Wow, another month has flown by. We certainly live at a different pace here in the Web 3.0 world:-). So let us take this opportunity to keep you up to date with all the things that went on in March and a little of what you can expect in April.
So sit back with a ‘cuppa joe’ or your favourite drink and have a scroll….
General 🎙️
Keep your eyes peeled, listings are being announced imminently.
At the end of March EU lawmakers decided to back tougher safeguards for the transfers of cryptocurrencies, in the latest sign that regulators are tightening up on the crypto sector. Two committees in the European Parliament have voted in favor of measures requiring crypto companies to collect and share data on certain transactions. Read more here.
AMAs went into overdrive. We held an participated in a variety of AMAs including our ‘Off the Blocks’ series which hosted our chairman Lars Seier Christensen, Jesper Johansen from Northstake, and Tyler and Minrie from Bictory. We hosted some Telegram AMAs and more. If you missed it don’t worry, our AMAs are recorded and available on demand here.
We would like to thank the thousands participating in the five rounds of our Community Quest (CCQ). We hope you found them challenging and enjoyed them as much as we enjoyed preparing them for you!
But to keep things fun and happening we are rejigging our community initiatives. The team have put together a plan of polls, contests, AMAs and more. First things first, we’ve brought back our Concordium Champs 2.0. Every month the community will have the opportunity to nominate and vote on the member who has contributed most to the community. Read more here.
We’ve put a lot of focus this month on content, so more news, more articles and many more blogs. Have a look for yourself here.
Our CCD channel churned out more weekly episodes with great guests, stories and ideas. This Friday, we will discuss the upcoming regulation, UK minting NFT through the Royal Mint and more. Stay tuned every Friday for a new episode. Watch here or subscribe here!
New Releases and Tech Updates 👨💻
New releases
The following projects are in progress in tech
In The News📰
As we mentioned so much work goes into getting the Concordium stories out there. If you missed them here are some that went out in March:
Our strategic partnership with NTT Data - Mar. 1. Read more
Partnership with Hypery Set to Bring the Music Industry to Web 3.0 - Mar. 3. Read more.
Gamers’ Gold Leveraging Concordium to Build a ‘Play to Earn’ Platform - Mar 8th. Read more.
New Era of DeFi Applications Set to Take Blockchain Mainstream - Mar 9th. Read more.
And of course, the Opening of a Joint Venture Headquarters Alongside Geely Holdings in Wuxi, China. Read more.
Be sure to join us🎉
Community updates🤲
Space Seven
Concordium Universe launched - SpaceSeven and @ConcordiumNet have preselected a number of leading NFT artists and gathered them all in one easy place to purchase very rare pieces of art at very affordable rates. Click here to see how it works.
Space Seven also posted a great series of blogs and thought leadership articles about NFTs. Including: The 6 NFT Jobs You Should Take Advantage Of, The Role of NFTs and Crypto in the Metaverse, How to Affordably Scale NFTs and more. Read more here.
Bictory
Besides the launch of the Concordium Projects, where users, partners and others can find out more about the range of apps and projects being built on Concordium. See here. If you have a project you are building on the Concordium blockchain and don’t see it on the list, you can apply to have it listed here.
They launched both their TerrestriaNFT and the Bictory NFT collections. Read more about how our ID layer can help unleash the true potential of NFTs.
Africa🌍
Not only are we working to put together a plan of action for the next quarter, but we are planning a visit for our Chairman in Lagos. That’s right April 13-14th Lars is live and in action in Lagos. Be sure to follow our social media to see where and when you can meet him in the flesh.
Japan🗻
The PHI prototype is now live! Congratulations to the PHI team for the massive progress they’ve made in such a short time!
We hosted a community discussion "Does Blockchain network need KYC process?" on Twitter Spaces.
DevX Community and the Rust Foundation🦀
The Tor Project re-writes their core client into Rust. Read more here.
Announcing Rust version 1.59.0. Learn more here.
The Rust Foundation publishes its finding from its Grants Survey. See what others thought here.
Announcing a new Rust Book: Zero to Production in Rust by Luca Palmieri. Order it here.
We published goals of The DevX Initiative Sponsorship Program and how we are planning on supporting developers building on #Rust. Read more here.
And last, but not least.
Our Science Partners 🔬
COBRA
Will host an invite-only HACS Workshop in Amsterdam, Netherlands: 11-12 April. Learn more here.
Will be attending RWC Conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands: 13-15 April. Learn more here.
Have submitted a new paper - Formalising Decentralised Exchanges in Coq. Read more.
Had their paper: Low-Bandwidth Threshold ECDSA via Pseudorandom Correlation Generators accepted paper for IEEE S&P 2022. Read more.
New blog post: Formalization of Token Standards, including the CCD CIS standard. Read here.
COBRA seminar talk with Dankrad Feist from the Ethererum Foundation: 5 April. Learn more here.
Remember to join our rapidly growing communities:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ConcordiumNet
Telegram: https://t.me/concordium_official
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/xWmQ5tp7
Thank you and see you next month!
Super newsletter!