Elrond Mainnet Will Get Private Cross-Chain Transactions via Suterusu 2nd Layer

We’re excited to announce that the Elrond mainnet will get extra privacy options by routing via the Suterusu 2nd layer solution. This gives Elrond accounts the ability to preserve the privacy of transactions sent to other Elrond accounts or even other blockchains such as Bitcoin.

Public blockchains, such as Bitcoin and Elrond, are inherently transparent and display all the information about the addresses & transacted amounts. Even if not directly linked to a physical person or business identity, privacy seekers may often look beyond the protection offered by public addresses randomly generated by a blockchain.

“Elrond is about to take blockchain from the dial-up to the broad-band era, but with a well-designed security-first approach. We feel privacy is equally important and as such are excited to work with Suterusu to enable additional layers of protection.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO

Adding privacy on top of the already secure and highly scalable Elrond blockchain unlocks additional DeFi and special use-cases for the new internet economy.

👉🏻 Read the full article: https://elrond.com/blog/privacy-elrond-cross-chain-suterusu

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1283046024991444994?s=20

Beniamin is live at Binance’s Off the Charts Virtual Conference

Watch Beniamin live on the “Race to Success: Scalability in Blockchain Development” panel, where I'll be talking about why Elrond’s approach to scalability will open new possibilities for the blockchain space.

📺 https://youtu.be/sJinPymuWJ0

Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Credit Cards, Bank Transfers in 162 countries, +100 Fiat Ramps Coming to Elrond via MoonPay

We’re thrilled to announce that onboarding the Elrond ecosystem will be easier than ever before, thanks to our integration with fiat-to-crypto services provider MoonPay. The fintech company offers direct access to $ERD with Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Visa, Mastercard & other payment processors, as well as bank transfers. It is available for 162 countries, including the US & European Union, Japan, India & South Korea.

Over 100 startups that already integrate MoonPay services can now be connected to the Elrond ecosystem, significantly increasing the exposure of Elrond native assets to more customers, e-commerce integrations, and business processes.

“Convenience is the key that will lead to unprecedented growth for the Elrond ecosystem. Direct access to 100+ fiat on ramps, DeFi and Staking products on the Elrond network will soon be possible for first-time users, from their phones. This changes everything.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO.

👉🏻 Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/apple-pay-samsung-pay-all-major-debit-credit-cards-100-fiat-ramps-for-elrond-via-moonpay

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1283388728204025856?s=20

Positive Elrond Momentum Echoes in Headlines

The recent important achievements are echoing in the international press and crypto-focused publications alike. The expansion of our #DeFi ecosystem with FinNexus, ProDefi and SwingBy are getting traction in the blockchain space, while the MoonPay fiat integration is noted by more traditional media, indicating a general positive consumer sentiment for crypto in general and Elrond in particular.

Here’s a recap of the most recent headlines:

• FinanzNachrichten
• Associated Press News (PR)
• Yahoo Finance (PR)
• Digital Journal
• Crypto Potato
• Capital Bay News
• NameCoin

The continuously broader understanding about the importance of the internet-scale blockchain for the new economy will catalyze adoption. Thank you for engaging further.

🇪🇺 Elrond Adoption in 39 Countries Accelerates with EUR Fiat Ramp from Coinmerce

We’re excited to announce that the $ERD token can be exchanged against 💶 EUR fiat through Coinmerce. The Dutch financial services provider offers a convenient gateway between fiat and crypto using 💳 credit cards and bank transfers and is available in 39 countries in Europe.

“Convenient fiat on & off ramps are key to accelerating Elrond growth. By working with Coinmerce we make it easy for our European supporters to join our ecosystem.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO.

Coinmerce is a Dutch financial services provider established in 2017. It has since grown to accommodate more than 140 coins for their fiat on & off -ramp services, in 39 European countries. Their services are available via the https://coinmerce.io website, on iOS and Android, as well as via APIs and webhooks.

👉🏻 Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-to-add-on-and-off-fiat-ramp-for-39-european-countries-via-dutch-coinmerce

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1283746980704006151?s=20

Full-stack Privacy for Elrond Tools via HOPR, 1st Binance Labs investment of 2020

We are excited to announce that we are working with HOPR to bring full-stack privacy for Elrond blockchain tools. Our work with HOPR will help increase the confidence of businesses and users leveraging the Elrond tools for engaging with our protocol to exchange value and data.

HOPR is a data privacy startup that recently secured a $1M funding round led by Binance Labs. The Swiss team is building a Tor-like privacy network, but with stronger privacy guarantees that is fully decentralized and provides economic incentives for node operators.

“Our protocol offers a new standard for internet-scale performance, probabilistic security, and cryptographic pseudonymity. We’re happy to bridge the last mile to the Elrond network entry-points with HOPR, and offer a truly decentralized & private end-to-end experience for our users.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO.

👉🏻 Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/enhanced-privacy-hopr-tools-network

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1284069230045007875?s=20

🇺🇸 Major US Infrastructure Provider Staked.us Joins Elrond as Mainnet Launch Partner

We’re excited to announce that Staked will join us as a Genesis Launch partner and will help bootstrap our “Zero to One” mainnet. The US-based firm operates blockchain infrastructure on behalf of institutional investors and offers an array of staking & DeFi services.

Staked is one of the largest players in the infrastructure blockchain space, supporting more than 20 of the largest PoS projects and offering RAY, a leading DeFi service. Staked is backed by industry leaders such as Coinbase Ventures and Winklevoss Capital and has been active since 2018.

“We’re preparing to bootstrap the most advanced blockchain architecture on a network that will have more than 2000 nodes from the start. We have done a lot of preparations, tests, additional tools, and scenarios to be ready. Having an experienced partner such as Staked at our side gives us an extra boost of confidence for our upcoming mainnet launch.” said Lucian Mincu, Elrond CIO.

👉🏻 Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/us-infrastructure-provider-staked-joins-elrond-as-mainnet-launch-partner

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1284130065148710912?s=20

🌎 162 countries get direct access to Elrond - CryptoDaily explains why this is important

The recent integration with MoonPay makes Elrond directly available for fiat-onboarding in 162 countries around the world. The vast amount of people who are easily able to get into $ERD is a milestone of high importance.

CryptoDaily perfectly understands and explains in more detail. Their article also looks at our recent achievements and how they all tie together to make for the perfect mainnet launch.

“Elrond’s mainnet is set to launch at the end of July, prompting a series of initiatives designed to iron out any kinks before going live. This has culminated in a wildly successful incentivized testnet program. In addition, Elrond has revealed an integration with Travala, making ERD and its native version of the BUSD stablecoin available for travel bookings.”

👉🏻 Read more: https://cryptodaily.co.uk/2020/07/elond-fiat-erd-162

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1284460263295668224?s=20

A glimpse of what a true internet-scale blockchain means 🌎

Peak Performance:
263,304 of 100% cross-shard transactions/sec🔥

Here’s the network setup:
- 1774 Nodes
- 51 Shards
- 164 Cities
- 29 Countries
- 221,979,413 cross shard tx processed

Check it here: https://explorer.elrond.com

RT: https://twitter.com/LucianMincu/status/1284890222300454912?s=20

Last week in Elrond 👇🏻

🌎 Elrond - The Internet-Scale Blockchain peak performance 263,304 TPS
💳 Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Card for 162 countries with MoonPay
🇪🇺 Card & bank transfer for 39 EU countries via Coinmerce
🇺🇸 Mainnet launch partner Staked
🔀 Private cross-chain transactions with Suterusu
🔐 Enhanced privacy for our tools with HOPR
💻 Weekly tech report
🛠 4 releases, 19 new features, 22 bug fixes
⚔️ #battleofnodes Onchained event complete
🧩 The Assembly special validators weekend event
🔝 Ranked 1st by developer activity at CoinGecko
📺 Beniamin at Binance conference -> watch
📲 Most followed Signals on Blockfolio
💬 Social engagement all-time high
⚡️ 3 Amplify campaigns
📰 Media coverage:

• FinanzNachrichten
• Associated Press News (PR)
• Yahoo Finance (PR)
• Digital Journal
• Crypto Potato
• Capital Bay News
• BTC Manager

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1285110093688733697?s=20

Elrond Strengthens Mainnet Lineup with 16th Infrastructure Partner Stateless Money

We’re excited to announce that Stateless Money will join us as a Genesis Launch partner and staking service provider. The German-based firm is running high-end infrastructure for several blockchain projects whose communities recognize Stateless Money as skilled operators.

“I am impressed by the technical expertise demonstrated by our new partners. Their experience with orchestrating large deployments in complex architectures is a very welcome addition to our DevOps processes.” said Lucian Mincu, Elrond CIO.

Stateless Money is very present in the Proof of Stake scene and has been an active participant in different projects where they stood out by applying enterprise-like operational procedures to bolster the performance and availability of decentralized infrastructure.

👉🏻 Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-strengthens-mainnet-lineup-with-16th-infrastructure-partner-stateless-money

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1285308210124128258?s=20

🔥 Elrond Spendable Directly from 💳 VISA Cards at 60 Million Merchants, +500.000 New Users via Swipe

We are thrilled to announce that Elrond will be integrated with Swipe services. This will make the $ERD token directly available for onboarding by more than 500.000 new users.

Furthermore, $ERD will be spendable via Swipe Wallet and its associated Visa debit cards, in either digital or physical form, at 60 million merchants directly, as well as through services such as Google Pay, Apple Pay & Samsung Pay.

“Bringing our high throughput, low latency, and inexpensive transactional layer online is an important step for our launch. Convenience, ease of use, and utility for the ERD currency is another. We are thrilled to work with the Swipe team, on an integration which brings us closer to what will be a defining moment for the new internet economy.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO.

Swipe Wallets have associated virtual Visa debit cards, which can also be obtained in physical form, to be used as any normal card. The payment process automatically converts the selected cryptocurrency into fiat to execute a seamless transaction at any of the 60 million merchants, or via Google, Apple and Samsung payment services.

The integration is important for Elrond because it gets access to 500.000 new users in 31 European countries, and soon launching in Asia and North America. It also offers existing Elrond users the possibility to spend $ERD directly as $EUR, $GBP, $USD and $KRW anywhere VISA cards are accepted, as well as through the major mobile payment services, with cashback options in Bitcoin.

👉🏻 Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-gets-500k-users-visa-card-fiat

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1285539968056725504?s=20

+4.7 Million Online Stores in 180 Countries will be able to accept Elrond Payments via Utrust

We’re excited to announce that Utrust and Elrond are working together to integrate Elrond into the Utrust ecosystem, making it available to more than 4.7 million e-commerce websites that will be able to accept Elrond thanks to Utrust, which processes payments for merchants and delivers them fiat in their bank account, with only 1% fees.

The integration with Utrust will create more utility for the Elrond token, by eliminating the friction of converting it to goods & services, and creates more opportunities for $ERD’s adoption as a commonly used currency.

“Step by step, we are aiming to make the Elrond token usable anywhere in the world. We’re thrilled to work with the great Utrust team, and take another significant step forward to make ERD spendable at millions of online stores worldwide.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO.

👉🏻 Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-payments-will-be-available-for-4-7-million-online-stores-in-180-countries-via-utrust

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1285905795994071044?s=20

3+ Million Users Get Unlimited Access to the Elrond token via Crypto.com

We’re excited to announce that the 3 million users of the Crypto.com platform now gain access to the $ERD token.

In effect, Elrond supporters have 100+ more markets available to become part of the ecosystem, and gain significant utility via the MCO VISA card to spend ERD everywhere.

Crypto.com is one of the most popular platforms for buying and selling cryptocurrencies using fiat. It has more than 3 million users thanks to its intuitive interface, easy access to purchasing options with fiat and its VISA debit card, which can be topped up using crypto and has up to 5% cash-back.

"Convenience is the key that will lead to unprecedented growth for the Elrond ecosystem. 3 million users can now acquire, exchange, and transfer ERD tokens in 100+ markets via Crypto.com, making this one of the simplest ways for US and other communities around to world to join the Elrond ecosystem." said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO.

👉🏻 Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/3-million-users-get-access-erd-crypto-com

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1286200274391117824?s=20

🎙 Final Mainnet Preparations with Beniamin at 12 PM UTC

Join Beniamin and learn all about the final preparations leading up to the “Zero to One” mainnet launch on the 30th of July.

Bring your questions for the AMA at the end.

⏰ Today at 12:00 PM UTC on Periscope

👉🏻 https://www.periscope.tv/ElrondNetwork

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🇺🇸 US-focused AltcoinDaily dedicate video segment to Elrond progress

Another great video from AltcoinDaily is out and Elrond gets its own segment. Check out the very informative clip which goes through our latest developments in the last couple of weeks and puts them into context for this period leading up to our mainnet launch.

“I bet you can look at this and say well they’re doing a lot of the things I wish my coin would do - [...] we’re seeing Elrond approach cryptocurrency with vigor”

Check out the Elrond segment 👇🏻

📺 https://youtu.be/ydi5k4uRPmw?t=354

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1286602436006809600?s=20

New Binance Savings for $ERD goes live at 12PM UTC!

A new iteration of Binance Savings for $ERD goes live at 12PM UTC. It offers token holders the chance to earn 10% & 12% APR on deposits for 7 & 14 days. The total available amount is 150mn tokens, served on a first-come, first-served basis, with a 5mn individual cap.

These go fast 👇🏻

https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/bb704eab8c624f8d857eae81bca8304f-Binance-Launches-24th-Phase-of-Binance-Savings-Products-For-ERD-With-Bonus-USDT-Savings-Event

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1286628051883884544?s=20

Hello 🇦🇺 Australia! The Top Fiat Gateway from Down Under Lists $ERD

We're excited to announce that Elrond is available on the top Australian fiat gateway. The platform offers convenient fiat buy & sell options in local $AUD, as well as a very intuitive interface and other neat features.

One of the most vibrant markets thus gains unrestricted access to our ecosystem, further enhancing Elrond’s availability and ease of onboarding & use.

Get started now 👇🏻
💱 https://www.coinspot.com.au/buy/erd

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1286676712550477828?s=20

We’re thrilled to announce another important milestone.

5,422,500,000 $ERD (~$95mil) are now staked/delegated for the Elrond Genesis.

Starting now, withdrawals are closed, staking network setup is complete, and final evaluation begins.

Thank you for your amazing support! 🔥

RT: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1287136023995195394?s=21

⚔️ Battle of Nodes: Onchained - Where No Node Has Gone Before

Lucian Mincu, Elrond CIO:

Battle of Nodes was an enormous success and it has a very clear winner. One that was better, more mature and better equipped than all the others. A winner that, throughout the event, was consistent in hard work, progress, perseverance, and ultimately performance - Elrond.

Most of the incentivized testnet events from other projects had only a handful of players standing out, very far away from the rest. Winning required topical knowledge and extraordinary efforts to fill in huge gaps, with the prevailing teams ending up light-years ahead of the other participants.

In Battle of Nodes, the hardest working and most knowledgeable ultimately did earn more rewards, as they should. But Elrond won. We demonstrated that anyone with a 2CPU & 4GB RAM computer had a decent chance of competing. That’s because our protocol is capable of that and our tooling is ready for mass adoption.

That is a big win out of the entire event and my key takeaway ahead of our mainnet launch. A bigger win yet is the Validator community that rallied around our Genesis block. I couldn’t be more thrilled with who we have on board right now.

Here’s how we got here. Rankings & rewards inside👇
https://elrond.com/blog/battle-of-nodes-onchained-where-no-node-has-gone-before

RT: https://twitter.com/LucianMincu/status/1287349501687205888