Token Swap Update: 11 June 2019

For details on the token swap, you can refer to: https://blog.zilliqa.com/a-guide-to-zilliqa-token-swap-5278ba32a2f3

• Coinone — Deposit and withdrawal of mainnet ZIL now open. https://coinone.co.kr/talk/notice/detail/629)

• Gate.io - Now supporting the Mainnet ZIL swap and deposit/withdrawal

• Binance — Deposit and withdrawal of mainnet ZIL now open following wallet maintenance. Binance will continue to support the Zilliqa swap.

To swap your ERC20 Zilliqa, generate a receive address for ETH and send your ERC20 ZIL to it (DO NOT use the Zilliqa receiving address, it is only for receiving mainnet Zilliqa).

• Kucoin — Withdrawals of mainnet ZILs now open and rolling swap enabled. https://www.kucoin.com/news/en-zil-withdrawal-service-now-open

• Huobi — Deposit and withdrawal of ERC20 ZIL suspended

• OKEx — Deposits and withdrawal of ERC20 ZILs suspended

• Upbit — Deposit and withdrawal of mainnet ZIL now open

• Koinex

• Coinhako — Swap now offered in instantaneous mode
Users may withdraw their zil instantly on the mainnet after depositing ERC20. To swap your ERC20 Zilliqa, generate a receive address for any ERC20 token and send your ERC20 ZIL to it (DO NOT use the Zilliqa receiving address, it is only for receiving mainnet Zilliqa).
https://blog.coinhako.com/available-now-zilliqa-mainnet-support/


Notice: Please ensure you have your new ZIL mainnet wallet address for deposits. There has been a change in the format to reduce confusions with similar ETH addresses. The old address remains valid as well. Please read more here https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-migrates-to-new-address-format-bf1fa6d7e41d. Zilliqa is currently coordinating with wallets to make the move to new addresses and we will keep you posted on this.

Community Update 11 June 2019 - What an exciting week it’s been! Here’s a summary of the community, partnerships and media updates. https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-community-update-11-june-the-beginning-of-a-new-era-bf7ccde0236a?postPublishedType=initial

We’re glad to have successfully launched smart contracts yesterday - 10 June. This is game-changing news for a range of professionals and enthusiasts alike -  developers, engineers, finance and business folk, gamers… you name it! We are thrilled to see what dApps will be built to scale on Zilliqa. So #StartbuildingonZIL !

Security advisory
===============
We are made aware of ongoing scam with regards to 1) impersonation of team members and community managers 2) Fake token swap 3) Fake investment scam

Common scam tactics are:
- Asking user to fill up a google form and send token to a contract address. Please do not submit any information or send token to contract created by scammer
- Impersonation of Zilliqa team members/community managers- We do not pm you or create private chat group
- Asking you to send btc/eth/zil for fake "investments"

Token swap
- There is NO manual token swap. All swaps will be done by various exchanges
- Zilliqa and our community managers will not collect any information from you.
- Any online form (including google form) that asked you fill your details in order to do token swap is a scam
- Please do not reveal your private key or mnemonic phrase to anyone
- Please refer to announcement from exchanges for token swap instructions

Offical Telegram channel/group
- @zilliqachat
- @zilliqa

Known Telegram channel/group created by scammer
- Zilliqasupport

Token swap are still ongoing. Strictly via supported exchanges

Join us for Zilliqa Day 2019! https://youtu.be/bOYafe8EoZw

Token Swap Update 24 June 2019

Coinone — Deposit and withdrawal of mainnet ZIL now open. https://coinone.co.kr/talk/notice/detail/629)


Gate.io - Now supporting the Mainnet ZIL swap and deposit/withdrawal


CoinEx  - Deposit, withdrawal and trading of mainnet ZILs  are open.


Binance — Deposit and withdrawal of mainnet ZIL now open following wallet maintenance. Binance will continue to support the Zilliqa swap.


To swap your ERC20 Zilliqa, generate a receive address for ETH and send your ERC20 ZIL to it (DO NOT use the Zilliqa receiving address, it is only for receiving mainnet Zilliqa).

Kucoin — Withdrawals of mainnet ZILs now open and rolling swap enabled. https://www.kucoin.com/news/en-zil-withdrawal-service-now-open


Huobi — Deposit and withdrawal of ERC20 ZIL suspended.


OKEx — Deposit and withdrawal of mainnet ZILs now open.


Upbit — Deposit and withdrawal of mainnet ZIL now open.


Coinhako — Swap now offered in instantaneous mode.

Users may withdraw their zil instantly on the mainnet after depositing ERC20. To swap your ERC20 Zilliqa, generate a receive address for any ERC20 token and send your ERC20 ZIL to it (DO NOT use the Zilliqa receiving address, it is only for receiving mainnet Zilliqa). https://blog.coinhako.com/available-now-zilliqa-mainnet-support/


Notice: Please ensure you have your new ZIL mainnet wallet address for deposits. There has been a change in the format to reduce confusions with similar ETH addresses. The old address remains valid as well. Please read more here https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-migrates-to-new-address-format-bf1fa6d7e41d. Zilliqa is currently coordinating with wallets to make the move to new addresses and we will keep you posted on this.

For details on the token swap, you can refer to: https://blog.zilliqa.com/a-guide-to-zilliqa-token-swap-5278ba32a2f3

Let's make Zilliqa community engagement more professional and effective

Dear all,
We would like to thank you all for your engaging participation in the ZILLIQA ecosystem, driving us forward and helping us along our journey of becoming a strong, game-changing player in the blockchain industry over the past two years. While our technology is now in a fantastic place,  we recognise the need to ramp up marketing and communications that captures the relevance and importance of the infrastructure. As such, we are in the midst of making changes to expand our reach. So fret not, we’re only just getting started. 

Over the past few weeks, we celebrated the historic launch of smart contracts and announced our partnership with Xfers, a partner who recognise the value that our blockchain can bring about to the global payments ecosystem. We also unveiled our newly designed accelerator programme, ZILHive, which we designed in collaboration with our ecosystem partner, LongHash. We deeply appreciate your support through our growth. 
 
However, as a young company in this volatile, fast-changing industry - carving out a position for oneself often has a few hit-and-misses. We do acknowledge all your concerns and comments that were received following ZILLIQA Day 2019, and would like to emphasise that where feedback and critiques are constructive and well-meaning they are always (and will always be) received well by this team.

In response to some of the feedback - some of you have felt that the hype > the announcement, whereas others have stated that there wasn’t enough hype. At Zilliqa, we have always believed that technology building is far more important and speaks for itself. However, you can rest assured that we will aggressively drive messages about progress through branding, marketing and communication in the coming months. 

We are building a stronger strategy and have boosted the expertise within our team in recent weeks. We may not necessarily always discuss the fine-print of these strategies externally, but you will definitely see the results. There are already a number of initiatives in the pipeline to help us function smoother, better -  and where needed - communicate louder. Keeping our larger mission and vision as our guiding compass for everything we do, we strive to navigate the fine line between hype and effective campaigning so that everyone can benefit.

This requires more meaningful dialogue between you, the community and us - Zilliqa, so that we carry forward the progress-oriented culture to all our respective extended networks. 

To ensure we’re on the right track here, we would like to address some issues that are hindering this goal on Telegram (Slack, Twitter, and Reddit as well), and have issued some guidelines to make this a constructive, safe and professional space for everyone. 

(1) Always respect our team - There's always a way to convey messages politely, so let's all do that, s'il vous plait. I cannot stress this enough. Use appropriate and courteous discourse, tone and language. Foul language, swearing, unwarranted accusations and targeted attacks will not be tolerated.  This may be an open community but absolutely has to be an inclusive one. Please remember that.

Technology thrives in global culture and society - as do all talented people. We will not accept crude remarks on people's appearances and accents. Moving forward, we will keep your feedback in mind and look into filling any communication gaps while ensuring that our partners still have a platform and authentic voice with us - this is of critical importance to Zilliqa. For instance, we will look into how we can make our presentations more useful and informative for you, and how we can utilise a range of speakers or even video content as updates. 

Moving ahead, we will block off malicious, targeted and unfounded remarks. This is not meant to dissuade participation, but rather to make this space more constructive. We respect some feedback and further - fully accept that there have been things we could improve. We understand it can't be all posi

tive rainbows and butterflies all the time, but be careful not to let the negative cross the lines onto  offensive. We will take action if things get out of hand.
On your end, please think about what you type before you put it out there - and know that we are human in spite of all our great tech :)

(2) Always respect our partners. Like many of you here, they have believed in ZILLIQA enough to build on us. This is a BIG DEAL. We don't take this lightly. Every company brings in a unique value proposition to their market - and if they believe our infrastructure can boost that - we're fully on board and geared up to power them with $ZIL. Adoption goes a long way with trust in each other, and together we will make the world a better place with b-commerce on ZILLIQA.

Working with Xfers to us is a great example of this progress, which has been made possible with our unique smart contracts technology. It is a fantastic company that can bring crypto-adoption to millions. With this project is at its early stage, we will be able to reveal more details of this collaboration in the coming months - I am sure you’ll see the value for yourself. 

Equally, we also grateful and thrilled to be working with our partners gaming and entertainment industries such as Krypton and Ethermon, who unveiled some great demos just last week. Hats off their hard work! 

(3) Please respect the general rules. Keep discussions relevant to the group you are posting on. If there's a lot of price or mining talk from new members who may not understand the rules - help our CMs convey this by directing the discussion elsewhere (such as @ZilliqaCommunity and @ZilliqaMiners). This ecosystem will thus be a more effective and manageable if we all adhere to these simple rules.

(4) Say no to fake news. Creating excessive hype to fuel temporary price pumps has actually been suggested as a strategy to us. Well - that’s not how Zilliqa chooses to operate. We have been extremely clear on the fact that we are not currently working with Facebook on any projects. When it comes to such news, you should believe the news you get from reliable sources (a.k.a - US!) rather than those you read from third-party blogs and conspiracy theories floating around the crypto ecosystem and twitterverse. When we say we are not working on something, we don’t want you to read ‘in between the lines’. There’s nothing there! 

(5) Transparency Vs. Privacy. This is a delicate issue that every organisation - no matter how small or large - must navigate. Zilliqa is no different. Adding on to point (4), I’d like to stress that when we do have an update for the community, you can trust that we want to share news with you and be as transparent as possible. However, while we build public blockchain infrastructure - remember that not all projects are up for public discussion from the get-go. 

We cannot sacrifice the trust we share with partners when we are in the initial stages of understanding their needs and managing a new project. We make it our utmost priority never to breach confidentiality and overlook legal terms and conditions in favor of marketing buzz and hype. On your part, you can help us by making sure you’re not one of those people spreading rumors or encouraging misinformation. 

These are all unsustainable roads to success and gimmicks, and we don’t want any part of it. This brings me to the final point.

(6) Be patient. Asking us for updates every single day is not going to get you the updates. We cannot have significant developments on each of our projects every day - that’s simply unrealistic! Sharing such updates requires more than me just putting out a tweet or a blogpost. It requires accurate internal research, collaboration with and approvals from partners and a detailed senior team discussion on strategy. Please do consider this the next time you ask us or our CMs for a timeline or an update.  

We appreciate how fast-paced and stressful the crypto and blockchain world can be for those following, supporting, working and investing in it. But I have no doubt that it can also be

respectful and professional. 

Let us all partake in meaningful discussions with one another by using the pointers above and #ProgressWithZIL !

Thank you for your understanding and long-standing support.

Regards,
Aparna 

Community Update 25 June 2019: Our latest blog recaps the two latest announcements - our partnership with fintech company Xfers and the 12-week accelerator programme we are working on with incubator LongHash. We discuss the value these projects bring to Zilliqa, and to evolving blockchain industry. You can read more here: https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-community-update-25-june-2019-celebrating-new-collaborations-376601339478  

Technical Update, 2nd July 2019 - Here is a four point brief on our latest technical update, which you can now read on Medium.

Version 4.6.3 has been released - It introduces changes made specifically for Lookup and Seed nodes. Compared to previous versions, it improved on the JSON response through addition of a BlockHash field, and identified and fixed some bugs affecting the Lookup function. 

Version 4.7.0 under construction and pending release -  This will include a retry mechanism, helping miners re-attempt submitting their PoW results. Some functional bugs will also be addressed in this release.

Enhancing Scilla functionality  - Includes fixing of bugs and addition of a new built-in to compute the address from a public key. Based on requests from contract authors for the support of exceptions in Scilla, the plan is to implement exceptions in the coming weeks.

Enhancing Blockchain-to-Scilla Interpreter communications -  There were some issues  identified in input/output communications within the platform. To overcome this, a closer coupling of the blockchain with the Scilla interpreter is being designed using ‘serialization mechanism.’ 

For more details, please visit this page: https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-technical-update-2-july-2019-19b10996bdef

Security advisory
===============
We are made aware of ongoing scam with regards to 1) impersonation of team members and community managers 2) Fake token swap 3) Fake investment scam (eg. fake staking via telegram)

Team members and community managers will not DM you.

Common scam tactics are:
- Asking user to fill up a google form and send token to a contract address. Please do not submit any information or send token to contract created by scammer
- Impersonation of Zilliqa team members/community managers- We do not pm you or create private chat group
- Asking you to send btc/eth/zil for fake "investments"
- Asking you to stake for rewards (via dm on telegram)

Token swap
- There is NO manual token swap. All swaps will be done by various exchanges
- Zilliqa and our community managers will not collect any information from you.
- Any online form (including google form) that asked you fill your details in order to do token swap is a scam
- Please do not reveal your private key or mnemonic phrase to anyone
- Please refer to announcement from exchanges for token swap instructions

Offical Telegram channel/group
- @zilliqachat
- @zilliqa

Known Telegram channel/group created by scammer
- Zilliqasupport

Token swap are still ongoing. Strictly via supported exchanges

Ask us anything! As promised, Zilliqa will conduct a 1-hour live AMA session on Telegram on Friday 12 July starting at 04:00 PM Singapore time (08:00 AM GMT). Amrit, Yaoqi and Mark will answer any questions you might have on both the progress we made in recent months, as well as our future plans in terms of tech, business development and marketing.

On Wednesday, 10 July at 2:00 PM GMT, we will open an AMA thread on Reddit (reddit.com/r/zilliqa), where you can post your questions beforehand.

We are looking forward to answering your questions and engaging with the community in a fruitful manner!

Community Update 9 July 2019 - Our latest community blog shares some important updates as well as valuable tips for those looking to get involved in our inaugural accelerator programme with LongHash -  ZIL Hive. Here's your four-point summary:

1. Token Swap: Binance will support another round of token swap (ERC20 --> main net ZIL conversion) for Zilliqa. This will take place on 10th July. This trench of swap is expected to be around 1.5 billion Zilliqa token.  Binance, Kucoin, CoinHako are supporting swaps on a continuous basis. In the meantime, we are coordinating with Bitfinex/Ethfinex, Bittrex, Coinbase, Gopax and Huobi to enable a swap for us. 

2. ZILHive Application Tips: We share some basic refresher tips on best practices and key elements to consider, which all potential applicants must keep in mind as they build their ideas into project proposals for any of our grant or accelerator programmes. 

3.  Community Updates: Unstoppable Domains' .zil auction goes live today, which is a huge milestone! We are also thrilled to share that Krypton has launched a new version of SuperPlayer.

4. Zilliqa in the News: Amrit, Max and Edison have shared their insights on Zilliqa, the blockchain industry, as well as our historic smart contracts launch with notable media outlets such as BlockTV and CryptoBeadles. We share the coverage snapshots with you. 

To read more, visit https://blog.zilliqa.com/community-update-9-july-2019-9fd3a67d541d

Anquan AMA Responses - 10 July 2019: Thank you for sending in your questions to the Anquan team. We have included every single question received, and have grouped them into five different sections: namely: Anquan and Zilliqa; Anquan sale of ZILs, Anquan plan for its ZIL; Anquan permissioned chain; and Zilliqa marketing and branding.

The responses to the first four categories, which come directly from the Anquan leadership - Max Kantelia, Juzar Motiwalla and Prateek Saxena, can be found here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1F-IyX3g5s6ASJgTvry7bqSRmkO5OKAMMV3G5xqPa_pg/.

For the final category, which is Zilliqa Marketing and Branding, please share your questions in the Zilliqa AMA, which will be open via Reddit today and follow with a live telegram session on Friday, 12 July, at 4:00 PM SGT (GMT+8).

Thank you for your participation.

Hi all , Thank you for posting your questions on Reddit. This is a reminder that the AMA will be kicking off in the next half an hour on the Telegram official channel. Please note that answers from TG and Reddit will be consolidated into a document at the end the AMA and shared with you. In case you are unable to participate at this hour, the document will serve as your go-to source to view all questions and corresponding Zilliqa responses.