| Updates & Developments
The Komodo Obsidian Dragon update to version 0.5.0 of the code base will activate in roughly ten hours, at block height 1,670,000. The update to version 0.5.0 of the Komodo software is mandatory for all exchanges, miners, and other individuals running a full node.
If you run a full node and have not yet updated, please do so immediately. Those who do not update prior to block 1670000 will not run on the correct network.
Learn more about the Komodo v0.5.0 update here.
Back in August, Komodo announced that Lead Developer James 'jl777' Lee had developed a new and exponentially more efficient method for Simple Payment Verification (SPV). This new technology is called notarized simple payment verification, or nSPV for short.
This week, Komodo Dev Documentation Writer Guru Charan Gupta published an excellent follow-up blog post about how the Komodo team is advancing nSPV technology, including integrating nSPV to the Antara Framework and developing static HTML wallets. Read the full post here.
This week, Komodo wrote blockchain history once again with the world's first fully-automated cross-chain atomic swap between Tezos (XTZ) and Ether (ETH). This means that another blockchain protocol is now compatible with AtomicDEX and will soon be available for atomic swaps with almost all BTC-protocol coins, as well as almost all Ethereum-based assets like ERC-20 and ERC-721 tokens. Find more information about the XTZ<->ETH swap here.
Komodo published two more educational posts in the Blockchain Fundamentals content series: one about Equihash, the hashing algorithm that the Komodo blockchain uses, and another about peer-to-peer networks, the network infrastructure that makes blockchain technology possible.
In recent weeks, the Komodo Marketing Team has focused on making the website available in various world languages, including Chinese and Turkish. This week, two more translations were completed: Russian and Spanish. View the Russian version of the Komodo site here. View the Spanish version of the Komodo site here.
Three more languages are scheduled for completion in January: Indonesian, Japanese, and Korean.
Norbert Gehrke from Tokyo Fintech published a Komodo 101 blog post this week and Tweeted in praise of Komodo's Welcome Email, which is automatically sent to all new subscribers to this email list.
The Komodo email list is up to 10,000 subscribers-- that includes you! Thanks for being a subscriber and reader.
Komodo launched a co-marketing campaign with ChangeNOW this week, holding a giveaway on Twitter. The Tweet received almost 600 comments and retweets! ChangeNOW also published a blog post about the best features of the Komodo ecosystem.
Check out the ChangeNOW website here.
The popular Crypto 101 Podcast is holding a free online conference called the CRYPTO 2020 Summit. Komodo CSO Steve Lee will be speaking at the event, which takes place from Jan 29 to Jan 31, 2020. Tickets are free but you must register in order to stream the conference. Register here.
Komodo is looking for two new developers: a frontend developer and UX/UI designer with at least 3 years of experience; and a blockchain core developer with at least 5 years of experience with C/C++ and at least 2 years of experience with either the BTC or the ZEC protocol. Learn more on the Komodo Careers page.
| | | A Word From The C-Suite
"Komodo's AtomicDEX executed the first XTZ/ETH atomic swap. 1. Taker fee. 2. Maker payment. 3. Taker payment. 4. Taker payment spend. 5. Maker payment spend. As announced, we finally made it! AtomicDEX can now swap Tezos (XTZ) with 99% of all Bitcoin-protocol based coins but also most ETH/ERC based tokens. Full FA1.2 token DEX support is coming next."
Komodo CTO Kadan Stadelmann
See Kadan's tweet here.
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