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

First @ElrondNetwork prestaking wave is filled!

$1m USD of $erd locked in 25 min 🔥

Super excited for such high involvement 🙏

Next prestaking wave starts in 3 days, don't miss out👌

RT: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1212066097169608706?s=20

Elrond Pre-staking Wave 2 begins in less than two hours

The Elrond bootstrapping process is live. The first prestaking wave locked in 500 million ERD tokens in under 30 mins.

Wave 2 starts today at 14:45 UTC. Support the launch of game changing technology and earn up to 32% annualized rewards.

Stake $ERD at https://elrond.com/stake

Our latest newsletter is out. Check your inboxes or read it here ⬇️⬇️

http://bit.ly/elrond-newsletter17 📫

The Elrond bootstrapping process is live

The first 2 staking waves saw 1bn ERD deposits in under 2 hours.

Wave 3 starts today at 14:45 UTC. Support the launch of game changing technology and earn up to 32% annualized rewards.

Stake $ERD at https://elrond.com/stake

Last week in summary

🌍 The new Elrond website presents our distilled vision
🛰 Elrond's bootstrapping process begins with staking
📧 Recap our wins & review our plans in the special newsletter
🛡 1bn ERD staked in under 2 hours: Wave 1, Wave 2
⚔️ Battle of Nodes continues as BoNwards, pays GitHub rewards
🛠 Antiflooding, end of epoch, debugger - Weekly Tech Update

Bill Gates once said about John Carmack: “I can write slicker and tighter code than John”

Tight code is elegant and efficient. The Elrond Virtual Machine, our custom IDE and Rust framework abstract away blockchain-specific complexity, so developers can focus on business logic.

Shift from boilerplate code and blackbox testing to pre-parsed arguments and line-by-line debugging.

Get the Elrond IDE VS Code extension from the Visual Studio marketplace and start writing slick smart contracts on Elrond - the internet scale blockchain.

🛠 http://bit.ly/elrond-IDE

This recent in-depth analysis of the Elrond project, progress and outlook covers our fundamentals in detail and quite accurately.

While we aim to gain visibility as a fast smart contracts execution platform, the "thematic views" about staking and Elrond's place in this space make for an interesting read.

Check out this analysis by Picolo Research: https://picoloresearch.com/69/elrond-erd

The Elrond bootstrapping process is live. The first 3 staking waves saw 1,5bn ERD deposits in under 2,5 hours.

Wave 4 starts today at 14:45 UTC. Support the launch of game changing technology and earn up to 32% annualized rewards.

Stake $ERD at https://elrond.com/stake

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1215190225321938944?s=20

Super excited to announce our Samsung blockchain app - Battle of Elrond!

A mobile multiplayer game where you fight your enemies to capture their crypto treasure.

https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/52590/samsung-blockchain-phones-set-to-feature-elrond-projects-gaming-app

Building useful mobile apps with just a hint of blockchain technology in the background should be the norm. This allows any consumer to enjoy cost reduction and privacy without the intricate blockchain-specific hassle.

Elrond & Samsung have entered into a partnership which will allow all Samsung users direct access to the Elrond blockchain. To demonstrate the seamless integration of blockchains into a consumer app, we’re building a mobile game with crypto microeconomics.

Up to 30% of the estimated $76bn mobile gaming market in 2020 will go to app store fees - that’s $20bn! The fast Elrond blockchain collects negligible fees and will be natively integrated with a massive consumer devices producer.

This can decrease prices, increase developer revenue and let players cash out their in-game earnings. Battle of Elrond is a promising example of how blockchain technology could help create and retain more value for gamers and developers.

Gems and stars are nice but $ERD is real.

With every game you win, you capture more $ERD.

Check out a video teaser for Battle of Elrond: https://youtu.be/sC0pnYFWBeQ

RT: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1215559547923894272?s=20

Last week in summary

🛡 Bootstrapping Phase 1: 17,21% of circulating supply already locked, stake here
🕹 Battle of Elrond blockchain-powered game for Samsung devices announced
📊 "Elrond well positioned for strong growth amidst turbulent markets" - Picolo report
🛠 Elrond IDE VS Code extension & Rust Smart Contract Framework released

We are thrilled to announce that Binance will support the Elrond bootstrapping process with an easy interface available on one of their existing products. Periodic deposits from Binance will then be made into our Prestaking Smart Contract.

https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/360038934931

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1218123940616441857?s=20

Last week in summary

🛡 Bootstrapping Phase 1: 21% of circulating supply already locked, stake here
👌 Binance supports the Elrond pre-staking process.
🔐 Elrond cryptography upgrade with kyber to mcl library change
🛠 Arwen Virtual Machine prepped for asynchronous SC-to-SC calls