Arclegger, Co-Founder of the RedFOX Labs Blockchain Gaming Division, Appeared on Nugget's News
This week, Arclegger, a famous game developer and the Co-Founder of the Blockchain Gaming Division at RedFOX Labs, sat down for a video interview with Nugget's News, one of Australia's leading blockchain- and technology-focused YouTube Channels. Arclegger discusses his career, his decision to and excitement about moving into blockchain-based gaming, and upcoming plans for getting started with RedFOX.
"Well, I think the blockchain space is a really intriguing industry right now. It's the main reason that I went over to RedFOX. I wanted to look at all the opportunities in front of me and the one that RedFOX presented was the most interesting and intriguing one, and the one that I thought had the most promise for a good future." — Arclegger You can watch the full interview here.
You can also check out the May update blog post from RedFOX Labs here.
Barterlly, a Secure and Automated Escrow Trading Service, Enters Public Beta Phase
Barterlly is an automated escrow service that allows users to perform crypto trades and swaps without needing to trust the counterparty to their trade. While it is only in the beta phase, Barterlly is fully functional and can be used today.
The Barterlly web app was developed by Dwy, a Notary Node Operator and Komodo ecosystem developer. Barterlly has listed a number of Komodo ecosystem currencies, including KMD, RFOX, ZILLA, VRSC, ARRR, OOT, PUNGO, and more.
"The specificity of the Barterlly app is that we don't allow people to deposit funds if there is no trade involved. On a centralized exchange, a user get fixed address and can deposit on the same exact address when he wants to trade, the CEX acting like a bank, a crypto bank.
Contrary to exchanges, Barterlly was built to become a global solution to provide tools for both asset holders and users because, as we all know, the biggest challenge for a coin to get adoption and coverage is for it to be listed for trading on a major exchange." — Dwy
You can try the beta version of Barterlly here.
Pirate Chain Block Rewards Halving Just Took Place
This week, Pirate Chain had a halving in block rewards, decreasing from 256 ARRR per block to just 128 ARRR per block. Pirate Chain uses the Equihash algorithm and is minable.
Alongside the block reward halving, Pirate Chain also broke into the top 300 coins by total market cap value and released a new roadmap.
To learn more about Pirate Chain, check out the official Pirate website and follow Pirate on Twitter.
HUSH Makes It Possible To Mine Directly Into Shielded Addresses
 This week, the HUSH Development Team made it possible to mine HUSH directly into a shielded z-address (rather than mining into a transparent address and then moving it to a shielded address manually).
HUSH is a privacy-centric project within the Komodo ecosystem, with the vision of providing completely secure and private transactions and communications. HUSH recently migrated to a Komodo-based blockchain, using delayed Proof of Work Security and Sapling-upgraded zero-knowledge privacy features.
To learn more about HUSH, check out this excellent overview of the project and follow HUSH on Twitter.
KMD Labs, a Testing and Development Laboratory for Komodo Technologies, Launches Mainnet
The KMD LABS mainnet went live this week. The KMD Labs project is a fully scalable and customizable test bed for testing and developing your own independent blockchain with Komodo's technology. You can also test Komodo's Custom Consensus modules. Testing on the KMD Labs cluster is free.
KMD Labs provides an incentivized test environment, technical services, and a support knowledge base. KMD Labs' ease of use and rapid deployment features allow projects of any technical level or size, a place to experiment with the depth of Komodo's technology.
Learn more about KMD Labs here.
Komodo Listed On Graviex
Finally, Komodo was listed on Graviex this week. Graviex is a third-party crypto exchange service.
Tech Tuesday Update
In this week's Tech Tuesday update, Mylo provides a comprehensive and easy-to-follow guide on how to launch a custom block explorer after you've launched your independent blockchain with Komodo's technology.
This is a huge benefit to building with Komodo, as having a block explorer is essential but, at the same time, a blockchain project's development team might not want to spend a significant amount of time on creating one. This is just another prime example of how Komodo's technology streamlines blockchain development.
Read the full Tech Tuesday update here.
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