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Elrond recently announced the announcement of an exciting partnership with Opera.
Web3-friendly Opera browser integrates Elrond blockchain services: "Our aim is to be an understandable and secure entry point to Web3 for anyone interested in crypto."

Sorry didn't see that this is the announcement topic 

Fully Regulated Fund, Skynet EGLD Capital, Raises $40M+ USD To Invest In The Elrond Ecosystem

Skynet EGLD Capital is the first licensed fund to accept in-kind subscriptions in Elrond Network blockchain’s native currency EGLD. The firm announced today that it has raised more than USD 40 Million for supporting the development of the Elrond ecosystem.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-licensed-fund-skynet-egld-capital/

Barcelona FC Footballer Launches Medusa Art NFTs on Elrond Network

  -  FC Barcelona footballer Daniel Alves ventures into NFTs.
  -  He announces he has joined the exclusive Club Gorgon on Elrond Network.
  -  Fans can now mint their Medusa club membership NFT on Club Gorgon.

The FC Barcelona player recently announced that he has teamed up with Deni Dudaev, simply known as Oxdeni to be a part of the Club Gorgon NFT project. Alves’ excitement can be seen written all over his tweet as he reveals he is “in love with Medusa art.”
I’m happy to announce that I have teamed up with @0xdeni to be part of @clubgorgon #NFT project. I’m in love with Medusa art and really like the team’s vision for the future. Club Gorgon is a members only #Phygital Art Club on #ElrondNetwork. We are launching on 20.02.2022

Source: https://coinquora.com/barcelona-fc-footballer-launches-medusa-art-nfts-on-elrond-network/

A Powerful Catalyst For Web3 Communities: All Metabonding Tokens Will Be Listed In The Maiar App. The Website Is Live, Projects Apply

The Maiar App is the spearhead of end-user adoption for internet-scale blockchain technology and the projects built on top of them. Designed to onboard anyone anywhere in a matter of seconds, the Maiar App will be the gateway into Web3 for the next billion people.

One of the super-powers that the Metabonding Web3 community accelerator provides to all participating projects is listing their tokens directly in the Maiar App. Already participating tokens such as AERO, EFFORT or ZPAY will soon be listed.

The Metabonding webpage has just gone live. Make sure to check it out, and if you are a project building on Elrond, apply for Metabonding using the “Projects Apply” button.

https://maiar.exchange/metabonding

Source: https://elrond.com/blog/metabonding-tokens-listed-in-maiar/

I wanted to take part in First token sale on Maiar Launchpad - Holoride, but unfortunately the citizens of my country were not admitted to this sale. I live in Ukraine and I cannot understand why this happened.
I just say that at that moment Elrond costs 330 bucks.

The whole ecosystem of Elrond (and expanding)

The Maiar exchange is ready! Stake your MEX or foresee some liquidity on maiar.exchange

Mex economic details: https://maiar.exchange/mex-economics.pdf

More than 100 Million USD total value has been locked on the launch day.

The Maiar Exchange is about to launch.
Claim MEX on November 07, add liquidity on November 16 and farm MEX on November 19.

https://maiar.exchange/

"It’s time to build. Introducing the Innovations Of The Elrond Architecture And Our Developer Toolkit".

Everything mankind has achieved was through building.

Cities. Roads. Hospitals. Engines. Power plants. Industries. Institutions. The internet.

Financial systems enabling them to operate and grow.

Elrond is the next big thing.

Compliant Tokenization Of Real Estate, Equity, Securities, And Other Assets On The Elrond Blockchain Via Stobox


Elrond has started a collaboration with Stobox, a technology company that is part of a new wave of digital services, offering their customers technology and consultancy for digital assets and tokenized security, while being 100% tokenized themselves.

Read more here

EGLD Is Now Available On The Licensed And Regulated EU Exchange Kriptomat


EGLD can now be purchased on Kriptomat. The exchange is licensed and regulated in the EU and allows one-time or recurrent buys. Payment methods include funding via SEPA bank transfers or direct purchases with credit cards or digital solutions such as Sofort, Skrill, and Neteller.

https://elrond.com/blog/egld-eu-licensed-regulated-exchange-kriptomat

Web Games And Apps Powered By eGold And Elrond Tokens On The Saito P2P Decentralized Network



We have started a collaboration with Saito to empower developers to use eGold and other tokens issued on the Elrond Network in web applications and games running on the Saito decentralized peer-to-peer network.

Saito is an open network that runs cryptocurrency applications in browsers without plugins, private APIs, and non-open infrastructure.

Our collaboration will focus on making the two networks interoperable, so that Saito developers and users can add eGold and Elrond ESDT tokens as the currency fueling their applications and games, such as the ones already available for testing with the Saito Arcade.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/egold-esdt-powered-web-apps-saito/

The Maiar Exchange will offer deep liquidity for projects building with our tech & instant global access for their communities.

Audits, tests & improvements are currently fortifying the hypergrowth engine of the @ElrondNetwork prior to its launch.



As the Maiar audits & testing continue, we keep adding new functionalities as well. We implemented a smart contract for flash-minting tokens & made all the smart contracts more customizable. Other new features in development.

We are close to finalizing our own implementation of the Elrond-Ethereum bridge: ERC20, ERC721, ERC1155 bi-directional transfers will enable liquidity to flow between the two chains. Improvements, fixes, fuzzer, components sync & audits.

Soft Restart is now on the public testnet! The ability of a validator to gracefully shuffle between shards without requiring to be "hard restarted" is important for smoother network operation overall.

Other notable achievements:
- Final fixes & tests carried on the feature that allows the node to synchronize large trie nodes
- Added test scenario for the in-process trie sync if the node's DB got corrupted
- Endless reviews & bughunt/bugfix sessions
- Refactored the old databases deletion mechanism to avoid any edge cases or delays that might appear when shuffling out
- Added additional fields in API responses for addresses & hyperblocks
- Add sorting on auction & orders in nft service
- Refactored integration project on Ledger
- PR in order to support Elrond in Ledger Live
- Script to check flags on startup for internal testnets
- Ansible wrapper for deploying scripts on internal testnets & automatic flag checks
- Tested Kubernetes autoscaling on devnet
- erdjs: getting the balances for ESDT tokens, balance builder improvements
- Add trading information on maiar exchange microservice for swap pools
- Small fixes for Maiar Exchange microservice
- Finish the implementation on the API route /transaction/cost, in order to can compute the cost of complex transactions
- Created the factory needed to integrate event-notifier with elrond-go
- Bug hunt & bugfix for the trie improvements
- Added Github action for elrond-config-testnet, elrond-config-mainnet & elrond-config-devnet repositories that will push on Dockerhub docker images on every release
- Added documentation on how to use the new docker images
- Finished websocket & graphql event dispatchers & the subscriptions hub
- Added a new index in the Elasticsearch database that will keep a list of all the NFT's/ SFT's tags. This new list will also contain the number of NFTs/ SFTs with a given tag
- Added Github action for elrond-config-testnet, elrond-config-mainnet & elrond-config-devnet repositories that will push on Dockerhub docker images on every release
- Improved trie traversing for snapshots & checkpoints
- System test & branch testing
- Testing Delegation smart contract upgrade
- System test output script improvements.
- Implemented proxy provider for erdcpp, which can: query account info, send transactions & query transaction status
- Implemented message signature verifier, which can verify a signed message by seed, public key, or public address
- PolyNetwork relayer worked on receive events & send to smart contracts
- Update PolyNetwork dependencies & fix compatibility issues
- vm-common: moved elrond-go code to a new repository in order to enhance development on multiple projects
- Refactoring elrond-go to make it easier to integrate different components in different projects
- New vm-common integration is done in Arwen, indexer & elrond-go as well
- Documentation of the elrond-wasm serialization format, annotations & APIs
- More fuzzing of Arwen's SC-to-SC interactions: nested calls of different types
- Finished implementation of Bonding Curve SC, started Mandos tests
- Lend micro-service lending pool implementation
- Lend micro-service unit testing
"Stay Hungry Stay Foolish" & tune in soon for more of the #Elrondtech which powers the @ElrondNetwork ecosystem. Check our progress & get involved

https://github.com/ElrondNetwork
https://twitter.com/Oxsy_Sibiu/status/1409115051131387906

Maiar DEX progress. Another step forward.

Last week, we released several app iterations, with the first round of early feedback from Elrond community leads.

UX has been improving a lot, with new layouts and dark mode implemented. 🔥




We've fixed several bugs, and received great feedback suggestions.

Over the weekend, another round of testing will be coming in.

With known bugs fixed, & most improvements implemented, on Wed evening we intend to go through the 3rd testing wave w/ some great community leads.

In short, next week will be an even more heavy testing week.

So, hyperfocus on heavy testing, bug fixes, and improvements.

Next update on the Maiar DEX will come during the next weekend.

Once this testing phase has been finalized, the great Battle of Yields begins!

The @ElrondNetwork is built by a hardcore team of entrepreneurs, engineers and researchers who can literally build rockets.
 
Here’s a great example of resourcefulness.
 
Sebastian @Oxsy_Sibiu is an Elrond core dev and *Three times ⚽ @robocup_org medalist*. 👇



RoboCup is a competition between humans who program software entities to act together & quickly adapt in an adversarial environment.
 
It’s no surprise that the Elrond consensus mechanism that Sebastian has helped develop is one of the most robust in the blockchain space.

His AI virtual football team is challenging the world's best for the 17th time in a row in #RoboCup2021 ⚽
 
In a battle of AI & team strategy, independently moving software athletes play soccer on a virtual field.



With an excellent standing of 9/2/1/ W/D/L his team is a podium contender & our clear favorite!
 
He sailed through the qualifying rounds, the best 8 in the world remain. Will he win?
 
Tune in to watch Oxsy live
 
⏰ Saturday June 26 (today) 8:00 UTC

Road To Decentralization: MGStaking, ProCrypto, And Titan Stake Join Elrond As Staking Providers

The start of Elrond Staking Phase 3  has been a tremendous success. The increase in capacity resulted in 63% of the eGold circulating supply being locked for staking and outstanding demand still exists.

As a result, all our official staking partners have seen their capacity filling up quickly. Several new providers have risen to the challenge and have set up their staking pools using the Delegation Manager.

Today we are happy to announce that three of the new players are now officially joining the Elrond ecosystem as staking providers - welcome MGStaking, ProCrypto, and Titan Stake!

Road to decentralization: three new staking providers will help secure the @ElrondNetwork and bootstrap our PoS economy.

The @ElrondNetwork protocol & tools are created so any developers with Rust/C/C++/JS/etc can integrate blockchain functionality into their applications’ tech stack.
No new SC language means fewer obstacles, more devs & resources.
All building on Elrond.



The Governance Smart Contract has been updated to make it easy for delegators & validators to vote proportionally with their staked $EGLD amounts. Added the possibility to vote with not staked $EGLD, locking it for the duration of the vote.

The NFT marketplace has been updated with additional information about the top bidder & bid value. Elasticsearch has been updated to get the full NFT history, automating the process of building an NFT’s provenance.

Released elrond-wasm 0.17.0, which contains:
- ability to create integration tests based on arwen-mandos
- send API refactor
- payment_nonce annotated arguments

Other notable achievements:
- Development branch update, finalized fixes that could have triggered out-of-memory exceptions
- 3 testnet upgrades that prove the v1.1.59 is the mainnet RC version & is working as designed

Fixed a delegation manager broken functionality for staking phase 3.5
- Refactoring & improving the state package
- finished code coverage on Arwen
- created Bonding Curve SC
- Changed the elliptic curve type to being treated as bigInt type is, in Arwen & elrond-wasm

Moved the bigInt context to one bigger new created managedTypes context that also contains the elliptic curves + further minor improvements & little testing in Arwen
- Updates on Elrond-Ethereum bridge smart contracts

Stablecoin smart contracts updates, testing + added another component (SC for locking stablecoins & receiving rewards)
- Rust framework: Using the built-in TokenIdentifier wherever possible + cleaning up some of the functions in SendAPI

Improved distribution of reward calculation from DEX Farm Contract
- Made changes to DEX & Distribution SCs so that we'll have no payable contract in order to nullify the risk that a user accidentally just sends tokens to the SCs

Read more: https://twitter.com/mihaiiuga3/status/1399003274355908610

DeFi Shopping App Curate To Integrate eGold Payments And Mint NFTs On Elrond

The collaboration will focus on enabling eGold payments in the platform. The app will also allow NFTs to be minted on the Elrond blockchain. Furthermore, our mainnet will be interoperable with Curate’s own PoS blockchain X-Chain, which will allow assets to flow between the two networks.

More information: https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-payments-nft-curate/