Updates from December 2019
Wanchain Community,
Happy New Year!
As the year has come to an end, let's take a moment to reflect on the December updates from the Wanchain Ecosystem. The Wanchain 2020 Roadmap update was recently released, outlining the primary focus for 2020 - creating a developer-friendly environment, making it easier to build dApps on the Wanchain platform.
Let's take a look at the top updates from December!
Remember, hunting is still on!
New Blockchain Integration
EOS is finally here! As the second-largest DAPP platform after Ethereum, EOS integration was the logical next choice for Wanchain cross-chain integration.
As the third significant public blockchain integration with Wanchain, EOS is a big step forward for the team. The EOS integration marks the connection of one the largest and most vibrant blockchain communities in the space after Ethereum and Bitcoin. We welcome the EOS community to try out the Wanchain wallet and explore both its EOS based functions as well as the wEOS cross-chain implementation on the Wanchain blockchain itself.
The wEOS token is now available for cross-chain transactions on the Wanchain testnet! You can now manage your native EOS account, including CPU, NET, and RAM, directly via the Wanchain wallet, and can transact with cross-chain wEOS tokens on the Wanchain testnet through the Wan Wallet’s cross-chain interface.
Wanchain China Business Development Update
Wanchain Opens New Office for Enterprise Blockchain Services in Eastern China
On December 17, 2019, in the beautiful Jiangnan water town of Hangzhou, the inaugural ceremony for the new Wanchain East China Headquarters was held. Headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, Wanchain East will provide enterprise-level blockchain platforms and solutions for the government and private customers in the five eastern provinces (Zhejiang, Fujian, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Shandong).
Wanchain Was Selected Amongst the Top 100 Chinese Blockchain Companies in 2019!
On December 28, 2019, BlockData and CCID Blockchain Research Institute jointly released the 2019 Top 100 Chinese Blockchain Enterprises list. BlockData and CCID are both respected local Chinese tech research institutions. Many thousands of projects and enterprise companies were considered for the list. After careful consideration, the top 100 were selected on the basis of their strengths in technology, use cases, patents, and policy advances. Wanchain (as represented by its local company in China, Beijing Wanglu Technology Co., Ltd.) was selected amongst the top one hundred.
Interoperability overview series
Wanchain strengthens the blockchain space through interoperability (Part 1)
Since the inception of Bitcoin in 2009, blockchain technology has transformed tremendously. Bitcoin — as the most well-known cryptocurrency — has paved the way for decentralized P2P networks, smart contracts, DAGs, and practical enterprise use cases. Blockchain, as a whole, has allowed greater transparency, efficiency, and security. These are some of the critical factors for enterprises when evaluating new services and solutions.
Nevertheless, there is one prominent area that needs more focus — blockchain interoperability. Blockchain interoperability means that different networks (blockchains) can freely share value and data outside of their ecosystems.
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Ambassador Program Updates
A few months have gone by since we first introduced the Global Ambassador Program. Throughout this time, we have seen significant work, dedication, and enthusiasm from many of our community ambassadors. We are delighted with the results and look forward to working even more closely with everyone.
Wanchain Validator’s AMA Recap
A recap of last week’s Validator AMA with the Wanchain team.
Participants included:
Molin — One of Wanchain’s lead developers
Demmon Zhong — Core member of Wanchain’s research team
Albert — Product lead at Wanchain
Ecosystem Updates
Wanchain and FinNexus announce “Insights,” the online blockchain summit — Apply to present today!
Insights is an all free, all online educational blockchain summit co-hosted by Wanchain and FinNexus where experts from across the blockchain industry will present about a wide variety of topics including technology, marketing, community building, DeFi, and more.
Recent Developments
Mercury hard fork hits the Mainnet on December 20th at 00:00 UTC.
What’s new in the Mercury upgrade?
The Mercury upgrade will bring two long awaited important features/feature upgrades:
1) Smart Contract API for Safe Random Numbers
2) Raising blocks’ standard gas limit
These 2 new features/upgrades are essential for promoting Wanchain’s ecosystem, increasing Wanchain’s developer friendliness, and promoting new development path of DAPPs.
Wanchain Roadmap 2020
2019 — Galaxy Consensus Was Born
2019 was a pivotal year for Wanchain, most notably our consensus mechanism was upgraded from permissioned proof of work (PPOW) to proof of stake (POS) using Galaxy PoS Consensus. The new POS consensus mechanism developed by Wanchain’s own research team and draws from the research done by IOHK for Cardano with the Ouroboros proof of stake algorithm.
2020 - Focus on Applications
While 2019 was all about Galaxy Consensus, in 2020 we are making a major pivot to focus on making Wanchain a better choice for dApp developers. This will be done both through additional tools which make the Wanchain dApp building process easier than ever, as well as upgrades to GWAN, the Wanchain core protocol client.
Wanchain users can now use their WAN to get loans on Constant
The peer to peer crypto loan platform allows users to take out loans in USD or stablecoins using cryptocurrency as collateral. Constant P2P lending platform started offering USD loans using WAN as collateral with a few users already taking out loans.
Want Some More News Related to Wanchain?
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Wanchain and TROY Partner on Integrated cross-chain trading network, here
Oxcert releases unique digital asset verification tool for NFTs, here
Wanchain Galaxy Consensus Featured in CCF China Blockchain Conference, here
Are you a Hunter?
You can hunt some WAN by just following our social media. The words you need to keep in mind from here are CRUISE and ROCKET.
These words are the 2nd and 4th words of a set of 12 seedphrase that contain some WAN for you. The rest will be released from time to time on Wanchain social media: Twitter, Instagram, Telegram, and Facebook. Follow Wanchain.
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