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This week, we welcomed back our team from their journey to the East, successfully launched our DeFi ecosystem initiative, made a splash in Korean Blockchain Week and released our first teaser of native $ONE token transfer via a hardware wallet!
Engineering
- Fixed HMY API and Explorer API bugs
- Continuing work on Harmony Watchdog.
- Fixed cross-shard transaction committee verification error and ChainID comparison bug on harmony API
- Removed computation-intensive initialization of VDF
- Avoided duplicate transactions and receipts in the pending pool
Marketing and Community
Scaling Privacy, Secure Staking, Radical Fairness
Our CEO Stephen Tse delivered a keynote speech at Shanghai Blockchain Week, presenting Harmony’s year-long journey into transcending the blockchain trilemma.
Harmony Keynote: Scaling Privacy, Secure Staking, Radical Fairness
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- Our team will join Osaka Devcon from October 8th through October 11th.
- We are planning to start our China office and looking for protocol and research engineers.
- Our team made a splash in the Korean Blockchain Week
https://twitter.com/harmonyprotocol/status/1178952102065913856 - On September 29th, Harmony co-hosted the Blockchain Impact Weekend in Palo Alto, discussing dApps internals, Blockchain Applications and Token Economy.
Our cofounder and CTO @RongjianLan shares @harmonyprotocol effective proof of stake design at @community_abc with our creative director @DirSchmidt capturing the magic. https://t.co/1KeumKRp4i pic.twitter.com/caX7nwuptH
— li.one (@lijiang2087) September 30, 2019
- Blockchain researcher Jack Chan published a post explaining why he is ambitious and confident about Harmony’s success. You can read Jack’s post read the full post below:
Boundaries of Human Persistence
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Business and Operations
- Harmony is excited to unveil its inaugural edition of DEFI FOCUS — an active ecosystem and toolset to support the fast-growing Peer-to-Peer Economy.
Introducing Harmony’s DeFi Ecosystem and toolset
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What are the foundations for creating a strong DeFi ecosystem?
- Stable coins or liquid digital assets for use cases that are not speculative
- A stable blockchain platform. Fees and speed of transaction settlement are both critical for the DeFi industry.
- A set of open-source smart contracts that DApp developers can utilize. Here comes the Harmony DeFi toolset : a set of smart contract to interact with, so that new DeFi applications don’t have to start from the scratch.
Among the key developers as presented on Harmony’s updated development roadmap in Shanghai key foundations delivered will include:
Q4 2019: Port DeFi apps
Q1 2020: Confidential assets & Lending credit data
- SafePal- the Binance Labs backed hardware wallet announced its support for native $ONE token-integrated into the S1 hardware wallet.
Delighted to have @iSafePal announce support for native $ONE token-integrated into the S1 hardware wallet.
— Harmony (@harmonyprotocol) September 27, 2019
Step by step demo will be released soon, along with the official launch date.
We are working with numerous partners integrating our Mainnet to support native $ONE token. pic.twitter.com/rH3AgkSS2y
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