2019 September 17th

As always you can comment & ask your questions directly to our leadership team in our Living Document.
Here’s what we’ve been up to this week:
The Harmony team is very excited to announce the commence of our extensive roadshow in Asia with our core focus on Chinese, Singaporean, Indonesian, Korean, and Indian markets. We anticipate this roadshow date with the upcoming SDK release, building strong ties with the local tech hubs and extending an invitation to developers to #BUIDL on Harmony. This is the culmination of many months of work by our local ambassadors team, establishing strong communities in this region, which we are proud of the progress that has been made to date.
Our weekly highlights:
Ecosystem Development:
Harmony to Scale Samsung Wallet-Supported Blockchain Health Data App
Lympo the first project migration from Harmony to Ethereum:
Harmony to Scale Samsung Wallet-Supported Blockchain Health Data App
cointelegraph.com
For a more extensive review, please consult our post update:
Harmony chosen as scaling partner for Samsung Wallet supported Health data app LYMPO
medium.com
We would like to re-assure USA based $ONE token holders that Harmony is really serious in being a utility token in the USA & working with numerous stakeholders to provide shortly undisrupted access.
We understand that current restrictions limiting $ONE holders from the USA to exchange freely their tokens.
— Harmony (@harmonyprotocol) September 11, 2019
We re-assure our holders that Harmony is really serious in being a utility token in the USA & working with numerous stakeholders to provide shortly undisrupted access.
We extend an invitation to the public to support the community voting which will help create the listing of $ONE on the Indonesian Exchange -Indodax.
Do you want to exchange $ONE on @indodax ?
— Harmony (@harmonyprotocol) September 14, 2019
In order to participate you need to register on the exchange & own the utility token of #Indodax
Cast your vote for #HarmonyOne! https://t.co/aAEu7L0pkK #Indodax pic.twitter.com/CG8YCQFIWv
Asia Roadshow:
Our agenda is intense. We extend an invitation to our Asian community to join us in the following events:
Our extended APAC Roadshow is kicking off today in #Singapore!
— Harmony (@harmonyprotocol) September 11, 2019
Next stops include Indonesia, China, Korea, & Japan!
We cannot wait to mingle with the #HarmonyOne community, and boost our awareness within the Asian developer & entrepreneurial community. pic.twitter.com/qdi1Il7c4i
Our extended Asian roadshow commenced from Singapore — presenting for Invest:Asia — the annual Consensys event hosted by Coindesk.
Our team is attending the #InvestAsia conference in #Singapore for the next 2 days.
— Harmony (@harmonyprotocol) September 11, 2019
Packed schedule meeting with partners in Asia's most vibrant invention ecosystem.
Catch the action & don't miss @nickwh8te's speech at @coindesk Changelog stage tomorrow, Sep 12 at 12:30 PM SGT pic.twitter.com/SANxA5EXto
Nick White’s presentation at Changelog Stage is available here:
After our successful representation in Singapore, our team has traveled to Indonesia, and our first has been no other than Empower Blockchain Summit.
The stage of "Empower Blockchain Summit" has been our first stop in #Indonesia!
— Harmony (@harmonyprotocol) September 13, 2019
Come meet our team at:
📍#Binance Supermeetup on Sep 14th https://t.co/ZJCHSTtLRK
📍Our #Jakarta meetup in cooperation with @maticnetwork on Sep 16th https://t.co/fqQIe62WSx pic.twitter.com/IcGwHoeVVF
We have been surprised by the massive support of the Indonesian entrepreneurial/ tech hub and Binance community towards Harmony. We really enjoyed participating in Binance SuperMeetup in Jakarta and it’s dynamic audience.
Very humbled from the support of the Indonesian entrepreneurial/tech hub & #Binance community!
— Harmony (@harmonyprotocol) September 14, 2019
We are excited to dig into the wisdom of the community & continue the momentum.🇮🇩
Special thanks to @binance for hosting us in the #Jakarta SuperMeetup! pic.twitter.com/OpidhiqSfW
On Monday September 16th, our Marketing Manager Garlam Won has hosted a common meetup with Matic Network in Jakarta-enhancing further the participation between the two projects and inaugurating common initiatives to support further the local tech community.
https://twitter.com/harmonyprotocol/status/1173699170437402628
Simultaneously our CEO Stephen Tse with Business Development Manager Li Jiang participating in Shanghai International Blockchain Week in an overwhelming schedule.
Come to meet #HarmonyONE team during #ShanghaiBlockchainWeek:
— Harmony (@harmonyprotocol) September 15, 2019
9/16, 6PM: Harmony Meetup with @AnkrNetwork, @ConfluxChain, @PlatON_Network & @Algorand
9/17, 6:30PM: Xiaocong Meetup
9/18, 1:30PM: @stse Main Stage Keynote
9/18, 3PM: Asia #DeFi with #Algorand & @FindoraOrg pic.twitter.com/op2NFLrTuO
— Harmony (@harmonyprotocol) September 16, 2019
Our meetup in Shanghai with the participation of Algorand, Ankr Network, Platon Network, and Conflux engaged more than 100 enthusiastic participants eager to develop their knowledge around blockchain.
Thank you to all who came out to our #Shanghai Meetup
— Harmony (@harmonyprotocol) September 16, 2019
with @Algorand @AnkrNetwork @PlatON_Network & @ConfluxChain!
Lively meetup with more than 100 engaging and enthusiastic participants eager to develop their knowledge around #blockchain. pic.twitter.com/PDPXBlD0aC
Marketing and Communications:
We are glad that we received such amount of excellent questions in the last AMA with Harmony’s CEO Stephen Tse and CTO Rongjian Lan respectively.
Transcripts are available below:
An open discussion with CEO Stephen Tse on Harmony’s Vision and RoadMap — September 2019
medium.com
Harmony“Ask-Me-Anything” session with Rongjian Lan, CTO
medium.com
We have launched Token Transfer Competition, an open invitation to everyONE who is running a Foundational or Pangaea node to help us crowd-test $ONE token transfers on Harmony’s Mainnet!
Token Transfer Competition
medium.com
Engineering:
Minh Doan has announced that the release of Harmony Puzzle V.2 is around the corner, while it will be the first DAPP utilizing Harmony’s SDK. This tech milestone will be the beginning for external developers to build on Harmony’s Mainnet.
The release of #HarmonyPuzzle V.2 is around the corner!
— Harmony (@harmonyprotocol) September 12, 2019
This will be the first #Dapp to utilize @harmonyprotocol's SDK.
Next milestone will include giving external software developers around the world access to the Harmony SDK. https://t.co/BgRyxohB0N
V1–20190916.0 release scheduled on Tue, Sep 17 2019
CHANGESET
- bugfix:
- potential memory leak on beacon chain node (#1588)
- beacon syncing blocking issue (#1586)
- additional info on cross-shard transactions
feature/enhancement:
- harmony cli tool with ledger support for transaction on mainnet
- math wallet chrome extension support on mainnet
- unified end point for SDK and explorer RPC service (#1587)
- new API for cross-shard transactions
- cross-shard tx enabled on mainnet
misc:
- node.sh update to support non-validating nodes (#1589)
While no action required from Foundational Node Operators, it’s advised to read the release plan available here.
Post-Mortem release in regard to the incident that affected Shards 1& 3, initiated during the planned rolling upgrade of the mainnet with features including block data structure update, cross-shard transactions, EIP155 signing update and Ethereum history fork rollup.
To learn more about Harmony’s latest developments visit: