General 🎙️
We are happy to announce that we have completed a private round of $15M. This round is meant to sustain our development and our future go-to-market strategy. Read more here.
Geely and Concordium announce a Joint Venture
We are delighted to announce we have signed a joint venture with the Global Fortune 500 company, Geely Holding Group, to provide blockchain tech and services in China using Concordium’s technology. Read the announcement here.Testnet 3 final awards and results have been announced
Our team has reviewed all the Testnet 3 submissions and we are really excited to announce that the results are now public. You can review the rewards each of our participants will get here.Concordium Champs December 2020 and January 2021
At Concordium we are extremely grateful to our community and we would like to show our appreciation to all those members who are helping us build the next-gen blockchain. Here are the winners for Dec-2020 and Jan-2021.Concordium and the Blockchain Academy Network received a grant from the Danish Industry Foundation to develop an online blockchain education course geared toward C-suite executives. We are glad to announce that you can now sign for the first part of the course at https://blockchainacademy.dk/videoer/
Balancing Privacy and Accountability in Blockchain Transactions is now available in e-print.
The paper that presents Concordium’s finality layer, “Balancing Privacy and Accountability in Blockchain Transactions” co-authored by Ivan Damgård, Chaya Ganesh, Hamidreza Khoshakhlagh, Claudio Orlandi, and Luisa Siniscalch, is now peer-reviewed and available in e-print.
Dev 🤖
Testnet 4
Few figures here to express how much our Testnet was “used” to create super cool stuff including self-sovereign identities, encrypted transactions and of course some amazing smart contracts, programed in RustLang.
2,300 identities were issued, and more than 7,000 accounts were created. Besides, we saw more than 1,000 active nodes, 800 bakers, more than 3,600 wallet downloads.
Commits
This month has been quite busy for our Tech team with almost 900 commits in total:
DevOps 49
Desktop Wallet 569
Ledger support 10
Smart Contracts 34
Concordium Base 16
Concordium Node 80
Tokenomics reporter 5
Concordium client 30
Wallet proxy 4
Concordium Client 14
Dashboard 11
Node Dashboard 11
Bip 393
Communities 🦻
Rust and Concordium
Const Generics MVP reaches beta.
Const Generics is one of the most awaited features in the Rust Ecosystem and it is very exciting that it has been made available to try out in Beta before it is officially made stable in the next Rust release 1.51. If you would like to know what Const Generics are and why they’re so important to Rust developers you can read more in the official blog post below.
Upcoming Events
Media and Videos
Ashley Williams (Rust Core Developer & Interim Executive Director of Rust Foundation) shares her thoughts on the latest developments with Rust in a 2 part interview on the Context Free Podcast.
Florian Gilcher and James Munns introduce Critical Section in an AMA
Encode Club Education Series
We have launched together with our friends at Encode Club, an ambitious early-stage education program for students and young developers.
The course will consist of two parts:
An ‘Intro to blockchain’ event to explain how the technology works, with a focus on Concordium’s offering
A ‘Learn to code in blockchain’ event, explaining how to use Concordium to build blockchain applications.
For more information visit Encode.
Events 🎆
Americas (Online)
Asia and Australia (Online)
Press, insights, and articles 📖
Concordium Raises $15M in Private Sale and Completes MVP Testnet
Fortune 500 firm Geely to launch joint blockchain venture in China
Volvo Owner Geely and Concordium in JV to Offer Blockchain Services, Apps in China
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