We have just released Lisk 1.28.0 for Desktop.

This version incorporates stronger messaging and enforcement for users to initialize their accounts, as well as fixes regressions in responsive design styling on smaller displays.

Download the new version:

YIELD App is pleased to announce a partnership with hybrid liquidity aggregator Finxflo, who will integrate our protocol and its market-beating APYs on crypto assets into its platform. This will mean users of the Singapore-based exchange — which bridges CeFi and DeFi to facilitate greater market depth and best-in-class asset pricing — will be able to invest securely into YIELD App without exiting their Finxflo accounts.

Through the integration, Finxflo will allow users holding parked assets in its regulated and insured custody access to YIELD App’s quantitative DeFi trading strategies, generating significant APYs of up to 20% on stablecoins. For YIELD App, the partnership will allow us to continue to grow and diversify our user-base, deepening liquidity across our platform. Finxflo will be one of the first corporate clients to use YIELD App’s new API when the hybrid exchange launches in May.

InsureToken is using Historical Chainlink Price Data to calculate market volatility and dynamically adjust premiums on crypto portfolio insurance plans. Future integrations involve processing claims in GCP & relaying the results on-chain via Chainlink

https://t.co/vr1WNddLOs?amp=1

EINSTEINIUM FOUNDATION UPDATE (FEBRUARY 2021)

To the Einsteinium community,

An update on the development of Milevium (MIL)

MIL is under current development and represents an evolved blockchain, forked from EMC2, focused on increased technological improvements and functionality. Last month, we reported on a software issue on the mining side of operations for this project. We are continuing to explore solutions to overcome this problem. We have begun the process of amending an open source mining wallet to assume corrections and deliver a resolution to this issue. It is our expectation that we can quickly resolve this issue and continue to build the ecosystem of software to support the delivery of this innovative project. We will be releasing monthly updates and periodic developer notes as we progress.

Expanding our listings on exchanges

We continue to look for new ways to increase the awareness for The Einsteinium Foundation and functionality of Einsteinium, our current product. Einsteinium, the coin, is available to trade on several top exchanges such as Upbit, Bittrex, and AtomicDex. We are excited by and fully support the recent community-driven activity to reach out to exchanges on our behalf. As a strong driving signal on the Foundation side and in order to reach a wider audience in the cryptocurrency community we are planning for additional exchange listings this year.

Science projects search

As we balance our continued operations as both a cryptocurrency and a philanthropic organization, we continue to look for, and actively support, innovative research. The Einsteinium Foundation continues to support scientific research through the use of our award program, which has been revamped to now be offered in the form of 5 smaller awards. As such, over the coming months we will focus on increasing awareness for Einsteinium in academic institutions and the healthcare industry. We constantly seek top-level research from Students, Postdocs, and Professors from all over the world. For those interested in more information for our award program and call for applications visit: https://www.emc2.foundation/einsteinium-awards

More details:  https://www.emc2.foundation/emc2-blog/2021/2/28/einsteinium-foundation-update-february-2021

Congratulations

SENTINEL listed in Bilaxy exchange

More exchanges will do the same as SENT's network utility grows.

SENT will soon be confirming a popular exchange for a paid listing, and support for the swap.

https://twitter.com/sentinel_co/status/1365837164647354368?s=21

Box 2.0.0 updates -  the new version adds 5 features:

https://forum.aeternity.com/t/active-box-aepp-improvements-of-the-proposal/8182/26

Box2.0.0 is open for update. If you open the app, it will automatically prompt you to update the new version. Download address: aebox
The new version adds the following features:

Add token list, support token transfer, etc
Add domain binding to support transfer between domain names
Add hot news recommendations
Add ABC price display and automatically convert ABC value
Major UI revision of the home page to fix several known problems

NetObjex Integrates Chainlink Oracles To Power Its IoT-Based Automation Engine

NetObjex collects data from IoT edge devices, refines it, and stores it on our digital platform via smart contracts to facilitate transactions based on that data. We then use Chainlink to relay that data to the blockchain, which has already yielded several compelling results:

- Creating new data-driven smart contract applications
- Incentivizing travelers to be conscious consumers
- Helping crude oil buyers make informed procurement decisions

Read more: https://www.netobjex.com/netobjex-integrates-chainlink-oracles-to-power-its-iot-based-automation-engine/

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ICHI Leveraging Chainlink on Mainnet to Empower Community Created Stablecoins

ICHI would be just another boring stablecoin (a coin who value stays at $1) project without Chainlink. Like other stablecoins, it would suffer from one or more major drawbacks:

- Stable-ish, instead of being minted and redeemed for exactly $1.
- Maximalistic, instead of driving scarcity of other cryptocurrencies.
- Complex, instead of simple minting and redeeming processes.
- Custodial, instead of self-hosted, community governed infrastructure



Read more: https://medium.com/ichifarm/ichi-leveraging-chainlink-on-mainnet-to-empower-community-created-stablecoins-b186c24cec75

Weekly updates from the COTI team

During the last few days, we have been hard at work on the technical goals and upcoming releases. Here is our weekly recap:



AdaPay with the Cardano Foundation: We’re making progress with the Cardano Foundation to launch AdaPay on Shelly Mainnet. The efforts are led by COTI’s top developer, Mr. Eli Hallufgil, working closely with a dedicated team of developers, managers and executives from the Cardano Foundation. The Cardano team has already brought in an amazing first use case for AdaPay and we are thrilled to take part in this project. Our plans are that all features from the Shelley Mainnet (such as staking), will be available for AdaPay users. This week we had a great call with the team and have put in place timelines and communications plans.



VISA Debit Cards and Bank Accounts: We are thrilled to update that this week we have been picked as an exclusive design partner for Simplex, to be the first to issue branded VISA debit cards and bank accounts. Simplex has become a principal member with VISA, so COTI will have much better access to VISA and overall better terms and card sustainability than most programs out there. With everything in place, we began working on card designs and will be able to present it to the community for feedback in the coming weeks.



More information, click here

We are thrilled to announce PARSIQ's integration with Solana.

Users and projects building on Solana can now easily consume Solana events and build automations on the PARSIQ Platform.

Read more: https://blog.parsiq.net/parsiqs-real-time-monitoring-now-on-solana/

Over 88% of the participants agree with the reduction plan



From the poll period 00:00:00 GMT+8 on Feb 16 to 23:59:59 on Feb 22, 2021, we’ve received 189 valid entries for YES and 23 for NO from the XWallet poll address as well as 12 valid entries for YES and 3 for NO from the on-chain poll address.

In total, there are 201 valid entries choosing YES to the reduction plan and 26 choosing NO. Over 88% of the participants agree with NPXS reduction plan.

We have also received 224,802 NPXS which includes duplicate and error amount entries. As previously announced, these NPXS tokens will be burn at the end of March together with the Q1 2021 result.

For more details: https://blog.pundix.com/2021/02/26/npxs-token-reduction-poll-result/

Cardstack Weekly February 26, 2021

This week we continue working on the UI component for Cardspace. The upcoming hosting service for apps and dApps that are created using the Card metaphor. We are working to allow for creation of new Card spaces with only a web3 wallet, which allows for reservations of URLs as an NFT that you can transfer to another person later. This initial implementation allows us to validate the full stack rendering pipeline that connects to underlying smart contracts both for paying for the fees necessary to conduct on-chain transactions on the layer 2 blockchain, as well as to purchase add-ons from the catalog in the future.

On CatalogJS, we have set up the content distribution network (CDN) hosted at catalogjs.com, currently in testing so that packages that are processed by CatalogJS can be accessible in a fast and efficient way over a global network. This distribution network will be used for the user facing Card Catalog, but it is important that we get the developer version of this asset deployment process smooth out and optimized.

On the mobile app front, the team continues working to apply the latest visual design, which contains the Cardstack branding as well as the UI component from the Boxel design system and bring them into the live mobile app. We are using an open source library called storybook.js to manage the design system assets within the React native codebase. Based on community feedback, we are including the Android customization and ensuring the stability of the android version of our app, while we are developing the beta for ios version. Our goal is to release the android version very soon after the ios release, as we know many of the community members are android users. Since we are using react native and applying the same design style to both versions, there should be minimal visual and functional differences.

On the protocol front, we are building on top of the smart contract and layer 1 - layer 2 bridging that is already in place to add support for decentralized commerce (dCommerce) features. We are working through a set of protocol primitives which allows for the payment for products and services using a mix of fungible and non-fungible tokens. Eg. you can pay for a download using a number of stablecoins in your wallet, or by redeeming a one time use coupon which is in itself an NFT. Observing what is happening in the community token / creator token space, we are also designing an enhancement to the protocol where a buyer may have to possess a certain badge, which is an NFT or have a certain number of tokens in the wallet for a period of time before they are permitted to purchase an item, and that item can be just a download link, where a file can be downloaded after payment, or it could be an ERC721 NFT where an on-chain transaction delivering a virtual good into your cardstack wallet after successful payment. Our approach for NFT is not specific to the current excitement around crypto art or collectibles, but as a generalized mechanism for inventing new patterns of commerce and engagement between creators and their fans / cult. The user interfaces for the Card Pay protocol are being reimplemented using the latest code in the Boxel design system so it can take advantage of all the functionality and visual refinement that we have achieved in the Boxel codebase.

On the marketing front, we have secured internal and external resources so we can handle and support the increased interest in the Cardstack project from different channels. We welcome new community members who have joined us in Telegram and followed us on Twitter, and we are working on bite size resources that allows newcomers to catch up on the progress we are making at Cardstack and would love for the community to share these resources with like minded people so we can grow a decentralized community that can together build the Web3.0 experience that will bring blockchain technology into the mainstream.

Compilation of our weekly updates from the last year: https://www.notion.so/Cardstack-Updates-7a516107f5a84858a3e0682dfd9a93f3#a64a2e7f815149149c6937915554c787

Chainlink Achieves Major Scalability Upgrade With Mainnet Launch of Off-Chain Reporting (OCR)

In addition to supplying more data on-chain through the launch of new oracle networks, OCR brings a variety of other notable enhancements to the Chainlink Network:

- Increased decentralization of oracle networks to generate additional accuracy, availability, and tamperproofness for Chainlink users.
- Higher frequency on-chain oracle updates to provide even more precise and up-to-date data to smart contract applications that may be more sensitive to small price movements.
- Cost-efficient onboarding of new nodes to further decentralize participation in oracle services run on the Chainlink Network.
- Reduced on-chain network congestion by lessening the load Chainlink oracle networks place on high-demand blockchain networks like Ethereum.
- Reduced oracle network latency to ensure data is rapidly provided to smart contracts even during blockchain network congestion and extreme market volatility.

Read more: https://blog.chain.link/off-chain-reporting-live-on-mainnet/

We have begun to implement a series of UI/UX updates for Stakenet Cloud, which will continue to receive constant frontend and backend updates

The total value of hosted XSN Masternodes in the Stakenet Cloud is now over 10 million Dollars!

The Fourth Storeman Group Begins On March 1st, 2021; BTC-Ethereum wanBridge Will Be Live!

The Storeman Group has been running for more than three months since the first group opened on November 21st, 2020. According to the cycle parameters, the fourth Storeman Group will begin its selection on March 1st, 2021.

The fourth Storeman Group will adopt a brand-new cross-chain mechanism — Universal Multi-chain Bridges With Shared Staking Assets. After this Group enters the working status on March 9th, the BTC-Ethereum direct bridge and the combined Storeman Group will come into play.

Make certain to prepare your node if you want to participate in the fourth group, or to register to withdraw if you are a current Storeman node and wish to withdraw.

More details :  https://medium.com/wanchain-foundation/the-fourth-storeman-group-begins-on-march-1st-2021-btc-ethereum-wanbridge-will-be-live-cccae86a8f6f

The Problem With Brand-Based Contracts
Smart contracts, in the simplest terms, from a user's point of view, are math-based contractual agreements. I think the way to contrast them is to think about brand-based contractual agreements. This will highlight the notion and utility of something called "tamper-proofness," because a lot of the time, blockchains are explained in these technical parameters of tamper-proofness and reliability, and censorship-resistance and immutability, and these concepts don't always transfer over to use cases.

More details: https://blog.chain.link/brand-based-vs-math-based-agreements/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Announcement: 9736 sats per SOV. Origin SOV token distribution schedule and Voting on SIP-006-amendment:

The Origin sale was oversubscribed. Sovryn paused deposits to the Origin sale in order to avoid receiving too many funds, which would necessitate many manually processed redemptions. In total, over 200 BTC was received. However, after accounting for donations and redemptions the total amount of BTC eligible for SOV distribution is 194.7. As a result, 5.29 BTC of the potential allocation remains unclaimed.
The team has reached a consensus that it is not worth reopening deposits to collect these 5.29 BTC, as that dev effort can be better spent on further development of the system, and onboarding new users to the platform who participated in the Origin sale.
Therefore it is proposed to distribute the allocated 2M SOV to the current set of depositors, this would set the effective price at 9736 sats per SOV.
Proposal
Resolved:
    1    Distribute 2,000,000 SOV to participants that deposited BTC in the Origins pre-deposit, at a clearing price of 9736 sats per SOV.
    2    No further changes to SIP-0006

more info here https://forum.sovryn.app/t/sip-0006-amendment-1/294

Voting on SIP-006 will commence at 12:00 pm UTC tomorrow February 25th, and close at 12:00 pm UTS on Thursday February 26th.

After SIP-006 has passed, SOV Token distribution will be initiated between Monday March 1st and Tuesday March 2nd.

SOV holders will receive an email informing them that their tokens are claimable. rBTC are required on your wallet to pay transaction fees.

There will be a clearly labeled button in the sovryn dapp to claim your SOV.

Upon claiming your SOV, your account will be whitelisted to use the dapp.

Remember: Your claimed SOV will be vested (locked) in your portfolio until 26th March, after which they will become liquid (tradeable). Until then you can participate in voting on SOV SIPS, or use them on the dapp.

Thank you for your patience. Stay sovryn!

We have just released Lisk Service 0.2.0.

This version adds support for Lisk SDK 4.0.0 and is compatible with Lisk 2.0.0-beta.1 for Desktop.

For more details, please refer to GitHub: https://github.com/LiskHQ/lisk-service/projects/2