Dear All,

We have had an eventful two weeks, from our partnership with DMM.com and LayerX to our new office in London, and I'm excited to share the details in Project Update #18. We are also proud to announce that we are giving back to our academic research roots through sponsoring the CRYSTAL Centre, a blockchain-focused academic think tank.

On the technology front, we have made steady progress in enabling support for multi-GPU mining, implementing the gossip protocol and the upgrading protocol, and in improving the Scilla interpreter and our dev tools. We have also kick-started a series of tutorials on how to develop for Zilliqa.

We will be in several events around the world this month – from London to San Francisco to Tokyo – and look forward to meeting you all there.

As always, we want to know what you think! Let us know if there is anything you want to hear more about in our updates!

https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-project-update-18-european-expansion-giving-back-to-research-partnerships-in-japan-e61298793363

Dear All,

I am excited to share Project Update #19 with you. We have been around the world these past two weeks at various events, including developer workshops at both London and Pittsburgh. Thank you to everyone who attended and who gave us valuable feedback to help make Zilliqa more developer-friendly. As we approach our public release, we are actively seeking feedback and encourage developers all levels and background to give us their candid thoughts.

On the technology front, we implemented several new features to improve the robustness of our network, including Tree-Based Cluster Broadcasting, MIMO DS Committee, and verification of messages from lookup nodes. We have also been improving the Scilla interpreter and updating our client library.

We will be in Barcelona, Frankfurt, Tokyo, and Jakarta over the next two weeks. Hope to see you there!

As always, we want to know what you think! Let us know if there is anything you want to hear more about in our updates!

https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-project-update-19-developer-education-technical-improvements-e83a298ea9af

Dear All,

I am excited to share Project Update #20 with you. We have been making good progress in key features for blockchain functionality as we approach mainnet launch, including gas rewards and a fallback mechanism to improve network robustness. We are also in the progress of building cashflow analysis for our Scilla interpreter – a new safety feature that help detect any leakage of funds.

On the business side, we wrapped up a busy month of events with Scilla workshops with developers from DMM.com, LayerX and Infoteria in Tokyo. We will also be conducting Scilla workshops Singapore and Beijing in November, as we proactively seek developer feedback for improvements.

We will also be holding a live AMA on Telegram on Nov 15, 3pm SGT (7am UTC) to answer your questions around the technical progress and marketing plans around mainnet launch. More details to come.

As always, we want to know what you think! Let us know if there is anything you want to hear more about in our updates!

https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-project-update-20-progress-in-core-tech-features-scilla-safety-features-36861dbde366

Dear all, as promised in our tech update yesterday, we will be holding a live AMA on our official Telegram channel (https://t.me/zilliqachat) on Nov 15, 3pm Singapore time. Xinshu, Amrit, and myself will be available for your questions around mainnet, Scilla, and marketing. Please feel free to post questions beforehand as well on our Reddit thread.

You can find more details here: https://new.reddit.com/r/zilliqa/comments/9swvn6/ask_us_anything_zilliqa_ama_15th_nov_2018/

Hello everyone,

We’ll be organizing a series of 'Townhall AMA sessions' with Zilliqa ecosystem grant awardees. For each session, we will invite representatives from some of the teams to interact with the developer community on Gitter, share project updates and answer any relevant technical questions. These sessions will also be useful for those who wish to get involved with these open-source projects or get ideas on defining their own project to build on Zilliqa.

Join us to learn more about the cool projects that the Zilliqa community is working on.

Our first townhall session will be dedicated to projects developing wallets and browser extensions. Participants for the first session will be:

1. Alex Cyon and Patryk Konopacki - A Zilliqa wallet and Swift SDK for mobile iOS devices.
2. Qaidjohar Jawadwala- Browser extensions to integrate with Zilliqa wallets.
3. Bo Hu - Developing a Chrome extension for Zilliqa.
4. Cryptoland Tech team - Developing web wallets and extensions to provide a secure and consistent user experience.

Details on date, time and venue for the first session are as follows:

*Date: * 10 November, 2018
*Time: * 0900 hrs UTC
*Format:* Text based group chat on Gitter
*Venue: * https://gitter.im/Zilliqa/ecogrant

See you on Gitter on Nov 10!

Hi All,
We are pleased to announce that https://www.coinhako.com/ has started offering fiat trading pairs for ZILs including ZIL/SGD. They will be running some amazing competitions so head over to their Facebook page, like them and join the competition starting 8pm (GMT +8), 11 Nov 2018! https://bit.ly/2PNcHjx
Have a great weekend!

Dear all,
I am excited to share Project Update #21 with you. In this update, we share details about our – very important – upcoming mainnet launch. We have also been at various events these past 2 weeks to drive education of blockchain and Zilliqa, and engaging our ecosystem developers with our first Gitter Townhall.

On the technical side, we continue to double-down on testing and fine-tuning of our features, including the completion of our Node Recovery feature. We continue to work on the cashflow analysis prototype for the Scilla interpreter. As a part of our effort to improve our development tools, we have also released v0.2.0 of our Zilliqa Javascript library, along with documentation.

As mentioned in our last update, we will be holding a live AMA on Telegram on Nov 15, 3pm SGT (7am UTC) to answer your questions around mainnet, Scilla, and marketing. For those of you who might not be able to make the live AMA, you can pre-submit your questions on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/zilliqa/comments/9swvn6/ask_us_anything_zilliqa_ama_15th_nov_2018/).

As always, we want to know what you think! Let us know if there is anything you want to hear more about in our updates!

https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-project-update-21-details-on-jan-31-2019-mainnet-launch-ec87473966ce

Hi all, we are excited to announce the second wave of Zilliqa ecosystem grant awardees! You can find more details here:
https://blog.zilliqa.com/announcing-the-second-wave-of-zilliqa-ecosystem-grant-awardees-6e03edadcc0d

Hi all, thank you to everyone who participated in our AMA yesterday. We really enjoyed the discussion and appreciate the engagement from the community. We have compiled the Q&As and related documents here for your reference.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Uq1LEowlMEmpQv2mcRrlin5d0wvrleja/view?usp=sharing

We received reports on ongoing scamming activities. Please note the following security advisory

Security advisory
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Impersonation of Zilliqa team members/community managers
- We do not pm you or create private chat group
- We do not pm you to notify you that there is a technical fault which will require you to perform certain actions

Dear all,
I am excited to share Project Update #22 with you. We have been doubling-down on development work, and will be launching Testnet v3 very soon. We welcome everyone to guess the codename of our Testnet v3! Here’s a hint – our previous testnet was named after one variety of durian.

We shared the stage with our partner, Mindshare, last week to present on Project Proton at the Singapore Digital Industry Day. We are on track to complete the smart contract and complete campaign database integration by the end of 2018.

On the technical side, our core protocol is now in feature freeze, but continue to make significant improvements based on the results of our testing. Our developer tools are also now in rigorous testing phase.

As always, we want to know what you think! Let us know if there is anything you want to hear more about in our updates!

https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-project-update-22-testnet-v3-and-public-mining-on-zilliqa-526c7dfbc831

Dear community members,

Today, we are thrilled to announce that Testnet v3, codenamed “Mao Shan Wang” after another one of our favorite durian breeds, is now live. This is a major technical milestone — as far as we know, this is the first fully-fledged testnet in the world to implement network, transaction, and smart contract sharding. This specific testnet has addressed some of the security issues discovered by our security auditors, and added required safety checks and extra enforcement mechanisms to improve the stability of the system.

Please read the blog entry for more details

https://blog.zilliqa.com/announcing-testnet-v3-0-codename-mao-shan-wang-fc91189ba3fa

@everyone
Dear all,
We are excited to share that public mining on Testnet v3 is now available. We invite miners to test Zilliqa’s different take on mining. Through your help in testing and debugging, we will be able to make key improvements in stability and security for our upcoming mainnet.

The key features of mining on Zilliqa include significantly reduced electricity cost as PoW is only needed for 5 mins every ~1.5h, the ability to dual-mine with Ethereum, and more distributed mining rewards. Detailed documentation is now available, and we will be available for support and debugging through our Telegram and Gitter channels.

We also thank our community developers for developing block explorers and web wallets that help make mining easier. We are now sourcing for a mining OS through our ecosystem grant program – if you are interested, please reach out to us!

As always, please let us know if you have any questions or suggestions.

https://blog.zilliqa.com/public-mining-on-zilliqa-testnet-v3-is-now-available-868586f1a8bf

Hello everyone,

As you may know, we have been organizing Townhall AMA sessions to interact with the Zilliqa ecosystem grant awardees.

For the first session, we had invited teams working on wallets and browser extensions. We discussed project updates and among other topics, the importance of putting focus on UI/UX, i.e., ensuring that our apps can pass the so called “grandma test”.

You can read the transcript of that fun and in-depth conversation here: http://bit.ly/ziltownhall1.

Our second Townhall session will be dedicated to projects developing libraries and development frameworks. Participants for this session will be:

1. Bo Hu and his team who are developing Muer: a command line tool to help users develop smart contracts and dApps on Zilliqa.

2. Muuto Morikawa and Satoshi Miyazaki (No. He’s not that Satoshi. Or at least so he claims.) who are creating libraries in Go to interact with the Zilliqa blockchain.

3. Su Wei who is creating JS libraries for Zilliqa that hides away the nasty queries below the surface, so that a developer will only need to interact with a convenient interface.

Details on date, time and venue for the second session are as follows:

Date: 12 December, 2018 Time: 0900 hrs-1030 hrs UTC
Format: Text based group chat on Gitter Venue: https://gitter.im/Zilliqa/ecogrant

See you on Gitter on Dec 12!

Dear all,
I am excited to share Project Update #23 with you. The last two weeks have been a busy week for our tech team, with the launch of Testnet v3, code-named Mao Shan Wang after one of our favorite durian types, and public testnet mining.

We also a great time meeting developers and projects at ETH Singapore, where Yaoqi spoke on a panel on blockchain scaling, and Edison did a tech talk on smart contract security. We are working on finalizing our events calendar for January, and will share details as soon as they are confirmed.

On the technical side, our team continues to make improvements to our code base, such as making improvements to Transaction Processing, Verification, and Transmission, that will improve our stability and security. We have also been shoring up our libraries and conducting various internal tests on our testnet.

As always, we want to know what you think! Let us know if there is anything you want to hear more about in our updates!

https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-project-update-23-launched-testnet-v3-with-public-mining-f3da13b87f5d

Check out this video for an introduction to Zilliqa and also how we are using AWS to deploy large scale testnets https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/zilliqa/

Hello everyone! We have been getting feedback from the Developer and Miner community over the course of the past 2 weeks on how to improve technical communication. We are extremely grateful to all beta testers in the Developer/Mining communities.
With a grateful heart, we are excited to announce that we are setting up our very own technical forum channel as of today! Do register within this month to receive an early adopter badge :smile:

Discourse forum link: https://forum.zilliqa.com

This forum differs from our reddit channel in that it supports LaTeX and highlighted code markdown. The primary purpose of the channel is to enable Developers and Miners to come together for more structured discussions. This will enable more efficient debates over Zilliqa’s core protocol design, smart contracts and mining operations. The secondary purpose of the channel is that it will allow past discussions to be searchable via search engines.
Please note that this channel is not for:

+ Non-technical discussion, for this please use r/zilliqa.
+ Price-talk.

We hope that to see you over at our very own technical forum very soon…

Dear all,
As part of our process in strengthening our internal safeguarding, we are exploring the use of professional cold storage solutions for digital tokens. As a result, we will be sending a large amount of ZIL ERC20 tokens from our reserve wallet to cold storage wallets. Please do not be alarmed and remain assured that this does not affect the circulating supply of ZIL or our token vesting schedule in any way.

Thank you for your continued support.

We have been made aware of a rumour that has been circulating on a potential collaboration with Facebook. This is a baseless rumour and we would like to ask everyone to refrain from sharing fake information on social media.

Dear All

As we round up year 2018, here's Project Update #24, the final project update of the year. We are working hard towards our goal of the upcoming mainnet launch and looking forward to sharing more on our progress in the new year.

Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas to all!
https://medium.com/zilliqa/zilliqa-project-update-24-happy-holidays-from-zilliqa-7b8274db410f