Concordium #15 - Free & Open Grants Program, Desktop Wallet Updates and more 👩💻
Covering July 2021
General 🎙️
Concordium launches an Open and Free Grants Program for Developers
Concordium launched an ambitious grants program to sponsor open-source developers to contribute to both the Concordium Ecosystem and the RustLang Ecosystem. The Concordium Free & Open Grants Program offers up to USD 20k for initial grants and USD 75k for follow-up grants, which are tracked transparently on GitHub and disbursed in GTU or Fiat (Euros, US Dollars, or other).
Among the Executive and Steering Committee, there are renowned academics including ETH Zurich Prof. Ueli Maurer and Prof. Hans Gersbach, Dr. Torben Pedersen Concordium’s CTO and Father of the Pedersen Commitment, and Michael Jackson former Skype COO and Mangrove Capital Partner.“As an open and decentralized project, Concordium’s vision is based on the principle of reciprocity and giving to the developers and science community. First with the foundation of Concordium Blockchain Research Center Aarhus, then the DevX Initiative and now with this Grants Program, Concordium aims to support and strengthen the science and development behind blockchain, and technology in general” Torben Pryds Pedersen, Concordium’s CTO.
The application process is open to any developer or technology project eager to contribute to the Concordium and/or Rustlang ecosystems. You can find a list of areas in the Concordium Technology Stack that demand particular development here.
The application is open to any developer or technology project, if you are interested you can apply here.Concordium’s Desktop Wallet 1.1.6 is now available
A new version of the Concordium Desktop Wallet is now available. This version brings improvements to the user interface, security enhancements and new features including a foundation feature for importing and creating multi signature transactions in bulk, the transaction status is now included in an account report, and more. Read the full release notes here.
Please download the updated version of the wallet here.Concordium at the UZH Summer School
On July 16th, Concordium had the opportunity to teach at the Blockchain Center of the University of Zurich, on this occasion our researchers Daniel Tschudi and Christian Matt lead a deep dive into blockchain and Concordium's technology.
Concordium features among the 10 start-ups with the largest investments in Switzerland
Investment in Swiss startups continued its strong growth trajectory in the first half of 2021. Check StartuptickerCH’s Swiss Venture Capital Report of the first half of 2021, and discover the 10 start-ups with the largest investments, including Concordium.Join Concordium's team
We are looking for smart, eager people to join our team including a Software Test Engineer, a Researcher, a Software Developer, and our new Business Developer Manager. Learn more about the opportunities we offer at https://concordium.com/careers/
Dev 🤖
Come and review what our tech team has been working on this past month:
[Concordium-base] - 4 authors have pushed 14 commits to main and 23 commits to all branches. On main, 107 files have changed and there have been 7,304 additions and 1,508 deletions.
[Concordium-documentation] - 5 authors have pushed 20 commits to main and 28 commits to all branches. On main, 27 files have changed and there have been 412 additions and 54 deletions.
[Concordium-node] - 5 authors have pushed 26 commits to main and 40 commits to all branches. On main, 35 files have changed and there have been 4,686 additions and 393 deletions.
[Concordium-client] - 3 authors have pushed 4 commits to main and 6 commits to all branches. On main, 17 files have changed and there have been 52 additions and 373 deletions.
[Concordium-network-dashboard] -4 authors have pushed 6 commits to main and 10 commits to all branches. On main, 13 files have changed and there have been 18,405 additions and 155 deletions.
[Concordium-wasm-sc] - 2 authors have pushed 3 commits to main and 3 commits to all branches. On main, 17 files have changed and there have been 343 additions and 105 deletions.
[Concordium-rust-sc] - 2 authors have pushed 7 commits to main and 9 commits to all branches. On main, 13 files have changed and there have been 1,167 additions and 13 deletions.
[Concordium Wallet Proxy] -3 authors have pushed 11 commits to main and 12 commits to all branches. On main, 7 files have changed and there have been 194 additions and 24 deletions.
[Concordium Ledger app] - 2 authors have pushed 20 commits to main and 34 commits to all branches. On main, 56 files have changed and there have been 1,010 additions and 611 deletions.[Cocordium Desktop Wallet] - 6 authors have pushed 133 commits to main and 196 commits to all branches. On main, 178 files have changed and there have been 6,295 additions and 1,661 deletions.
Concordium Rust SDK 1 author has pushed 23 commits to main and 23 commits to all branches.
Communities 🦻
Rust & The DevX Initiative
The third sync-up call for the Rust Cryptography Interest Group
The purpose of this call was to discuss and explore what should be on an Awesome Rust Crypto List of resources. To understand what community resources are needed and identify overlaps and alignments. RCIG Sync-up call #3
Rust is now the most loved programming language 6 years in a row
Stack Overflow the popular developer forum has had its annual developer survey and once again Rust has come out on top as the language most loved by developers. Check out the data and analysis here.
Edward Snowden endorses Rust for more secure computing
Whistleblower, privacy and freedom activist Edward Snowden has written a blog post that details the vulnerabilities in the security infrastructure of many systems integral to our digital lives. He endorses the Rust programming language as the best language to build more secure and robust systems. Read the blog post here.
Announcing Rust 1.54.0
The Rust team is happy to announce a new version of Rust, 1.54.0. Rust is a programming language. Check out the blog post detailing all the updates here.
Hackernoon Start-Ups
Vote for Concordium at the Hackernoon Startups of the Year 2021, https://startups.hackernoon.com/central-europe/zug-switzerland
Events 🎆
See Concordium’s participation here:
Casual Fridays
August 13th, August 20th, and August 27th at Concordium Communities: Telegram: @concordium_official and Clubhouse/Concordium
Research 📖
STOC Test of Time Award
COBRA’s researcher, Professor Ivan Damgård, received the prestigious STOC Test of Time Award for his article on Multiparty Unconditionally Secure Protocols. He received the award at a virtual ceremony in connection with the top conference within theoretical computer science: “ACM Symposium on the theory of Computing” (STOC).
CRYPTO 2021
COBRA researchers will be presenting the following papers at the International Cryptology Conference CRYPTO 2021:
“Broadcast-Optimal Two Round MPC with an Honest Majority” by COBRA’s researchers Ivan Damgård, Bernardo Magri, Luisa Siniscalchi, Divya Ravi, and Sophia Yakoubov, and
“You Only Speak Once: Secure MPC with Stateless Ephemeral Roles” by Craig Gentry, Shai Halevi, Hugo Krawczyk, Bernardo Magri, Jesper Buus Nielsen, Tal Rabin, Sophia Yakoubov.
The International Cryptology Conference CRYPTO 2021 is an international conference on all aspects of cryptology.
Press, insights, and articles 📖
Yahoo Finance: Concordium-announces-developers-open-grants
Cointelegraph: Concordium aims to end the era of anonymity in crypto the industry
Investing.com: Concordium Unveils Partnership Programme for Global Developers By CoinQuora
U.Today: How to Participate in the Concordium Network as a Node
Coincodex: How to stake GTU to become a baker
BTC Manager: Complete Guide to Baking Blocks on the Concordium Mainnet | BTCMANAGER
The Coin Republic: Complete Guide to Running a Node on Concordium - TCR
Learn more 📖
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