Hello everyone and welcome again to a new edition of our newsletter. Keep up to date with the latest news, releases, and advances.
Hard to believe another month has gone by, and what a month it was, with listings, AMAs and a lot of activity in and around our community! Have a look for yourself….
General 🎙️
We listed and are now tracked by CoinmarketCap and CoinGecko. Keep following our social channels to learn where we will list next.
Our partner Northstake, reviewed and analysed Concordium’s return on staking (RoS). Based on empirical data, Northstake found Concordium’s RoS in January to be very attractive (+15%) and the actual circulating supply to be lower than the theoretical. Read more here.
We launched our AMA series : Off the Blocks. So far we’ve hosted our CEO, our founder and our CMO. Be sure to tune in every other Weds at 2 pm CET to learn what else we have in store for you.
For all of you who missed some of them, no worries. They will all be shortly available on demand on a variety of platforms including: YouTube, Spotify, apple podcasts and more. Be sure to send in your questions to #concordiumAMA to ensure you are eligible for great prizes.
Copper.co becomes the first institutional custodian for CCD. Read more here.
We’ve partnered with Meltwater Champions Chess Tour 2022 to promote this wonderful sport. Winners enjoy sponsorships, badges, and even NFTs:-)
Last, but definitely not least, we have launched our Community Quest. That’s right for the next 4 weeks, our community has a chance to solve 4 weekly puzzles and compete for some fabulous prizes. Here’s to the winners from last week. Be sure to join our discord to participate:
Oh and did we mention, our TW following keeps rising and we’ve now surpassed 100K followers!
New Releases and Tech Updates 👨💻
February was also a month for updates and new releases.
[Wallet] - Mobile wallet UX improvement.
[Wallet] - Mobile wallet design flow completed for Sirius release.
[Wallet] - Desktop wallet for the Sirius release.
[Tokenomics] - CCD / EURO service in production.
[Tokenomics] - CCD / Euro service updated toward aggregate service.
[Tokenomics] - Delegation support for the Sirius release.
[Smart Contract] - Updates for the Sirius release (including view functions and sync calls, smart contract state, and fallback entry points).
[Tooling] - Rosetta API deployed.
[Ecosystem] - Partner pre-release network.
[Ecosystem] - Deployment of a testing environment for Geely Blockchain.
In The News📰
You may be interested in some of these articles:
Blockchain Voting Will Be Coming To An Election Near You, And Soon
Café Dan Turèll Accepting Payment in CCD, Concordium’s Native Cryptocurrency
Copper.co announces secure custody support for Concordium’s CCD cryptocurrency
Where you could have heard or seen us?👀👂
Community updates🤲
Bictory
One of our earliest community members Bictory announced the launch of Concordium Projects, the first community ecosystem explorer a tool to easily help you track the ecosystem and learn more about Concordium! Learn more here.
Africa🌍
We participated in a session with FinTech related regulators in Nigeria to discuss national risk assessment of virtual asset providers.
We also hosted an AMA for the RustNigeria community, in cooperation with the DevX Initiative, Rust Foundation and Skills Matter.
Concordium became a Member of SiBAN and also a member of Fintech Association of Nigeria.
Japan🗻
DevX Community and the Rust Foundation🦀
The DevX Initiative by Concordium kicks off the year with the first Rust Cryptography Interest Group of 2022. Learn more here.
Rust survey results 2021 are in. Click to read.
Read more about Rust Compiler Ambitions for 2022
And lets not forget that Amazon Prime Video uses Wasm and Egui with 37,000 lines of Rust code. Read more.
Our Science Partners 🔬
COBRA will be attending PKC 2022 - three research papers with COBRA members as co-authors were selected to be presented at the conference. To learn more click here or here.
COBRA bi-weekly seminars will recommence towards the end of March. Seminars are open to the public, find out more here.
ITU - will present at ACNS 2022 their paper: FAST: Fair Auctions via Secret Transactions.
ITU - will present at the 2nd Workshop on Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Affiliated with Financial Cryptography 2022 & at SNB-CIF Conference on Cryptoassets and Financial Innovation their paper: SoK: Mitigation of Front-running in Decentralized Finance.
Be sure to join us🎉
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Thank you and see you next month!