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Concordium Mainnet is live
After three years of development, the Concordium Blockchain, made its Mainnet debut on June 9, clearing the way for any user to access the Concordium platform and offering the world access to a safe, regulatable, and sustainable blockchain.
Concordium Genesis Block was created on June 1st, 2021 and the Concordium Blockchain started on June 9th, 2021 at 8:00 AM CET.
Read the release notes and find out more about how to get started here.Ā ĀGTU distribution to Private sale-GTU buyers
As promised, one week after the Concordium Blockchain Genesis, our team began the preparation to distribute the tokens to buyers.Ā
On June 18th we sent an email to all GTU buyers with the instructions on how to inform Concordium of the account address to where your GTUs shall be transferred. If you are a buyer, please follow the instructions you received in your email, including filling up the questionnaire, sharing other documents requested. More information here.ĀRewards for GTU buyers
We are pleased to reconfirm that private sale GTU buyers began to earn rewards from the Mainnet release date on 9 June š„³. These additional GTUs will be transferred to them simultaneously with the transfer of their purchased GTUs.
Concordium listing plans
We have decided to ensure custodial integrations and wider listing with the leaders in the market š„³. Therefore, to enable wider integration, we will defer the listing. More information on the listing will be announced soon in our blog.Ā
Concordium Became the First Overseas Blockchain Platform to Join Japan Blockchain Association
Concordium AG was accepted as a full member of the Japan Blockchain Association, becoming the first overseas blockchain platform to join the Association. The Japan Blockchain Association comprises over 120 domestic and international companies and organizations including Microsoft, Deloitte Japan, and more. The news comes only a week after Concordium launched the mainnet of its enterprise-grade blockchain, which features a unique built-in identity protocol.
DevX Initiative Roadmap is here!Ā
The DevX Initiative by Concordium was born from a desire to give and to contribute to the developersā community, without the burden of quid pro quo, and now this vision has turned into an executable plan. Learn what are the DevX Initiativeās next steps and how to be part of this journey here.Ā
Testnet 4 Results and Awards Update
Our team has reviewed all the Testnet 4 submissions and we are excited to announce that the results are here and you can now review the rewards each of our participants will get! You can find the results here.
For any questions about your result, put a comment in the relevant PR and tag the reviewer.ĀConcordium blockchain Code Audit
At Concordium we understand that security is vital for the users, that is why we have asked, Kudelski Security, to perform a code audit on our blockchain and we are proud to share the results with you! Concordium and Kudelski Security performed threat modeling, code review, and āscenario-basedā assessment of the underlying code and logic of the Concordium software. During the code review, Kudelski found no critical or high-risk scenarios that put the tokens of the system at risk.
You can read the whole report here.
Concordiumās Mobile Wallet Penetration Results
Concordium requested NowSecure to perform a Mobile Application Security Assessment on the StagingNet-Wallet Staging application for the iOS and Android platforms.
The results are really positive, you can read the whole report here.ĀApril and May Champs
April and May Champs are announced. On this occasion, we were celebrating community members connecting Concordium with local communities! Find the full list here.
We would like to thank all our Champs for their support during our Testnet era, Concordium wouldnāt be the same without, and now that our Mainnet arrived we are excited to announce that the Concordium Champs initiative will be superseded with new initiatives for ambassadors and content creators that will be announced soon.
Get started with Concordium
Our full documentation is now available at https://developer.concordium.software/en/mainnet/net/index.html.
Tutorials are coming in every week in our Tutorials Playlist on Youtube.Ā
Dev š¤
Now we are finally live!! Come and review what our tech team has been working on this past month:Ā
[Concordium-base] 5 authors have pushed 17 commits to main and 31 commits to all branches. On main, 104 files have changed and there have been 1,849 additions and 2,424 deletions.Ā
[Concordium-documentation] - 6 authors have pushed 68 commits to main and 94 commits to all branches. On main, 456 files have changed and there have been 29,192 additions and 15,699 deletions.
[Concordium-node] - 7 authors have pushed 36 commits to main and 59 commits to all branches. On main, 88 files have changed and there have been 2,057 additions and 1,979 deletions.
[Concordium-client] - 2 authors have pushed 1 commit to main and 2 commits to all branches. On main, 4 files have changed and there have been 45 additions and 10 deletions
[Concordium-network-dashboard] -3 authors have pushed 9 commits to main and 12 commits to all branches. On main, 13 files have changed and there have been 191 additions and 72 deletions.Ā
On July 1st, 2021 at 09:30 CET, the Concordium Blockchain experienced some minor interruptions in Mainnet supporting services. The issue was identified by Team Concordium and fixed on July 1st, 2021 by 10:00 CET. More information here.Ā
Communities š¦»
Rust & The DevX InitiativeĀ Ā
The Rust Cryptography Interest Group Sync-up Call
The Inaugural sync-up call for the Rust Cryptography Interest Group happened at the end of May. The purpose of this call is to begin the dialogue within the Rust Cryptography Ecosystem. To explore what's going on in the Rust Cryptography ecosystem, diagnose what is needed, understand what community resources are needed and identify overlaps and alignments for potential collaboration. The RCIG is a collaborative effort between the DevX Initiative and RustCrypto. You can find the video for this event here.Ā
The Rust London x Concordium Takeover Meetup
Concordium was hosted by the Rust London User Group and given the floor to showcase how the project uses Rust and is contributing to the ecosystem. You can check out the recordings here.
Events š
Asia Submit
14th - 21st July 2021
Casual Fridays,Ā
9th July 2021
16th July 2021
23 July 2021
30th July 2021
Cointelegraph + Concordium AMA
The date will be announced soon.Ā
Research
The following papers have been accepted for the International Cryptology Conference 2021, Crypto 2021.Ā
1.Ā Ivan DamgĆ„rd, Bernardo Magri, Luisa Siniscalchi, Sophia Yakoubov and Divya Ravi: Broadcast-Optimal Two Round MPC with an Honest Majority.
2. Craig Gentry, Shai Halevi, Hugo Krawczyk, Bernardo Magri, Jesper Buus Nielsen, Tal Rabin and Sophia Yakoubov: YOSO: You Only Speak Once / Secure MPC with Stateless Ephemeral Roles.
COBRA and Concordium presented several papers at the Theory and Practice of Blockchains Seminar 2021 seminars, including:
1. 9 June: The session was chaired by COBRAās Centre leader Jesper Buus Nielsen. In the same session at 16:30 UTC, the paper āReparo: Publicly Verifiable Layer to Repair Blockchainsā was presented with COBRA researcher Bernardo Magri and Concordiumās senior researcher Daniel Tschudi.Ā
2.Ā 16 June: This session was chaired by COBRAās researcher Bas Spitters with a presentation of his paper āThe Discriminating Miner Dilemma: Revisiting Liveness Guarantees under Content Discriminationā, together with COBRA researcher Bernardo Magri as one of the authors.
3. 30 June: The paper āGearBox: An Efficient UC Sharded Ledger Leveraging the Safety-Liveness Dichotomyā by Concordium researchers Daniel Tschudi and Christian Matt and COBRA researchers Bernardo Magri and Jesper Buus Nielsen, and Bernardo David from ITU.
4. 7 July: COBRA researcher Claudio Orlandi chaired this session.Ā
Read more papers by Concordium and COBRA here: https://concordium.com/science/science-papers/
CSF 2021:
COBRA presented 3 papers at the 34th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF 2021):Ā
1. 23 June at 21:00: āFormalizing Nakamoto-Style Proof of Stakeā by COBRA researchers SĆøren Eller Thomsen and Bas Spitters.
2. 24 June at 17:45: āSSProve: A Foundational Framework for Modular Cryptographic Proofs in CoqāĀ with COBRA researchers Philipp G. Haselwarter and Bas Spitters as two out of eight authors.
3.24 June at 19:45: āFormal security analysis of MPC-in-the-head zero-knowledge protocolsā by COBRA researchers Nikolaj Sidorenco and Bas Spitters.
Press, insights, and articles š
Bloomberg: New Cryptocurrency Backed by Geely Will Cater to 'Establishment'
Cointelegraph: Concordium aims to end the era of anonymity in crypto industry
Hackernoon: Compliance by Design is the future of Blockchains - Beni Issembert, CMO at Concordium
Business Insider: How Digital Identity is Making Blockchain More Accessible for Enterprises
Crypto News: How a Next-Generation Blockchain Addresses "Privacy Poisoning"
Markets - Business Insider:Ā Concordium Becomes First Overseas Blockchain Platform to Join Japan Blockchain Association
Crypto Daily: Concordium Announces The Launch of Itās Mainnet and MVP
Business Insider: Concordium Concludes $36 Million Fundraising 2 Months Ahead of Mainnet
Yahoo Finance: Identity-Centric Platform Concordium Launches Mainnet and MVP
Coinpedia: Can This Token Could Be About to Replicate ICPs Success
News Bitcoin: Concordium Debuts its Business-Oriented Blockchain Mainnet ā Blockchain Bitcoin News
Binance Wiki: How-a-next-generation-blockchain-addresses-privacy-poisoning
News BTC: how-digital-identity-is-making-blockchain-more-accessible-for-enterprises
Bitcoin News Switzerland: Schweizer Blockchain Concordium schlieĆt Fundraising in Hƶhe von 33 Millionen CHF zwei Monate vor Mainnet ab
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