Zilliqa Grows Global Team to Speed-up Technical and Business Development Efforts, Announces 7 New Hires!

We never stop buidling and bringing in the best talent. Join us in welcoming:

⭐️ Amaan Hussain
⭐️ Sandra H.
⭐️ Kenneth Tan
⭐️ Alvin Tan
⭐️ Sunny Teo
⭐️ Charlie Chong
⭐️ Shi Qi Lim

Learn more about our new superstars and their roles here:
⬇️ https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-grows-global-team-to-speed-up-technical-and-business-development-efforts-announces-7-new-81785e1b360a…

To kick things off for a busy day ahead, we’re announcing our partnership with Liquid Global! Liquid Global is one of the world's largest, fully regulated and licensed crypto-fiat exchange that serves millions of customers worldwide. You’re now able to withdraw ZRC-2 $XSGD on Liquid. Withdrawal fees for ZRC-2 XSGD are waived to celebrate this!

We're making ZIL accessible for more people. Making ZIL available 4 all. #ZIL4All

More ZRC-2 Listings to come on Liquid too!

https://blog.liquid.com/xsgd-zrc-2

1 more hour to go to ZIL4, come join us in celebrating 4 years of $ZIL.

We hope you're ready. See you there!

Join the celebrations:
https://youtu.be/n7a0YtlpxiI

ZIL4 is now LIVE! Click on the link below to join in the celebrations of #ZIL4All. For those that aren't able to join us for the livestream, we will be updating our Telegram Announcements feed to keep you up to speed with the event!

Watch it here:
youtu.be/n7a0YtlpxiI

Just announced: IgniteDAO, the first legal DAO in the Netherlands, governed by Ignite gZIL stakers. With multiple non-custodial products like automated staking to maximise yields and profit sharing from gZIL staking.

$gZIL holders, are you excited to be a part of history? For questions join: https://t.me/IgniteDAO

Zilliqa is proud to announce a $10 million Creator Fund to invest into individuals and projects at the very core of the creator economy.

This is launching in Q3🔥🔥

Missed the #ZIL4ALL celebrations?

Fret not because our friends at HouseOfChimera (https://t.me/HouseOfChimera) has done a fantastic job in recapping it on LearnBlockchain.org!

Read the quick 5-min recap here:
https://learnblockchain.org/5125/test/

Didn’t Manage to Catch the #ZIL4ALL Celebrations?

Here’s a quick recap video that captures the key highlights of the 3 hour long event!

A huge thank you to all our partners for joining us and making this a successful event🔥🔥

Watch it Here👇🏻👇🏻:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzkYvtcnQxs&t=1s&ab_channel=Zilliqa

⭐️ZILLIQA Q2 2021 ECOSYSTEM GROWTH REPORT⭐️

 In the second quarter of 2021, Zilliqa not only persevered in the face of a bear market, but actively enriched its economy and offerings. The proof lies within the Q2 Ecosystem Report. https://docs.zilliqa.com/ecosystem-growth-report-2021-Q2.pdf

We added to our global team. We diversified our revenue streams with the addition of tokenisation and creator economy solutions. We recorded steady growth across community projects, our ZilSwap DEX, seed node staking, new tokens powered by ZIL, social-media, DeFi projects and much more.

In fact, the report highlights were also shared during ZIL-4. If you missed it, check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7a0YtlpxiI&t=1269s

🎆 Great event, we are collaborating with DuckDuck and launching the contest for 39th canvas!

🦆 Draw your best duck on this one and win cool prizes on the #ZILALL Community Discord Server

1️⃣st place – 1 Free NFD + 0.2 $DUCK

2️⃣nd place – 150 $ZWALL

3️⃣rd place – 0.3 $DUCK

🗳 Voting will take place in a special channel on ZILALL Community Discord Server

💜🦆 In order to get access, get the roles of "ZILWALL FOLLOWER" and "DUCKDUCK FOLLOWER"

Hey Zilliqans!

Didn’t manage to catch the #ZIL4ALL celebrations last Friday? This July 2021 Newsletter is for you.

In this edition, we’ve prepared a recap video to highlight the key events that happened in our #ZIL4ALL anniversary celebrations.

Check it out here on our blog:
https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-monthly-newsletter-july-2021-the-zil4all-edition-8cd6729cb12f

https://twitter.com/ZilSwap/status/1423222642710958091

Mark your calendars #Zilliqans, because it's gonna be one hell of a #ZILOFireRocket

📰 https://bit.ly/zilo2-zilliqaroyale

$BLOX token will facilitate more than just the Minecraft bridge, we will be bringing #zilliqa to the world's most popular game engines as well!

Over 48% of ALL games are build with
unity3d, which will have easy access to the #zilliqa blockchain and item tokenization using $BLOX.

Starting with Unity we'll be developing an open-source asset which can connect ANY Unity game to the Zilliqa blockchain.

All games making use of this asset will by default use the $BLOX token as it's main currency and way of interacting with the modular marketplace.

https://twitter.com/ZilFlip/status/1424639335807262720

Weekly Altcoin Update – Week 32
This week’s altcoin update will focus on the Zilliqa NFT Ecosystem!

DeMons
DeMons is one of the promising projects that is launching on the Zilliqa ecosystem. The project consists out of hand-drawn NFTs, that are part of the DemonVerse. The project consists out of 5 different NFT races, of which two are publicly announced; GodZilliqas and CryptoApes. The project will utilize their native token $DMZ for utility and governance, NFT holders get $DMZ by just holding the NFTs.

XCAD Network
The XCAD Network is ramping up, and Q3 is going to be full of announcements and developments. The upcoming few weeks will be fairly interesting for the project in terms of adoption, integrations, and newly added features of the ecosystem. House of Chimera is looking forward to the upcoming weeks and will keep updating our community on the developments.

UFFS Sports
UFFS Sports is lately welcoming quite a few new athletes to their ecosystem. The project is actively partnering up with new partners, thus creating value for the project. The upcoming fantasy sale on Sept 10-12 is going to be a massive event for UFFS Sports, and hopefully, it will be as massive as the last fantasy sale event.

Zilliqa x PolyNetwork
The upcoming Zilliqa <-> ETH bridge utilizes the PolyNetwork tech, however, PolyNetwork has been a victim of a 600 million USD hack today. The Zilliqa team is actively monitoring the situation and is waiting for the story to unravel. We have asked Amrit about his stance on the current situation.

[“As the details around the exploit are still unclear at this stage, we are actively monitoring the situation. Until more info is released, it is difficult at this stage to comment on whether or not this will impact the upcoming bridge.]”

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Weekend Spotlight: XCAD Network

The XCAD Network ecosystem is rapidly evolving in an innovative social platform, where content creators and their fans can interact with each other. It opens up a new untapped revenue stream for content creators, while it allows fans to be more engaged with their favorite content creator!

The upcoming few weeks are packed with announcements, until the end of Q3. House of Chimera is interested to analyze the current adoption of XCAD Network to determine the growth of the ecosystem.

Bandwagon effect
The design of the XCAD Network ecosystem has a strong emphasis on the adoption of content creators. They play a major role within the ecosystem, therefore the platform must have a steady increase in adoption by content creators. The value of the XCAD Network token depends on the adoption of content creators, and it’s fans. The token is being used as means of payment for the content creator tokens on the XCAD DEX, therefore creating organic demand. The psychological ‘Bandwagon’ effect could occur when XCAD Network is attracting big content creators to their platform. The bandwagon effect is a cognitive bias that causes people to think or act a certain way if they believe that others are doing the same. Essentially, you could simplify this down to the ‘follow the crowd effect’ whereby people tend to follow influential people.

Adoption by content creators
The current adoption of XCAD Network by content creators is considerable, and this will only grow whenever the platform goes live. As stated above, it is expected that many small- and medium-sized content creators will follow their favorite content creators to adopt the XCAD Network into their business model. The current reach of the content creators of XCAD Network is ~135 million, which equals to 10 countries in Europe, as highlighted in the figure below.

Sidenote: House of Chimera didn't include the alt channels of the content creators, if these were included the total subscriber amount will be above 150+ million.

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- Follow us on Twitter
- Join our Discord

Got any 🔥Burning Questions🔥 to ask Amrit?

Ask away with the #ZilliqaXLayah on Twitter or reply to the linked tweet below!

Catch Amrit live in his AMA with Layah Heilpern tomorrow 18 Aug 4PM UK Time!

See you there 😊

https://twitter.com/zilliqa/status/1427228218113748999

Dear Zilliqa Community,

There is an issue with the mainnet currently. We’ve noticed that shard nodes have dropped off and are checking. The network is progressing and we are currently monitoring it very closely.

Transactions are blocked from the current block 13366008 till 1366100 (around the next 30 minutes) so that the network can resume with more shards.
We will keep you posted when it resumes again.

The Zilliqa Team

Dear Zilliqa Community

Transactions have resumed as of block 1366100.

Thank you once again for the support and patience.

The Zilliqa Team

📖 Sunday Read from Amrit Kumar

NFT and social token thesis for the $ZIL ecosystem: Celebrities and influencers carry as much value as any goods, product or services. In the blockchain world, it has started to give rise to the rebirth of NFTs which has naturally extended to social and fan tokens.

We are witnessing the early signs of a decentralised creator economy which enables influencers, artists and in fact anyone to monetise themselves. Their ‘virtual’ value becoming tradable on a “humanised stock market” that enables trading of ownership or belonging to a community.

Creators in this economy get adequately recognised and rewarded for their skills, authenticity, ability to engage a large fan base and general know-how by having a direct access to their fans. Fans on the other hand can extract value for their contribution to creators' success.