Last week in Elrond ⬇️

⚛️ Elrond acquires UTRUST
📲 EGLD and ESDT integrated into Coin98 Wallet
🇷🇴 New fiat currency RON integrated by UTRUST
🌟 First Dubai Incubator project: Itheum
🛠 Weekly #elrondtech
🏎 holoride completed Hyundai accelerator
🌐 On-chain data available via BwareLabs
💳 EGLD payments available in UTRUST
🤩 $15,000 Elrond x Utrust challenge

🌎 Elrond Network
1,22M accounts • 28,77M transactions • 10,93M staked

📲 Maiar
700K users • 87K users stake $EGLD

⚡️ Maiar Exchange
$1,61 Billion USD TVL • $20,38 Million USD 24h volume

📰 Media mentions:

• CoinDesk • Btc Manager • Btc Manager • Romania Insider • SeeNewsCompany • CryptoGlobeInfo • CoinJournal • Crypto Potato • StockheadAU • Benzinga • BitcoinsInside • cryptonews • investing_cube • The_NewsCrypto • ThePaypers • YahooFinance • InvezzPortal • Utoday_en • thetechstartups • CryptoSlate • Investingcom • TipRanks • YahooFinance • CoinMarketCap • StockheadAU • YahooFinance

Autoworld Joins The #web3payments revolution

In just 1 week since the Utrust acquisition announcement, 400 businesses signed up to the waiting list for becoming a Web3 merchant, 5 of them are already live and the others in various stages of the registration process.

The European car dealer Autoworld was among the first to accept direct EGLD payments for its cars, and has now integrated Utrust, to make the process more streamlined and convenient for all the involved parties. Furthermore, cars listed on its Carcloud platform are also priced directly in EGLD.

“A lot of our customers prefer EGLD payments because it is more convenient and inexpensive for them, so we made a lot of sales that way. By integrating Utrust, we can now accept EGLD in a manner that is more convenient also for us, as the invoicing and bookkeeping no longer need a special process.” said Roger Patrasc, Sales Manager.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/autoworld-prices-cars-egld-integrates-utrust

Retweet: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1483087886702596097

Become a Web3 Merchant: https://elrond.com/utrustapply

🌎 The Web3 Payments Revolution is underway

400+ businesses have signed up to become Web3 merchants and accept EGLD payments settled via Utrust!

People are already buying wine, houses and Teslas from the merchants that are already live.

We compiled a list of some of the vendors that have answered our call to action to integrate Utrust and are now accepting EGLD payments.

Read more: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1483438293706551312

Join the waiting list to become a Web3 merchant and get your business ahead of the digital transformation curve:

https://elrond.com/utrustapply

Elrond Web Tools Update: Add A Logo And Info For Your ESDT Token In The Explorer, Web Wallet And Supporting Platforms

Projects building on the Elrond Network can now convey their brand message to their token holders by adding their logo and relevant information. The full information will be displayed in the Elrond Explorer.

In addition, the logo will be visible in the Elrond Web Wallet, the Maiar DeFi Wallet, as well as third party applications that choose to integrate this feature.

Only legitimate submissions will be approved, which means that the token branding is also a powerful security feature that can protect users against scams involving fake tokens.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-web-tools-token-branding

Retweet: https://twitter.com/lucianmincu/status/1483846884707946500?s=20

Web3 Gaming On Elrond: Knights Of Cathena Is Shaping The Next Generation Of Turn-Based Strategy Combat With Blockchain Technology

Developed by fivefingergames GmbH in Germany, Knights of Cathena introduces a variation of the Play2Earn mechanism called Play-And-Earn, which utilizes compelling blockchain-based mechanics to enhance the gaming experience.

The game will fuse ESDTs and NFTs with its Noble Houses guild system, taking cooperative play at the next level as gamers will work together to become the dominant faction of Cathena, with the most worthy of them becoming King, earning respect and tribute from all the other players.

“Not only does blockchain gaming bring an increase in the efficiency and profitability of in-game economies, but it allows for blockchain orchestrated interoperability to fuse multiple different online words into one metaverse. The Elrond Web3 payments infrastructure and rich NFT ecosystem are powerful catalysts for the success of Knights of Cathena.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond Network CEO.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-web3-gaming-knights-of-cathena

Retweet: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1484158926513922050

⚡️ Supercharge your dApp’s backend with high performance Spring-Boot reactive microservices

The Spring-Boot starter framework for the Elrond Network will allow you to achieve an effortless autoconfigured integration with the blockchain.

Kudos to crldev.software & Carlo Stanciu for building this great tool and making it available for the community 🙌

Read more: https://crldev.medium.com/spring-boot-starter-for-elrond-network-73b5f14d6c7

Spring-Boot starter for Elrond:
https://github.com/crldev-software/elrond-spring-boot-starter-reactive

Last week in Elrond ⬇️

🕹 Cathena Knights Web3 game on Elrond
🏎 Autoworld integrates UTRUST
💳 400+ new merchants signed up for UTRUST
🛠 Weekly #elrondtech
⚙️ Spring-Boot reactive microservices framework
🌐 Web tools update: Token branding
💹 EGLD added as loan currency on Cryptocom
🤩 Web 3 Payments Revolution challenge finalised

🌎 Elrond Network
1,24M accounts • 29,82M transactions • 11,14M staked

📲 Maiar App
700K users • 87K users stake $EGLD

⚡️ Maiar DEX
$1,03 Billion USD TVL • $14,78 Million USD 24h volume

📰 Media mentions:

🌐 CoinTribuneFR • Benzinga • crowdfundinside • cryptonews • cryptonewsz_ • analyticsinme • Capital • Tribuna • Alba24

Retweet: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1485540978073219074

Open The Floodgates: New Markets Are Coming. The Maiar DEX ESDT Listing Process

In the two months following its launch, the Maiar DEX accrued 1+ Billions of dollars in TVL, accommodated 1.9+ Billions of dollars in trading volume and distributed 2+ Trillion MEX to 230,000+ users.

Perhaps more impressive is that these numbers were reached with the initial set of strategic tokens such as MEX/LKMEX, EGLD, USDC and RIDE.

It is now time to expand this list and move into the next chapter of growth for the Elrond DeFi ecosystem. Starting with January 31, ESDT tokens will be able to list on the Maiar Exchange.

Find out more about the process: https://elrond.com/blog/maiar-dex-esdt-listing-process

Retweet: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1486043514957926404

Introducing A New Maiar DeFi Wallet Security Feature: Warning For Known Scam And Phishing Websites

The latest Maiar DeFi Wallet update brings an important security feature that displays an alert for users who visit known scam or phishing websites.

The extension uses a list of known addresses that have been reported by our community and makes it hard for a user to access such risky resources, effectively keeping them safe from any fraud attempts.

You can help contribute to this list by reporting any suspicious links via email at notoscam@elrond.com.

Get the extension & more security tips:

https://elrond.com/blog/maiar-defi-wallet-extension-security-scam-warning

Retweet: https://twitter.com/lucianmincu/status/1486361030645145601?s=20

Elrond & Utrust Town Hall Meeting

Web3 payments will enable every business to tap into the multi-trillion dollar crypto opportunity.

Elrond and Utrust coming together is instrumental for what’s to come.

Join Beniamin, Sanja & Nuno to discover the next exciting steps.

⏰ 27 January (today!) at 15:00 UTC

📺 YouTube Live

Retweet: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1486638028621766656?s=20

Elrond Wiki: A Powerful Tool For Navigating The Elrond Universe

Discover the Elrond universe via the powerful community management project Elrond Wiki.

Already available in 9 languages, this valuable resource is rapidly growing into an indispensable tool for the Elrond ecosystem.

Find out more about the project and how you can become a contributor:

https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-wiki-community

Elrond Wiki: https://www.elrondwiki.com/

Retweet: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1486702403437088770

The Elrond & Utrust Community Town Hall event is LIVE!

Join now: https://youtu.be/wx-bPd99bao

Internet-Scale Web3 Infrastructure: A Cloud Provider Perspective from Digital Ocean

The Elrond Network is the second-largest PoS blockchain in the world after ETH 2.0, with 3,200 validator nodes supporting our geographically dispersed mainnet.

When accounting for the backup nodes, observers, testnets, APIs, explorer, wallet, Maiar and other relevant services, the global infrastructure footprint operated by Elrond ecosystem members exceeds 10,000 servers.

This means Elrond is a major player in the distributed computing space that major cloud providers are excited to support.

Check out the latest blog post from Digital Ocean describing how they deal with blockchain infrastructure in general and Elrond in particular:

https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/cloud-solutions-for-blockchain/

Retweet: https://twitter.com/lucianmincu/status/1487038139864649733

Last week in Elrond ⬇️

💹 More tokens. More markets. More value
🔐 Upgrade Web3 security via Maiar DeFi wallet
📊 30 Mil transactions / 1.2 Mil accounts
🛠 Weekly #elrondtech
🏫 ElrondNetwork x UTRUST town hall meeting
🔍 Discover the Elrond universe via ElrondWiki
🌐 Cloud solutions for Blockchain technology

🌎 Elrond Network
1,26M accounts • 30,93M transactions • 11,26M staked

📲 Maiar
800K users • 87K users stake $EGLD

⚡️ Maiar DEX
$1,20 Billion USD TVL • $8,13 Million USD 24h volume

📰 Media mentions:
• Cointelegraph • LeJournalDuCoin • recently_heard • CryptoNewsFlas3 • digitaljournal

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1488066773161291776?s=20

The process for listing new tokens on the Maiar DEX is ready - test it now!

One of the most important milestones in the bootstrapping of the Maiar DEX is ready to hit the mainnet: the new tokens listing process.

You can already test it on the testnet version of the Maiar DEX, either by listing your own token, or interacting with one of the many available Community pools.

The new process has also been submitted to the mainnet and will become available in the next ±12 hours, after which new token listings can go live on the mainnet Maiar DEX!

The listing process has been detailed in the updated blog post:

https://elrond.com/blog/maiar-dex-esdt-listing-process/

List new testnet tokens: https://testnet.maiar.exchange

Retweet: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1488277657917825026

The Elrond network explorer just got a new awesome update making it easier for anyone to find a specific transaction and explore chain functions in real time.

ESDT Transfers, NFT Transfers, Swaps and every other transaction type are now labeled accordingly!

👉🏻 https://explorer.elrond.com/transactions

RT: https://twitter.com/lucianmincu/status/1488467681384796161?s=20&

Introducing Metastake: A Maiar DEX Innovation Combining Staking, Liquidity Providing And Yield Farming Into One Powerful Product.

RIDE Metastaking Debuts In February.

The Metastake is an innovation that is unique to the Maiar DEX and for the first time combines token staking, liquidity providing and yield farming into a powerful new product.

RIDE will be the first token to pioneer this novel concept. Metaverse pioneers will be able to stake both RIDE and EGLDRIDELP Farm tokens in the same Metastake product, and earn RIDE rewards.

Metastake will soon become a standard for the strongest projects in the Elrond ecosystem. The novel liquidity providing incentives and income streams provided by Metastake will make the Maiar DEX into perhaps the most compelling DeFi platform that will lead the coming wave of Web3 innovation.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/metastake-ride-staking-liquidity-yield-farming

Retweet: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1488513051611615235

Happy birthday Maiar 🎂 The flagship mobile app of the Elrond ecosystem turns 1!

It’s been an exciting 1 year for the entire Elrond ecosystem, and the Maiar App perfectly captured its evolution through growth on all its significant metrics.

60% of all the mainnet accounts are Maiar users, who are responsible for 62% of all the transactions and virtually all NFT transfers.

The appeal of Maiar’s elegant simplicity and the exceptional Elrond blockchain innovations will continue to drive adoption for Web3 technologies and radically transform the global financial system.

To many more years to come. Open the app for a nice surprise.

Retweet: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1488561509152215041?s=20&t=TXWV13PXSgABdnHKZvbPMA

Last week in Elrond ⬇️

🌊Token listings are live on Maiar Exchange
⚡️ $AERO, $ISET, $SUPER trading live
🌐Elrond Network Explorer updated
💹 MetaStaking: staking + LP + Yield farming
🛠 Weekly #elrondtech
🎉 One year of Maiar
🌗Maiar dark mode is live
🎁 0% fees EGLD purchases via Transak
📖 Elrond overview by AuditOne

🌎 Elrond Network
1,30M accounts • 32,35M transactions • 11,32M staked

📲 Maiar
800K users • 87K users stake $EGLD

⚡️Maiar Exchange
$1,47 Billion USD TVL • $10 Million USD 24h volume


📰 Media mentions:
• CoinTribune • Investors Observer • Ziarul Financiar • SecuritiesIO • Coinspeaker • PresseBox

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1490615565479825411?s=20&

ZoidPay Integrates EGLD Into Their Virtual Cards Payments Solution And Migrates Their Token To The Elrond Network

We’re excited to announce that the crypto liquidity solutions provider ZoidPay has integrated EGLD as one of the main currencies in their platform. Their virtual cards can now be topped up with EGLD and used to make purchases from any online merchant that accepts VISA cards.

Furthermore, $ZPAY will be migrated on the Elrond Network, boosting the utility of the ZoidPay ecosystem and cashback token with internet-scale performance and low costs of settlement enabled by our blockchain.

“The proliferation of Web3 payments is a positive-sum game where everyone involved, from consumers to merchants and ecosystem partners, stands to benefit from adoption. We welcome ZoidPay into the Elrond Network ecosystem and look forward to working together for the advancement of payments using blockchain technology.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond Network CEO.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/egld-topup-zoidpay-cards-zpay-token-migration

Retweet: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1490693272070725632

Hip-hop Folklore Band SUBCARPATI drops their “OGs” NFT collection exclusively on Elrond

Subcarpati represents a movement that aims to fuse the strongest traditional values into the culture of the newer generations. They mix the best of both worlds with creative combinations of hip-hop and folklore music which has already captured the imagination of hundreds of thousands of people.

They are now ready to take their efforts to the next level with an innovative blend of heritage and innovation that will materialize in the form of an original folklore themed NFT collection dubbed “OGs” that will drop exclusively on Elrond.

Coming on Monday February 14 - find out more:

👉 https://nft.subcarpati.com/

Also, make sure to check out their latest video, which is heavily “OG” themed. The Elrond logo does a few cameos as well!

📺 https://youtu.be/U-JkMY_SHtI