2/ First, general progress has been coming along great.
The Maiar exchange will be the most important ecosystem component which will bring swap between assets, globally, inexpensively, automatically.
3/ Enabling users all over the world to earn competitive rewards as they themselves provide liquidity.
Even more, the Maiar exchange will be the first component to have its own ESDT token, 100% owned and governed by the Elrond community.
4/ Second, there are 5 threads which we've been pushing on to make this a reality:
(a) The mainnet launch w/ ESDT tokens live, (b) the conceptual design w/ MEX incentives, (c) SCs & backend required for the Maiar exchange, (d) the Maiar frontend, and (e) Maiar connect element.
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(a) This mainnet upgrade was the most significant in features. ESDTs, SFTs and NFTs have taken a lot of time to review & implement. But now, all of this is deployed, w/ most of our partners already running the latest version, & mainnet activation coming live on April 28th.
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(b) Conceptual design & incentivest are crucial elements that will ensure outreach, user conversion, and long term growth. This is why we've gone through many iterations, with several improvements being implemented the last few days. Updates on last version coming on Wed.
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(c) The largest amount of work has been put in designing, writing, & reviewing, an architecture interacting with several smart contracts and API on the Elrond network, to create a powerful tool for the Elrond community and ecosystem. With new updates, new work has been added.
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(d) The Maiar frontend is coming along great, several components are being parallelized, advancing one step at a time. We will probably have some frontend test version to experiment with during the next 1-2 weeks.
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(e) The Maiar connect has been worked on in addition to everything else. This will enable all dapps built on Elrond to interact with the Maiar wallet, send tokens, sign tx, offering the simplest UX for users in every dapp. This is alomst rdy. Integration tested as we speak.
10/ All elements require a lot of effort, with many changes, and plenty of complexity to be managed, but together they create a unique and unparalleled user experience, with powerful incentives for the Maiar exchange.
11/ So what's next?
- The snapshots are being indexed into a database as we speak, so people from the Elrond community can view what stake they had eligible on each day. If processing goes well, tomorrow we will have a first version of the information being displayed.
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- A second version of the information, containing the balances for each address will become available immediately afterwards (1-2 days). All this information has been dependent on the conceptual design changes which have now reached a final iteration for the first design.
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- On Wednesday we will hold an Elrond Townhall conversation, specifically discussing everything related to the Maiar exchange updates, MEX token economics, and exciting next steps to follow.
Some products take time, but when they come live, they change things profoundly.
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Elrond is live. The ecosystem is vibrating. Community is rocking it. Validators are expanding. New tooling coming out every day. 150+ partners pushing to build on Elrond.
20+ partners preparing to launch their tokens on Elrond.
3/ But all of this brings complexity. A huge amount of complexity.
Complexity is like entropy, creeping in everywhere to break things.
Adding debt on all fronts and slowing things down to the point of halt.
Unless things are managed properly, and entropy is reversed.
2/ Blockchain technology is at an inflexion point. On the cusp of unlocking a massive societal improvement. Perhaps the biggest since the invention of the internet.
#bitcoin and crypto are just its first applications.
3/ The next 2-3 years will see the most rapid financial transformation - from traditional 40 years old slow, deprecated, legacy technology, to state of the art blockchains, enabling transactions at the speed and scale of the internet.
After many years of work, ETH 2.0 has announced an update: ETH 2.0 - Phase 0.
But after a careful review it seems the excitement is overblown, and the actual progress almost trivial compared to that needed to have ETH 2.0 in production.
First, let's set the context: Ethereum's fundamental problem is scalability: despite a 50$ billion valuation, ETH cannot process more than 15 transactions/sec(!).
In a high bandwidth internet era, this is akin to the earliest versions of 56k dialup modems.
I say fundamental problem, because unlike most other problems, this architecture limitation is practically impossible to be fixed. Thus, paradoxically, the higher an adoption ETH gets, the more obvious and painful this fundamental limitation becomes.
1/ For the last 3 years the Elrond team has been pushing hard to deliver an internet scale blockchain -- the most scalable blockchain architecture in the world.
The network is LIVE, and we've gathered one of the strongest communities in the ecosystem.
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Truly groundbreaking technology is rare, and it usually takes one working killer application to reveal its utility and drive massive adoption. Then, it gradually reshapes the world around us.
3/ Electric current powers all technology today, but it was the lightbulb that paved the way for its immediate adoption; the internet made all information accessible and enabled instant global communication, but it was the browser that brought millions of users to the internet.