| 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 some big partnerships and new Dapps. Read on for your full IOST update! | | | IOST x NEST | Unlocking A Wealth of Opportunity In Decentralized Finance (DeFi) | |  The IOST Foundation is excited to announce that we have struck a partnership with NEST to develop new applications, use cases and drive greater user adoption in Decentralized Finance (DeFi).
NEST is a decentralized financial service protocol that allows developers to conduct application development and launch decentralized financial products on the NEST protocol. To date, NEST's Ethereum Dapp already has a user amount of over 10,000, with over 3,000 collateral loan contracts and transaction volumes exceeding USD 6 million.
Read the full announcement here. | | | OnBlock Now Live | Play IOST Dapps With Just A Phone Number! | |  OnBlock website: https://onblock.me/
Using OnBlock, users simply require a phone number to use and experience Dapps in the IOST ecosystem. Non-technical users who are unfamiliar with wallets creation or more technical blockchain usage can now freely access and use the IOST blockchain easily without the need to acquire complex technical knowledge. Check out the announcement here. | | | IOST x HorseSaga | Can You Breed the Fastest Racehorse? | |  In less than two months after the launch of mainnet, IOST has officially become the big 4 public chains alongside Ethereum, EOS and Tron. With exciting new developments such as OnBlock and multiple user growth programs in progress, IOST is excited to work hand-in-hand with developers and our community to build the world's first scalable AND decentralized blockchain project and create global blockchain transformation.
IOST is excited to announce our partnership with HorseSaga, a horse breeding game, which is scheduled to launch on the IOST mainnet in the middle of May.
Check out the announcement here. | | | IOST x FishChain | The World's Most Playable Assets Exchange | |  IOST is excited to announce our partnership with FishChain, bringing IOST Fish, a fun and exciting blockchain game to IOST community members. IOST Fish is scheduled to launch on IOST mainnet in early May.
FishChain is a virtual asset trading platform with built-in games, as well as an in-app exchange. It is the first of its kind, which gathers investors and gamers onto one platform through its unique mechanism.
Full announcement here.
| | | IOST x DoraHacks | Accelerating IOST Expansion Into India | |  The Indian blockchain market has attracted increasing attention in recent years,with the growth of blockchain technology having accelerated significantly in India. With rich developer resources, the Indian market has huge potential in promoting the development of blockchain and technology adoption.
Supported by Bluehill Foundation and in collaboration with DoraHacks, IOST plans to hold the first online DApp development hackathon from early May to June 15. DoraHacks has been rapidly expanding its global community since its inception. By utilizing its global developer resources, IOST aims to gain popularity and recognition among global developer community and discover more high quality developer individuals and teams.
Read the full update here.
| | | IOST Bi-Weekly Dapps Roundup — As of April 28th | |  Between April 15th and April 28th, 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 healthy user growth and strong transaction volumes for our Dapps that are already online. We expect the launch of OnBlock, which allows users to experience Dapps with just a phone number, to be a game-changer in the Dapp industry and be a channel that brings ordinary users without technical knowledge into using the IOST blockchain.
Read the full article here. | | | IOST x DAPPX | DAPPX Launches Exclusive IOST Dapps Section | |  The IOST Foundation is excited to announce an official partnership with Dapp distribution platform — DAPPX. DAPPX has officially launched an exclusive section to showcase IOST Dapps to its blockchain users and community.
DAPPX, a Dapp distribution platform integrated with multiple blockchains, aims to make entering the blockchain world easier and fuss-free for users. It provides a complete Dapp experience starting from discovery to exploration to sharing for users, and assists in the full life cycle of development to promotion to operations for Dapp developers.
IOST DApps has already started listing on DAPPX. Users can explore them in IOST exclusive section in DAPPX.
DAPPX Website: http://dappx.com
Check out the article here. | | | IOST Developer Bounty Program Update | |  This is the 19th 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 | | | | |
