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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

The Zilliqa Team wishes everyone a Happy New Year 2019 and a wonderful year ahead! 🎉🎉

Dear all,
Happy New Year! I am excited to share Project Update #25 with you. As we inch closer towards the mainnet, we have been wrapping up loose ends found during internal and community tests. We have also been gearing up quickly to ensure that developers will have all the necessary SDKs to develop applications on Zilliqa, with SDKs in C#, Python, Java, and Go coming soon. We are also happy to share that community members who wish to run services such as explorers will now be able to run seed nodes.

On the technical side, we continue to implement feature updates and bug fixes, with the periodically relaunched Testnet v3 (codenamed Mao Shan Wang) nearing the final configuration for our upcoming mainnet.

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-25-gearing-up-for-mainnet-c61dde9c0cb5

Security advisory
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We are aware of ongoing scam attempts that involves the use of phishing website, telegram channels and bots. The website in particular is asking for user's private key information in order to participate in Zilliqa airdrop. Please note that this is a scam and there is no airdrops or ETH/BTC/ZIL giveaways. Stay vigiliant

Dear Zilliqa community members, we are planning to conduct an AMA session after mainnet launch.
Please submit your question here https://www.reddit.com/r/zilliqa/comments/ai6az8/ask_us_anything_zilliqa_ama_feb_1st_2019/

Dear all,
One more week until our mainnet launch! I am excited to share Project Update #26 with you, in which we cover more details about mining rewards and dual mining of Zilliqa. We also discuss our latest security updates and the external code reviews we have been engaging in.

On the community and marketing side, we have been confirmed for several events across the globe for the first half of the year which you can find in our update. We look forward to meeting all of you there!

We will be sharing a much more detailed post about mainnet and our roadmap beyond mainnet launch later this week, so do stay tuned! We will also be holding an AMA on Feb 1 4pm SGT to answer your questions on mainnet and beyond. You can find more details on our Reddit.

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-26-final-testing-before-mainnet-launch-75bf27cbc186

Dear All,
As we countdown to the upcoming mainnet launch, here is a quick update on what to expect. This post covers the features that will be available on the Zilliqa mainnet and also, in light of the recent 51% attacks on other chains, how we are going to ensure security on the Zilliqa network in the early stages. We look forward to sharing more with all of you on mainnet launch on January 31.
Cheers!
https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-project-update-89f77583419

The Zilliqa Mainnet is launching 31 Jan 2019. ERC20 ZIL tokens can continue to be transferred till end June 2019, when token swap is expected to complete. There is currently no action required from exchanges, wallets, token holders.

Dear All,

We are thrilled to announce that the Zilliqa mainnet has launched! This is a monumental milestone for the team and community. You may visit the block explorer at https://explorer.zilliqa.com. For mining on the Zilliqa mainnet, please refer to https://github.com/Zilliqa/Zilliqa/wiki/Mining.

The Zilliqa mainnet is quite an accomplishment with innovative technologies being made live. With this launch, Zilliqa is now the first public blockchain platform to successfully implement sharding. It has made years of research, testing and trials into a public and live platform, that will lay a solid foundation for the not just new generation blockchains, but also a new generation of decentralised applications.

Token Swap
We are glad to announce that we are working with the following exchanges to support the token swap from ERC20 to native ZIL tokens, which is expected to commence from late Q1 2019. The exact timelines will differ for exchanges. Please note that there is no action required from ZIL token holders at the moment.

Binance
Upbit
Huobi
Coinbase and Coinbase Custody
Korbit
Coinone
Gate.io
Bittrex
Gopax
Koinex
Coinhako

List of wallets supporting native ZIL tokens:
(some are still work-in-progress)
Please DO NOT send ERC20 ZIL tokens to the wallets.

Moonlet (audit done) https://moonlet.xyz/
Trust Wallet
ZHIP
Light-wallet
Midas Protocol
xZil
Ledger Companion

The Road Forward
Post mainnet we will continue to be working on research and development in areas such as zkSNARKs and high-level language integrations with Scilla.

We will also continue to nurture the Zilliqa ecosystem through grants and other initiatives such as our digital advertising project with Mindshare and other players Project Proton, Hg Exchange which is aiming to be the first member-driven private investment exchange in Southeast Asia. We also hope that BOLT, EMONT Frenzy by Etheremon, and exciting games from Krypton and MixMarvel take off with consumers.

Once again, we would like to thank our community for your patience, and being on this journey with us. This is the beginning of what will be an amazing year for Zilliqa. We look forward to many more exciting developments, and sharing them with you all.

You can also check out https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-mainnet-the-launch-and-beyond-4cd7e113369f for more details.

Dear All
A reminder we have our post mainnet AMA today at 4pm Singapore time (UTC+8). You can submit questions on Reddit or ask them live @zilliqachat. https://www.reddit.com/r/zilliqa/comments/ai6az8/ask_us_anything_zilliqa_ama_feb_1st_2019/

Dear All
Happy Lunar New Year! The team is finally getting a much-deserved break after mainnet launch.
I am happy to share this week's project update where we cover the recent mainnet launch, notable tech updates, and the summary of our AMA.
As always, let us know if you have any questions or comments.

https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-project-update-27-entering-a-new-era-506df64a0322

Calling all bug hunters! In conjunction with BugCrowd, Zilliqa invites you to test and help secure our primary publicly facing assets - focusing on our cryptocurrency platform and smart contract language/implementation. We are awarding $150-$5000 per vulnerability found. Check out https://bugcrowd.com/zilliqa?preview=fd8e67b9c72ece08adbb808f71f6bfff for more details.

@channel
Dear All,
I’m happy to share that after the successful launch of the main net, we’re looking to end the bootstrap phase in early March and moving our focus to enterprise applications, awareness, marketing and partnerships.
As always, let us know if you have any questions or comments.
https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-project-update-28-mainnet-growth-marketing-focus-a0521d28a07

Dear community members,

We have come a long way since the launch of the Maoshanwang testnet. Since we launched our mainnet, our network has marched to over 24,700 transaction blocks and over 900 nodes from the community have joined the network. Meanwhile, the shard difficulty level has reached 34 (~17 GH/s) and the DS difficulty level has reached 41 (~2199 GH/s). We would like to thank all the miners and community members for their long-standing support.

The bootstrap phase has been going strong thanks to everyone being so committed to their role within this diverse community. During the bootstrap phase, we have had three upgrades to the network in order to further enhance its stability. Meanwhile, we have also been gathering feedback from the community and identified several improvements that are desirable. For instance, in order to achieve wider adoption by the mining community, we need a more miner-friendly client and opt-in upgrading mechanism. In addition, we are also fine-tuning the public-facing APIs by implementing more features like incremental DB to enhance the process for miners to join and recover from the latest states as well as coordinate with exchanges for token swap.

Therefore, we are proposing to extend the bootstrap phase from DS Epoch 313 to DS Epoch 600 (estimated to be in end of March), in order to test and implement these desired features before the end of the bootstrap phase. Thank you everyone in advance for your understanding and continuous support

Cheers!
The Zilliqa Team