Gitcoin has integrated Idena to make quadratic funding and Gitcoin grants resistant to bots.

Idena validated users are granted with 25% Trust bonus which gives a higher match for their grant contributions. We encourage the Idena community to make use of it by donating to any projects you like within Gitcoin Grants Round 9 ongoing until March 31st.

https://medium.com/idena/gitcoin-integrates-idena-to-add-sybil-resistance-to-gitcoin-grants-6730bb905053

Dear Idena community,

As we need more time to test the upcoming changes, we decided to postpone the hard fork release until Monday, March 22.

The hard fork will be activated no earlier than on March 24. It will be activated anytime after March 24, once the voting criteria are met (80%+ of online miners and 66.6%+ of validated addresses support the upcoming changes). Otherwise, the hard fork update will be blocked on March 28.

See more details about upcoming changes:
https://medium.com/idena/idena-hard-fork-announcement-mining-delegation-and-oracle-voting-8a5f9ddd9797

Dear Idena community,

Here are the results of our #IdenaSpeaking Tiktok challenge:

First prize (500iDNA) - www.tiktok.com/@sayalimarathe97/video/6938189445443226885
Second prize (300 iDNA) - https://www.tiktok.com/@soba4iy_kaif/video/6941494171144424709
Third prize (200 iDNA) - https://www.tiktok.com/@crypticpersonality/video/6936749287569116422

50 iDNA prizes go to:
https://www.tiktok.com/@pinetworkpi/video/6939443392409537797
https://www.tiktok.com/@yoyotiktokkj/video/6938035961737612549

Congrats! Please send your Idena address to @IdenaNetwork in pm on TikTok to receive your reward.

The rest of the random prizes are not awarded as other submitted videos do not meet the challenge criteria (do not tell a personal story, have no voice).

Dear Idena community,

A new version of the Idena node 0.25.0 has been released. It's a seamless hard fork update.

Changes:
- Mining delegation
- Oracle voting for delegated accounts
- Preventing the disclosure of secret votes when the vote is prolonged
- Preventing endless voting
- Protection against attacks on voting deposits
- Terminating expired votings
- Increased flip rewards
- Bug fix

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

Please update the node version. Once the hard fork is activated the mining nodes running the previous version will get a mining penalty in 1 hour.

Dear Idena community,

The hard fork update has been successfully activated at the block number 2643893.
Make sure you're running the latest node version 0.25.0.

The new Idena app version will be released soon to support the mining delegation.

Changes:
- Mining delegation
- Oracle voting for delegated accounts
- Preventing the disclosure of secret votes when the vote is prolonged
- Preventing endless voting
- Protection against attacks on voting deposits
- Terminating expired votings
- Increased flip rewards
- Bug fix

Please update the node version. Otherwise the mining nodes running the previous version will get a mining penalty.

There is a new version of the Idena node available: 0.25.1

Changes:
- Bug fix (node RPC returns actual delegation state)

Update is not mandatory

Dear Idena community,

We have released a bridge that converts iDNA coins on Idena blockchain to wrapped iDNA BEP20 tokens on Binance Smart Chain. After conversion, iDNA remain in custody of the Idena Bridge Vault, and wrapped iDNA are sent to your BSC address by BSC contract.

The bridge is hosted by the Idena Core Team, and kudos for the development of the bridge go to @RealMahmoud, a valued member of the Idena community.

Now you can trade wrapped iDNA on Pancake Swap and other BSC exchanges and hold it on BEP-20 wallets!

Idena contract address: 0x0De08C1AbE5fB86Dd7FD2ac90400AcE305138d5B

The bridge, transaction list, and bridge FAQ are available at bridge.idena.io.

There is a new version of the Idena app available: 0.22.2

Changes:
- Enable mining delegation option (node version 0.25.1 is required)
- Translations update: Romanian and French (by @RoUnit3d, @Syd-ai)
- Сlock checking improvement
- Flip editor improvements

Update is recommended but not mandatory for the upcoming validation

Tomorrow, on March 30, the Idena network will have the next validation ceremony. To stimulate the growth of the network and to spread the word about Idena, we invite you to take part in the “Invite a blogger” campaign.

Find a blogger or an influencer with high-quality content, give them an invitation to participate in the validation ceremony and ask them to cover this event for their audience. Provide the proof that the blogger has activated the invite and made a publication about the project, and get your reward!

This campaign is not limited only to validated Idena members, everyone can participate! If you want to take part, but you don’t have an Idena account, you can ask for an invite from the community or from the Idena team.

Read the details in the Idena blog.

Today is the Idena validation date
Validation ceremony starts in 4 hours 🚀

Please keep your nodes synchronized

Validation ceremony starts in 3 hours⏰

Make sure you have Wait for validation status

Keep your node synchronized

Validation ceremony starts in 2 hours⏰

Make sure you have Wait for validation status

Keep your node synchronized

Validation ceremony starts in 1 hour⏰

Make sure you have Wait for validation status

Keep your node synchronized

Validation ceremony starts in 30 minutes⏰

Make sure you have Wait for validation status

Keep your node synchronized

Get ready!!!

Go🚀🚀🚀

The Idena validation results

6816 identities are validated:
https://scan.idena.io/epoch/66/validation

Validation rewards paid:
https://scan.idena.io/epoch/66/rewards

Minimum Total score for Humans to get the second invitation and Verified to get an invitation: 98.214287%

There is a new version of the Idena node available: 0.25.2

Changes:
- Disable the finish oracle voting transactions

Please update

There is a bug found in the latest node version which makes it impossible to finish the oracle voting. We will release the seamless hard fork update to fix the issue. An additional announcement will be published.

Dear community,

We have added a new section to the Idena website - Idena Docs.

There you can find:
📃 Idena Whitepaper: manifesto, technology, tokenomics, and roadmap (work in progress, this section will grow and change with the growth of Idena);
📃 Idena node and desktop app documentation, Indexer API, and node RPC;
🔗 links to community resources.

We see Idena Docs as a community-driven repository of knowledge about Idena. Now this repository is basic, but we encourage you to contribute and add your content:
📄 how-to instructions for beginners;
📄 user guides and manuals on running and administering Idena apps;
📄 documentation for the developers;
📄 any other content you consider useful for the community.

Look for the ✏️Edit link at the bottom of each page. And don’t hesitate to contact us at info@idena.io or in the comments to this announcement if you have any proposals how to make the project better!

Want to join Idena but don’t know how to get an invite? Spread the word and take part in the next validation ceremony!

1️⃣ Follow Idena on Twitter
2️⃣ Repost this tweet with a comment: I want to join Idena because…
3️⃣ Tag at least two friends

📢 A shoutout to the Idena community: don’t let your invites expire!
👀 Follow our Twitter campaign, pick a new user who wants to join, send them your invite and earn rewards for validation 💸
✏️ Add a comment “Invited” to the tweet you choose to let the others know this user is invited.
⏳Use your invites early: give your invitees time to prepare for the validation ceremony and educate them to increase their chances for success. Your time is limited: one day before the validation ceremony the core team will give away invitations for those who won’t be invited by the community by that time.