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In September 2024, Harmony made significant strides in expanding its ecosystem through a variety of initiatives in GameFi, decentralized finance, and AI integration. The month saw preparations for the launch of Kings & Quests, a GameFi experience set for early October, alongside the introduction of the HUMAN Protocol, 1Market, and collaborations in DeFi, all aimed at driving community growth and engagement.
Week of Sep 1st
Harmony focused on expanding its ecosystem and enhancing user onboarding this week, highlighting Galaxii Platform to bring in the next million users. Tenacious_DeFi is announced leading the revamp of Harmony's Discord to improve community engagement, while Three Sigma teammed up with Harmony for an in-depth market analysis on perpetual exchanges for gx.country.
Top 3 Team Progress
Theo collaborated closely with Three Sigma on a DeFi report, engaged with the community via Twitter Spaces about decentralized finance, and worked on GX documentation. He also addressed 1.Country troubleshooting, prepared for Recovery Multisig Custodian elections, and revamped the Harmony Discord.
Konstantin addressed crosslink processing issues caused by recent commits and fixed vote power broadcasting by adding a mechanism for view change values, though some tests were still pending. He also began updating the effectiveGasPrice parameter for the getTransactionReceipt method to align with the Ethereum specification.
Soph oversaw the v2024.2.0 release, but encountered issues with a new Harmony testnet node failing to bootstrap and challenges in maintaining a stable localnet with external validators due to crosslink processing errors. With Konstantin's PR addressing the problem, the HIP32 hardfork has been delayed to mid-October to accommodate the fixes.
Kings and Quests, like Dungeons & Dragons + Magic the Gathering, to launch on October 7th, 2024
Introducing 1Market, the massive game of binary options on presidential elections, popular votes, and sports champions. As a Telegram mini app via our onchain perpetual exchange, 1Market offers 0-step wallet setup, 1-click instant bets, and 2-side market liquidity.
1Market for Harmony Shard 1 with ONE token, like POLYmarket for POLYgon, appeals to 1 billion consumers: Gen Y (digital native) with crypto investment, Gen Z (mobile ready) with memetic community, or Gen 𝛂 (video obessed) with meta attention.
Week of Sep 8th
Harmony expanded its utility in the travel sector through a partnership with Travala.com and enhanced its DeFi capabilities with Swoop Exchange's integration on OpenOcean Global. This week also featured the ONE Show podcast, showcasing community engagement as well as early promotino for Kings and Quests.
Aaron conducted in-depth analysis of Pano's premium, fees, and liquidity verification, while debugging domain renewals and testing options selling. He also engaged in discussions on prediction markets, GX, and SY integrations.
Frank investigated a CVE vulnerability in harmony-one/gmx-price-keeper, planned mitigations, and refactored 1Bot’s model handling. He also integrated OpenAI's latest models o1-preview & o1-mini and continued debugging Vertex's MatchOrderAMM transactions with Aaron's code review.
Rikako focused on integrating YouTube functionality into Hod1, completing the implementation and preparing for app approval while ensuring user data is stored in a database. She also developed a referral code system, a leaderboard for user rankings, and continued exploring alternatives to Polymarket.
HUMAN connects your Telegram number + YouTube email + Binance wallet for #meme launchpad. Our generative model brings daily videos of crypto news or cultural bits to 100M subscribers. That is, an AI that fills your HEART and makes you LAUGH!
Our prediction market polls community wisdom into social capital, and aligns bots of general intelligence with human feedback. Vox populi, vox Dei – the voice of the people is the voice of A(G)I.
Week of Sep 15th
Kings and Quests announced its launch on October 7th, while founder Stephen participated in a HashKey panel at Token2049 to discuss AI integration with Web3. Tenacious_DeFi showcased a new community landing page, harmonycommunity.one.
Top 3 Team Progress
Sun decided on stream sync as the default method for localnet and deployed a Testnet validator node. He also configured a bundler node and analyzed Harmony's tracer to improve user operation validation.
Artem's week focused on preparing the 1Market prototype for a demo, including configuring contracts, deploying on Harmony mainnet, and improving the user interface, with a demo ready by mid-week. He also researched Polymarket and Gnosis Conditional tokens, preparing a comparative report and continuing his exploration of on-chain order matching.
Theo's week involved marketing efforts for Kings & Quests, Harmony1bot updates, and testing Telegram mini-apps, with a focus on consolidating user engagement around a key application like the Prediction Market. He also coordinated liquidity provisioning for ONE on Lend and Swap, faced challenges with multisig setups, and reviewed bridge solutions for asset management within the Harmony ecosystem.
Why do exchanges list a memecoin? Because of its 100M YouTube subscribers, daily videos, and token campaigns. Watching news for your mind 🧠 on dopamine, spreading memes for your heart ❤️ on oxytocin, or learning coins for your soul 😇 on serotonin – with AI visual effects and synthetic audio.
Distribution is king – for and with crypto. Onboarding via a Telegram web app, YouTube public channel, social referral battles, onchain airdrop points, … to reach the ONE goal! Better yet, the allure of (impossible) quests: verifying Binance usernames for know-your-customer (KYC), connecting emails to YouTube viewing stats, and depositing tokens for leveraged rewards.
Week of Sep 22nd
In the final week of September, Harmony sustained its momentum leading up to the launch of Kings & Quests while the Flap & Earn community rewarded its top user on the weekly leaderboard. Additionally, LayerZero recognized Harmony as one of the best teams in crypto for building omnichain solutions.
Top 3 Team Progress
Gheis spent the week addressing stream disconnect issues by implementing several key improvements, including creating a safe map to prevent race conditions, refactoring syncing logic, and enhancing error handling for recurring problems like "context deadline exceeded." He also optimized the P2P layer to handle increased load and added additional logs for better system analysis, with these updates compiled into draft PR #4762 for testing and review.
Alaina's week centered on marketing initiatives for Kings & Quests, including drafting promotional content, creating video materials, and launching the #cryptoisboring campaign. She also worked on ONE Bot testing and tutorials, completed her Q3 review, and promoted liquid staking for 1UtilityDAO, alongside refining logos and marketing designs
Soph's week involved managing the Harmony Ledger app, with a critical focus on refactoring and testing to meet Ledger's December 31st deadline, particularly addressing the legacy HD derivation path. On the technical front, key pull requests related to Vote Power and Epoch Block Broadcast were successfully merged and tested, while she also initiated a script to calculate the total ONE in circulation, expected to take several days.
Conclusion
September 2024 has been a transformative month for Harmony, marked by significant advancements in GameFi, Social A(G)I, and community engagement. The upcoming launch of Kings And Quests, the introduction of the HUMAN Protocol, and recognition from industry leaders like LayerZero showcase Harmony's multifaceted growth. The protocol's focus on travel partnerships, DeFi upgrades, and strategic collaborations demonstrates its commitment to expanding its ecosystem and increasing utility for its users. As Harmony continues to evolve, these developments promise to enhance its position in Web3, offering innovative DeFi solutions and increased opportunities for its growing community.
