Concordium #2 2020 - Testnet & White Paper
Concordium Community Newsletter - Covering March 2020
General
After 2 years of intensive scientific research and development, we are proud to announce our First Public Testnet.
The Testnet has been released on Thursday, April 2, 2020, at 01:00 PM GMT.
So far, we have seen more than 40 nodes running from all over the world and especially from China, the USA, European Union, Israel, Nigeria, UK.
Users can get Stake (100 Testnet GTU) delegated to them by using Concordium Web Wallet, here.
Please read here our Release notes. Please visualize the Network here.
We have released our new White Paper too!
You are invited to discover how Concordium plans to deploy its Next-Gen Blockchain including an ID Layer at the Protocol Level, Sharding, Interoperability, and many more features and benefits.
Please read here our White Paper.
Brain & Health Boosting Program
During this period of un-usual working situations due to COVID-19, we apply science as well in making sure that our team has the best tools at hand to stay healthy. This is why we have implemented a new Brain - and Health Boosting Program in which all our staff has been urged to spend one hour of their paid working time doing exercise or outdoor (authority permitting) activities.
Dev
We have released our First Public Testnet that includes the following features:
Node software in a dockerized container featuring:
Passive node: A node that participates in the Concordium network. It relays messages, provides an API for submitting transactions and inspecting the chain, and processes blocks, but does not produce any blocks on its own.
Baker node: Does everything a passive node does, but in addition participates in consensus, producing blocks.
Finalizer node: Does everything a baker node does, but in addition, participates in the finalization part of our consensus.
Concordium Client: A command-line interface to the Concordium Blockchain. Can send transactions and inspect the state of the node and the chain.
Tools for interacting with the container
Creating identities
Creating accounts
Making transfers
Depositing GTU tokens
Exporting identities and accounts
A demo Identity service
A Network Dashboard
Press and Content
Women in Blockchain. An interview with Lone Fønss Schrøder on the International Women’s Day
Why having a Nakamoto Style Consensus with a finality layer on top?
Events
Due to the current situation, most of the events we planned to attend are canceled. We will keep updating you when it comes to online events Team Concordium will participate in.
Theory and Practice of Blockchains 2020 - Barcelona, April 20th, 2020 - Postponed
Future of Blockchain Competition - London, April 27th, 2020 - Postponed
This newsletter is curated by Team Concordium.
Got news or articles you would like to include? Any feedback or other suggestions? drop us a line on bi (a) concordium.com or find us on Twitter.