General 🎙️
$36M raised 2 months ahead of Mainnet
On April 25th, we concluded our fourth private sale of the cryptocurrency GTU. The funds raised will be used to finance the project's further decentralization, mainnet launch, listing on crypto exchanges, and technical development of core protocols and tooling announced in the newest roadmap.The Private Placement rounds have secured Concordium a capital injection of 36 million USD in 2021.
Freeze code and Mainnet coming soon
Here we go. Code is in freeze mode. Meaning we are final-tuning the product that will be launched in June 2021. A specific date will be announced shortly in our social media channels. This is an exciting moment for all of us.Blockchain for Beginners
As part of the Blockchain Academy Network efforts to qualify business leaders for a future with new business technologies, Concordium brings to you this Introduction to Blockchain for Beginners.
Dev 🤖
Our blockchain code is publicly available, but if you haven’t had a chance to review it, here what our tech team was doing during April:
[Concordium-base] 9 authors have pushed 90 commits to main and 98 commits to all branches. On main, 66 files have changed and there have been 5,567 additions.
[Concordium-documentation] - 5 authors have pushed 6 commits to main and 9 commits to all branches. On main, 6 files have changed and there have been 78 additions.
[Concordium-node] - 10 authors have pushed 93 commits to main and 131 commits to all branches. On main, 123 files have changed and there have been 3,094 additions.
[Concordium-client] - 7 authors have pushed 31 commits to main and 34 commits to all branches. On main, 15 files have changed and there have been 201 additions.
[Concordium-network-dashboard] - Excluding merges, 5 authors have pushed 20 commits to main and 22 commits to all branches. On main, 14 files have changed and there have been 3,753 additions.
Communities 🦻
Rust and Concordium
News and Articles
Rust Meetups and Events
Rust Media
Events 🎆
Internet Week Denmark. From May 4th - May 9th. Virtual Event.
Our CEO will discuss Ethics in Blockchain.
International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography. PKC 2021. 9-13 May. Virtual Event.
Concordium Research Center Aarhus (COBRA) will present the following papers:
Ivan Damgård, Claudio Orlandi, Akira Takahashi, and Mehdi Tibouchi: Two-round n-out-of-n and Multi-Signatures and Trapdoor Commitment from Lattices⋆
Alessandra Scafuro and Luisa Siniscalchi and Ivan Visconti: Publicly Verifiable Zero Knowledge from (Collapsing) Blockchains
Michele Ciampi and Luisa Siniscalchi and Hendrik Waldner: Multi-Client Functional Encryption for Separable Functions
RSA Conference 17-20 May. Virtual Event.
Ivan Damgård; Chaya Ganesh; Hamidreza Khoshakhlagh; Claudio Orlandi; Luisa Siniscalchi will present their paper Balancing Privacy and Accountability in Blockchain Identity Management
TPBC 2021: Theory and Practice of Blockchains. 19 May - 7 July. Virtual Event.
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2021. From 23-27 May. Virtual Event.
Yashvanth Kondi, Bernardo Magri, Claudio Orlandi, Omer Shlomovits will present Refresh When You Wake Up: Proactive Threshold Wallets with Offline Devices
Research
Benjamin Salling Hvass, Diego F. Aranha and Bas Spitters have a new paper: High-assurance field inversion for curve-based cryptography.
COBRA had three papers accepted for the IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF 2021) taking place from 21-25 June.
Carmine Abate and Philipp G. Haselwarter and Exequiel Rivas and Antoine Van Muylder and Theìo Winterhalter and Catalin Hritcu and Kenji Maillard and Bas Spitters SSProve: A Foundational Framework for Modular Cryptographic Proofs in Coq
Søren Eller Thomsen and Bas Spitters: Formalizing Nakamoto-Style Proof of Stake
Nikolaj Sidorenco and Sabine Oechsner and Bas Spitters: Formal security analysis of MPC-in-the-head zero-knowledge protocols.
Nikolaj Sidorenco, Sabine Oechsner and Bas Spitters presented SoK: Formal security analysis of MPC-in-the-head zero-knowledge protocols at the ZKProof Workshop 2021
COBRA’s Associate Professor, Bas Spitters, presented “How not to lose millions securing blockchains” at Festival of Research 2021. This is an annual event for the public to hear about recent research within all kinds of research fields. The Festival of Research is a nationwide knowledge festival established by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science. More details here.
Press, insights, and articles 📖
Yahoo Finance Concordium Concludes $36 Million Fundraising 2 Months Ahead of Mainnet
Business Insider Concordium concludes 36 million fundraising
Professional ReviewsConcordium - Unlocking the potential of blockchain for the future economy
BTC Manager Privacy-Focused Concordium Blockchain Raises $36 Million Ahead of Mainnet Launch | BTCMANAGER
Blockonomi Concordium concludes fundraising
Learn to code with Concordium. Encode Club Series
Concordium first AMA.
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