We are proud to announce a partnership with [e-spres-oh] (https://e-spres-oh.com/), a IT service provider team with over 40 employees and 6 years of experience. Together we will create an research and development department in Timisoara. This new partnership was chosen based on the exciting potential of building around Elrond’s blockchain technology. Find out more about this collaboration here: https://e-spres-oh.com/open_positions?position=blockchain-developer-for-elrond-platform

We have released a short video describing our goals and the problems we are trying to solve @ Elrond

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbfp31keh9Q

Dear all,

Elrond Community Update is here - https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/elrond-community-update-61731f12341a

We are making our introduction slide deck public https://elrond.network/files/Elrond_Deck_EN.pdf. This presentation covers our design goals, Elrond architecture, business development and adoption, Elrond Ecosystem, token metrics and release schedule.

Here are some dates and places of future team attendances:

-> 10 October — San Francisco Blockchain Week (CESC) — Our CEO Beniamin Mincu will join the panel discussion about: “Scalability: Decentralized or High Performance”
-> 22–24 October — WEB3 Summit — Funkhaus Berlin
-> 30 October — 2 November — Devcon 4 — Prague
-> 1–2 November — Malta Summit — Malta
-> 19–20 November — Howtoweb — Bucharest

As always, we are open to community suggestions and are looking forward to relevant contributions and feedback.

AMA session with our CEO and Head of Engineering. Please join them tomorrow, Tuesday 2nd of October from 11:00 PM UTC+8 on https://news.1rj.ru/str/elrondnetwork

We've just published a new blockchain primer, outlining the main criteria for evaluation if you want to make sense of the blockchain space. This is the first piece in a series from Felix, our Head of Research. Take a look and let us know what you think. 🙂

https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/yabp-yet-another-blockchain-primer-bce90fb3233

Community update #2: Key developments, events, driving broader education of blockchain and future milestones: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/elrond-community-update-2-b8b07351e4ce

We are happy to announce the official launch of our Ambassador Program! We are ready to bring onboard motivated people who resonate with Elrond’s vision, mission and values. Signups on ambassador@elrond.network Full blogpost here: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/the-elrond-fellowship-ambassador-program-8107c2a06ad6

Elrond’s CEO live @ How to web: https://t.co/S2xgssxik9

Hello everyone,

Elrond technical progress update #3 is here. In this update, we have details about our whitepaper revision, the necessity of these adjustments and what lead us up to them.

This post also deep dives into our architecture design, detailing the refined Adaptive State Sharding and Secure Proof of Stake mechanisms. Whilst complex, this update is also accessible to anyone interested to fully understanding our main contributions and why they are crucial for the progress of the blockchain space.

We’re also excited to announce the open source release of our prototype (Elrond Node and Wallet) with the mention that this iteration is not meant for measuring optimal performance but rather to validate the assumptions on which the theoretical performance claim rests. As a treat we are also including a way of figuring out real blockchain performance in terms of TPS claims.

Lastly, this post addresses our stepping stone from prototype to testnet.

We are strong believers in the blockchain technology and its future impact so despite the current market sentiment, we’re even more focused on innovating and developing Elrond.

As always, we appreciate your feedback! Let us know if there is anything you want to hear more about in our updates!

https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/elrond-technical-progress-update-some-talk-about-it-we-build-it-3-2c556355d3ae

Newsletter #7 is out. Check your inboxes or read it here: https://bit.ly/2FGTcoZ

We are pleased to announce a partnership with Netopia Payments - the biggest electronic payment processor in Romania. Read the full announcement here: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/partnership-announcement-elrond-initiates-cooperation-with-leading-payment-provider-netopia-223e7c9217b5

Welcome to Elrond’s announcements group!
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General denoscription
Elrond is a complete rethinking of public blockchain infrastructure, specifically designed to be secure, efficient, scalable and interoperable. Elrond’s main contribution rests on two cornerstone building blocks: 1) A genuine Adaptive State Sharding approach: effectively partitioning the chain state into multiple shards, handled in parallel by different participating validators; 2) Secure Proof of Stake consensus mechanism: an improved variation of Proof of Stake (PoS) that ensures long term security and distributed fairness, while eliminating the need for energy intensive PoW algorithms.
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Technical denoscription
Elrond’s dynamically adaptive sharding mechanism enables shard computation and reorganizing based on necessity and the number of active network nodes. The reassignment of nodes in the shards is progressive and nondeterministic, inducing no temporary liveness penalties. For additional security, Elrond randomly samples a new consensus group at the beginning of every round. Furthermore, Elrond refines its consensus mechanism by adding an additional weight factor called rating and uses the Bellare and Neven (BN) multisignature scheme. Lastly, Elrond considers formal verification for the critical protocol implementations (e.g. SPoS consensus mechanism) in order to validate the correctness of our algorithms.
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Mission
1000x improvements to current blockchain iterations
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Recent developments:
🧝🏼‍ Elrond Initiates Cooperation With Leading Payment Provider NETOPIA Payments https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/partnership-announcement-elrond-initiates-cooperation-with-leading-payment-provider-netopia-223e7c9217b5
🧝🏼‍ Progress Update #3 - Deep dive into our architecture design https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/elrond-technical-progress-update-some-talk-about-it-we-build-it-3-2c556355d3ae
🧝🏼‍ Whitepaper 2.0: https://elrond.com/files/Elrond_Whitepaper_EN.pdf
🧝🏼‍ Open Source Prototype (Node and Wallet): https://github.com/elrondnetwork
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Resources:
Elrond Introduction Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbfp31keh9Q
Elrond FAQs: https://elrond.com/faq
Elrond Slide Deck: https://elrond.com/files/Elrond_Deck_EN.pdf
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Get involved
We are looking for Elrond Ambassadors in communities all over the world- reach out to an admin if you're interested! More info here -
https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/the-elrond-fellowship-ambassador-program-8107c2a06ad6
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Elrond Admins: @luciantodea @beniaminmincu @danvoicu @lucianmincu @dannyserb @raduchis @adriandobrita
Please note that Elrond admins WILL NEVER ask for contributions through private messages.
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Official Links:
Elrond Announcements: https://news.1rj.ru/str/ElrondNetworkAnn
Elrond Website: https://elrond.com
Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/elrondnetwork/
Medium: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork
Facebook: https://facebook.com/ElrondNetwork
Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4430681.0
Email address: contact@elrond.network
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ICO Information
No ICO information at this stage. For private sale inquiries, please email contact@elrond.network
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New blogpost by our Head of Research on “Elrond’s design rationale”. Know your enemy (attack vectors), your weaknesses, and find robust ways to counteract.

Read here: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/elronds-design-rationale-12eb194bf485

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Security advisory. There is a scam going on where the scammer is impersonating a team member of the Elrond Team and sending emails requesting contributions. Please note that an Elrond team member will never ask you privately for contributions. Be aware of the following email address beniamin.elrond.com@mail.com. Stay safe!
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Adrian, our Head of Engineering has published a review on Ethereum 2.0. This article examines Serenity’s design rationale, highlights some of the identified issues, offers solutions, and in the end contrasts them with our approach at Elrond. Read it here: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/is-ethereum-2-0-overlooking-communication-costs-ee99931caa7

Dear friends,
As we are getting closer to reaching our goals, we want to make sure everything goes according to plan and within the set timeline. With this in mind we’re inviting you to fill in the following intent forms.

Testnet early access form - this gives early access to developers to the Elrond testnet in a fee-free, test network environment. Here is the link: https://elrond.com/testnet

The Elrond Presale intent form - this is simply an intent form where you can show your interest in participating in the Elrond presale, we will get back to you as soon as announcements are ready. Here is the link: https://elrond.com/presale

We’re looking forward to hearing from you.

The Elrond Team