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Aion Mainnet launch — Kilimanjaro
On Wednesday April 25, 2018, Aion mainnet will officially launch with the release of the Kilimanjaro network. It has been a very exciting road to this point, and big thank you to the community! For all those participating in the testnet, your feedback and efforts are exceptional.

The Kilimanjaro network launch event will be live streamed at 10AM ET, so keep an eye on our social channels for the link. Shortly following the live event the node and reference miner resources will be released on the Aion Github. More details about the release will be available on our forum.

With the launch of Kilimanjaro Network, Aion sets the foundation for blockchain interoperability. In months following Kilimanjaro release, the Aion Token Bridge will be deployed. The Aion Token Bridge is built for transferring AION (ERC-20) tokens on Ethereum to flow seamlessly into and become native AION coins.
Thanks again to all the community for your support. Be sure to tune into the mainnet launch live stream, and see you at AionEX in Toronto on May 2nd!

The following is a summary of what is being released:
Aion Phase 1: Kilimanjaro Release
Virtual Machine — FastVM with EVM Source Compatibility
Aion FastVM is an enhanced Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), featuring 128-bit data word size for better performance. It uses LLVM JIT as execution engine and runs decentralized application at native speed. Due to the architecture change, the instruction set and the energy cost of each instruction has been optimized. In addition, solidity compiler has been updated so that it can generate code for the Aion FastVM.

Aion Proof of Work — Equihash 210_9
The Kilimanjaro Release utilizes an optimized equihash consensus algorithm we’ve named Equihash210_9. This is a modification to the equihash algorithm, which doubles the memory requirement while achieving the required block times.

Aion Core — Multi-Chain Framework, Wire Protocol (P2P), Tx Pool, Event Manager
Aion Core is a collection of foundational modules necessary to run the Aion blockchain. The multi-chain framework contains the foundational structure for the modules that constitute the Aion blockchain. The Aion Wire module is a peer-to-peer (P2P) communications protocol. This protocol sets the standard for how Aion nodes interface between themselves by defining communication message structures. Event Manager (RPL) is the serialization solution, encoding arrays of binary data in a structure for Aion core.

Aion APIs — Java API, Web3 API Compatibility
The Aion Web3 repo provides the tools for using the Aion compatible Web3 API. It contains the setup instructions, tutorial content, example use-cases and test multi-sig wallet. The API repo contains a Java implementation of the Aion blockchain kernel application programming interface, built using Java 8. It uses the ZMQ Java binding as the network transfer layer protocol for improved stability, reliability and security. This repo will also contain future API implementations.

Aion Interchain — Token Bridge and Interchain Communication
The Token Bridge is being developed for a post Kilimanjaro release. The Token Bridge is built for the purpose of migrating AION ERC-20 token supply from Ethereum to native AION coins on Kilimanjaro using a trustless interchain mechanism.

Aion’s full roadmap including the Denali and Everest releases is available on its website.

Join us Wednesday April 25, 2018 for the Aion Network mainnet official launch of the Kilimanjaro network via live stream starting at 10AM ET.

💥In preparation for AIONEX conference, we want to get our community involved in the day long conference.

🎬We're asking our community members to send us a short 5-15 second video saying Matt Spoke's catch phrase  "Dialing in from.... " and completing the sentence with your location and something about AION.

💾 Once it's recorded, sent it to me [email protected] via www.wetransfer.com

🎥 We'll take all these videos and edit it all the submissions, we'll also have token prizes for the best videos - so be creative!

There are several roles that provide rewards in Aion's economic model:

For the initial PoW release (this year Q2), rewards can be earned by mining.

On Aion-1 (2019 release, hybrid consensus), validators/nodes will receive rewards for processing transactions. Additionally, validator backers (DPoS stakers and PoI solvers) will earn rewards by supporting the validators.

The PoW and hybrid consensus releases will be bridged and coexist. AION's coin supply will exist on both chains, so mining will continue to generate rewards into the future.

Additionally, Aion bridges between blockchain networks will have their own distinct network of validators and fee distribution structures.

Further reading:

aion.network/downloads/aion.network_token-use_en.pdf

aion.network/downloads/aion.network_monetary-policy_en.pdf

here are some event updates:

🇨🇦FinTech Canada's Blockchain Economic Event
Thursday, April 19th, 2018  Sessions 9:00am - 5:00pm & Panels 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel 123 Queen St. W. Toronto, ON M5H 2N2
https://fintechcan.ca
Featuring talk by Aion's Kesem Frank.

🇺🇸Distributed Markets Chicago Conference
Monday, April 23, 2018  8:00am - 5:00pm
Navy Pier Aon Grand Ballroom - 600 E. Grand Avenue, Chicago IL 60611
https://markets.distributed.com/
Featuring talk by Aion's Matt Spoke.

🇺🇸Chicago Meet up : Meet & Greet & Learn w/ Aion & Enigma
Monday, April 23, 2018 6:30 PM to 9:30 PM at The Hubbard Inn
110 W. Hubbard Street · Chicago, IL Third Floor - Elevator in the Foyer
www.meetup.com/chicagoblockchainproject/events/249165073/
Featuring talk by Aion's Matt Spoke & Enigma's Tor Bair.

🇨🇦Hamilton Meet up: Examining Blockchain Interoperability with Aion Network
Tuesday, April 24, 2018, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
CoMotion on King - 115 King St East · Hamilton, ON
www.meetup.com/HAMILTON-BLOCKCHAIN/events/246952410/
Featuring talk by Aion's Matt Spoke.

🇨🇦2nd Annual Toronto Blockchain Conference
Tuesday,  April 24th, 2018, 8:00am - 4:00pm ( Networking 4:00pm - 8:00pm)
MaRS Discovery District Toronto -  101 College St, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7
www.blockchain-toronto.com/
Featuring talk by Aion's Kesem Frank.
           Also coming up:

🇨🇦May 2, Toronto - AIONEX, Aion's first major developer conference, https://aion.network/aionex/
🇨🇦May 3 - 5, Toronto - EDCON (Major Sponsor and Speaker slots) https://edcon.io/
🇺🇸May 14 - 16, New York City - Consensus 2018 (Founder Matt Spoke talk)   https://www.coindesk.com/events/consensus-2018/
🇺🇸May 14, New York City, Blockchain Week Official Event https://www.coindesk.com/events/consensus-2018/blockchain-week/
🇺🇸May 17, NYC - Meet-Up (TBC)

Future partnerships are a phone call away for Aion:

. Canada's largest Stock Exchange TMX VP & Board of Directors Member are Aion advisors
. Matt Spoke is Founding Board Member of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
. Matt is also a Fintech Advisor for the Ontario Securities Commission & Ministry of Finance.
. Nuco is a Founding Member of the Blockchain Research Institute
. Ethereum co-founder Anthony Di lorio is Advisor to Aion
. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is Advisor to Nuco, Aion’s parent.
. Ethereum co-founder Joeseph Lubin & Matt are cofounders of Muskoka Group
. Vitalik’s father, Dmitry Buterin is Angel investor in Nuco

Summary of the latest Aion Weekly Update (April 16th, 2018)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_jmlzl_1No

- 💜 New Aion website, logo, and branding! Check out https://aion.network
- 🎥 Matt Spoke is doing a TV interview! More details coming soon
- 🚀 Attendence ramping up for AionEx on May 2nd! https://aion.network/aionex/

🚨 And the moment we all have been waiting for... 🚨

- 🏁 MAINNET launching on APRIL 25th! Global livestream event will take place from Aion offices accross the world and stay tuned as community can participate in launch