Dear Idena community,

⚡️A new version of the Idena node 0.29.0 has been released. It's a hard fork update.

✅ Please update your node if you vote for the upcoming changes.

The voting starts automatically on May 17th at 8:00 am UTC.

Hard fork changes:
- Flip reporting improvement
- Voting discrimination (IIP-3)
- Quadratic staking (IIP-4)
- Protection of identities with Human status
- Oracle voting termination improvement
- Online mining status for pool
- Bug fix

See the details of the seamless hard fork activation procedure in the blog post.

Once the hard fork is activated the mining nodes running the previous version will get a mining penalty in 1.5 hour.

Dear Idena community,

✅ The hard fork update has been successfully activated at the block number 4421489

👉 Please update the node version to 0.29.0

The new client version will be released soon.

Dear Idena community,

⚡️ Quadratic staking is live on IDENA Web app. A new version of the desktop app will be released soon.

💰 Stake $IDNA and get more rewards for the next validation

Calculate your rewards here 👇
https://www.idena.io/staking

🔥 The new issue of IDENA Chronicles is out 🔥

👉 Quadratic staking in action, UI updates and more....
https://medium.com/@idena.network/idena-chronicles-0086-c80997d9c785

Read the Russian edition by @WorldIdena here 👇
https://medium.com/@idna.project/2d6b2af43eb6

There is a new version of the Idena Desktop App available: 0.31.0

Changes:
1. Support quadratic staking
- Stake replenishment
- Show APY for stake
- Show staking rewards in the validation report
2. Reporting improvements
- Allow "Approve/Report" votes to be reset during validation
- Show the number flips for which user abstained before submitting the answers
3. Bug fixes
- New Oracle voting form bug fix
- Sign raw transactions bug fix (dna://raw)
- Translation bug fix

Update is recommended.

👆Some of the nodes are still outdated after the hard fork

❗️Do not forget to update the node version to 0.29.0 for the upcoming validation

☝️ Estimated staking rewards for various stake amounts:
- 1.6M+ iDNA have recently been locked
- 250+ identities have replenished their stakes
- smaller stakes get higher APY

👉 Stake your coins to make the distribution of rewards fairer

⏰ Validation ceremony starts in 4 hours

New to Idena? Take part in the validation ceremony and join the network!
👤 Create your account in the Web App
📨 Find and activate your invitation
🤖 Validate your identity and get rewards 💸

Have an invitation left? Share it now to get maximum rewards for new validated identities!

🤝 Check on all your invitees and make sure they are ready for the validation

Follow our guide to make sure all your invitees validate:
👉🏻 How to get maximum rewards from your invites

app.idena.io

⏰ Validation ceremony starts in 30 minutes

Get ready!

🌐 Web App:
👉🏻 Log in to your account
👉🏻 Activate your invite if you haven't done it yet
👉🏻 Check you are connected to a shared node: your connection status should be Online
👉🏻 Make sure you have Wait for validation status

💻 Desktop App:
👉🏻 Keep your node synchronized
👉🏻 Make sure you have Wait for validation status

⚡️Get ready!!!⚡️

Go🚀🚀🚀

Idena validation results

👤 Identities validated: 12,892

💸 Validation rewards paid: 545,232 iDNA

🚫 Reward for flip report: 7.063 iDNA

Minimum total score for Humans to get the second invitation and Verified to get an invitation: 100%

There is a new version of the Idena Node available: 0.29.1

Changes:
1. Update node RPC to display correct data on the client:
- Replenished stake amount
- Epoch number for undelegation
2. Allow transaction estimation without signature

See github for more details. Update is recommended.

📣 Please retweet and tag relevant influencers and journalists
🔥 Let’s make some noise 🔥

https://twitter.com/IdenaNetwork/status/1534218647534714880

Dear Idena community,
We invite you to test the release candidate of the Idena node: 0.29.2-rc0
Download the rc-version of the node manually if you'd like to join the testing.

Changes:
- IPFS migration to version 0.12.2

🚨Please read it:
1. IPFS migration requires extra space on your hard drive. Make sure to have free space required for another copy of your /ipfs folder.
2. If the node can not start please delete /ipfs folder.
3. IPFS migration may take some time when the node starts for the first time.

We plan to release these changes soon unless negative feedback is received. For feedback, join the discussion on the github.

A new post is published on Hackernoon!

Let's make synchronous testing known and adopted outside of Idena. Click-farms can host millions of fake accounts. There is no other way of measuring unique real people on social media.

👉 Please comment and retweet:
https://twitter.com/IdenaNetwork/status/1534911616650817536

🚨 A prize of 25,000 iDNA will be paid to those who get positive feedback from Elon Musk on this proposal. Good luck!

Dear community,
We're happy to announce that Decentralized Ads is live on the Idena Web app 🚀

👉 Create your ads and reach Idena audience as advertisers

👉 Review ads as Idena Oracles and get rewarded. Reject inappropriate and malicious ads. Only oracles who voted in the majority are rewarded.

👉 Watch ads in a privacy-preserving way.
Note that clicking on ads may expose your IP address🚨

👉 Advertisers compete for your attention by burning coins.
Only Top-3 relevant ads are showing for you 🔥🔥🔥

Take a look at our guide on how to create an ad in IDENA 👇
https://medium.com/idena/how-to-create-an-ad-in-idena-142381bec8f5?2

Note: Showing ads during the prime time (before and after validation) will be added soon. Idena desktop app will be updated later.

Dear Idena community,

⚡️The new issue of IDENA Chronicles is here⚡️

Let's take a break from the cryptocrash and read some positive news about Idena network development

We keep building 💪

👉 Read the Russian edition by @WorldIdena

IDENA validation day is coming soon 🎉

Stake your iDNA to earn Quadratic staking rewards🔥

👉5.4M iDNA is currently locked
👉500+ identities replenished their stakes
👉The more identities stake, the more even the distribution of rewards

Calculate your staking rewards here

Ads is the lifeblood of the Internet. Privacy, user control and decentralization is the new Web3 paradigm. Classic ads do not fit into it.

Can decentralized ads work?

Find out how Sybil-resistance makes DeAds possible on Web3👇

https://medium.com/@idena.network/decentralized-ads-the-web3-solution-of-advertising-5a55c4f938ba?1