6/ Full details can be found in the article below:
https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/the-elrond-bootstrapping-process-2f2a7ea7cd89

7/ As things look right now, and provided no unexpected issues arise, staking should start sometime between 27-29 Dec 🔥
We are very excited see this start so soon!

8/ As Christmas is near, we want to thank you for your support, and wish each of you a Merry Christmas along your families!
Let's get the staking started! 🙌

RT: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1209120847417561089?s=20

Short update on Elrond prestaking

1/ Impressed with the energy & effort the Elrond team puts into delivering a great technology that users love
Though most ppl around the world are on Holidays, at Elrond the last few days have been about finishing things for the prestaking launch

2/ The great news is that all 3 audits are basically done, with no major flaws detected & minor feedback being processed and implemented today. The new staking page we've been building is also shaping up quite nicely, with details being reiterated for clarity

3/ Tonight we'll start the process of putting everything together, and doing a final phase of heavy end-to-end testing. Guides and explainer materials will also be in place by tomorrow

4/ Will have another update coming tomorrow, based on complete integration and testing. Oh, and did I mention anything about the nice surprise we've been preparing?

Will hopefully have it ready to roll out with the prestaking phase

5/ The days are long, but the years are short. There is an intense team effort directed at making steady progress, and overcoming day to day obstacles

6/ And while most small improvements go unnoticed, they rapidly add up. Zooming out for a sec, it's incredible to see what Elrond has achieved in only 2 years

7/ Building a blockchain from scratch to scale 1000x better than BTC or ETH is remarkable

Doing it on an aggressive schedule, and arguably outexecuting competing teams from Silicon Valley and China on 100-1000x less budget, now that's an unmistakable signal among an ocean of noise

8/ If you can read code, the tech is there and open source

If you can't read code, drop by chat to the community

There are hundreds of people from around the world cheering for Elrond and supporting us on all fronts

A warm thank you to all of you

Happy Holidays dear friends!

RT: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1210914865747025922?s=20

1/ Thrilled to finally be able to announce the NEW ELROND WEBSITE, with a coherent vision, branding, and staking page

This has been a long but very fruitful process of clarification, distillation, and repeated iteration

https://elrond.com

2/ Be sure to check the staking information and calculator

A step by step pre-staking guide will be published on the website in the next few hours

https://elrond.com/stake

3/ While the website and staking page are up, we are still performing several testing scenarios for the staking app

Once guides are shared with the community later today & we'll *tentatively* target 31.12 at 19:00 UTC+2 to kickstart the first wave of the staking process

4/ Whether you’re a validator, developer, business, investor or ambassador, this is the perfect time to explore Elrond and get involved

It's also the perfect time to share the @ElrondNetwork story with your friends

5/ 2020 will be the year the world discovers Elrond!
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6/ Our team has set an internal record with the effort put into this launch during the Holidays. Great way to start 2020 🔥

Will be off to get a few hours of well deserved sleep 🙌

RT: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1211612313624698880?s=20

1/ Elrond staking update

We're finishing the year in full swing at the Elrond office, preparing final touches for the staking launch

Current status:
- Website - live
- Staking page - live
- Staking guide - ready in ~2h
- Staking app - ready in ~2h

Check: www.elrond.com

2/ Unless something unexpected happens, everything seems to be in place, and we're on track to start staking at 19:00 UTC+2

Final testing results are ironed out in the next 2 hours

Super excited to start this new staking phase leading to the mainnet! 🔥🛠️💡

3/ Schedule for stakers looks as follows:
- Staking guide published in ~2 hours
- Live AMA in our telegram starting at 16:00 UTC
- Lock telegram channel at 18:30 UTC for security reason
- 19:00 UTC Update website with smart contract address & Wave 1 staking begins

4/ Let's get this staking party started! 🥳

2020 will be the year the world discovers Elrond! 🌍

PS. Don't forget to check our cool website: https://elrond.com

RT: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1211973223291740161?s=20

Elrond pre-staking goes LIVE today 17:00 UTC.

We want to make sure we accomodate everyone for this important milestone, thus we’ve prepared a schedule for what is to happen today:

Please check the complete guide here: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/elrond-staking-is-ready-here-is-everything-you-need-to-do-81bcd994cb64

▶️ 15:30 UTC - Join the LIVE AMA on Elrond Telegram Channel here: https://news.1rj.ru/str/ElrondNetwork
⛔️ 16:30 UTC - Due to security measures our TG channel will be muted before and after the pre-staking process starts. Please DM your questions to @ElrondPrestakingAMA_Bot and they will be answered in the main channel
✅ 17:00 UTC - You can start pre-staking your ERD here: https://elrond.com/stake/

⚠️ PLEASE BE AWARE OF FAKE ADMINS AND POTENTIAL SCAMS - ELROND ADMINS WILL NEVER ASK FOR FUNDS AND WILL NEVER DM FIRST ⚠️

Elrond is imminent.

The Elrond Prestaking Smart Contract address is:

0xE9F97FCa1C8C1dDC6649104A6dBCD400D073A445

https://elrond.com/stake