As 2020 comes to a close, we would like to wish everyone a joyous and happy new year! Despite the difficult circumstances of 2020, it was a great year of development and maturation for the ICON project and our growing ecosystem.
ICON and the iBriz-ICONOsphere P-Rep team are excited to announce the release of the Contribution Proposal System.
We are excited to announce that the Ozys P-Rep team is integrating ICON into the Orbit Bridge.
We are almost ready to put 2020 behind us and look forward to the many exciting developments within the ICON ecosystem in the new year.
We are very pleased to approve another 6 grants in November capping off a successful ICON Community Grant program.
We are excited to announce further collaboration with Band Protocol to operate validator nodes on each other’s networks.
We are pleased to announce the launch of the ICON Foundation Grant Program.
This month was highlighted by the release of the ICON 2.0 Testnet Gangnam and the JAVA SCORE environment.
The Foundation approved another 3 grants in October consisting of community building/marketing, a (familiar) DApp, and a cross-chain DeFi protocol.
We are excited to announce the launch of the Gangnam testnet and the guidelines below.
This month was highlighted by the announcement of our new and improved blockchain, ICON 2.0: BATANG.
In September, we’ve approved one grant to build a new and informative website/portal for the ICON project.
Our biggest secret is finally out. Today, we are excited to announce our next significant technical advancement.
August was another eventful month for the ICON project. We continued to make progress on an upcoming release that we’re very excited about and we hope to share details on soon.
In August, we’ve approved 6 grants ranging from DApp development and developer tools to design and documentation.
Over the weekend, the ICON network experienced an attack by a malicious individual exploiting a vulnerability in the Multiple Unstaking Requests feature.
We are excited to announce the successful integration of the Magic SDK, a popular passwordless authentication and private key management service in the Ethereum ecosystem, into the ICON public blockchain.
The IRC-16 token standard interface was first proposed in 2019, with the goal to support the development of tokenized securities on the ICON blockchain.
It was another eventful and exciting month for the ICON project. We announced a noteworthy partnership, a network update and the release of a SCORE audit tool for smart contract developers.
ICON has decided to reimburse all the extra transaction fees paid as a result of the issue. We calculated the extra fees paid by all users which resulted in a total fee reimbursement of approximately 7,170 ICX.
On July 30th at 5pm (PST), we will host an online meetup with leading blockchain projects, MakerDAO and Tezos.
It was another busy month of grant applications and approvals and we continue to be encouraged by the quality of new initiatives.
We are excited to announce the strategic partnership and successful integration of Band Protocol, a top provider of smart contract oracle services, into the ICON public blockchain.
We are happy to introduce ICON SCORE Audit System. ICON Score Audit System is a smart contract audit system that makes it easy for SCORE developers to verify and deploy smart contracts to the ICON Network.
We are proud to announce the successful audit performed by Certik.
ICON’s non-fungible token (NFT) standard, IRC-3, has shifted its status to the Last Call. The review period is set to run until July 13th, and interested parties can propose changes through PR before final acceptance.
In June, we continued to work on the update that we previously announced to the community in May.
We’re happy to share the latest progress with ICON’s community grant program. As we’ve done in prior months, in this report, we’ll take a closer look at the grants approved by the Foundation thus far in June.
After internal discussions, we have decided to open up the application process for the P-Rep Delegation Program to the community.
We’re happy to announce that we are extending the application period for the June Delegation Program.
ICON is proud to announce our participation in Mainnet 2020 by Messari.
In May, we continued to focus on enhancing the ICON Network’s governance experience and have a number of updates that the community will be excited about.
ICON is proud to announce our participation in REIMAGINE 2020.
Hundreds of new projects are emerging every year, competing to become the de-facto blockchain and the future home of all dApps.
We’re happy to share the latest progress with ICON’s community grant program. As we’ve done in prior months, in this report, we’ll take a closer look at the grants approved by the Foundation thus far in May.
The Path to Sustainable Economics will serve as guidance for P-Reps and a starting point for making upgrades to the ICON Network.
We are excited to announce a new strategic partner to explore tokenization capabilities and innovation in the security token industry.
It was another exciting month for the ICON project, highlighted by the approval of the IISS 3.0 proposal and the launch of our next-generation algorithm, LFT2.
Today, we’re pleased to announce a new pilot program to further incentivize P-Reps and reward contributions to the network.
This is the second monthly grant recap report. In case you missed it, details from the first report can be found here.
LFT2 is based on the PBFT consensus model, with a proprietary algorithm to emerge commit messages into a 2-step consensus process.
It was another busy month for the ICON project. To highlight, we released the IISS 3.0 framework and continue to research its implementation and the respective timing, we continued to make progress on interchain and our blockchain transmission protocol (BTP), and will be releasing our next generation LFT 2.0 consensus algorithm in the coming days.
We are very pleased to announce a new initiative to provide monthly grant updates to keep the community informed of the initiatives ICON Foundation is funding with its Representative rewards.
We are very excited to announce that starting today, you can deposit, purchase and trade ICX, the native token for the ICON network, on Biki Exchange, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges with a strong presence in China. The first trading pair to be listed is ICX/USDT.
We are excited to announce the integration with Dapp.com.
ICON Foundation is excited to announce that VELIC has agreed to dedicate its engineering resources and take over ICONex and ICON Tracker development.
Today, we are happy to announce that ICON Foundation is changing its policy to allow ICONLOOP employees’ participation in the ICON project from RESTRICTED to LIMITED.
We are pleased to announce that the Enterprise Blockchain Awards (EBAs) judging committee have made their decisions on the finalists.
Last month we were excited to release our 2020 roadmap.
The ICON core development team has updated its development roadmap plans for 2020.
Today, our technology and ecosystem expansion partner, ICONLOOP, signed an MoU with Saramin HR, which operates the job placement platform and search engine Saramin.
There will be a block structure update to version 0.5 at the corresponding block height of 14,473,622.
The new year is off to a fast start for the ICON project and January was another great month of progress as we strive to fulfill our original vision of hyper-connecting the world.
The ICON Foundation released a new docker image for the Mainnet at UTC 05:00 on January 28th.
We are excited to announce our collaboration with Chainlink, one of the leading oracle solutions in the blockchain industry.
On March 18th at 7pm (KST), we will host a joint meet-up alongside leading blockchain projects, MakerDAO and Chainlink.