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

State sharding is the most promising path towards true scalability.

Executing the complex computations on accessible computing power is the most promising path towards decentralization.

Creating all of this is complicated but explainable. Here's our core dev Sebastian sharing a glimpse into an Elrond round.

https://twitter.com/Oxsy_Sibiu/status/1220396214748942336?s=19

Stay tuned for more Elrond tech.

Last week in summary

👌🏻 Binance program to support Elrond staking
⏱ Major improvement in consensus reduces processing time
📊 Elrond listed on Staking Rewards
🎓 Anatomy of a round - @oxsy_Sibiu explains

The meaningful integration between the 📱 Samsung-exclusive Battle of Elrond and our blockchain tech is coming along nicely.

Here’s an example of how simple it is to convert your fun time into resources for your other needs or, better yet, even more fun.

Everyone should put online technology to work for a better offline life.

What will you tech offline?

Be on Elrond - The Internet-scale Blockchain

Complex retail automation solutions meets blockchain technology.

Find out how Elrond and Neurolabs will enable meaningful automation in retail environments:

http://bit.ly/elrond-neurolabs

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1222530545319600128?s=20

Building a blockchain is like building a transportation infrastructure. We are building Elrond to be secure, fast and inexpensive to use. Much like a transportation infrastructure, Elrond also needs “passengers” and “cargo” to be meaningful for those who use it. So it is our responsibility to onboard partners who build on Elrond and integrate our tech for new business models.

Be on Elrond - The Internet-scale Blockchain.

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1222818298418671617?s=20

Last week in summary

📱 Battle of Elrond sneak peak: $ERD integration
🤝 Elrond partners with computer vision solutions provider Neurolabs
⚡️Measuring blockchain speed: transaction finality
🌏 An ecosystem of scale - overview

We are excited to enter the last few weeks before the Elrond Genesis Block, leading us into a new era for Elrond.

So today we're starting the #Elrondmainnet thread covering current status and a few exciting things that lay ahead.

The Elrond mainnet will launch once 3 necessary criteria are met:

1 - Economic security via prestaking is reached
2 - TrailofBits & Prysm Audit findings implementation is done
3 - Battle of Nodes running a genesis-ready testnet for 15 days without downtime

During the following weeks we will communicate an update on all relevant steps, covering Economics v1, mainnet validator selection, Battle of Nodes updates, Genesis Block timeline and more.

Stay tuned for Elrond - The Internet-scale Blockchain.

RT: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1224672380376797192?s=20

Our launch & trading partner Binance has just announced the next round of support for Elrond prestaking via one of their products. The previous similar product has seen 500mn ERD deposited in just one day.

2.7bn $ERD are already staked in our Phase 1 contract. This new wave from Binance will help move that towards 3.2bn $ERD staked, 64% of our ambitious goal.

Stay tuned. Elrond is imminent.

Official announcement: https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/360039601011

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1225754599916756992?s=20