Hello everyone, welcome back from Spring break and the wide variety of holidays celebrated worldwide in April. In spite of the holidays, Concordium has been hard at work telling our story, pitching our ideas, and getting our voice heard. Here is a short overview of what we’ve accomplished.
General 🎙️
More listings were announced last month, and our $CCD is now trading at:
Stay tuned as we onboard more exchanges in the near future.
Still in the news, was the TFR (Transfer of Funds Rule) and even @ElonMusk talked about the need to authenticate users. Here is what some of our followers think about the TFR:
Our community was extremely active, sharing their insights on their favourite influencers, and even expressing themselves artistically in our memes contest. Here are our winners:
We were mentioned again and again by a variety of influencers, here is just a short list: Crypto Sara, THEWIZARD, CryptoBoss, Blackbeard, The Cryptomist, VΣGΣƬΛ, Conquerer - KA, xaman, Gat and Momentum 6. More to come…..
Where you may have seen us: Paris Blockchain Week Summit, Meltwater Chess Tournament, and yes even in Lagos, as our founder Lars Seier spent some time there. Watch more here, here and here.
Our favourite Crypto Channel Direct, put together a number of great episodes, covering everything from unfreezing currency reserves with Bitcoin, Nike misunderstanding NFTs, and Elon Musk’s acquisition of twitter.
The team travelled with us to Paris, and put together a special Paris Blockchain week special. So if you missed it:
New Releases and Tech Updates 👨💻
New releases
The following projects are in progress in tech:
In The News📰
Concordium's Permissionless Blockchain Ready For Changing Regulation Since Inception
We Know More Regulation is Coming, So You Had Better Get Used to It
Could Blockchain-Based Identity Alleviate a Key Refugee Challenge?
Here is why Germany is ranked the most crypto-friendly country
Community updates🤲
Space Seven
We had the honor of hosting Philip Mosert, CMO on our ‘Off the Blocks’ episode. If you missed it, don’t worry it will soon be available on demand on youtube and variety of other podcast apps.
Space Seven continue to publish a great line up of medium posts. Have a look here, and maybe just maybe we can all learn from their expertise.
They were mentioned as: One of the 6 NFT Marketplaces that Could Beat Opensea in 2022
Bictory Finance
Exciting news for our partner Bictory Finance as the minted their first NFT collection. Let’s all give them a round of applause and head on over to Bictory Finance and buy your first BAYC NFT.
Our community had a chance to learn more in a special AMA hosted just for them in our Telegram channel. They even had a chance to be elligible for 10 free NFTs from the collection! Kudos!
Our Science Partners 🔬
COBRA
Eurocrypt 2022 - held 30 May to 3 June in Norway. The following COBRA papers were accepted to be presented:
Fiat-Shamir Bulletproofs are Non-Malleable
Stacking Sigmas: A Framework to Compose Sigma-Protocols for Disjunctions
Universally Composable Subversion-Resilient Cryptography
Round-Optimal Multi-Party Computation with Identifiable Abort
Secure Multiparty Computation with Free Branching
Asia CCS 2022 - will be held 30 May to 2 June in Japan. There COBRA will present:
Veksel: Simple, Efficient, Anonymous Payments with Large Anonymity Sets from Well-Studied Assumptions
ITU
And at the DeFi Workshop of Financial Crypto 2022 they will be presenting: SoK on mitigation of front running in DeFi.
Good luck!
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!