‼️ IoTeX 2020 — Year in Review ✅
IoTeX had a monumental year -- we evolved from the IoTeX protocol to the IoTeX ecosystem and had our most productive, purposeful year to date.
In our 2020 Year in Review, we review the core pillars we completed this year — Blockchain, Tamper-proof Hardware, "Own Your Data", DeFIoT, User/Dev Tools — and how they will come together as one in 2021.
➡️ Read it now: https://iotex.medium.com/iotex-2020-year-in-review-9e1e29b78ff6
‼️ Ucam by IoTeX — Now Listed on Touch of Modern! 🌎
IoTeX is on a mission to bring blockchain + privacy to the masses. A big part of this is bringing Ucam to retailers that share our vision for a modern, user-centric future.
This is why we are proud to share Ucam is now listed on Touch of Modern, a leading e-commerce retailer for cutting-edge products with >14 million members!
➡️ Check out Ucam now in the Top 10 Best Sellers: https://www.touchofmodern.com/sales?sorted_by=hotness
👉🏼 IoTeX Halo Program: Q4 2020 Update, New Grants! 💻
The IoTeX Foundation has committed more than $5M to the Halo Grants program. Today, we are excited to share five new Halo-funded projects, pursuing browser wallets, medical supply chain, zkSNARKs, Arduino SDKs, and more on IoTeX.
➡️ Full details in our Halo Q4 Update: https://iotex.medium.com/halo-q4-2020-update-new-grants-completed-projects-991303376c22
‼️ IoTeX announces a new integration with Google BigQuery to expand the usage of verifiable data 🌎
We are excited to announce a new integration with BigQuery to make data from the IoTeX blockchain available to Google Cloud users. IoTeX data will be hosted and updated in real-time by Google Cloud as a publicly available dataset, which is now listed on the GCP Marketplace.
Thank you to Allen Day and the Google Cloud team, as well as Blockchain ETL & Helix Technologies, who received a Halo grant in July to support this project.
➡️ Full details: https://iotex.medium.com/iotex-completes-integration-with-google-bigquery-51bf3b8182f2
👉🏼 Burn-Drop Phase 2 started December 22! 🔥💧
As Bitcoin breaks all-time highs, we are excited to bring back community favorites: $BTC drops and $IOTX directly added to your buckets — stake IOTX, earn IOTX + ioBTC + ioETH + more with Burn-Drop!
In Burn-Drop Phase 2, 90 Million IOTX will be burned and $80,000 worth of ioBTC + IOTX will be dropped to eligible stakers, as we reach our goal of 2,000 new devices.
We are kicking things off Dec 22 with ioBTC drops, followed by IOTX drops that will be automatically triggered by our Burn-Drop DAO for every new IoTeX- registered device.
➡️ Full Details on Burn-Drop: https://medium.com/@iotex/iotex-tokenomics-burn-drop-to-bootstrap-1-million-iotex-devices-66a43a1a68d7
⚡️ ioTube cross-chain bridge has received a major upgrade! ✅
We have merged the old IOTX-E (ERC20) to Native IOTX swap tool with ioTube. You can now swap IOTX-E to Native IOTX directly with ioTube!
This is in addition to ioTube's original functionality to convert $WBTC $ETH $UNI $BUSD $PAXG and other ERC20 assets to XRC20 assets. Check out the new and improved ioTube now at: tube.iotex.io
➡️ Full ioTube instructions: https://community.iotex.io/t/iotube-converting-erc20-tokens-from-ethereum-to-iotex/1452
