Supercharging Exposure: The Worldwide Acclaimed UNTOLD Mega-Festival Partners With Elrond, To Create Unique NFT Moment And Accepts EGLD Payments

The worldwide acclaimed UNTOLD mega-festival and the largest in Europe this year announced that UNTOLD 2021 is entering a creative partnership with Elrond.

The creative collaboration will give all Untold attendees the chance to experience a special “NFT moment” which the organizers say will be a memorable experience that should not be missed. The resulting NFTs will be dropped in the Maiar NFT Marketplace at a later time, where attendees will be able to pick them up as part of their eternal digital collection of important life moments.

Additionally, the collaboration fees between the two partners will be settled in EGLD and will be kept as such on the Untold SRL balance sheets, marking an important precedent for cryptocurrency surging as a relevant financial instrument in the entertainment industry.

“Blockchain technology has immense potential for large gatherings of digital natives who for a brief period of time become part of a hyperlocal economy. This year we engage with EGLD tickets purchases and NFTs. We look forward to exploring additional use cases in the following editions, such as a festival economy running on semi-fungible tokens issued on the Elrond Network, or artists dropping NFTs live on stage, for all their Maiar fans to uniquely engage with.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond Network CEO.

#mission10 Day 14.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/untold-2021-egld-nft-moment

Retweet: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1427591560208789506?s=20

6 days ago we opened the @MaiarExchange to the most effective form of validation: chaos testing.

Thousands of community members have rushed to contribute their energy, feedback & ideas to building the DEX.

Here’s an update and next steps 🧵

#mission10 Day 15.

https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1428063145202003974?s=20

World’s First Officially Licensed Cricket Digital Collectibles Platform Rario To Drop Unique NFTs On The Elrond Blockchain

Rario is a cricket fans’ club, where lovers of the sport can collect, trade, and play with officially licensed digital collectibles ranging from player cards to video moments to cricket artifacts. Currently in beta, the Rario marketplace is set to launch in September.

As part of our collaboration, the Elrond blockchain will be integrated with the Rario marketplace, which enables users to own and trade their favorite NFTs issued on our mainnet.

“The efficiency of the Elrond blockchain makes it an ideal platform for dropping carbon-negative NFTs that are easy to own and inexpensive to mint and transfer. We look forward to the Rario integration that will allow millions of fans to own their favorite sports moments” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond Network CEO.

#mission10 Day 16.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/world-first-official-cricket-nft-elrond-rario/

Retweet: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1428355909353295883?s=20

Level-up your UNTOLD 2021 Festival Experience!

The world-acclaimed UNTOLD 2021 festival is the largest in Europe this year. It will bring together some of the biggest and hottest DJs, bands, and artists of the moment. It is forging an important trend for the entertainment industry by accepting EGLD payments for tickets.

Why should you, or anyone, purchase tickets with EGLD? Because it’s the smart thing to do: you use cutting-edge blockchain technology and get a 10% discount. 💡

Click below to learn more about how to get the discount and a chance to win 2 free tickets:
https://elrond.com/blog/egld-untold-discount-win-tickets

Digital Services Marketplace: The Black Hat Network MVP is Live on the Elrond Devnet

Black Hat Network is building a fully decentralized digital services marketplace, which leverages the power of the Elrond blockchain to automate things such as jobs management, escrows, and payments, to significantly reduce the fees to ~2%.

We’re excited to announce that their MVP (minimum viable product) is now live on the Elrond devnet. The team went a long way to build several smart contracts that handle job management and even purchasing xBHAT tokens with xEGLD. No sign-up is required; all you need to do is to log in with your Elrond account using Maiar, Ledger, or the web wallet.

“One of the most immediate and compelling use-cases for blockchain technology is the disintermediation of digital platforms that capture value by acting as a trusted third party. The Elrond blockchain is the high-performance layer of trust that the next billion people and businesses can benefit from, through platforms such as the one built by the Black Hat Network team.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond Network CEO.

#mission10 Day 17.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-devnet-mvp-black-hat-network

Try the MVP: https://mvp.bh.network/

Retweet: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1428718167933730816

At the core of Elrond is the fastest & most powerful WASM VM.

All the world's developers can use it to build financial products in any programming language & expand DeFi beyond the current “crypto” minority, to everyone, at internet-scale.

Weekly #elrondtech 🛠️

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Last week in Elrond ⬇️

🔊 Elrond partners with mega festival Untold
📡 Institutional capital access to Elrond via AlianceBlock
🏏 NFT's by world's first licensed cricket project Rario
💱 Services Marketplace live on devnet via BlackHatNetwork
🛠 Weekly #elrondtech
⚙️ Maiar Exchange update thread by Beniamin
💡 10% discount by paying with EGLD at Untold

⚙️ Milestones achieved:

• 715k accounts • 7.34M transactions • 12M staked

Ⓜ️ Maiar stake statistics:

📥 1.72 Million EGLD staked
👥 59,000+ people

📰 Media mentions:

Cointelegraph • StirileProTV • Adevarul • Gandul • BigNewsNetwork • ZiarulFinanciar • EDM • Cryptohamster • Crytptonews • DiarioBitcoin • CryptoToast • RaveJungle

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1429699145636405249?s=20

Live on Elrond: The Bengga App From Effort Economy Surges Beyond 100k Downloads While Still In Localized Beta

The Effort Economy is a platform that uses cryptocurrency, tokens, and NFTs to help increase brand awareness and user acquisition. It is designed to use a series of applications and engage users with play2earn mechanisms.

Its first application is Bengga, which features hypercasual games and allows players to earn for the time spent in the app. Currently in the beta stage for the Philippines only, the app already has 100,000+ downloads and is responsible for around 10,000 WEFFT (Wrapped EFFT) ESDT transactions on our network.

The company plans to go live with Bennga in September, followed by other apps such as an NFT marketplace and DeFi products, and will rapidly expand to the entire South-East Asia region.

“The combination between crypto and the play to earn model is responsible for the massive surge of interest for blockchain applications from the gamer communities in South-East Asia. We look forward to onboard them into the Elrond ecosystem through creative platforms such as the Effort Economy.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond Network CEO.

#mission10 Day 18.

https://elrond.com/blog/effort-economy-builds-on-elrond

Retweet: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1429818478018670598

A New Launchpad On Elrond: ChainBoost To Power Gamified IDO & NFT Offerings

ChainBoost is powered by ChainGuardians, our close partner that is building a powerful NFT ecosystem where creativity fuses with multi-chain DeFi innovation.

Their launchpad creates an environment where entrepreneurs and content creators can join forces with an engaged audience to make innovative ideas into reality.

Through our collaboration, the ChainBoost platform will integrate the Elrond blockchain to enable new products and their tokens to be deployed directly on our mainnet. It will also be possible to participate in launchpad events using ESDTs - Elrond Standard Digital Tokens.

“The most successful startups create powerful network effects by leveraging engaged audiences. When merged with the amazing Elrond supporters network, ChainBoost’s community-building mechanisms have the potential to become a superpower for the projects debuting on their launchpad” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond Network CEO.

#mission10 Day 19.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/new-elrond-launchpad-chainboost-chainguardians

Retweet: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1430180789459816449

Build Your Own Elrond Smart Contracts With Zero Code Via MyWish

You can be the architect of your own innovation without programming skills. We have started a collaboration with MyWish to explore the integration of the Elrond blockchain into their supported networks, which could enable anyone to deploy smart contracts on our mainnet without any programming skills required.

The MyWish platform offers a number of predefined smart contracts templates that allow you to create your own token, host your own token sale and airdrop, perhaps even get married on the blockchain.

“The next amazons and googles are perhaps one smart contract away. Platforms such as MyWish will allow everyone to have an equal opportunity in the new economy and deploy the next massive innovation on top of the Elrond Network.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond Network CEO.

#mission10 Day 20.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-smart-contracts-zero-code-mywish

Retweet: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1430501978837225476

Leading Infrastructure Provider “AUDIT.one” Joins The Elrond Ecosystem As Staking Provider And Decentralized Finance Innovator

Persistence ecosystem products are designed to stimulate global liquidity and enable seamless value exchange. Persistence is also working on developing inter-chain NFT/Metadata standards along with leading Proof-of-Stake networks/foundations and supporting the growth of the PoS ecosystem with their validator arm AUDIT.one.
Through our collaboration, Persistence will be operating Elrond Validator infrastructure, and engage with Elrond Network technology to deploy DeFi products and explore complex topics such as liquid staking.

“We were impressed with the high level of energy displayed by the Persistence team, which gave us a strong indication of the amount of effort and potential benefits that Persistence can contribute to the Elrond ecosystem and its proliferation as the infrastructure for the new internet economy” said Lucian Mincu, Elrond Network CIO.

#mission10 Day 21.

https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-staking-provider-auditone

Retweet: https://twitter.com/LucianMincu/status/1430903945170341893?s=20

Neobanking Platform BlockBank To Integrate Elrond Network EGLD And ESDT Tokens

BlockBank’s application is designed for professional traders and new retail market participants and will have a new version arriving this year. The app has four main components: a centralized custodial wallet, a non-custodial Web 3.0 wallet, banking, and an AI-powered Robo advisor.

EGLD and ESDT assets issued on the Elrond Network will be available in V2 of the BlockBank application, eventually enabling users to stake tokens and access DeFi products running on the Elrond Network.

“The integration of eGold and other Elrond tokenized assets in the robust and intuitive BlockBank app is another significant growth vector for easy access to blockchain innovation operating at internet-scale.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond Network CEO.

#mission10 Day 22.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/egld-esdt-blockbank-robo-advisory

Retweet: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1431225369504456707?s=20

Unique innovations such as Smart Accounts, with their ability to store large numbers of data points, make the Elrond network an unstoppable internet micro-services engine.

Weekly #elrondtech 🛠️

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Last week in Elrond ⬇️

🏛 Elrond integrated by NeoBanking Platform BlockBank
🎮 Bengga app live on the mainnet via EffortEconomy
🚀 A new launchpad: ChainBoost by ChainGuardians
💡 Build smart contracts with no code with MyWish
🖥 Validator arm of PersistenceOne joins Elrond
🛠 Weekly #elrondtech

⚙️ Milestones achieved:
• 723k accounts • 7.5M transactions • 12.06M EGLD staked

Ⓜ️ Maiar stake statistics:
📥 1.72 Million eGOLD staked
👥 59,000+ people

📰 Media mentions:

• LeJournalDuCoin • CryptoNewsFlase

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1432248160844398592?s=20

Leading Digital Custody Services Provider Copper.co Supports EGLD Token And Elrond Blockchain Assets

Copper’s multi-award-winning custody solution harnesses the security of MPC (Multi-Party Computation) technology. Their services and technology are tried and tested across 250 digital assets, more than 40 exchanges and in use by more than 300 institutional asset managers.

Through the collaboration, the two partners will create the opportunity for institutional players, fund managers, exchanges, trading avenues, and other market actors to get safe, secure, and compliant access to the enterprise-ready capabilities of the high throughput, low cost, carbon-negative Elrond Network blockchain technology, and EGLD, the digital currency underpinning it.

“Best in class digital asset custody services are essential for making the rapidly expanding Elrond ecosystem accessible to more institutional actors, markets, and geographies. With Copper as a robust custodian for assets on the Elrond Network, a new growth chapter is ready to begin for the internet-scale blockchain.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond Network CEO.

#mission10 Day 23.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-assets-digital-custody-copper

Retweet: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1432329441569558534

Unbound Creativity: The XP Network Multi-Chain NFT Bridge Goes Live On The Elrond Devnet

In its current implementation, the bridge allows NFTs to flow between test networks of Elrond, Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain, Huobi ECO (HECO) Chain, and the XP Network on Polkadot, with Cardano, Solana, Avalanche, Algorand, and others soon to follow.

Once in production, the XP Network multi-chain bridge will enable NFTs to flow seamlessly between all the aforementioned mainnets.

Elrond is the bridge design partner for XP Network and the first non-EVM blockchain integrated into their NFT bridge. This achievement demonstrates that interoperability between Ethereum Virtual Machine-based chains and WASM-VM-based chains is not only feasible but already close to going live.

#mission10 Day 24.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/crosschain-nft-bridge-xpnetwork-devnet/

Try the XP Network NFT bridge: https://bridge.xp.network/

Retweet: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1432718649769566208

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Decentralized End-To-End Hosting for Elrond dApps via the Cudos Distributed Cloud Computing Platform

We have started a collaboration with Cudos, a decentralized cloud computing network used by 300,000 businesses and individuals in over 145 countries.

The Cudos Validators Network is used by 300,000 businesses and individuals in 145 countries. Through the cooperation, applications running on the Cudos computing layer will be able to connect to the Elrond Network as a settlement layer.

This will enable Elrond developers to consume Cudo Compute resources that will provision virtually any WASM, container, or virtual machine workload to their distributed network with over 300,000 users.

Beniamin Mincu, Elrond Network CEO, said: “True decentralization needs to happen both at the settlement layer, from centralized financial systems to the blockchain, and at the compute layer, from centralized data centers to distribute compute networks. Platforms such as Cudos can efficiently complement the Elrond Network to offer true end-to-end decentralization.”

#mission10 Day 25.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-integrates-cudos-distributed-computing

Retweet: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1433074602452963333?s=20

Initial Game Offerings Come To Elrond Via The Seedify Blockchain Gaming Launchpad

Seedify is an incubator and launchpad for blockchain games, and gamers. The platform provides curated Initial Game Offerings (IGOs) that support quality blockchain games to get funded, build a community and helps them get marketing support and advisory.

Through our collaboration, the Seedify platform will integrate Elrond blockchain technology to allow Initial Game Offerings to issue their tokens directly on the Elrond Network.

A portion of the Seedify SFUND token supply will be bridged to our mainnet as ESDT tokens, which will allow users the option to contribute in ESDT SFUND tokens, and also enable SFUND holders to tap into DeFi opportunities on the Maiar Exchange and other products deployed on Elrond.

Beniamin Mincu, Elrond Network CEO, said: “Blockchain technology is enabling developers to efficiently build compelling play-to-earn mechanics into virtually any kind of video game, marking a significant turning point in the entertainment industry. Platforms like Seedify will help game creators leverage the power of the Elrond Network blockchain and NFT ecosystem for exciting new titles that will shape the future of mainstream gaming at an internet-scale.”

#mission10 Day 26.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-initial-game-offerings-seedify

Retweet: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1433444143926333441

Leading 🇺🇸US Blockchain Infrastructure Provider Staked Is Now Offering Non-Custodial EGLD Delegation Services

We’re excited to announce that Staked.us, the leading US based provider of blockchain infrastructure services, is accepting non-custodial EGLD delegations from their institutional customers and the broader Elrond Network ecosystem members.

Staked is one of the largest players in the infrastructure blockchain space, supporting more than 60 of the largest PoS projects and offering complementary services such as RAY, a leading DeFi robo-advisory service. Staked is backed by industry leaders such as Coinbase Ventures and Winklevoss Capital and has been active since 2018.

They are currently offering 11.8% APR in an uncapped pool. It is listed as a featured provider and you can delegate towards Staked via Maiar or the Elrond Web Wallet.

#mission10 Day 27.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/us-provider-staked-egld-delegation

Retweet: https://twitter.com/LucianMincu/status/1433796353868632065?s=20

New research breakthroughs & hard effort transforming them into reality will further set the Elrond network apart in terms of capabilities & performance.

Deployed on such an innovative foundation, the Maiar DEX is set to ignite a financial revolution.

Weekly #elrondtech 🛠️

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