| IOST Update: April 8th 2019 | | Hi ,
IOST continues to see exponential growth of accounts and transactions, now regularly exceeding Ethereum with the gap widening everyday. Some really big announcements over the last 2 weeks including Berm Protocol and Oasis- 2 of the initiatives lowering the barrier for adoption and bringing blockchain to the masses. Q1 Node contribution payouts will be made this week with Tier 1 nodes earning extremely high rewards for their efforts. Read on for your full IOST update!
We are still accepting anyone interested in joining the ecosystem as Partner & Servi Nodes allowing you to earn from our massive reward pool for Q2, info below! | | | IOST x Berm Protocol | Taking Flight with Project Pegasus, A Global User Adoption Program Targeting 20 Million Users By End of 2019 | |  Berm Protocol is making its mark as the consensus of information distribution. Berm Protocol is a decentralized data governance protocol to power the growth, curation and governance of data and information systems. Holding firm to this vision, Berm Protocol has successfully launched two flagship applications that have received remarkable traction with users around the world, with millions of users already on-board its applications.
Read the full announcement here. | | | IOST Contribution Reward System — Results and Rankings | |  IOST's Contribution Reward System for Q1 was from March 10th to March 31th due to mainnet launch, meaning payouts were for a 22 day period, with the next period of Q2 being for a full period of 91 days.
15 nodes successfully achieved Tier 1 status, earning the highest rewards equaling roughly $7000 USD (IOST/USD ref. april 10th) for a 22 day period. Pro-rated this equates to around $10,000USD per month and almost $30,000USD per quarter for each Tier 1 node. Check out the announcement here. | | | Join the IOST ecosystem as a Servi or Partner Node and earn from our Q2 Reward Pool | |  We encourage any and all people, teams, organisations and communities to join the IOST ecosystem as a Servi or Partner Node. Whether you are a developer, marketer, community member, evangelist, investor or anything else; if you want to be a part of the IOST ecosystem, you can join our program and earn rewards for your contribution. There is no cost to you or technical knowledge required and you can share in the IOST annual reward pool and be rewarded for your contributions.
Apply here: https://iost-eng.typeform.com/to/MQzgbm
Read the application guide here: https://medium.com/iost/iost-servi-partner-node-registration-24597c78d373 | | | Dapp.com Launches Exclusive IOST Section | IOST Dapps To Enjoy Global Visibility In User Acquisition | |  One and a half weeks after welcoming the 200,000th account on the mainnet, which is only 7 weeks post their mainnet launch, IOST — the next generation of secure and highly scalable blockchain platforms that will bring blockchain to the masses, has officially joined Dapp.com community and launched the IOST section.
Full announcement here.
| | | IOST Daily Network Transactions Consistently Surpassed Ethereum | |  Since the launch of mainnet on February 25, IOST has been experiencing rapid growth in the number of DApps, mainnet accounts and transactions.
According to statistics on Tokenview, since April 11th to date, IOST mainnet has started processing more transactions than Ethereum, with the gap widening everyday.
Read the full update here.
| | | IOST Bi-Weekly Dapps Roundup — As of April 12th | |  Between March 30th and April 12th, IOST continues to power forward in its ecosystem development strategy. With multiple Dapps already online, we are also seeing a strong pipeline of new Dapps to be launched within the coming weeks. We continue to see rapid user growth and healthy transaction volumes for our Dapps that are already online. We expect the launch of OASIS to be a game-changer in the Dapp industry and be a channel that brings ordinary users without technical knowledge into Dapps usage. The best technology is always invisible.
Read the full article here. | | | NASDAQ Report | Global Launch of IOST Limited Edition of Cao Jun Digital Gift Cards | | 10,000 Limited Edition Cao Jun Gift Cards with the latest e-wallet feature will be first released in New York and will be donated to designated Charitable Organisations: Rockefeller Philanthropy Foundation, Bill Gates Foundation, Rotary Foundation, London Royal Academy of Arts, Paris Musses' Art Mideme, New York Museum of Modern Art, Boston University Museum, Milan Palazzo Reale, Montreal Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, etc.
Check out the article here. | | | IOST Developer Bounty Program Update | |  This is the 18th week of IOST developer bounty program update. We are excited to see more and more developers build Dapps on IOST and going live with their applications.
We are calling for DApp teams to develop more DApps on IOST! You are welcome to join IOST Slack developer community with over 800+ devs from around the world: https://invite.iost.io/
Full update here. | |  Checkout our update for a full summary of the week's development progress. | | Thanks for reading our update. Don't forget, the IOST Mainnet is now live and we are accepting more Nodes! Make sure to follow the official IOST Twitter and Medium to make sure you receive all updates as they happen, see you there!
Sincerely,
The IOST Team | | | | |
