The number one question I receive by friends after “What is Bitcoin?” is "What can I do with it?"

A few teams are working on a protocol that would add many innovative capabilities for Bitcoin users. It’s a decentralized sidechain called Echo, that aims to develop a suite of financial mechanisms and instruments.

We want to facilitate the development of applications that would make your lives as Bitcoiners more convenient. We will be hosting a hackathon soon with a few other teams in the industry to reward programmers and entrepreneurs with making the services that society actually demands. What application or service would be a value addition for you right now?  

If you want to read more about us
Site: https://www.Echo.org
Docs: https://www.docs.echo.org

Echo is a sidechain for creating decentralized applications that work with BTCitcoin. We believe this is a necessary project for the adoption of cryptocurrency as it removes the barrier to entry to Defi for those who own Bitcoin. We want to open the doors to hundreds of new usecases for our oldest most trusted Blockchain.

Echo implements the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and supports smart contracts written in Solidity & most of the major languages. We are looking for help on a few dApp projects and need some bounty sites to spread the word.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? We are looking for Crypto focused sites but general ones will do too




Our sites if you want to read more into what were up to Echo.org

Echo is the new network for running decentralized applications ("smart contracts") that interact with Bitcoin. It supports Ethereum based apps written in solidity along with C++, Go, Python, Rust, and more.

Our main website for the project is https://www.Echo.org



We are now introducing our beta release of the Echo Bridge!

This is our Webwallet chrome extension for managing decentralized applications and accounts. It’s a friendly way to interact with the Echo blockchain and add smart contracts.

You can test it out following this link

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/echo-bridge/ginklfodpcgldnicehmlpehfmgjhbdcl

For questions or further discussion on ECHO, please join our Discord here https://discord.gg/CVNfEWP

Echo is the network for creating sovereign, decentralized applications that work with Bitcoin. Similar to Bitcoin, no one entity controls or owns Echo– it is a decentralized sidechain built by contributors all around the world. Check out our site here https://Echo.org

1: Enhanced Registration Options

Apart from previous functionality to create accounts via autogenerated WIF, now users can provide their own WIF or public key and specify their parent or node IP/URL for account generation.
In layman’s terms this means it will be easier for you to manage multiple addresses through one central account.


2: Smart Contract New Functionality

View Contract Fee Pool Balance
Replenish Fee Pool Balance
Add and manage Contract Whitelist & Blacklist
Copy Contract ABI & Bitecode directly from Contract Info

3: Sidechain Operations

From this version, eETH and eBTC balance is always displayed to users. Sidechain deposit and withdrawal operations are also always at hand and can be initiated through Deposit and Withdrawal Buttons.


4: Delegation

By default, user accounts are generated via a public registrar. Delegation option allows users to redelegate their rights to issue messages to any account, including to their own one and thus make ECHO network even more decentralized.

Fixes:

Users can add ERC-20 token to Watch Tokens list simultaneously with adding a token through Watch Contract
Fixed bugs when sending eETH and eBTC
Added microanimation for Copy Icon

We hope these wallet improvements will be useful in an effort to make our platform more beneficial. Please consider taking a deeper look into this update on our Github
https://github.com/echoprotocol/echo-wallet/releases/tag/1.7.1

Welcome to a New Era

As Bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency ecosystem continue to mature, it’s becoming increasingly clear that public blockchains will replace today’s financial infrastructure with networks that are more open, programmatic, and sovereign. While Bitcoin has begun to reach scale as a global store of value, its use is still often siloed in centralized services that expose users to the risk of a trusted third party, like exchanges and custodians. To minimize this risk, developers and entrepreneurs have long sought to use Bitcoin in more expressive smart contracts that would enable users to access a variety of financial services, while remaining in control of their value at all times. Innovation has been strong to date, but still lags the true potential of Bitcoin-backed financial applications. That’s why we’re building Echo: a network for creating sovereign, decentralized applications that work with Bitcoin. With Echo, developers will be able to build a wide range of applications that integrate Bitcoin, helping usher in a new era of usability for the world’s first cryptocurrency.

Echo's mission is to enable a new, sovereign digital economy built with Bitcoin. We're building the infrastructure for an economic system that empowers all with the opportunity to interact with freedom and independence, creating abundant innovation, prosperity, and growth.

What is Echo?

Echo is a generalized smart contract protocol that enables efficient decentralized computing. It provides the infrastructure and developer tooling necessary to build and deploy scalable, high-performing decentralized applications.

Echo includes several main modules:

PoWR Consensus

Fast, final and scalable BFT consensus using Proof of Weighted Randomness (PoWR) also known as EchoRand. EchoRand uses a Verifiable Random Function (VRF) to randomly select a pool of block producers and block verifiers proportionally to their stake to validate each new set of transactions.

x64 Virtual Machine & EVM

Integrated virtual machines allow you to use smart contracts on the Echo network. Smart contracts can be written both in Solidity and in more familiar and convenient languages, such as C, C++, Rust, Go and many more.

Bitcoin and Ethereum Sidechains

The sidechain mechanism integrated into the protocol allows you to access BTC and ETH within the Echo network, using built-in two-way pegging, thus enabling their direct use in Echo smart contracts and enabling the development of new DeFi technologies and products.

Links to Begin

Our Site: https://echo.org/
Our Documentations: https://docs.echo.org/ 
Explorer: https://explorer.echo.org
Github: https://github.com/echoprotocol

Join the Discussion

Discord: https://discord.gg/UaPEbYk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ECH0Net

Yes, we are in testnet while we audit and finalize the last bits. We don't really do ETA's because we need to make sure we get it right. For now though you can mess around with converting erc20 smart contracts, running your own node, and downloading the mobile app.

Welcome to a New Era

As Bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency ecosystem continue to mature, it’s becoming increasingly clear that public blockchains will replace today’s financial infrastructure with networks that are more open, programmatic, and sovereign. While Bitcoin has begun to reach scale as a global store of value, its use is still often siloed in centralized services that expose users to the risk of a trusted third party, like exchanges and custodians. To minimize this risk, developers and entrepreneurs have long sought to use Bitcoin in more expressive smart contracts that would enable users to access a variety of financial services, while remaining in control of their value at all times. Innovation has been strong to date, but still lags the true potential of Bitcoin-backed financial applications. That’s why we’re building Echo: a network for creating sovereign, decentralized applications that work with Bitcoin. With Echo, developers will be able to build a wide range of applications that integrate Bitcoin, helping usher in a new era of usability for the world’s first cryptocurrency.

Echo's mission is to enable a new, sovereign digital economy built with Bitcoin. We're building the infrastructure for an economic system that empowers all with the opportunity to interact with freedom and independence, creating abundant innovation, prosperity, and growth.

What is Echo?

Echo is a generalized smart contract protocol that enables efficient decentralized computing. It provides the infrastructure and developer tooling necessary to build and deploy scalable, high-performing decentralized applications.

Echo includes several main modules:

PoWR Consensus

Fast, final and scalable BFT consensus using Proof of Weighted Randomness (PoWR) also known as EchoRand. EchoRand uses a Verifiable Random Function (VRF) to randomly select a pool of block producers and block verifiers proportionally to their stake to validate each new set of transactions.

x64 Virtual Machine & EVM

Integrated virtual machines allow you to use smart contracts on the Echo network. Smart contracts can be written both in Solidity and in more familiar and convenient languages, such as C, C++, Rust, Go and many more.

Bitcoin and Ethereum Sidechains

The sidechain mechanism integrated into the protocol allows you to access BTC and ETH within the Echo network, using built-in two-way pegging, thus enabling their direct use in Echo smart contracts and enabling the development of new DeFi technologies and products.

Links to Begin

Our Site: https://echo.org/
Our Documentations: https://docs.echo.org/  
Explorer: https://explorer.echo.org
Github: https://github.com/echoprotocol

Join the Discussion

Discord: https://discord.gg/UaPEbYk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ECH0Net

Hey Bitcointalk community, I wanted to formally invite you all to the Decentralization subreddit. We talk everything when it comes to cryptocurrency, governance, p2p & open source software, etc. If you're a reddit user aswell, feel free to give us a subscribe.

We want to make this subreddit best serve you, here's the link https://www.reddit.com/r/decentralization  

We also have a dedicated Discord with a few thousand users. Here's a link for that if you are a discord user https://discord.gg/rPeyNXM   

The Cryptex a hub dedicated to connecting analysts, miners, developers, and teachers in the Cryptocurrency community.

Here's a link if you want you join https://discord.gg/qnZwJDS