| IOST Update: Jan 28th 2019 | | Hi ,
Another awesome 2 weeks for IOST and great progress made in the first month of 2019!
Since our last bi-weekly update, the IOST election has official gone live. In just 9 days, over 800M+ votes for our PoB partner node pre-election were cast by the IOST community. We are expecting a lot more voters and candidates to join in the next 42-day pre-election period and the official voting after the mainnet launch. Read on for your full IOST update! | | | IOST Election Voting Guide — IOST Voting Portal is Officially Released! | | The IOST voting portal is now official released and the launch of the IOST global Partnership Program has begun. Now is the time to use your IOST tokens to vote for candidates, start earning rewards and have your say on the future of the IOST network!
Voting portal here: https://iost.biss.com/#/vote
Voting Guide and more info here.
| | | We Are Still Looking for More Candidates to get Involved, Why Not You? | |  After announcing the opening of applications for our ERC-20 election, we have had a surge of interest from people, teams and organizations interested in joining the IOST ecosystem and becoming Candidates for the ERC-20 election in preparation for Mainnet launch.
As a result, we have decided to lower the minimum amount of votes required to be received during the ERC-20 election to allow as many Candidates as possible to qualify and be a part of the IOST ecosystem and mainnet launch.
For full info and to learn how to get involved read the announcement. | | | Are you an Aspiring Tech KOL? Join the IOST Tech Article Contest! | | Apart from project development, IOST also sees high importance of delivering useful information and and education to developers and the IOST community. As a result, we are launching the "IOST Tech Essay Contest" to let more developers participate in our project. Top content contributors could also have chances of being IOST's core community developers. Essays selected will be posted on IOST's social media, Excellent contributors will also be awarded with "IOST Community Tech KOL" and may be our content partners. Want to write content for IOST and have it published on our official channels? Get involved!  | | | IOST Election Update: Day 9 Rankings | |  IOST's Global Partner Program is entering its 9th day, and 45 Candidates have officially been elected into the IOST ecosystem as Partners so far. Total votes cast have surpassed 800M IOST and over 2.5M IOST rewards have been paid out to voters.
Newly elected nodes include TokenPocket, IOST ABC, IOST Bean and IOST Lino. Additionally, 9 more Candidates have secured more than 1M votes and are expected to pass the threshold of 2.1M soon. Beyond 45 Partners elected, 74 Candidates are from all corners around the world, which exemplifies the inclusiveness and diversification of IOST ecosystem.
Check out the live Election Portal here. | | | IOST Developer Bounty Program Update: 9th Week | |  During IOST's new round of "Global Developer Meetup Series", our team will visit the Philippines on 26th Jan 2019, and will be in Singapore on the 31st Jan 2019.
This is the 9th week since the launch of IOST Developer Bounty Program and we encourage everyone to get involved!. Join IOST's developer community on Slack: invite.iost.io | | | Tech Update: 23rd Jan 2019 | |  IOST Mainnet Node Election is now in full swing but that doesn't mean any slow down on dev progress! Check out our tech update for the last week including Consensus modifications, debugging, more documentation, testing and deployment!
Checkout our update for a full summary of the week's development progress. | | Thanks for reading our update for the last 2 weeks. Don't forget, the IOST election is now open. The sooner you vote, the sooner you start earning rewards. Make sure to follow the official IOST Twitter and Medium to make sure you receive all updates as they happen!
Sincerely,
The IOST Team | | | | |
