Last week in summary

🌏 Mainnet marketing kicks off with Beniamin's video interview
📊 TPS records, security audits, game & more in Q1 2020 report
📇 New attributes give Elrond accounts SC-like functionality
🛸 Blazing fast stable coins via our ESDT standard
🤝 Elrond partner ecosystem growth overview

Easy2Stake to Provide Professional Infrastructure Staking Services for the Elrond Network

“We have a long history of working with the Easy2Stake team. They have proven themselves in the PoS space and there is a solid layer of trust between us. We are excited to have them as launch partners.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO

Easy2Stake provides highly available and secure infrastructure for staked assets. The company ensures the highest security standards by mixing bare metal and virtual servers from reliable public cloud providers across different regions. A “zero downtime” goal is supported by a professional monitoring system, 24x7 on-call support, a hot standby site and disaster recovery procedures.

Read more: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/easy2stake-to-provide-professional-infrastructure-staking-services-for-the-elrond-network-ed6919a887d3

We are on the verge of entering a new blockchain era - one of simple, global, near instant, and inexpensive value transfer, for anyone, anywhere.  ⚡️

But how, you may ask? For this we've built Elrond, the internet scale blockchain 👇🏻
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UM6mDfV_zc

The internet serves as the most useful metaphor of how blockchain adoption will likely play out. Looking back, there are 2 important inflexion points in the early days of the web: 🌏
https://www.upgrade100.com/updates/somewhere-in-transylvania-a-group-of-young-computer-scientists-are-writing-the-future-of-blockchain/

🔸 the first inflexion point was the browser - which dramatically lowered the barrier to entry, enabling tens of millions of people to come online (thanks for Netscape @pmarca ).
🔸 the second inflexion point was the transition from dialup to broadband - which significantly increased speed and reduced cost, enabling new and more powerful products to be built on the web.

Blockchain has seen extreme enthusiasm during the last years, but it has been largely stuck in high friction, low bandwidth dial-up mode, despite repeated attempts to change that. Just as with the internet, two important components are needed to enable the next adoption wave:

🔸 a high-bandwidth, low latency, high security, low cost blockchain network to accommodate internet scale performance.
🔸 a beautiful and radically simplified user interface, abstracting private key management, significantly lowering friction to onboard tens of millions of users, and enabling sending money anywhere in the world just as simple as sending an email.

This is a glimpse of what we've been working on day and night at Elrond, and as we are closer to the Genesis launch, we'll be sharing more.

P.S. Time to take a closer look at @ElrondNetwork $ERD 🔥

RT: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1252179352760041472?s=20

Last week in summary

⌨️Javanoscript & Typenoscript dApps via erd.js front-end framework
🔝Elrond ranked highest SC platform by staking rewards
🤝Easy2Stake joins Elrond as Genesis launch partner
🏦Mainnet prestaking: 80% staking cap reached

The Elrond mainnet will launch with Binance $BUSD as the first stable coin

The Elrond mainnet will launch soon with the Binance $BUSD as the first available stablecoin. Developers can already start building on the Elrond testnet with a dedicated IDE and smart contract frameworks for the most popular languages. This way they get a head start on implementing new DeFi use cases and receive 30% royalties from their smart contracts.

Stable coins in general have also seen a spike in use, with transactions nearing $100bn so far in 2020, almost three times more than in 2019. Slow transactions, long confirmation times and large fees are seemingly inescapable infrastructure problems today. Elrond’s innovative infrastructure & economics will enable it to capture a significant portion of the existing transactions and make it the obvious choice for new ones.

“Given that the Elrond launch is so close, the immediate availability of the Binance $BUSD will put the high performance capability of our network to great use. This collaboration marks an important step in our focus to significantly improve current blockchain use cases, and enable new ones as soon as Elrond goes live”. said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO.

Read more: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/binance-leverages-the-elrond-blockchain-for-fast-inexpensive-busd-stablecoin-transfers-da73d0d5cec3

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1253678185956421637?s=20

The $ERD token is now available for swapping via the fiat on/off-ramp processor CryptoCoin.PRO

Elrond Network and CryptoCoin.PRO are pleased to announce a collaboration that enables swapping between fiat and tokens in a compliant manner. The integration makes the conversion of EUR into ERD a simple and safe process, which is already active at https://checkout.cryptocoin.pro/order/elrond

“The first experience when dealing with something new has a lasting effect on our perception. CryptoCoin.PRO offers a familiar e-commerce feeling for stepping into the blockchain space, which can boost adoption.” said Lucian Todea, Elrond COO.

Read all about it here 👇🏻
https://bit.ly/ERD-CryptoCoinPro

Last week in summary

🔥 Binance to deploy its $BUSD stablecoin on Elrond
⚡️ 12k TPS tests lead to improvements in our scaling tech
🌴 ThePalmTree SaaS publishes Elrond monitoring guide
🛠 TypeScript & JavaScript Smart Contracts testing

Transak to include the $ERD ticker in their fiat on/off ramp aggregator app

Elrond Network and Transak are pleased to announce a collaboration that enables the straightforward and compliant swap between fiat and tokens. This integration makes the conversion of EUR, GBP or INR into ERD a simple and safe process that is already running on https://global.transak.com/

"One important obstacle for blockchain adoption is effectively getting into crypto. The process of converting fiat into tokens is often complex, lengthy and expensive. Transak makes it look easy, which we find a big value add in the space." said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO.

More details 👇🏻
https://bit.ly/ERD-transak

The Elrond testnet wallet has arrived. Our wallet is the gateway into the Elrond universe. Blockchain is hard but using it shouldn’t be.

Read all about the design philosophy behind our wallet here: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/the-elrond-wallet-has-arrived-2c4662c59f92

Binance adds $ERD Savings for 7 & 14 days with 10% & 12% APR

Binance will open a customizable $ERD Savings product on 30 April at 12:00 UTC. Each user will be capped at 5.000.000 ERD per deposit and will be able to select a 7 days lock with 10% APR or 14 days lock with 12% APR.

There is a total 150.000.000 ERD cap for each of the products, to be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Interest calculation starts 24 hours after the launch of the products, on 01 May at 12:00 UTC.

“Forget about sprints or marathons, building Elrond is like testing your limits in an Iron Man. But the prize is incomparably larger and its impact long lasting. What we’re building is here to stay, so we’re helping you get used to hodling. Great to be able to offer this program with our Binance partners.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO.

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1255444096895913984?s=20

Dubai Blockchain: Elrond & GDA Corporation Exploring Fast Payments & Smart Contract Frameworks

The Dubai Blockchain Strategy aims to make Dubai the first city fully powered by blockchain. It tackles three strategic pillars of Government Efficiency, Industry Creation and International Leadership. The implementation of the use cases for each of the pillars will be made after a rigorous selection of technologies and implementation partners.

Elrond Ltd. and GDA Corporation are exploring the implementation of fast payments & clearance networks, as well as the definition and implementation of smart contract frameworks, for the Dubai smart city initiative. The partnership is working off of Elrond’s scalable infrastructure and multiple innovations around smart contracts & smart accounts to define a fitting working model for Dubai and deploy it on the Elrond blockchain.

“The blockchain space knows Elrond for its significant performance and scalability, but in addition to this our enterprise partners also recognize the implications of other noteworthy contributions in the areas of smart accounts & contracts. Together, these components make the Elrond blockchain uniquely equipped for real use-cases that go far beyond what we have seen so far.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO.

Read more on our blog: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/dubai-blockchain-elrond-gda-corporation-exploring-fast-payments-smart-contract-frameworks-599952c45e35

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1256143048829997062?s=20

🚀 +15.000 TPS on Testnet with 100% Cross-Shard TXs

We tested the speed of our latest release and reached a whopping 15.133 TPS

We reached 65.000 TPS in our internal testnet, but this number is more important, because the protocol is now feature complete and has all the security features baked in. Even more important, it’s running on community nodes in an open environment.

🙏 Thank you, Nodes team!

Other relevant network stats:

• Network configuration: Metachain + 5 shards
• Validator nodes: 500+ (11 Countries and 41 Cities)
• Average consensus hit-rate: ~98%
• Average network height: ~10k
• Peak TPS: 15k+ (100% cross-shard txs)
• Network Sharding Enabled @ 24 target peer connections for each validator node. (500+ total validator nodes)
• Storage Prunning Enabled (2 Epochs)
• Start-in-Epoch Enabled
• Validator Rating Enabled

🧐 See for yourself on https://explorer.elrond.com

RT: https://twitter.com/LucianMincu/status/1256962894400557062?s=20

Last week in summary

📺 Beniamin Mincu @ Buhnici - blogger /w 1M subs 🇷🇴RO
🚀 15.000 TPS /w 100% cross-shard TXs on public testnet
🌇 Dubai Blockchain: Fast Payments & SC Frameworks
💹 Binance Savings: "14 days" gone in 7 minutes
🔏 Wallet launched, test with free xERD
💱 Fiat onramp Transak & CryptoCoin.pro

📻 Listen to Beniamin on the Coingecko podcast

Our CEO was a guest on the Coingecko podcast, where he answered questions about Elrond’s economics, the staking ecosystem, partners and plans in a very detailed manner.

By far the most interesting answer was about Elrond’s competitors, which we will not spoil for you here, give it a listen here (link) on your favorite podcast platform

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1257270185263796230?s=20

🌍 The Elrond World Tour

We’re building a 🗺 of our supporters. It’s anonymous, private and fun. It also demonstrates how fast our blockchain is and how our integration with our TailPath supply chain partner works.

For every QR code scanned, the TailPath app sends a TX to the Elrond blockchain. It can be checked in the app’s “History” - if you click the ♾ symbol, the Elrond blockchain explorer opens and you can see the actual transaction. This is very useful for supply chains in general & fun for us to do now.

Follow these steps and join 👇

📲 Get TailPath App - iOS , Android
🌐 Go to https://tailpath.com/elrond.html
📸 Scan the code using the app
🐥 Tweet this link https://tailpath.com/elrond.html with the #elrondworldtour hashtag and a personal message

👌 Privacy: there is only one QR code, which can't be traced to you individually in any way. Scans place a location on the map in a 1 square km area, so your city or general area will be well represented while your location will be protected. 🔐

📣 The mainnet bridge is coming - Genesis Smart Contract announcement

Our Bootstrapping process is close to moving into Phase 2. The Prestaking has successfully reached 4.15 billion ERD staked, which together with the 400 million ERD rewards add up to more than 4.5 billion ERD staked, in line with our ambitious 5 billion ERD goal.

🙏 A big thank you on behalf of everyone in the Elrond ecosystem to all who helped secured it with their stake! It’s now time to lock these stakes in to act as economic deterrent against attacks on the Elrond mainnet.

Summary:

🔄 The mainnet token swap will be done via the new Genesis Smart Contract

✋ Rewards in the Prestaking Smart Contract stop on Monday 11 May 13:00 UTC

📆 Genesis Smart Contract is going live on Tuesday 12 May

📊 25% APR until mainnet launch

💹 How to maximize staking rewards:
• unstake on Monday 11th of May
• wait 7 days - unbonding period
• stake in Genesis SC after you claim your stake + rewards

👉 Important if you pre-staked, read the entire post for more details (link)

📊 Elrond DeFi Products & Staking Tools coming to Frontier Wallet

Decentralized Finance products deployed on the Elrond blockchain, as well as tools related to the Elrond Proof of Stake environment, such as validator staking, delegation and rewards management, will be available to Frontier users.

“There’s a massive potential to DeFi but interacting with the different tools is still a pain, limiting adoption significantly. Frontier Wallet approaches DeFi in the same way we approach Blockchain - with utmost attention and care for the user. We’re excited to work on the Frontier wallet integration to make products running on Elrond simpler and more accessible.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO.

*The integration is still work in progress so Elrond products are not immediately available in our partner’s app.

Read all about it: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/elrond-defi-products-staking-tools-to-be-available-in-frontier-wallet-c79c09cc22c3

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1257988936347025408?s=20

📣 Live AMA with Beniamin Mincu & Lucian Todea

These last few days have been filled with excitement and announcements, and there is a lot more coming. Stay ahead of the curve and catch all the most important updates & next steps about the Elrond ecosystem straight from our CEO & COO.

⚡️ Join Beniamin Mincu and Lucian Todea for a Live AMA on Periscope

🕚 Friday 08 May at 11:00 UTC

👉🏻 https://www.pscp.tv/ElrondNetwork/