📊 FCAS Rating: Elrond ranks in Top 15 for Development and 50 Overall

Elrond was recently reviewed by analysis firm FlipSide Crypto, which assigned us a rating of 736 overall, which places us in the Top 50 projects out of the +500 projects that got an FCAS rating. Our Developer Behavior rating is an outstanding 911, which places us in the Top 15.

💪 These excellent results are even more impressive for a project that is still before the mainnet stage and therefore can’t score in certain relevant areas.

FlipSide Crypto makes comprehensive analysis for blockchain projects and assigns a Fundamental Crypto Asset Score (FCAS) rating. This rating indicates project health based on User Activity, Developer Behavior and Market Maturity.

CoinMarketCap includes this rating for all the projects it lists, which provides great exposure for those looking to learn more about a project.

Read more: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/crypto-analysis-firm-flipside-crypto-rates-elrond-as-top-15-development-top-50-overall-bda22c2e980

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💥 Explosive Start for Battle of Nodes: Onchained with +800 community nodes!

Only 2 days after the initial announcement, the dry-run for Battle of Nodes: Unchained already lined up 868 community nodes from 190 unique participants, with more arriving every hour. With our own Nodes in the mix, our testnet is now over 1.000 nodes, which is an amazing achievement for any blockchain, more so a testnet.

Newcomers can still register to the event until Monday 08 June 08:00 UTC - in the grand scheme of things, it would be like starting the marathon a couple of minutes late. So fire up your nodes and let’s see what they’re made of!

Read more: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/battle-of-nodes-unchained-is-off-to-an-explosive-start-with-800-community-nodes-fc25c6ed2c56

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Ankr to provide 1-Click deployment nodes for selected Battle of Nodes participants

Elrond and Ankr have entered into an agreement which enables Elrond Nodes to be easily deployed and hosted on the blockchain cloud infrastructure provider’s platform. The collaboration aims to synchronize the capabilities of the Ankr platform with the specific needs of operating Elrond infrastructure.

"The drive to be a part of the new economy, and contribute to the internet-scale blockchain's security & efficiency should not be met with technical obstacles. We are happy to soon be able to offer our supporters the means to set up & run an Elrond node with Ankr's intuitive platform." said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO

To demonstrate the out of the box capabilities of Ankr and the remarkable progress already done to accommodate specific Elrond Validator needs, several Ankr-powered nodes will enter the fray in our incentivized testnet event.

Read more: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/elrond-partners-with-ankr-and-enables-one-click-deployment-for-selected-battle-of-nodes-validators-fe1c563fc382

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Last week in Elrond

⚔️ Battle of Nodes: Onchained launched
🔥 +250 registrations & +1500 nodes
🛠 4 new releases - latest v1.0.126
🔝 FCAS rating Top 15 Dev & 50 overall
🎙 Beniamin speaks at Messari Mainnet2020
⚓️ Ankr nodes for select BoN participants
💾 BetProtocol stamps audit records on Elrond
🏆 $ERD is DAO Maker’s official pick
🥇 1st rank on LunarCrush

Battle of Nodes: Onchained Prize Pool Increased to $60.000

Our announcement of the incentivized testnet event has brought 1700 nodes to the network in only 6 days. We are therefore increasing our prize pool to $60k to keep the stakes high throughout the competition. There remains high interest which is yet to materialize into online nodes. As such, we are extending the registration period until Friday 12 June.

🏆 20.000 USD added to the prize pool
📆 Registration open until Friday 12 June 23:59 UTC
🌎 1700 nodes connected to our network
🛡 3 Attacks foiled by our protocol
⚡️ 6.689 peak TPS
✅ 1M transactions in dry-run test
🦾 The latest patch is a Mainnet Release Candidate

Read the full announcement: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/battle-of-nodes-onchained-prize-pool-increased-to-60k-registration-extended-194fa5c95683

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👉 Join the battle at https://battleofnodes.com

⚔️ See you on the battle #fiedl 🛡

The $60k Battle of Nodes: Onchained challenge draws +1700 nodes & attention

Beniamin sat down with Coindesk to discuss the implications of running an incentivized testnet with the explicit purpose of breaking it. The significant prize pool & open security challenge have already drawn more than 1700 nodes to our network, with more coming each day.

“When we have 15 days without interruption of the network despite this kind of attacks and stress testing, at that point we know Elrond is finally prepared and good – robust enough to go live,” Beniamin Mincu told CoinDesk.

Elrond’s 15-day clock resets when the “interrupters” manage to take the network down. Nobody has yet: Elrond’s protocol has foiled three attacks so far. Underminers have nevertheless uncovered plenty of lower-level bugs worth fixing, and that’s enough to keep nodes in contention for a slice of the $60,000 plunder, paid out in the $ERD token.

👉🏻 Read the full article here: https://www.coindesk.com/elrond-will-pay-you-60000-to-break-its-blockchain

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Elrond Gets Access to Privacy-preserving Smart Contracts via ARPA

Elrond and ARPA have entered into a partnership that will achieve interoperability between the two blockchains, giving applications which use the Elrond blockchain in their technology stack access to secure multi-party computations on ARPA.

“Achieving privacy for Elrond transactions is an important milestone in our project’s roadmap, so we are excited to see ARPA’s work on privacy-preserving multiparty computations, and the opportunities created by this partnership for the Elrond ecosystem.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO.

The secure multi-Party computation which ARPA implements in a decentralized and trustless network enables applications using Elrond’s highly scalable blockchain to have privacy features which are critical for e-health implementations, data renting, information marketplaces and fintech scenarios, just to name a few.

👉🏻 Read all about it on our blog: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/elrond-gets-access-to-privacy-preserving-smart-contracts-via-arpa-7e31c0dbfc10

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Beniamin to speak on the “Scalability & Interoperability” panel at #VBS2020

The Virtual Blockchain Summit is a 2-days event packed with industry leaders who come together to advance the blockchain space by sharing their experiences in recent times and vision for a decentralized future.

Beniamin will join a panel with representatives from Wanchain, Kyber Network, and Modex to discuss the challenges & opportunities that scalability & interoperability technologies represent for blockchain adoption as an indispensable technology of the internet stack.

Show your support for our CEO & project by joining the live discussion 👇🏻

📆 Thursday 11 June 17:30 UTC
🌐 https://vbs.live

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💱 Binance Savings for ERD starts in 2 hours

A Binance Savings product specially customized for $ERD will be available in 2 hours from now. It offers token holders the chance to earn 10% & 12% APR on deposits for 7 & 14 days. The total available amount is 150 million tokens per product, served on a first-come, first-served basis, with a 5 million individual cap.

These go fast 👇🏻
https://www.binance.com/en/support/articles/d8e8c6baa0fb4fb1aa50942bdf2d50e4

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⚔️ Battle of Nodes: Onchained - Week #1 report

• Anti-flood mechanism prevented consensus in high TPS
• Redundant validator setup caused double-signing edge-case & fork

🌎 1609 validators & 1838 nodes
⚡️ 13000 max TPS
🛡 3 attacks foiled by the protocol
🆕 6 releases in 7 days
🛠 14 improvements & 16 bug fixes

Learning 1: High TPS is not flood

Our anti-flood mechanism was configured too tightly and flagged valid consensus messages as spam due to the high TPS environment in a geographically dispersed setting. As a result, we raised the peerMaxMessagesPerSec to 5 in order to avoid the consensus topic being blocked by the topic flood preventer component.

Learning 2: Redundant setups can do more harm than good

A node operator deployed two nodes with the same key and triggered a specific double-signing scenario that caused a fork. We have addressed this by improving our ForkDetector component.

"We are convinced there are many other possible situations that can hinder the proper functioning of a blockchain. As we are deploying the first truly sharded architecture proof of stake architecture, we are the first ever to face certain specific problems, and thus the first to solve them. We are thankful to our community for their valuble contributions, and will remain vigilant for any other issues that might be discovered." Lucian Mincu, Elrond CIO

Read the full report: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/battle-report-7-days-2-major-issues-2-fixes-improved-resilience-7c582aa5ecb0

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💥 Battle of Nodes: Onchained - 35 MILLION TXs in 24 hours!

Our ongoing incentivized testnet event just processed 35 million transactions in 24 hours. That's an average of ~400 TPS, with a 7322 TPS peak. This is an exciting result that speaks to the resilience of our network, even as we faced an event which made newly started nodes not be able to connect - ✅ solved in the meantime.

The transactions are sent by our noscripts, which generate addresses and send test ERD between them, resulting in a healthy mix of intra-shard and cross-shard transactions. We are doing this to test the capabilities of our participants to operate in a moderate TPS environment.

Those nodes who don't will be purged from the event starting Monday, so Battle of Nodes continues in earnest with eligible nodes only.

👉🏻 https://explorer.elrond.com

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Last week in Elrond 👇🏻

🏆 Battle of Nodes: prize pool increase to $60k
🔐 ARPAchain privacy Partnership & AMA
📰 CoinDesk report on Battle of Nodes
💸 Binance $ERD Savings filled in 4 hrs
🎥 Beniamin at VBS2020
⚔️ Battle of Nodes: 7 days report
🧑‍💻 5 new testnet releases
📺 Elrond covered by Hasheur
🇫🇷 Elrond FR +700 members
📄 Elrond in Binance Labs report
🎙 Beniamin interview for ZF
🙂 Elrond is about you
💱 Binance trading competition end
🛠 Week in Elrond tech
💪 Elrond Warriors - community competition

Helios Staking joins Elrond as 💥 Genesis Launch Partner

The Helios Staking team has been a constant presence in our Validator community. They apply their skills & knowledge to support furthering the Elrond infrastructure landscape, are committed to further educating other members of the community, and help Elrond to onboard newcomers in the blockchain space.

“We’re a technology-focused project, but we have gotten where we are thanks to our propensity for thinking in clear business terms about everything that we do. We recognized this similar mindset in Helios Staking, who put forward an impeccable mix of a solid business plan & SecOps procedures. It is a pleasure to work with such partners.” said Lucian Mincu, Elrond CIO


Read more on our blog: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/helios-staking-joins-elrond-as-genesis-launch-partner-staking-provider-b6cd7e6fd9ca

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💱 Direct fiat onramp easier with 0.5% fee & $5k limit increase on Transak

The speed of Elrond is so tremendous that friction ⚡️ sparks are electrifying everyone! Less friction means even more speed, so our partner Transak is increasing the limit for a transaction to $5k and is decreasing fees to 0.5%

Moving from fiat into $ERD is now very simple and accessible to all 🐟🐬🐳 types of supporters.

Trade the old for the new 👉🏻 https://global.transak.com/?defaultCryptoCurrency=ERD

Just Mining joins us as Genesis Launch partner & staking infrastructure provider

The Elrond 💥 Genesis Block will be minted alongside Just Mining, our staking partner from the French-speaking world. The company is the biggest blockchain infrastructure provider in France and was founded in 2017 by Owen “Hasheur” Simonin, whose +160.000 subscribers make him the most influential French-speaking cryptocurrency advocate.

“Our passion for the new internet constantly drives us to explore the latest technologies emerging from the rapidly evolving blockchain space and support the ones we believe will make the most impact. We have found that Elrond has developed important technological innovations and is driven by an ethos we share. We are extremely excited about the opportunity to support it right from the start” said Owen Simonin, Just Mining CEO.

Read the full announcement: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/just-mining-joins-elrond-as-genesis-launch-partner-staking-provider-56983e6a2cb5

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State of the art engineering, applied philosophy and insane effort have culminated in the creation of Elrond, a blockchain that will lead the next wave of internet adoption - A conversation 🎙 not to be missed with Scott Melker & Beniamin Mincu.

👀 on $ERD

Watch the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HE1J7fwD9c

Read the blog post: https://blockworksgroup.io/wolf-of-all-streets

⚡️ Lucian will energize the “Serious about Staking” panel at BlockDown

Our COO Lucian Todea will join a discussion panel about staking, with Zilliqa’s Amrit Kumar and Algorand’s Naveed Ihsanullah, to discuss how the Elrond ecosystem will restart the internet economy from the infrastructure level.

⏰ 18 June 17:30 UTC

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👉🏻 https://blockdownconf.com

Elrond featured in EU-Startups Top 10 Blockchain projects

Our project was recently featured by EU-startups.com as one of the Top 10 blockchain projects from Europe. The article discusses about how blockchain is ready to boost the internet and make it into a tool that solves some of the world’s most important challenges.

“Providing a legal identity for all of the world’s population by 2030 is one of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals – and may be more relevant than ever with talks of new coronavirus immunity ID documents underway.

In order to have an idea of the status of the world’s current identity problem, about 75% of the people on the planet are currently without a bank account because of their inability to prove their identity via a valid passport, birth certificate, utility bill, or some other means, to complete KYC (Know Your Client) procedures.”

🌎 Elrond is ready to be the internet’s layer of trust on a global scale.

👉🏻 Read the full article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2020/06/10-of-the-most-promising-european-blockchain-startups-to-watch/

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⚡️ We have partnered with Travala & TravelbyBit. “Spread the world” & win $5k USD!

Elrond is with you everywhere and will soon take you anywhere. Leading blockchain-based travel booking platform Travala and Binance-backed TravelbyBit have recently merged to form one of the leading online flight & accommodation platforms.

Through our new partnership, native ERD, $BUSD issued on our blockchain, and potentially other tokens that will be issued on Elrond, will be used as payment options for more than 600 airlines & 2 million hotels around the world.

Hello Elrond Amplify! Elrond is an internet company building internet products. It is with great excitement that we introduce Elrond Amplify - a blockchain-powered Twitter-based marketing tool that directly pays out $ERD for real engagement.

Use it to “Spread the world” about our exciting new partnership and win $5k USD in $ERD.

• Link a BEP2 (soon ERD!) address to your Twitter account
• Follow all these 3 accounts: @travalacom @travelbybit @elrondnetwork
• Tweet your thoughts and include “#travala 🌎 $ERD“
• Earn 700 ERD for each Tweet with at least 3 retweets & 5 likes
• 10.000 ERD for the tweet with the most engagement
• 5.000 ERD for a random eligible tweet
• Eligible Twitter accounts have +5 followers

Be on Elrond.

👉 Full announcement: https://medium.com/elrondnetwork/leading-blockchain-based-travel-booking-platform-travala-com-to-integrate-erd-as-payment-3ff4da543a21

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