Year in review and plans for the futureDear friends, the outgoing 2021 turned out to be interesting and eventful. Throughout the year, we have been working tirelessly to make UMI better and popular with a huge number of people. You supported us, believed in us and helped develop the cryptocurrency. Thank you for that!
It was a real Ox (Bull) year for the entire crypto market (isn’t it metaphorical?) and for us, too — UMI has reached new heights, has grown stronger and is ready to show its unique nature and prospects to the entire world.
We’ll take you through all the events, step by step.
First half of 2021 — UMI popularizationIn the first half of 2021, we mainly focused on the spread of the cryptocurrency and its popularization. Our user base was growing at an incredible pace that some crypto projects wouldn’t achieve in an entire lifetime. Trading volumes and activity in the UMI network also increased.
Here are some significant events that highlight our efforts to popularize UMI:
Blockchain Wave. In April, UMI was presented at the international Blockchain Wave conference in Antalya. We did not just participate in this international event — we became its title sponsor. Thanks to this, many crypto enthusiasts and crypto market experts have learned about UMI.
Supreme Blockchain. In May, UMI became the title sponsor of the Supreme Blockchain conference in Dubai. This is a truly global event for the crypto industry that all the leading media write about, including Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance and Business Insider. They all mentioned UMI as a title sponsor. Here’s the video report from the Supreme Blockchain conference —
https://youtu.be/FA3X4YeI-h0.
UMI’s anniversary. June 1 was a significant day for all of us because this is when UMI was launched! In the outgoing year, our community celebrated the first UMI’s anniversary all over the world – in Dubai, China and Indonesia. In particular, we would like to mention Dubai because it was there that the brightest holiday honoring UMI was attended by crypto experts, celebrities, representatives of the business elite and ruling families of the United Arab Emirates. They all discussed development prospects, features and advantages of UMI compared to other cryptocurrencies. As a gift, the Burj Khalifa – the tallest skyscraper in the world — was painted in the colors of UMI and gave an incredibly beautiful presentation show. It was an amazing and large-scale event. Watch the video report here —
https://youtu.be/_pcFhMEIGcg.
Listings. Listing on the BTC-Alpha exchange, as well as CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko. At the end of the first half of 2021, UMI began to grow even faster and found new audience. UMI was added to the new BTC-Alpha crypto exchange which made it possible to list it on the popular crypto market data aggregators — CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko. Subsequently, we worked with CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko to update the data on the UMI page and continue to do so until now.
However, we were not only engaged in popularizing UMI during the first half of 2021. We also gradually improved its technical features: namely, we improved the mobile app and cryptocurrency code. Thus, in late May, an easy-to-use version of the validator node was presented which allows anyone to support the operation of the UMI blockchain, thereby increasing network security. This made the UMI network even more decentralized because each of you can install a node and ensure compliance with the network rules.
Improving UMI’s technical base eventually allowed us to launch, in early autumn, a node that can work in ‘turbo’ mode and is capable of withstanding a load of 65,535 transactions per second. Moreover, we proved in practice that we can handle such a high throughput. UMI officially became the fastest payment system in the world, having proven the high throughput in both test and main networks.
In early autumn, we also released a new validator node with the desktop wallet functionality. It allows you to manage your coins without having to visit the official website. You can also use it to support the network: verify transaction authenticity in the UMI network and monitor compliance with the blockchain rules.
Change of the development vector and creation of UMI OneAppIn the second half of 2021, we continued to popularize UMI. To do this, we listed our cryptocurrency on several other exchanges, including Bithumb Global (BitGlobal) and Bibox. But, more importantly, we changed the vector of development in the second half of 2021.
In 2021, we also faced a number of difficulties. Thus, staking with a high percentage negatively affected UMI pricing. We actively looked for a way out and came to the conclusion that we have lots of prospects in the DeFi market. But we could only enter it if we stopped staking. However, we couldn’t make such large-scale decisions without the approval of our large UMI community, so we decided to have a universal decentralized vote.
On October 21, we published the Manifest — a document that presented our vision of the UMI OneApp DeFi platform. In it, we also offered the community a choice: either we continue to stake UMI, or we stop staking and start developing a top-end DeFi platform based on the high-tech UMI blockchain.
On October 25, the decentralized voting was launched . Any UMI holder could take part in it. On November 1, the voting ended. Over 90% of those who voted chose the path of development – stop staking, integrate the deflationary mechanism by burning UMI and develop the UMI OneApp DeFi platform where UMI would be a native coin. Voting results –
https://app.umi.top/yet/voting.
Immediately after the voting ended, we began to turn our plans into reality: update all UMI documentation and website, as well as develop smart contracts and other tech tools to launch UMI OneApp.
At the same time, we ordered an audit of the UMI code from the American cryptocurrency, blockchain and smart contract security firm Bramah Systems. It successfully ran the test and ruled that the UMI code was safe, had no vulnerabilities or external dependencies and was written from scratch in full compliance with the best practices. Bramah System posted audit results on its website —
https://bramah.systems/audits/Umi_Software_Review.pdf.
In late November, we launched a new node which made it technically possible to issue tokens based on the UMI blockchain and a new type of transaction — Burn. Using this mechanism, over 400 million UMI have already been burned, and burning goes on.
On December 29, an extremely important release happened — release of the first beta-version of UMI OneApp — a whole universe of DeFi solutions in one place. UMI OneApp
https://app.umi.top/.
Further development of UMIAs you can see, we have a few things to be proud of in the outgoing year. However, this is just the beginning because we have just started developing UMI as a top-end blockchain for various DeFi protocols. We plan to make UMI OneApp the best platform for launching and using decentralized applications. Lots of new discoveries and conquests lie ahead of us. We have already planned the following for 2022:
Further development of UMI OneApp. This is our most important goal. This is about improving the available solutions and developing new ones. We intend to make UMI OneApp a place where absolutely all crypto users — both experienced crypto users and beginners — will be able to find the DeFi tools they need. The first beta-version of the platform presented on December 29 is just the beginning. We will launch all the products and solutions that we presented in the Manifest, and then we will work on improving and developing UMI OneApp. Moreover, in addition to the desktop version, a convenient mobile app will be there for you.
The next major update is scheduled for the first quarter of 2022, and we hope that we will be able to make you happy.
Listings on new exchanges. We will make UMI even more accessible and well-known. To achieve this goal, we have planned new listings on awesome cryptocurrency exchanges. In particular, we are working on listing UMI on the most popular crypto exchange — Binance. However, to achieve this goal, we need to secure a few more important listings on major exchanges. And we intend to do this.
Further popularization of the cryptocurrency. We intend to continue using all available tools to spread information about UMI and UMI OneApp benefits, such as PR campaigns in the world’s leading crypto media. After all, we have a lot to tell the world about
Dear friends, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to you for all your support. We are confident that together we will succeed — and UMI will become Number One in the decentralized finance market.
Happy New Year!
Love, UMI Team!