Congrats to all the newly-elected Notary Node operators!

Share Share Tweet Read Later Forward Five Bullet Friday Week 20: May 17, 2019 Komodo's Third Annual Notary Node Election Has Come To An End The Komodo team would like to congratulate all of the recently-elected Notary Node Operators. Here's a list of all the Notary Node Operators elected this year: North America Madmax Lukechilds Pirate Chainmakers Computer Genie Dragonhound Strob d0ct0r Southern Hemisphere ChainZilla zatjum Pungo webworker01 blackjok3r dwy phm87 Europe Pirate Vosk Coin CHMEX phba2061 node-9 and1-89 Crypto Economy Komodo Pioneers Asia/Russia Madmax Indenodes Tonyl Decker   Pirate Alright Gt Etszombi You can view the exact number of votes each candidate received here. Congrats again to all of the successful candidates! The Komodo team was extremely pleased with both the number and the quality of the candidates that ran in this year's election. This summer, there will be an update on the KMD blockchain add a few new features and officially inaugurate the newly-elected Notary Node operators. Stay tuned for more details. A New Version of Agama Desktop Is Available This week, the Komodo Dev team released a new version of Agama Desktop for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Download v0.3.6 of Agama here. Here is the changelog for this latest version of Agama: - Latest KMD binaries based on beta branch - Create wallet refactor - Restore wallet - Add coin modal Lite mode KMD assets toggle - Add coin modal ERC20 tokens are accessible now under a new mode option - PIN login refactor - Added User Agreement - Store active coins list in PIN file - HUSH switched to HUSH3 asset chain using SPV/Lite mode - OUR native mode wallet -ac_perc param fix - K64 logo change - ILN name fix and logo change - SPV transaction history caching fix - Removed GBX - Import key modal multi rescan fix - Address book z-address fix Download v0.3.6 of Agama here.   Blockchain Startup RedFOX Labs Levels Up the World's Fastest-Growing eSports Region   Komodo partner project RedFOX Labs was highlighted once again in an article published on Hacker Noon. This piece focuses on how RedFOX, based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, is well-positioned to earn market share in Southeast Asia's 'Big Six' gaming nations with Komodo's technology and the help of third-party projects like Komodore64. Read the full article here.   Bitcoin Club Cyprus, With Support From Komodo, Hosts Free Educational Meet-Up   Bitcoin Club Cyprus will host an educational evening meet-up on May 28th, 2019. The event will be held at the Cyprus International Institute of Management's Limassol campus. Komodo Technical Writer Daniel Pigeon will join the meet-up to give a brief overview of Komodo to those in attendance. Read more about the meet-up here.   Consensus 2019 Blockchain Week   The Komodo team didn't officially attend Consensus this year but Komodo Business Development Manager Jason Brown (Polycryptoblog) traveled to New York City to attend a few events during Blockchain Week NYC. Mr. Brown gave a speech about Komodo and how it solves many problems in cryptocurrency at a Goldfingr Investment Club meetup. He also was part of a panel on blockchain privacy and security and showed a preview of Komodo's upcoming third-generation atomic swap DEX.   Tech Tuesday Update In this week's Tech Tuesday update, Mylo walks us through how to easily create tokens, including non-fungible tokens, and a proxy token DEX using Komodo's technology. It's a clear and easy-to-follow guide that a developer of any skill level can follow. If you're interested in building with Komodo's technology, specifically in using Komodo's cutting-edge custom consensus framework, this is a great place to start. Read this week's Tech Tuesday update in full here.   Thanks for reading! If you're not already a part of Komodo's community on Discord, we'd like to invite you to join now. Come chat with the Komodo team and other community members.   Join Now Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

Cardano Community Newsletter - May 17, 2019

The latest news in the Cardano community!

Welcome to the Cardano Newsletter! Published by the Cardano community team every two weeks, this newsletter will provide you with news, updates and events about the project! If you would like to unsubscribe from the Cardano newsletter, you can do so by clicking "unsubscribe from this list" at the bottom of this email.   Cardano 2020: Delivering on the Vision Read the latest blog post from IOHK, written by David Esser the Senior Product Manager of Cardano. He talks about the Cardano 2020 vision and gives insight into the redesign of the Cardano roadmap. David also tells us how updates on the project will be shared moving forward.  Read the IOHK blog here Introducing our new Cardano Community Managers The Cardano Community team is proud to announce our new Community Managers: Niels Schoof and Andy Hendrikx. These familiar faces have been a part of the community since Cardano's official mainnet launch in October 2017 and will be joining the Community Team to help improve all of the Cardano community channels, grow out the Ambassador program and help be the ears and voice for the community! Welcome Niels and Andy on the Forum Monthly Progress Update for April 2019 Emurgo's Engineering Lead, Sebastien Guillemot, creates videos that give a comprehensive overview of all the work that's happened with Cardano within the last month. The progress video for April has just been released where you can learn all about the project's latest updates.  Watch the Cardano Progress Update video Introduction of Atala At the recent IOHK Summit, one of the major announcements was Atala, an enterprise blockchain framework that will help entities rapidly build products and blockchain solutions. IOHK will be releasing further details on this project but in the meantime, read a quick introduction on Atala and an article from Forbes magazine on the Forum.  Learn more about Atala The Frontier Fintech Summit, Mongolia  The Cardano Community team recently travelled to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia where they attended the Frontier Fintech Summit alongside Charles and other members from Cardano Foundation and IOHK. A recap from Day 1 of the event with a Marlowe hackathon is ready on the forum for you to check out!  Read the Day 1 Recap During this trip to Mongolia, IOHK also signed an MoU with the Mongolian Blockchain Technology and Cryptocurrency Association and the Mongolian Fintech Association. The MoU is broad in scope with an initial focus to advise on potential blockchain solutions and foster blockchain education in the country. Read IOHK's blog post by Charles Hoskinson about the MoU with the link below.  Read about the Mongolian MoU Upcoming Meetups   RSVP to these events!  May 18, in Osaka, Japan: Cardano Meetup May 18, in Tokyo, Japan: How to use Yoroi/Daedalus community meetup May 18, in Zagreb, Croatia: Cardano Blockchain Croatia Meetup May 23, in Washington DC: Cardano Blockchain Meetup May 25, in Nagoya, Japan: Cardano Meetup May 26, in Saarbrücken, Germany: The First Meetup May 26, in Berlin, Germany: Inaugural Cardano Blockchain Berlin Nothing in your area? See if a group already exists on our meetup.com page and connect with the local organiser! OR Start your own Cardano meetup group? Learn more here Have you visited the Cardano community?   Forum Meetup Telegram Reddit   Facebook Twitter Youtube Copyright © 2019 Cardano Community, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website. Our mailing address is: Cardano Community Dammstrasse 16 Zug 6300 Switzerland Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list. View this email in your browser