Official IoTeX Project Updates

IoTeX Project Update #4 — 5/21/18–7/9/18

Token Issuance and Listing Updates

Token Issuance

On May 23 (2PM PDT), we held our global token launch for the IOTX token! We successfully and seamlessly converted our community members’ points that they received in various community reward programs into tokens tradable on exchanges. The IOTX token is the utility token for IoTeX blockchains, used for various purposes including gas for the blockchain, root chain and sub chain management, and network-wide governance.

We have also we prepared a “Global Token Launch FAQs” video for you to learn more about the purpose of the IOTX token and token issuance / listing details. We hope this video answers your questions!

Token Listing

Following our token issuance, we have been listed on three top cryptocurrency exchanges, including Binance, gate.io , and Kucoin !

Finalizing our first set of listings on top exchanges has been a rigorous process full of legal and operational hurdles, but we are thankful for your patience and happy to finally announce this news. We truly appreciate the trust and support from every single one of you. Thank you again for your continued support!

Technical Updates

Testnet Alpha (“Strive”) Release

We launched our second code release, Testnet Alpha (codename “Strive”), on June 28! It was an extremely exciting day as the IoTeX team has been working endlessly on delivering this release to our community. It is now officially live and open sourced.

You can check out the code on our Github here: GitHub

Build software better, together

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We have received great feedback with this release, especially alongside the launch of our IoTeX Explorer which can be found on iotex.io/explorer.

In this second release, Testnet Alpha strengthens IoTeX’s innovations introduced in our first code release, Testnet Preview (“StoneVan”) and adds some exciting new in-house features. Most notably, the implementation of our optimized elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) library and full implementation of our in-house consensus mechanism, Roll-DPoS, reinforce the goals of privacy, scalability, decentralization, and interoperability.

Detailed instructions for running the Strive code are provided in this README file, and a detailed demo video can also be found here

The IoTeX-core project is open sourced and licensed under the Apache License 2.0 — we are thrilled to have the support of contributors outside of the core team! Contributions to help IoTeX reach its full potential, including style/bug fixes, feature recommendations, proposals for schemes/algorithms, and help with documentation, are all welcomed and greatly appreciated. For code contributions, please refer to our Contribution Guidelines for more information. To report issues, please file an issue on our Github page.

Academic Paper (DKSAP-IoT)

We released an academic paper, “ Faster Dual-key Stealth Address for Blockchain-based Internet of Things Systems (icbc2018–9009)” that was accepted and published in early June by one of the world’s most reputable academic blockchain conferences, the 2018 International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2018)! This paper describes IoTeX’s enhancements to the already state-of-the-art dual-key stealth address protocol (DKSAP), which is used by projects like Monero. IoTeX’s new protocol (named “DKSAP-IoT”) is an IoT-friendly adaptation of DKSAP, which reduces computational overhead by 50% compared to DKSAP, paving the way for its application to blockchain-based IoT systems.

See the full “ Faster Dual-key Stealth Address for Blockchain-based Internet of Things Systems (icbc2018–9009)” paper here:

IoTeX Published DKSAP-IoT in ICBC 2018, Reduces Computational Overhead By 50%

Yellow Paper (Roll-DPos)

We are thrilled to also announce that on July 1, we have published our yellow paper on Roll-DPoS, our in-house randomized DPoS consensus mechanism, which is implemented in our latest code release: Testnet Alpha (codename “Strive”)!

This paper from the IoTeX R&D team is a technical deep dive into the cryptographic techniques used to optimize the consensus process for large-scale IoT systems. Our Roll-DPoS consensus mechanism enables massive scalability with a more decentralized approach than normal DPoS. See how we achieved this in our yellow paper here .

Welcome Zhijie to Our Tech Team!
Staff Blockchain Engineer

Zhijie has just joined us as a Staff Blockchain Engineer to architect and develop IoTeX blockchains. He has a wealth of experience in distributed systems, P2P networks and big data over the past 10 years. Zhijie was actively working on open source projects such as MapReduce, Pig and Samza. He is the committer and PMC of Hadoop and Samza , and a member of Apache Software Foundation . Having earned a Ph.D in Computer Science at National University of Singapore, Zhijie also has 10+ publications and patents.

Zhijie was formerly leading efficiency and optimization of data infrastructure at Facebook. Before that, he was a member of the Technical Staff at Hortonworks, focusing on Hadoop YARN, which is the resource management system for various Hadoop ecosystem workloads. Prior to Hortonworks, Zhijie was working as a Software Development Engineer at Microsoft, working on a cloud-based file synchronization service.

Community Updates

IoTeX Profile System

Shortly after our token issuance on May 23, our profile system went live to assist the community in redeeming points earned from community reward programs. It is accessible from our website (iotex.io) to help minimize scams and fraudulent activities, improve user experience and security, and to make it easier to manage IoTeX points.

You can view your ETH address, view your points earned from our community reward programs, and submit points redemption applications.

More detailed instructions here: IoTeX Token Issuance Announcement

Login Page

AMA Campaign (June 2018)

To welcome IoTeX’s ‘Technology Month’ in June, the IoTeX team held an AMA on Reddit to answer any questions the community had for us regarding topics ranging from tech, to our team, to tokens, and even our favorite movies (basically anything)!

Thank you to everyone who participated and for raising such thoughtful questions. We appreciate the support and always love engaging with our community! Check out the AMA details here: IoTeX AMA — June 2018

Tech AMA Campaign (July 2018)

We held another AMA to begin July, focusing on more technical questions especially around Roll-DPoS and our recent Testnet Alpha: Strive release. Again, thank you so much to everyone who participated! We received great questions from the community and as always, the IoTeX team loves engaging with you all. We are excited to announce that we will be holding AMAs to the community bi-weekly from here on out! Each AMA may center around different topics, so keep an eye out for them to get participation points and bonus points for submitting the most thoughtful questions.

Check out the AMA details here: IoTeX AMA — July 2018 (Roll-DPoS)

First IoTalks Launched

With the goal of sharing candid perspectives on the broader blockchain ecosystem and more about IoTeX’s team, we introduced the first IoTalk on June 7! In this first IoTalk, we shared a chat with one of the masterminds behind IoTeX’s technology — our Head of Cryptography, Dr. Xinxin Fan. In this video , Dr. Xinxin Fan introduces DKSAP-IoT and delves more into IoTeX’s innovations.

Meetups (LG Executive Group, DoraHacks, FRII)

The IoTeX team had an engaging month of meetups in May and June! We had a great time connecting and sharing in-depth views of IoTeX’s vision and philosophy with developers and enthusiasts of blockchain related-challenges. Thank you to everyone who spent time with us to participate in our events and community meetups.

On June 18, co-founder Jing gave an insightful presentation to the LG Executive Group , shared IoTeX vision of Internet of Things exploration, reached consensus with the audiences, and elaborated how IoTeX would use revolutionary privacy-centric blockchain infrastructure and decentralized networks to change the traditional perceptions of the IoT.

Meanwhile, our Co-Founder Raullen, joined by Head of Cryptography, Dr. Xinxin Fan and Blockchain Staff Engineer, Zhijie, held a meetup with the hackers from Dorahacks community, and had an in-depth, sincere and productive exchange of views on next generation E-health, renewable energy & smart power, smart homes and general blockchain-related challenges.

On June 28, our Community Manager Alina attended the FRII meetup in Moscow, bringing together startups and corporations!

Conferences (Blockchain Korea , Crypto Developers, Blockchain Connect, ICBC)

In addition to meetups, the IoTeX team had a fast-paced and productive month in attending several conferences delivering keynote speeches and sponsoring and participating in a hackathon.

IoTeX began the month attending the 2018 Blockchain Korea Conference in Seoul which was hosted by Asia Economy TV, Ether Lab, and GBIC! Our co-founder Qevan Guo spoke on “how blockchain technology can change our lives”. It was an amazing day of panels, interviews, and networking for the IoTeX team to share our vision with the global blockchain community.

Held from June 10–12, IoTeX attended the CPC Crypto Developers Conference at Stanford University. Our co-founder Raullen Chai delivered a keynote speech to unveil for the first time our Roll-DPoS consensus mechanism and joined a privacy-focused panel with ZCash, Enigma, and more.

Dorahacks: Blockchain for Future Hackathon
The IoTeX team manning the booth at Blockchain Connect!

The IoTeX team attended the Blockchain Connect Conference held at the San Jose Convention Center on June 26–27 engaging with investors and enthusiasts at our booth. Our IoTeX hacker team also participated in DoraHacks’ Blockchain for Future Hackathon! They were hard at work all night and finished with an amazing solar energy project.

In Seattle, WA, Dr.Xinxin Fan, our Head of Cryptography at IoTeX shared his research on dual-key stealth addresses (DKSAP-IoT) at the International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC 2018) on June 28.

Partnerships

IoTeX has also made huge strides this past month with a few partnerships we are excited to share with you all.

We announced our partnership focused on blockchain and smart contract security with CertiK on June 14. CertiK is a blockchain and smart contract verification platform founded by top formal verification experts from Yale and Columbia University and former senior software engineers from Google, Facebook and FreeWheel. CertiK has verified the IOTX token contract, and IoTeX will continue to work with CertiK and other global project contributors to ensure their blockchain and smart contracts are truly secure.

Blockfolio

Millions of people trust Blockfolio to stay connected to the pulse of the industry through detailed pricing, market data, news, and direct updates from leaders of top crypto projects.

We are also honored to announce that we have partnered with Blockfolio and joined their private beta for Signal. Blockfolio is a free crypto portfolio management app offering complete cryptocurrency management with easy-to-use tools to keep track of all your cryptocurrency investments.

imToken, CoboWallet, and MyEtherWallet Now Supports IOTX

Beginning June, imToken began natively supporting IOTX. Similar with BTC, ETH, and 19 other popular tokens, IOTX can easily be added to imToken without manually entering the detailed contact address. imToken is the world’s largest Ethereum digital asset wallet, with more than 100,000 daily new users and 4 million monthly active users.

We also received native support from CoboWallet and IOTX can also be added to CoboWallet without needing to manually enter the detailed contract address.

Cobo Wallet now Supports IOTX

We’re so glad to annouce that Cobo Wallet now supports IoTeX (IOTX). We hope to provide the best digital currency.

Lastly, kicking off the month of July, MyEtherWallet has also been added to the list of native supporters of IOTX. If you check your MEW wallet, IOTX will automatically show in the token balance at the bottom right. MyEtherWallet (MEW) is a free, open-source, client- side interface for generating Ethereum wallets & more. It is one of the most popular wallet for cryptocurrency.

MyEtherWallet.com: Your Key to Ethereum

Free, open-source, client-side Ethereum wallet. Enabling you to interact with the blockchain easily & securely.

Livestream (China)

Our Co-Founder Raullen Chai joined a Chinese livestream for the first time on July 6 sharing about IoTeX’s recent Testnet Alpha: Strive, and the Roll-DPoS consensus mechanism. “比特币世界” is a famous livestream channel in China.

Beijing Meetup

Our co-founder Raullen Chai attended a meetup in Beijing on July 7 which was helped by Link VC, one of IoTeX’s very own investors!

Multi-Language Support to Community Groups

In order to provide better services to our community, we are working on building sub-communities in different languages! Specifically, our korean groups and channels are now ready for you to join. Check them out below:

Upcoming Events

Korea Blockchain Week

The IoTeX team will be heading to Seoul, Korea to attend Korea Blockchain Week from July 16–20! Korea Blockchain Week is Asia’s most prominent blockchain conference and is taking place for the first time in Korea. We look forward to meeting global leading blockchain enthusiasts and to sharing our vision of IoTeX!

Blockchain & IoT: The New Frontier (Rome Meetup)

Join Larry, IoTeX’s Head of BD, in Rome on July 11 to explore the intersection of blockchain and IoT!

Testnet Beta

IoTeX’s next code release, Testnet Beta, is planned to be released in late August 2018. The next phase of IoTeX development will focus on scalability and robustness of our code, and expected features include full support of scripting & Virtual Machine (VM), initial support of cross-chain communication between sub-chains, and a pluggable transportation framework with UDP & TCP support.

In Addition…

The IoTeX Technology and R&D teams will be releasing more academic and research papers on not only the theoretical aspects of our innovations but also the applicable and conceptual aspects. We are also excited to share more news soon!

IoTeX Project Update #3–4/27/18–5/20/18

Technical Development

  • Our engineer team has redesigned and implemented Merkle Patricia tree to support account-based state transitions
  • With almost 85% code implementation complete, we have finished the first draft of our Roll-DPoS consensus mechanism yellow paper.
  • Implementation of BLS signature and consensus simulation are undergoing
  • Added docker support
  • Completed PoC of IoTeX blockchain working on two embedded systems to experiment and demonstrate its lightweightness and effectiveness. Our Github repo: https://github.com/iotexproject/iotex-core has been “star”-ed by 600+ developers at the time of writing this update.
  • IOTX token contract has been audited extensively by our engineers, developers from the community, and third party vendors. No vulnerability has been identified at the time of writing this update.

Multi-language Support to Website

In the past several months, we have incrementally added English, Korean and Chinese language support to allow our global community to learn more about IoTeX. We have also translated our white paper in several languages! In order to provide even better service to our community, we have added a new feature powered by Google which enables visitors to view our website with even more language choices. If you would like to help with our website localization initiative, please follow our Website Translation Bounty Program.

Welcome Our New Interns!

We are excited to introduce our three talented interns, Vincent Vuong, Vedaad Shakib, and Nick Chen! We are thrilled to have join our top-notch engineering team, bringing new vigor and perspectives to IoTeX.

Vincent Vuong
Computer Science major at the University of Waterloo. Security and blockchain enthusiast.

Vedaad Shakib
EECS and Applied Math major at UC Berkeley. Blockchain researcher on the cryptoeconomics team at Blockchain At Berkeley.

Nick Chen
Master in Computer Science at USC and Bachelor in Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Machine learning enthusiast.

Community Updates

StoneVan Campaign

IoTeX Testnet Preview Demo (Codename: StoneVan)

A month ago, we launched our first code release, Testnet preview “StoneVan”, and we are grateful for the praise, encouragement, and thoughtful feedback from our community. One of the things we enjoy most at IoTeX is sharing our journey and progress with all of you. Over the next couple of months, we will publish more blogs, videos, and code releases on our social media platforms to inform you all with the progress of Testnet & Mainnet development, exchange listings, and much more. To make sure we keep our community up-to-date, we ask our supporters to subscribe to our channels if you have not done so, and tell your friends about our StoneVan campaign!

Between 05/01/2018 and 05/03/2018, our Testnet Preview Demo video has over 11k views and we received valuable constructive comments and feedback. We are very pleased to see that many supporters have created their original videos / content and shared with their followers on their own channels.

Charity Program II — DoraHacks

In our second Charity Program support DoraHacks, we raised over 140 ETH thanks to our amazing supporters! These donations will be used to reward hackers that successfully complete projects on real-world blockchain and IoT problems suggested by the IoTeX team during 20+ DoraHacks hackathons all around the world.

While our first charity program supported the pioneers of blockchain, the Ethereum Foundation, we wanted our second charity program to foster the next generation of blockchain and IoT developers. That is why we selected DoraHacks, China’s largest hackathon organizer and developer community, which is expanding to over 15 global cities this year.

Bug Bounty Program — IOTX Token Contract

Security of users’ funds is our top priority. Therefore, we held a bug bounty program from 04/25/2018 to 05/05/2018, from which we received valuable bug reports from our supporters. Thank you all for making our token contract even more safe and secure!

Although the bug bounty program has come to an end, you can still submit any issues to hello@iotex.io with a description and instructions on reproducing the attack vector.
High quality reports including steps for reproduction, a vulnerability fix, and a working test that demonstrates the failing and passing cases are greatly preferred.

Website Translation Bounty Program

On May 13, we launched our new bounty program — Translation Bounty for the IoTeX website. We welcomed every one of our supporters to help us with website localization and get bonus points for their contributions! Currently we accept contributions to the languages: Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Hindi.

Website Translation Bounty Program (Closed)

We have received over 30 pull requests so far, and counting! Thank you all for helping us build a better website — we will take several days to review the pull requests and give out the points bounty to those that contributed soon.

Blockchain week in NYC

The IoTeX team had a fast-paced, productive experience during Blockchain Week in NYC! We had great time meeting blockchain builders, investors, traders, and enthusiasts from all over the world. We closely examined the “pulse” of this global group of blockchain leaders and took away countless perspectives on how we can differentiate ourselves and lead the pack.

Consensus 2018 was held on May 14–16 during NYC Blockchain Week!

Our co-founder Raullen gives a speech on IoTeX’s vision and roadmap to a full house during the Blockchain Week event held by FBG Capital & Block 72.

Co-founder Raullen joins a panel discussion on “Blockchain Technology and Use Cases” during NYC Blockchain Week at Columbia University.

NYC Meetup — 4 Blockchain Projects You Can’t Afford To Miss In 2018

Co-founder Jing gives a speech during an official meetup sharing IoTeX’s vision and roadmap.

Crypto Influencer Summit

The Crypto Influence Summit was endorsed by Coindesk’s Blockchain Consensus Week, and aims to bring together top crypto influencers for a fun night of networking and sharing.

Co-founder Jing joins a panel discussion on “Social Media for Mass Adoption” during the summit.

Upcoming Events

May has been a big month for IoTeX, but we aren’t done yet! We will be kicking off several more community reward programs to show our appreciation to our amazing community that have supported us on our journey.

Token issue & listing announcement on May 21 PDT

Before the end of 05/21/2018 (PDT time), we will announce our token issuance and listing schedule. Please stay tuned to our pinned messages in our official Telegram group and invite your friends to celebrate with us!

New Twitter Campaign

We will have a new community reward program via Twitter next week. Please make sure to follow us on Twitter and Telegram to participate! It will be a multi-day, open campaign (i.e., NOT first come, first serve). Detailed information will be disclosed later next week.

WeChat Campaign

For the Chinese supporters that do not have access to Twitter, there will be an alternative campaign via WeChat where you can earn up to 2,000 points! Detailed information will be disclosed later next week.

IoTeX Project Update №2 — 4/14/18–4/29/18

Greetings everyone! Last week we reached a very important milestone on our journey to “connect the physical world, block by block”. On April 20, we released the first code release of our Testnet Preview (codename: StoneVan ), on which we will be iterating on top of over the next coming months. We also received some very exciting news from Huobi! We are thrilled to share all this great news with you in this update.

HADAX “Special Event for Super Voting Notes” Winner

In February, Huobi, one of the world’s largest digital currency exchanges, launched a sub-brand exchange called Huobi Autonomous Digital Asset Exchange (HADAX for short). We are thrilled to announce that IoTeX has been selected as one of the winning projects of HADAX’s “Special Event for Super Voting Nodes”. As one of only two winning projects, IoTeX will receive HADAX sponsorship to list our tokens on their exchange.

Out of 30 top tier projects, IoTeX received the second most votes with reputable support from 9 of 18 “Super Nodes”, including Kenetic, Hashed Capital, DraperDragon Innovation Fund, and FBG Capital.

As we are working diligently to prepare for our upcoming token issuance/listing dates and celebration events, we will surely keep you updated with the latest news on our Telegram Group and Twitter page.

Technical Updates

IoTeX Testnet Preview (StoneVan) Release

Our first code release, StoneVan , is officially live and was released to the general public on April 20. We have received great feedback from the community on this initial release, and are looking forward to sharing updates with you as we drive towards our Testnet Alpha and Beta releases. GitHub

Build software better, together

GitHub is where people build software. More than 40 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 100 million projects.

As our first release, StoneVan offers many basic features of a blockchain, such as transaction and block handling, gossip protocol over a P2P network, a pluggable consensus framework leveraging our innovative R-DPoS scheme, and initial RPC support. During the week after StoneVan released, we have also made two major improvements:

  • Enabled network e2e test in CI cycle to ensure stable code delivery quality
  • Implemented transaction order randomization to help obscure address-transaction correlation

Detailed instructions for running the StoneVan code are provided in this README file. You can also check out our YouTube video for a detailed overview and demo of the release:

StoneVan Demo Video

Contributions from our supporters to help IoTeX reach its full potential are all welcomed and greatly appreciated! Contributions can include style/bug fixes, feature recommendations, proposals for schemes/algorithms, and help with documentation. For code contributions, please refer to our Contribution Guidelines for more information. To report issues, please file an issue on our Github page.

Short Version Whitepaper — Chinese Version

We have published a short version whitepaper in Chinese. Thanks to our Chinese supporters who helped us with the translation and fine tuning! The latest English version 1.4 can also be found on our website. We will update our website with more multilingual versions soon.

Community Updates

Bug Bounty Program — IOTX Token Contract

The security of users’ funds is our top priority. We welcome everyone to participate in our bug bounty program and contribute to the success of IoTeX! For this bug bounty program, we want to reward any participants who discover bugs that fall under the below two categories regarding our IOTX Token Contract.

  • Tier 1 (2,000,000 IOTX reward): A security vulnerability that would result in loss of value (IOTX or ETH) or restrict or delay the transfer or exchange of IOTX tokens;
  • Tier 2 (10,000 IOTX reward): minor bugs, efficiency improvements, or other recommendations.

Please take a close look at our contracts on GitHub and submit any issues for review to hello@iotex.io. Happy hunting!

WeChat Platform — New Chinese Community Channels

A new Chinese Community channel is available for anyone to join — please note that these channels are in Chinese. The latest updates and campaign announcements will be published through this new channel, in addition to our existing Telegram groups.

Ask Me Anything (AMA) for Testnet Preview

Since we released our Testnet Preview StoneVan last week, we have received plenty of great questions from our community. Therefore, we prepared an AMA to keep everyone informed and answer questions we received from the community. Please feel free to reach out and ask more questions at any time, and we will update this post as we add in more related Q&As.

IoTeX at Blockchain Career Fair

On April 18, the IoTeX team attended the Blockchain Career Fair at UC Berkeley, which was hosted by Dekrypt Capital and Crypto Parency. It was the largest Blockchain Career Fair ever held in the United States, and we were so happy to meet all types of eager blockchain enthusiasts. More than 20 top global blockchain companies that have made huge contributions to the advancement of the disruptive decentralized technology also attended the fair, including NEO, Coinbase, Cosmos, ICON, and Tezos.

The IoTeX team was quite popular during the career fair sharing thoughts with talents from all around the world!

Our co-founder, Raullen, was also interviewed by the hosts during the career fair

IoTeX livestream video starts from 2:13:00.

Check out more details on our open positions below. We are currently hiring for multiple roles, as well as interns! We look forward to meeting you, and bringing new energy to the company as well as the overall blockchain and IoT industry!

IoTeX is Looking for Talents in Blockchain Career Fair

Media Coverage

Crypto Assets Offer New Opportunities for VCs on a Global Scale

Hiring

Please join us in welcoming our new team member — Larry Pang! He will officially join the Community & Growth team and help IoTeX bring our revolutionary technology to the general public. Larry was previously an Engagement Manager at Oliver Wyman, a top global management consulting firm, and specialized in digital operations. He has a dual B.S. in Finance & Economics, and a minor in Visual Arts & Design from MIT. Welcome, Larry!

IoTeX Top Picks

There are some great articles and videos we found on the top channels. Some of them are from our community supporters. We’d love to share it with you!

IoTeX Review

IoTeX Review {Russian}

IoTeX’s Co-founder Raullen Chai Record

To learn more about IoTeX, please feel free to check the information on our official channels.

IoTeX Project Update №1 — 4/1/18–4/14/18

Hello supporters! Q2 2018 has already started and we have been together on this journey for over three months. We are grateful to have you join us on this expedition to “ Connecting the Physical World, Block by Block ”. Starting from today, we will share IoTeX progress with you bi-weekly and we will always keep our eyes and ears open for your valuable suggestions.

Testnet Preview Release Countdown

Our tech team has been working very hard, day and night, to give the final touches to the Testnet Preview (codename: StoneVan), for which we will open the repo on github.com on April 20th, 2018, 17:00 PDT. This repo will operate on an open-contributor model that anyone is welcomed to contribute to the codebase in the form of peer review, testing, and patches development cycle.

As of the time we are posting this update, we are 7 days away till the preview launches. Let’s countdown together for this exciting moment!

##Community Updates

HASHED Meetup in Seoul, Korea

We had our first meetup in Korea in #HashedLounge on April 5th. It was hosted by one of our strategic partners, the largest cryptocurrency capital — #HASHED , which is accelerating the global enablement of blockchain through community building and impact investing.

Co-founder Raullen Chai is giving a speech of “A Decentralized Network for IoT, Powered by a Private-Centric Blockchain”.

Our founding team gave an in-depth presentation on “A Decentralized Network for IoT, Powered by a Private-Centric Blockchain,” raised the discussion on the blockchain technology in IoT, and shared community insights with the audiences. A big thank you to all who came to join our launch Meetup! We are planning for more events and Meetups in other cities as well. We hope to meet you all someday!

Co-founder Qevan Guo is giving a presentation of user cases and community insights.

IoTeX founding team in #Hashed Meetup Lounge

IoTeX Honor Board — Charity Program

Our 1st Charity Program was concluded successfully at the end of March. With 1515 donors from our community, we have demonstrated how much we value the exhaustive research conducted by the pioneers in the blockchain technology industry and support them through this campaign to ETH Foundation.

Our Charity Honor Board is LIVE! We have featured your great deeds on our official website and you will be able to
:small_orange_diamond:Find your name on the IoTeX Honor Board
:small_orange_diamond:Search for your Honor Page by entering hashid or Preferred Display Name
:small_orange_diamond:Share your act of kindness to encourage more people helping with this good cause!

Our Charity Program is also featured on Forbes, and readers have raised discussions on the blockchain development obstacles.

Forbes

Forbes is a global media company, focusing on business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, and lifestyle.

If you missed the 1st Charity Program, please check HERE for more information and stay tuned to the pinned message in our Telegram Group for the next ones. Let’s keep up with the good vibes and work together in the future to achieve the ambitious goal of ‘Connecting the Physical World Block by Block!’

New Community Groups

In order to provide better services to our community, we are working on building sub-communities in different languages. Currently, our Chinese group and Russian group are ready. And insightful discussions have already started in the two new groups. Please feel free to join with your friends!

IoTeX Group CN: https://t.me/IoTeXGroupCN
IoTeX Group RU: https://t.me/IoTeXGroupRU (will soon be relocated to a new platform)

Since Telegram will be not available in Russia, we will move the IoTeX Group RU to another channel. Before that, please make sure to follow our Twitter and Medium to get the latest news. When the new channel is ready, we will make an announcement with the link and detailed information on Twitter and Medium.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/iotex_io
Medium: https://medium.com/@iotex
Medium_ru: https://medium.com/@iotex_ru

Quiz II Campaign

Our Quiz II campaign on April 11th was a big success! Although the questions were more challenging than the AMA quiz, many of the participants got a high score of 100 & 80! We are very proud to have such amazing community and would like to hold more interesting campaigns in the future! Here are some score details we want to share with you.

Q: Why is PBFT (Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance) is part of R-DPoS consensus?
A
: Instant finality is desired for cross-chain communications
Reference : Whitepaper Chapter 6

Q: What does “R” stand for in R-DPoS consensus?
A
: Randomized
Reference : Whitepaper Chapter 6

Q: Which of the following is NOT in the security & integrity subsystem of a hardware wallet?
A
: Secure Memory Storage
Reference : Secure Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallets

Q: What kind of information you can NOT get by following our Twitter Page ?
A
: Public sale information
Reference : Telegram Group Welcome Message. We may have random :candy:candy events on our Twitter Page and will be announced on Twitter exclusively. Make sure you don’t miss it!

Q: Where was the IoTeX founding team last week?
A
: Seoul, Korea
Reference : IoTeX’s first launch event in Korea was successfully held on April 5. The founding team was presenting at Hashed Lounge event.

Despite the different scale of points, we give out for various community campaigns, we encourage you to join all of them to collect the campaign achievements for winning the potential bonus!

Original Content Bounty

Starting from Phase II of this campaign, we have raised the bounty to as much as 5,000 points to encourage our supporters bringing in in-depth review or analysis, or anything interesting about IoTeX.

We have received over 160 articles and videos on various channels since the campaign started, and most of them are greatly written and made! They are all objective opinions and we listen to your suggestions. IoTeX team applauds for your valuable efforts to help to spread the word of us!

  1. Secure Cryptocurrency Hardware Wallets
  2. IoTeX Charity Program - How to proxy payments during Charity Donation Campaign
  3. Uncle Sam Wants In on Your Crypto Gains

Media Coverage

  1. The Demand For Blockchain Engineers Is Skyrocketing, But Blockchain Itself Is Redefining How They’re Employed
  2. This Startup Believes That Cryptocurrency Could Cut down on Corruption in the Charity Cycle
  3. Blockchain Starting To Feel Its Way into the Artificial Intelligence Ecosystem
  4. AI Will Take Over Blockchain In 2018, But It Won’t Happen Without These 3 Key Areas
  5. IoTeX Announces Security and Privacy-Focused Blockchain Purpose-Built for IoT

Hiring

Zhefeng Li, a young talent in Mathematics and Computer Science, has officially joined IoTeX as a Blockchain Engineer. Master in Computer Science at the University of California San Diego and Bachelor in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is blockchain technology, machine learning, and the Internet of Things enthusiast.

Upcoming Events

Blockchain Career Fair — UC Berkeley on April 18

This will be the largest Blockchain Career Fair ever held in the United States. A great opportunity to meet 20+ top global blockchain companies each with huge contributions to the advancement of disruptive decentralized technology. Our founding team will do a live stream during the career fair and the IoTeX team will have a booth, sharing thoughts with you on April 18. Looking forward to meeting you there!

If you are not able to meet us there but still want to join us, please send an email to hello@iotex.io!

IoTeX Top Picks

There are some great articles and videos we found on the top channels. Some of them are from our community supporters. We’d love to share it with you here!

  1. Raullen’s Interview with Blockchain Brad
  2. Overview by RKT8 {Russian}

To learn more about IoTeX, please feel free to check the information on our official channels.

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IoTeX Project Updates №24 {April 8 — May 10, 2020}

Tech & Development

IoTeX Halo Program — Community Grants to Fuel the Internet of Trusted Things

Halo — the official grants program for the IoTeX Network! With the upcoming launch of Mainnet GA, the IoTeX platform is more performant and developer-friendly than ever — we are now ready to welcome the world to build the Internet of Trusted Things on IoTeX. Full details on Halo

Redesigning Trust: Blockchain for Supply Chains

Over the past year, IoTeX worked with the World Economic Forum and 100+ organizations to develop a toolkit for the responsible deployment of blockchain in supply chains. We look forward to supporting the continuous development of this toolkit to transform the global supply chain industry. Find out more about the Toolkit Launch

IoTeX joins Amazon and Huawei as the new Co-chairs of the Blockchain Task Group of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC)

The IIC consists of 300+ leading technology organizations. IoTeX has contributed to the IIC since 2018, and this appointment as Blockchain Co-chair marks a major step forward in our enterprise efforts. Let’s show them what blockchain is all about! Full details in our blog

Ucam — May Update

Who says blockchain-based products can’t be functional? Ucam delivers privacy AND an amazing user experience — see for yourself in our new Ucam App preview video. Full details in our blog

Mainnet GA Native Staking v2

IoTeX is kicking off a month of Mainnet GA announcements with Native Staking v2 (nsv2) — a new scalable, secure, and flexible design! Our new transaction-based design will make staking and voting with native $IOTX cheaper, faster, and easier than ever. Read the full details

Hermes 2.0 is Officially LIVE and Open Source

IoTeX is proud to launch Hermes 2.0, an automated and trusted rewards distribution system developed by the IoTeX Foundation (core-dev) for IoTeX Delegates and voters! Learn more

Dev &Tech Summary

IoTeX is once again in the Top 25 most active crypto projects by Flipside Crypto, which shows just how hard the IoTeX Core Team (core-dev) has been working. In the past few weeks, the core-dev has been focusing primarily on rolling out Mainnet v0.11, preparing the release of Mainnet v0.12, Ucam Beta Testing, and other ongoing initiatives. Read the full report

Attention Hardware users

As we shared in our Mainnet GA Migration Plan last month, we will be migrating all stake/votes on Ethereum to IoTeX as part of Mainnet GA. If you stake using a hardware wallet (e.g., Ledger, Trezor), you may require special handling to complete your migration. We have created a new thread outlining your specific options + instructions .

IoTeX In the Media

“Tech Titan Patents Mean We Have To Get Serious About Data Privacy” IBT

Community Initiatives & Campaigns

IPFS Pinning Summit

IoTeX Co-founder Raullen shared how IoTeX + IPFS are enabling decentralized privacy and user data ownership with Ucam.

AMA w/Founders — May 13

IoTeX Anniversary Meme Campaign

Exactly one year ago, IoTeX Mainnet Alpha was launched, and to celebrate this, we are launching a new campaign for our community! Create an original meme that is fun and IoTeX related. Detailed instructions

:gift: Over 200,000 IOTX in prizes
:hourglass_flowing_sand: April 23, 12 AM PST — May 8, 2 AM PST

When Privacy Hits Home” — a special report by IoTeX

Smart devices like Amazon Ring & Google Nest are watching and listening to us in our homes 24/7 — with unprecedented access to our homes and data, Big Tech has plans to control more of our daily lives and eliminate ‘privacy at home’ as we know it. IoTeX explores the current and future impacts of ‘when privacy hits home’ in this must-read report! Download the report today

How to Protect Your Smart Home in 2020” — a webinar by IoTeX, NKN, and OwnYourData Foundation

In this webinar, we explained the inner workings of today’s smart homes (e.g., devices, data, connectivity) and common vulnerabilities. We also shared how emerging tech like blockchain and secure hardware will power your future smart home. Watch the full webinar on-demand now

Livestream AMA w/Founders from April 9, 2020

Summary of the Livestream AMA is now published on our forum & the video is available for those who missed the livestream!

Not all encryption is created equal**

This is why Ucam and future “Powered by IoTeX” devices are so revolutionary. True end-to-end encryption guaranteed by blockchain will secure our future and make us captains of our own data destiny. Learn more in our blog post

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IoTeX Project Updates №25 {May 11 — June 10, 2020}

Tech & Development

Platform 2.0 — Optimized for the Internet of Trusted Things

Modular blockchain infra, expansive IoT middleware, new dev tools, and a fully native ecosystem — in our blog, we explain the multiple layers of the IoTeX Platform and share the principles that IoTeX uses to guide the design of our blockchain

Native Staking v2 — A New Scalable, Secure, and Flexible Design

IoTeX has officially established independence from Ethereum and is now a fully native blockchain. Find out the details, purpose, and benefits of staking on the IoTeX Network, as well as how to stake/vote using ioPay:

Pantheon — Enterprise-Ready Consortium Blockchain for IoT

Pantheon was developed throughout the past year, stemming from ongoing initiatives with IoT enterprises and lets enterprises harness the power of trusted users/devices/data to build trusted apps. Learn more below:

Halo Grants Program — Fueling the Internet of Trusted Things

Halo is targeted at developers interested in building IoT and privacy-related projects on the IoTeX platform, as well as ecosystem builders that want to expand the capabilities and reach of IoTeX. Halo will pave the way for new trusted devices/applications and fuel the next generation of IoTeX — join us!

Hermes 2.0 is Officially Live and Open Source

Hermes 2.0 is a win-win for both Delegates and voters, automating daily rewards distribution for Delegates and delivering a transparent history of all reward payments for voters. In this blog, we share the features of Hermes 2.0, as well as an overview of how the technology works.

IoTeX Mainnet GA — Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Thought Leadership

IoTeX Town Hall

IoTeX Keynote @ IEEE World Forum on IoT

Download Presentation Slides

IoTeX & IPFS are bringing private decentralized storage to smart devices

Summit Recap

IoTeX Keynote @ REIMAGINE 2020

“Why Privacy Matters” w/UncleBob

IoTeX Project Updates №26 {June 11 — July 12, 2020}

Tech & Development

IoTeX Announces IoT-Oriented Tokenomics

Part 1: Utility of the IOTX Coin

The IoTeX platform is a canvas for builders, service providers, and consumers who spend, stake, and burn $IOTX for a variety of purposes — gas fees, governance, device registration, and stake-to-service.

Part 2: DAO-Based Tokenomics

IoTeX DAOs will fuel radically transparent interactions between builders, service providers, and consumers.

Part 3: Burn-Drop to Bootstrap

Introducing Burn-Drop, a one-of-a-kind Tokenomics program for the IoTeX Network — a total of 1 Billion $IOTX will be Burn-Dropped to bootstrap the first 1 Million “Powered by IoTeX” devices!

Introducing ioPay 1.0 — the most secure and user-friendly IoTeX wallet

Pantheon for Enterprise is Officially Open-Source

Burning 2.65% of Total IOTX Supply from Foundation Funds

IoTeX Presents Pantheon at Industrial Internet Consortium Q2 Member Meeting

IoTeX to Present Blockchain & IoT Innovations @ IIC Q2 Member Meeting

Thought Leadership

The Blockchain Show podcast, featuring Raullen Chai & Larry Pang

IoTeX In the Media

Coindesk: IoTeX Joins Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) alongside Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and more!

Community Initiatives & Campaigns

:bookmark: Livestream AMA Summary — June 25

:bookmark: Telegram Sticker Campaign check out the best stickers from our community!

IoTeX Project Updates №27 {July 13 — August 15, 2020}

Tech & Development

Burn-Drop #IGNITE Launch

IGNITE is the kickstart phase to prepare the IoTeX community for Burn-Drop. Earn an extra 10% annualized returns all throughout August on your $IOTX + limited edition NFT!

Ucam Unboxing + Setup Video

Ucam is the private home security camera and first “Powered by IoTeX” device — coming soon to Amazon!

IoTeX Partners w/ IPFS & Filecoin to Decentralize the IoT

For the past months, IoTeX has worked closely with the IPFS & Filecoin teams to design innovative decentralized IoT solutions leveraging IoTeX & IPFS/Filecoin technologies! Our first use case? Decentralized IoT firmware updates to bring new levels of security for Ucam!

Mainnet v1.1 is ready for launch

New features/upgrades include:

• “Reclaim Bucket” feature
• Transaction log APIs
• Optimized Docker images
• nsv2 staking updates

IoTeX & IIC Publish New Blockchain & IoT White Paper

Co-authors include IoTeX, Amazon, Huawei, PwC, iExec, XmPro, and more! This positions IoTeX as operating partners with the world’s largest enterprises.

Cross-Chain DEX is Coming August 31

An unprecedented Uniswap-style DEX - ERC20 assets on Ethereum can flow to IoTeX and be exchanged w/ $IOTX, $VITA, and XRC20 assets. Cross-chain liquidity mining is launching August 31. Built by CapitalMu: fintech gurus & original IoTeX Delegate!

IoTeX Studio is Coming Soon

Get ready for the release of IoTeX Studio — an innovative browser-based IDE that will enable developers to seamlessly create and deploy DApps on IoTeX!

Introducing Batch #1 of Halo Grants

We are proud to welcome five new Halo projects to the IoTeX Network! The IoTeX Halo program funds development of software/hardware, research, and initiatives to fuel the Internet of Trusted Things.

:white_small_square: HealthBlocks: healthcare IoT — OwnYourData
:white_small_square: Helix: big data analytics with Google BigQuery
:white_small_square: Metanyx: e-commerce plugin to pay with IOTX
:white_small_square: Smart Stake: staking/rewards analytics dashboard
:white_small_square: GameFantasy: IOTX & VITA for web-based games

Explore our new Halo projects:

IoTeX DID is now on UniResolver

IoTeX’s decentralized identity (DID) spec for people and devices has been accepted by UniResolver, the industry-wide utility for DID interoperability!
Learn more about IoTeX DID:

The next generation of Pebble Tracker has arrived

IoTeX and Nordic Semiconductor are teaming up to bring ultra-secure and trusted tracking to the masses. We are bringing real-world IoT data to the blockchain to unlock innovative decentralized use cases. New hardware, new possibilities — get ready!

The Burgeoning Global Surveillance State — HackerNoon feature
Read now on HackerNoon:

Confidential Computing Will Revolutionize the IoT

IoTeX Co-founder @Raullen explains how new privacy technology like IoTeX will unleash innovative win-win business models for corporations, governments, and consumers.

No Safety Nets in the Real World

Unlike the virtual world, the real world has no safety nets. As we install billions of new IoT devices like cameras + digital assistants into our homes, hackers have their targets set on the rich/sensitive data of our smart homes — how can we stay protected?

Did you know … 1 Million Devices = ~500 Billion Unique Connections?

With a wave of “Powered by IoTeX” devices coming soon, powerful network effects will unleash new possibilities for IoTeX.

IoTeX is featured in @CoinDesk’s new article on privacy

“At the heart of the problem is data ownership. Decentralization offers a way for individual people and entities to own their data.” — @Raullen

Big Tech Is Acquiring Access to Your Health & Home
With virtual assistants like Alexa & Siri and smart devices like Nest & Ring in our homes, Big Tech is now watching and listening to us 24/7. IoTeX’s mission to build a private IoT is more important than ever — we must take back our privacy!

Community Initiatives & Campaigns

:bookmark: Dr. XinXin’s Keynote @ IoT World Summit — August 14

:bookmark: Livestream AMA w/ Founders — August 12

:bookmark: IoTeX & Binance France AMA Recap — July 23

:bookmark: IoTeX Town Hall — July 17

IoTeX Project Updates №28 {August 16 — October 1, 2020}

Tech & Development

Greetings our dear supporters! We are back with our Monthly Project Update for August & September 2020. Throughout these two months, we have introduced DeFioT, released tools and services to support it, as well as, launched our first blockchain-powered product Ucam on Amazon US! Get up to speed with our summary below!

Ucam is now available on Amazon!

Every Ucam that is sold will drive value back to the IoTeX Network and stakeholders via Burn-Drop, an innovative tokenomics design coming soon to IoTeX. :fire::droplet:

Ucam is the 100% private home camera and the first “Powered by IoTeX” device. For those in the USA, buy Ucam now with Prime 2-Day Delivery via Amazon! You can also purchase Ucam with international shipping directly from the Ucam website.

Ucam White Paper — Official Release

:arrow_right: Read the Ucam white paper: https://cdn.iotex.io/docs/ucam-whitepaper.pdf

Our new Ucam white paper explores IoTeX’s first-of-its-kind design for a blockchain-based, end-to-end secure camera system. Before putting a Ucam in your home, learn about the sophisticated technology that ensures your privacy!

:arrow_right: Official WISeKey Press Release: WISeKey selected by IoTeX to Ensure Integrity in Manufacturing by using Secure Semiconductors with Blockchain - WISeKey $IOTX

IoTeX & WISeKey Partner for IoT Manufacturing Integrity :gear: WISeKey, a Nasdaq-listed IoT chip manufacturer and cybersecurity leader. We are proud to welcome this public company (NASDAQ: WKEY; SIX: WIHN) to the IoTeX Network!

DeFIoT: Unlocking the Trillion-Dollar IoT Data Market :moneybag:

From August 31, IoTeX started to unveil groundbreaking infrastructure to fuel #DeFIoTIoT data oracle, cross-chain bridge, a decentralized exchange (DEX), and more! Learn more in our #DeFIoT manifesto:

DeFIoT: Unlocking the Trillion-Dollar IoT Data Market - #DeFIoT: Unlocking the Trillion-Dollar IoT Data Market | by IoTeX Team | Medium)

ioTube: the cross-chain + multi-asset bridge to connect IoTeX to the blockchain universe

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ioTube will enable new assets and liquidity from other blockchains to flow into IoTeX, as well as position IoTeX to deliver unique IoT assets to other blockchains! Convert your ERC20 assets and bring new liquidity to the IoTeX Network now at https://tube.iotex.io

:arrow_right: Full details on ioTube: ioTube: Cross-Chain Bridge to Connect IoTeX with the Blockchain Universe | by IoTeX Team | Medium

ioTube Tutorial for Seamless Cross-Chain Swaps ↔️ [ioTube Tutorial] Cross-Transfer Tokens between Ethereum and IoTeX)

mimo — DEX with automated liquidity built on IoTeX

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Trade ERC20 & IoTeX assets with 5-sec trade finality and less than 1/10000 the gas fees of Ethereum. Manage liquidity pools, trade crypto assets, and explore the world of DeFi with mimo. Built by the FinTech gurus at CapitalMu & IoTeX.

We are excited to announce support for new ERC20 assets $BTC $UNI $LINK along with $ETH $BUSD $PAXG. The IoTeX community will be able to trade $IOTX & $VITA for BTC, USD, ETH, and Gold equivalents directly on mimo.

IoTeX Latest Research Paper Awarded as Top Submission by the International Conference on Blockchain :open_book: (ICBC)

IoTeX’s latest research paper on multi-chain governance was selected by the International Conference on Blockchain (ICBC) as a top 15 submission alongside authors from ,Microsoft, IBM, Harvard, University of Pittsburgh, and more.

MULTAV : A Multi-Chain Token-Backed Voting Framework for Decentralized Blockchain Governance :bookmark:

:rotating_light: Attention Blockchain & IoT Developers

:arrow_right: Check it out now at https://docs.iotex.io

IoTeX is the platform to power your next big idea. Explore our new dev portal and learn about our lightning-fast blockchain, IoT middleware, SDKs + APIs, and more!

Welcome ThingsBoard to the IoTeX Network

IoTeX Joins Forces with ThingsBoard, the leading open-source platform for IoT data management and visualization. ThingsBoard creates dynamic IoT dashboards that are trusted by Bosch, T-Mobile, and other global enterprises!

IoTeX Joins Coinbase’s Rosetta to Simplify Blockchain-Exchange Integrations

Rosetta — an open-source spec to simplify integrations between blockchain networks and Coinbase + other exchanges. This powerful toolkit enables IoTeX to integrate seamlessly with new exchanges and Dapps — more integrations, more possibilities!

Great overview of IoTeX by TheCryptoZombie (130K+ YouTube subscribers) — he got his hands on a Ucam and shares his thoughts on #DeFIoT in his latest video!

The Hook Up (129k subscribers) ranks Ucam in the Top 3 best indoor security cameras on the market today above Nest, Ring, Blink, Wyze, and more. Ucam is available to purchase for $45 now on ucam.iotex.io, Amazon US and TikTech!

IoTeX Head of BD @larrypang dives deep with SwapZone CEO @MarijaCarola on the impacts of technology, culture, and regulation on data privacy and the future of IoTeX. A must-watch conversation!

How can blockchain enhance the consumer products we use every day? :thought_balloon: At the IPFS Global Summit, IoTeX co-founder @Raullen presents our innovative vision to build decentralized, privacy-protecting consumer products with IoTeX + IPFS/Filecoin.

The IoTalks Podcast by IoTeX is Back!:fire: Our amazing new guest is HealthBlocks, who are building a new human-centered healthcare system on IoTeX. As the first recipients of the IoTeX Halo Grant, HealthBlocks will bring #OwnYourData capabilities and more to the healthcare industry.

IoTeX is featured in Forbes as a Blockchain & IoT leader

Features on Hackernoon:

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:grinning: keep up the great work IoTex Community, will always keep contributing.