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
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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.

We're pleased to introduce you to Gareth Mensah - our new Developer Evangelist.He has just joined our team to help us cultivate a rich ecosystem for our growing developer community.

Gareth brings over 10 years' experience in technology to Zilliqa, having held roles with both Fortune 500 companies like AOL, Nokia, Wells Fargo as well as start ups. Having worked in various capacities along the way - as a technical service manager, mobile app developer, technical consultant, and developer relations expert - Gareth has a strong understanding of software development life cycle and open collaboration, which he will bring to this role. He holds a BS in Computer Science from San Francisco State University. 

We're excited to work with him and see what he has in store. Please give him a warm welcome everyone!

#Welcome #buildOnZIL

Technical Update 16 July: Here’s your three-point brief on the latest technical update:

1. Zilliqa version 4.7.0 released - This version contains several improvements including lookup node fixes, P2P communication fixes, PoW mining improvements, and the addition of a missing check - among others.

2. Work underway to include inductive datatypes - Given that Scilla does not currently allow for general recursion, this datatype feature will allow for a recursion principle similar to fold.

3. Upcoming Articles - We offer sneak peaks into two upcoming articles - one studying the difference between Scilla and Move - and the other explaining the Scilla backend compiler. Stay tuned for these insightful pieces!

You can read the entire blog here: https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-technical-update-16-july-2019-29fde5d35e44

The dawn of b-commerce is here! 🌐 Announcing the fourth wave of Zilliqa Ecosystem Grants programme awardees. Welcome to the Zilliqa family! 🎉🎉
https://blog.zilliqa.com/announcing-the-fourth-wave-of-zilliqa-ecosystem-grant-awardees-97684447ac3

We created a quick survey to gauge the dev community’s interest in a bi-weekly call. Please take a couple of minutes to fill out the survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/L63X9TW

Community Update 23 July - Here is a three-point brief on the latest updates:

1. Developer Relations: Our new Developer Evangelist Gareth Mensah recently shared a survey to understand our developers’ needs better. We share the survey findings and plan to aggressively increase outreach in a targeted and effective way through bi-weekly calls.

2. Ecosystem Grant - Wave 5 applications now open: Following the announcement of our 11 fourth wave grantees, applications for the next wave are now open for the three tracks - Infrastructure, Innovation and Research. Priority will be given to robust proposals that enable the DeFi ecosystem.

3. Twitter Contest Winners and Findings: Congratulations to all the winners of the #ZilliqaDay2019 twitter contest! We share details on the top 3 winning entries, which are both insightful and creative. We also share findings from our study of the participant pool and moving forward, will consider ways through which we can more effectively create a truly global and involved community.

You can read all the details here: https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-community-update-23-july-2019-developer-outreach-twitter-contest-winners-latest-eeb7d0527467

Zilliqa AMA - 12 July Transcript : We are pleased to share the transcript of the recently held AMA  which was conducted on Reddit and then live on Telegram. We've done our best to make the responses comprehensive and hope it is useful for those who were unable to participate, and for everyone with queries. We enjoyed the AMA and will plan to make this a more regular activity for your benefit. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YC6UqT5TPdFY_lf9K0G3BbtZQ-xZAVhowbVqyxKte7I/edit?usp=sharing

Thrilled to announce that our first-ever Developer Community Call will take place Friday 26 July @ 9 AM SGT.
@DaoChemist
will be leading the initiative, discussing its objectives & answering app dev related queries. Some of our engineers and developers will also join the call to answer your questions and collect your feedback on developing on #Zilliqa $BuildOnZIL.

We look forward to hearing from participants, and developing this initiative over the coming months!

#StartBuildingonZIL $ZIL 🔥
Join In! 👉 https://meet.google.com/unsupported?meetingCode=eem-erwv-bua&ref=https://meet.google.com/eem-erwv-bua

Technical Update 30 July 2019: Hello all, here’s your three-point summary on our latest technical update:

Improvements in core tech and scilla underway: To enhance efficiency and robustness of the platform, the team is making modifications to the core C++ source code and  the internal scripts and utilities which are part of the infrastructure. The next version is likely to include several security and functional improvements. In order to mitigate I/O bottlenecks within the scilla interpreter, the team has been restructuring the infrastructure, and adding new folds and functions. 

Revamping wallet contract: the team is rewriting wallet contracts to include better security features. These will be added to a repository of contract templates which developers can use for inspiration. 

Development of Ledger support: We are reworking the ledger app code to support more features, based on initial feedback received from the ledger team.

For more, you can refer to: https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-technical-blog-30-july-b2f44032adbf