📌 FTM on Blockfolio Signal 📌
We're excited to share that Fantom is now on Blockfolio Signal! We'll be pushing important news and quick updates directly to your Blockfolio app from now on!

📌 Fantom Website Update📌
Fantom website is going through some redecorating!
As a first step, our News and Updates page is now changed to show all the recent updates and developments at a glance.

Check out our newly structured page below.
https://fantom.foundation/news-updates/

"📌Fantom November Updates📌
We promised to bring you more regular video updates, and here they are!
Brian and Jason have returned with more updated news about partnerships and development.
Also, as a special treat, we unveil another face of Fantom, Helen.
Watch their videos now!
https://youtu.be/s6bDEpwFTJU (Korean)
https://youtu.be/H_NrZid1uW4 (English)
https://youtu.be/HukyJrrlfmA (Chinese)

📌BREAKING NEWS: Fantom Partners with Leading Payment Provider, Fuiou Group📌

We expanded to Australia, then Japan, and now we gone to China.
Fantom, from the beginning, wanted to bring cryptocurrency to actual real life usage.
Together with Fuiou Group, Fantom is now one step closer to achieving real life application of cryptocurrency payment internationally.

Fuiou Group is a company that provides both commercial and private clients with solutions in the fields of POS, online payments, prepaid cards, in-store payments, money transfers, and account products.

With this partnership, we will explore ways to use Fantom technology to implement affordable, scalable, and fast solutions for payment using blockchain.

Read more about it here:
https://medium.com/@FantomFDN/fantom-partners-with-leading-payment-provider-fuiou-group-ba83592252cf

📌Fantom Developer's Update📌
On top of Fantom expanding our potential use cases through partnerships we are also dedicated in building a great tech.
That's why our researchers and developers are working around the clock to improve what we have and bettering ourselves every single day.
To give you an idea of what's going on on the developers' side, we have our friendly CIO Michael Kong, giving a brief update on what Fantom's been doing.
Also we have a tech update for you as well, so everyone can keep on eye on what is being made.

To check it out:
Video: https://youtu.be/RqTutX2Mn9c
Medium: https://medium.com/fantomfoundation/fantom-technical-update-1-c8e2eba0bc23

📌BREAKING NEWS: Fantom Partners with South Korean IT Leader Hancom📌
Fantom is always looking to make new partnership that would enable more use-cases in real life.
Hancom Secure, which developed the first online banking system of South Korea, has been the market leader of PKI encryption and authentication in South Korea for over 20 years.
And now, Hancom Secure will have another notable achievement under their belt, which is that it is now a proud partner of Fantom.

With this partnership, Hancom will gain access to Fantom's fast and scalable blockchain technology through our DAG-based platform while Fantom will be able to access Hancom Secure's blockchain security technology for more secure IoT infrastructure.

For more detailed information about this partnership, read it here:
https://medium.com/fantomfoundation/fantom-partners-with-hancom-secure-to-further-develop-iot-infrastructure-ae87d37e4f8

"📌Fantom Recognition📌
Besides making more use-cases through partnerships, Fantom's been busy in other regards too!
Our DLT lab in Seoul Office was recognized as Official Enterprise Affiliated Laboratory by Korea Industrial Technology Association
Also, Fantom was recognized by Sports Donga, a major news outlet in Korea, for its quality and innovation.
Read more about it here!
https://medium.com/fantomfoundation/fantom-recognition-1f9f0aa3f94e"

📌BREAKING NEWS: Fantom Partners with University of Sydney📌
Back when we announced a partnership with University of Stellenbosch, we promised you more was coming, and here it is!
We are proud to announce, finally, that Fantom is in partnership with University of Sydney.
Fantom and University of Sydney will open up more opportunities in blockchain education and research by providing scholarships and research grants, while also providing Fantom technology for students and researchers to experiment with.
Together, they will attempt to solve challenges involved in development and verification of smart contracts.

Far more detail, check out our Medium:

https://medium.com/fantomfoundation/fantom-partners-with-university-of-sydney-for-more-opportunities-in-blockchain-education-85ab033233f5

We're very excited to share that we'll be co-hosting an AMA in the DBcrypto telegram chat next week!

Live at t.me/dbcryptochat
5:00PM UTC-8 (California Time)
Tuesday 11 december 2018

📌Fantom December Update📌
Fantom is back with more update for December.
We've had some more exciting news about a partnership with a huge potential as well as a collaboration with very prestigious university.
We hope you enjoy!

https://youtu.be/2kV5bkbtEHA

AMA Question Submissions for Fantom

If you are unable to join us live, we welcome question submissions for Fantom using #FantomAMA in @dbcryptochat

📌Fantom Technical Update📌
Fantom promised you regular updates on what is happening on the tech side, and so we shall deliver!
With the release of our testnet just around the corner, take a look at what more has happened since the last update!

https://medium.com/fantomfoundation/fantom-technical-update-2-8956b3bd04ca

Hey guys! Little reminder, our AMA starts in a little bit less than 3 hours. Join us in @dbcryptochat to have a chat with our very own Michael Kong and Jake Choi!

LIVE NOW for Fantom Live AMA

We're here to answer your questions, get in there for some quality discussion!

Join us here: @dbcryptochat

For those of you who missed the AMA yesterday, we have good news! Our friends at DBcrypto have summarized the AMA for everyone to read.
Please check out the recap of the AMA on the following link:

https://medium.com/@dalb0013/fantom-telegram-ama-a66bcbf9a76e

📌Fantom Technical Update📌
Fantom made you a lot of promises, and soon it will be time for us to deliver.
On our third edition of technical updates, you can see all the preparation that's going into finalizing the public release of our testnet, as well as signs of life from more exciting development from Fantom.
So click below to see all the sneak peaks on what Fantom has ready for you:

https://medium.com/fantomfoundation/fantom-technical-update-3-2df1baa98c7a

📌Fantom Testnet Release📌

Fantom is proud to officially announce the public release of Fantom Testnet, Fantom v. 0.4.5-rc.1!
We are extremely grateful for the support and encouragement from our community members
and this testnet launch would not have been possible without everyone.
So check out the documents below to see how how to engage with our testnet
and stay tuned to hear more about what amazing things Fantom and its partners have done with the testnet!

Medium: https://medium.com/fantomfoundation/weve-just-released-the-fantom-testnet-19a6a1cfe96e
How-to Guide: https://medium.com/fantomfoundation/fantom-announces-launch-of-first-public-testnet-4725c4716f94

📌Fantom Announcement: Lachesis Explained📌

With Fantom Testnet out, Fantom's groundbreaking technology is pushing ahead towards mainnet.
While our team is in preparation for more, big news to come soon, we decided to take this opportunity to give you some detailed information on what makes Fantom unique: our very own Lachesis Protocol.
Take a moment to read the first of our Lachesis Explained Series about Lamport timestamps and how what role it plays in the OPERA Chain.

https://medium.com/fantomfoundation/what-are-lamport-timestamps-and-why-does-fantom-use-them-f3a6e1032632

📌Fantom Research Partnership📌

Fantom is not only about building a lightning fast, secure, and scalable blockchain solution; Fantom's aim expands into building a whole blockchain ecosystem.
As we take steps towards that goal, Fantom has put a significant effort in building more relationships with diverse partners.

We are proud to announce our newest research and development partnership with Sikoba Research from Europe!
This prominent organization has been working with Fantom in the last few months to further improve
our smart contracts, consensus protocols, and token economics, while also helping us with middleware development and writing a few papers along the way.

To find out what we've done together so far and how we plan to collaborate,
read here: https://medium.com/fantomfoundation/fantom-partners-with-research-and-development-company-sikoba-research-dc714f17dc3