BREAKING: Bitcoin is coming to Elrond!

We have started working with Poly Network to integrate the Elrond mainnet into a network of protocols. Poly Network is building an interoperability layer between blockchains such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Neo, Ontology, and Cosmos, with Elrond joining next.

This will enable Bitcoin to circulate on Elrond at internet scale & cost, and the myriads of ERC20 DeFi tokens to benefit from 30% royalties on smart contracts and inexpensive high-speed token transfers.

“We are building Elrond to be the internet-scale blockchain. That means throughput on par with the performance needs of the internet, as well as interoperability with the most widely adopted networks. Beyond performance, Interoperability becomes the most important component for Elrond.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO.

Poly Network is an interoperability protocol that is designed to enable digital assets to flow between multiple blockchains. It already connects Bitcoin, Ethereum, Neo, Ontology, and Cosmos. To date, it has processed $2.8 billion dollars in transactions executed in Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum, and other stable coins & tokens.

👉🏻 Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/bitcoin-on-elrond-interoperability-poly-network/

Retweet: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1331272562983186446?s=20

Maiar reaches 100 releases!

More than 4,000 exclusive access users already have a preview of how the future of money will look like & 157,000+ more are looking to get in.

Invites for 2,000 more people to join have just been sent.

Here are the most important updates:
• 157,000+ users registered on the waitlist
• 4000+ users were invited to test Maiar (private beta)
• 2000+ new users to be invited today
• 100+ iOS releases until now
• 100+ Android releases until now

New Features:
• Push Notifications for transactions
• Show a list with all notifications
• Added Google Drive/iCloud (optional) backup
• Add the option to verify backup password from time to time
• Display a pop-up to force users to update the app when really needed
• Added swipe menu for Contacts & Addresses screens
• Added retry mechanism for Account completion

Full release notes are available here: https://community.maiar.com/index.php?/forum/2-announcements/

RT: https://twitter.com/luciantodea/status/1331685576249118725?s=20

A new iteration of Binance Savings for eGold goes live at 12:00 UTC (noon)!

Earn 10% APR on 14-days deposits. 50,000 EGLD available in total, in 50 EGLD lots, served on a first-come, first-served basis. Get ready, these go out fast!

Read more: https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/dd7fc043831849e686a60c0eba69e9c8

Retweet: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1331906382921150464?s=20

🛠 Builders at work: The Validators Dashboard By Easy2Stake

We are happy to introduce the first tool which offers an overview of the Elrond blockchain at its infrastructure level. Currently pointed at our public testnet, the Easy2Stake dashboard offers an immediate look at the network’s health, as well as the individual performance of its validators.

The tool is built using Prometheus, Grafana, and Elrond APIs on top of infrastructure operated by our partner.

“Our tool offers anyone insight into metrics that are relevant but not easy to get unless you’re a validator. If more people get to see the fine-tuned network the Elrond protocol is running on, they will be able to understand how powerful Elrond’s innovations are, especially when stacked on top of one another, starting at the infrastructure layer.” said Liviu Nica, Easy2Stake Founder & CEO.

Through their contribution, Easy2Stake is setting a high standard of what added value represents for the Elrond ecosystem. This initiative is sure to get them the trust and respect of both the Validators and Delegators community. We congratulate them on this achievement and look forward to the next creative contribution coming from the Elrond community.

👉 Access the dashboard: https://elrond-stats.easy2stake.com/

user/pass: elrond/elrond

👉 Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/validators-dashboard-easy2stake/

👉 Join our partner's TG channel: @easy2stake

Retweet: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1332016852344692736

✅ eGold deposits, withdrawals & trading resumed on OKEx

Our exchange partner has brought their general services back online and is offering compensation & loyalty rewards.

Check if you’re eligible 👇🏻

https://www.okex.com/support/hc/en-us/articles/360052910871

Elrond’s technical readiness to become the internet-scale blockchain - a thesis by @Everstake_Chat

Our infrastructure partners from Everstake have taken the time to break down the technical properties of the Elrond blockchain and put them in the context of our development tools and the opportunities of the new internet.

“Elrond provides many different frameworks and tools for DeFi applications developers — all this helps to improve the Internet and bring it to a fundamentally new level.”

Retweet: https://twitter.com/everstake_pool/status/1332023432419172353

8,1 million $EGLD, or 56% of the circulating supply, is locked for staking.

🔹$1M+ USD in daily on-chain transactions
🔹~720 new wallets each day
🔹1M+ transactions to date.

Track Elrond's growth live on Flipside Crypto 👇🏻
https://app.flipsidecrypto.com/cooperative/elrond

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1332369428760190977?s=20

A clear documentation is perhaps one of the most important components that can improve dev experience and will significantly multiply the value of a groundbreaking technology.

Here's the new Elrond documentation. Made with ❤️ by the Elrond team.

👉🏻 http://docs.elrond.com

Last week in Elrond 👇🏻

✅ Mainnet upgrade v1.1.10
₿ Bitcoin coming to Elrond via PolyNetwork
💵 Fiat to #DeFi via Xend Finance
📊 Validators dashboard by Easy2Stake
📖 New documentation released
💯 Maiar reaches 100 releases
🛠 Weekly #elrondtech
💹 50k eGold Binance Savings
💠 OKEx resumes eGold deposits, withdrawals
🔶 Elrond tech overview by Everstake
🔐 56% circulating supply staked
👥 +720 accounts daily, more info Flipside Crypto
📰 Poly Network integration by NEOnewstoday

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1333342775752929280

AMA with DeFi partner Xend Finance

Xend Finance is a cross-chain DeFi credit union that bridges traditional finance and DeFi by converting fiat deposits into crypto and harvesting yield on DeFi platforms. With backing from Google Launchpad and Binance, Xend Finance will enable investors in high-growth African markets and worldwide to participate in the DeFi revolution.

🌐 https://xend.finance/

⏰ Today 30 November 16:00 UTC

On the @ElrondNetwork Telegram channel

Xend Finance TG: @xendFinance

DeFi Growth: Bonded Finance Joins The Elrond Ecosystem

We have started working with Bonded Finance to bring new DeFi products for eGold holders. The Bonded platform is built to make use of algorithmic models to unlock, aggregate, and de-risk capital from untapped digital assets.

Bonded Finance will work together with our strategic partner Orion Protocol to transact larger quantities of assets and allow more projects to qualify for listing on the Bonded platform, all of which translate into increased activity for the Orion Trade Terminal, which will run on the Elrond blockchain.

“The internet of value can’t happen without bridging the main areas of the market together with its more niche segments, which represent significant amounts of untapped capital. Bonded Finance aims to solve that problem and we’re excited to help them do so at scale.” said Beniamin Mincu, Elrond CEO.

Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/defi-growth-bonded-finance-joins-the-elrond-ecosystem/

✅ Week 7 Delegation Rewards - 4,000 eGold Distributed

6,485 users have received their weekly rewards for staking in the Delegation Waiting list. Last week’s APY was 7.86%!

Join them and the rest of the active Delegators & Validators in securing the Elrond network.

All the relevant information is available here: https://elrond.com/blog/egold-delegation-waiting-list-guide/

Staking Phase 2 goes live at epoch 124

The Validators Queue will be enabled as the blockchain progresses to epoch 124, at approximately:

⏰ ~14:12:24 UTC

Stake transactions that are sent before epoch 124 begins will fail & the staked eGold will be returned.

After the epoch change, successful “stake” transactions will place nodes in the Validators Queue.

If and when an existing Validator decides to unStake, they free up a slot which will be taken by the first Validator in the queue.

Good luck to all!

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1333760784397193216?s=20

Elrond Staking Phase 2 is officially live!

100+ staking transactions have been made, 3 new nodes are already in and 170 nodes are now in the Validators Queue!

Review the status in the newest “Validate” section of our web wallet:

🌐 https://wallet.elrond.com

1.5 years of effort, 100+ iterations, 175k people on the waiting list.

The grand Maiar launch date is in sight.

December and January are about to enter hypergrowth.

https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1334582168727719937?s=20

The Elrond Virtual Machine - Smart Contracts At Internet Scale.

The design goal for our virtual machine is to create a dependable execution environment whose speed and costs remain constant under heavy load, and which is able to scale with demand.

This gives Elrond the ability to evolve the world’s economy through decentralization by providing a smart contract platform that will execute complex operations with low latency and will be able to continue doing so throughout imminent periods of exponential growth.

Through its design and implementation, the Arwen WASM VM lays the foundation for a new solution space in which the barriers to what’s possible are no longer technical. The googles and amazons of tomorrow are perhaps one smart contract away - will you be the one that writes it?

👉🏻 Read more: https://elrond.com/blog/elrond-virtual-machine-arwen-wasm-vm

Retweet: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1334863838450241543?s=20

Tonight LIVE on CNN

Beniamin will be joining Richard Quest to discuss about Elrond, Bitcoin, state of crypto, and the future of the global economy.

Spread the word: https://twitter.com/beniaminmincu/status/1334910119541415936?s=20

The Maiar global launch PR on Yahoo Finance 💹

“With the Maiar launch [...] Elrond positions itself for accelerated user acquisition at the height of what is expected to be the most impressive bull market since 2017.”

Check it out here: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elrond-announces-wallet-global-payments-201400661.html

Retweet: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1335206174606700546?s=20

Last week in Elrond 👇🏻

🌎 Maiar Global Launch 31 January
⏹ Introducing the Arwen WASM VM
⏏️ Staking Phase 2 goes live
💹 Bonded Finance #DeFi partnership
🛠 Weekly #elrondtech
🌐 Yahoo! Finance Maiar coverage
🎙 Xend AMA on Elrond TG

📰 Maiar Global Launch media reach:

• Yahoo! Finance | • Finanzen DE | • Finanzen AT | • Ask.Com | • Spoke | • Benzinga | • Market Watch | • Digital Journal | • ZY Crypto | • Crypto Gazette | • Bitcoin PR Buzz | • PR Newswire | • NewsBreak | • CoinGenius | • Mulvane Cooperative Union

RT: https://twitter.com/ElrondNetwork/status/1335873255178182662?s=20