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

Dear All,

Over the past few weeks we have been closely monitoring and making improvements to our mainnet. We have had three upgrades to the network in order to further enhance its stability. We have also been coordinating with exchanges for the Zil token swap, the details of which we will be announcing shortly.

Also, at Zilliqa we place a very strong emphasis on team dynamic and we take all new hirings very seriously. So, we’re proud to announce some new Zilliqa team members who have have recently joined us (learn more about them in the post.)

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

https://bit.ly/2VD5NwQ

Project Update #30
As we approach the end of the bootstrap phase, we continue the technical tuneups of the platform. We will also soon kick-start our program to work with universities to educate students about blockchain apps.
We're also happy to announce the recruitment of our new Communications Manager, Aparna. More details in our blog:
http://bit.ly/zilupdate30

Zilliqa is proud to announce the third wave of Ecosystem grant awardees! Committed to nurturing talent, we are now accepting applications for the fourth wave & will offer structured support to our developer community. Read more here: https://medium.com/@snowsledge/announcing-the-third-wave-of-zilliqa-ecosystem-grant-awardees-f9d6578edfa3.

Dear all,

We are approaching the end of the bootstrap phase, which is scheduled once the network mines the 600th DS epoch (estimated to be on April 2nd, 2019). The Zilliqa network has processed over 55k transaction blocks during this bootstrap phase and over 1,200 community nodes have joined our network. The mining difficulty level for the DS committee has reached 44, while for the shards, it is at 37. This is a strong indicator of Zilliqa being increasingly adopted by the mining community. We are very thankful for their support.

As is the case with any initial networks, the Zilliqa network has also seen some glitches during the bootstrap phase due to the heterogeneity of the network, mismatch between some of the time windows in the protocol and real-world compute, and network delays among community nodes. However, the network has not witnessed any serious attacks, which can largely be attributed to the high PoW difficulty-level in the network.

As promised, we will allow processing of transactions following the end of the bootstrap phase. Miners can start to transfer their tokens to other accounts and community developers can begin trying out payment services. To ensure smooth transitions for all, we will reserve a few hours to test token transfer and other payment transaction services before opening it to the public. Once the testing is done, we will inform everyone on Slack and Telegram.

To secure the success of token swap (scheduled to start in late April), and better support exchanges and wallets, we would like to open the network to only allow payment transactions, i.e., the smart contract feature of the network will be temporarily disabled.

We assure you that the smart contract layer is fully implemented and being used by the community members to test their applications on the developer testnet. We will enable smart contracts on the mainnet via a network upgrade following the token swap, and share updates on the official date during the latter half of May 2019.

As always, thank you for your support and understanding.

Dear community members. We have been notified that certain scammers are impersonating our community manager. Do note that our community managers will not DM you and will not help to generate a wallet address on your behalf. As always, stay safe!

Hi all,

We are happy to announce that the mainnet's bootstrap phase has come to a close. Over the past two weeks, the core tech team worked hard to upgrade the mainnet to the latest version 4.4.0 and its subsequent hotfix version 4.4.1. Apart from the security and functional fixes that we regularly introduce in each upgrade, the major improvements in version 4.4.0 revolve around storage, mining, and usability. Version 4.4.0 also introduced the new incremental database feature, which allows new nodes joining the network to first download older blocks from our AWS storage. Additionally, in order to improve usability and convenience for all our fantastic miners out there, we have added the option for enabling an API server in community nodes.

The end of the bootstrap phase does not change what we have always been committed to doing, which is enhancing and perfecting the system as much as possible. Keeping this mission in mind, we continue to work dedicatedly on fixes and enhancements. As the first few transactions have already been successfully processed, we celebrate this new phase for Zilliqa and eagerly wait to see how we can grow. If you'd like more information, please note that we will soon release our bi-weekly update which carries further technical details for your consideration.

Project Update #31 — As you know, the Bootstrap Phase has officially ended and transactions are being successfully processed through the network. Meanwhile, our experts and our Blockchain A-Z Workshop are making news! Please read more in our blog. https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-project-update-31-end-of-bootstrap-phase-8d63c0716607

Security advisory (Scam alert) - 6 April 2019
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Dear community members.

We have been notified that certain project (Zollo) is claiming to be a partner of Zilliqa. This is not true and we are not involved in any of their "token distribution". We highly recommend anyone not to provide any sensitive credentials (email, password, private keys, mnemonic phrases, etc) to them. Stay safe!