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Head of Technology @multiversx, PhD. Blockchain enthusiast, Assistant Prof., Researcher. Developing the next digital financial system one block at a time.
Sep 3, 2023 22 tweets 4 min read
The #MultiversX hackaton is inviting devs from all over the world to build products, integrations & tools for the ecosystem.

With up to $1M in prizes and funding, this is the perfect moment to start building.

Weekly #multiversxtech 🛠️ Image 1/ Part of the xExchange off-chain governance process & as a new community channel for debates, feedback and improvement proposals, we have launched the Agora forum.

Get involved in the trajectory of the protocol, there already several topics brought up: agora.xexchange.com
Jun 25, 2023 20 tweets 3 min read
The xLaunchpad is ready to accommodate both EGLD & XMEX holders.

Great amount of meticulous testing has gone into preparing components for the next days and weeks.

Weekly #multiversxtech 🛠️ 1/ The Guardians feature will soon become publicly available for everyone for an extra security layer. Among recent improvements: changed the rate limiter implementation for otp codes trials in TCS service and added extra info on responses for a better wallet UX.
Apr 23, 2023 19 tweets 4 min read
The proliferation of AI tools is slashing the time & costs of producing content, inevitably growing the challenge of verifying authenticity.

Embedding token balances at account level, @MultiversX acts as a search engine for data sovereignty.

Weekly #multiversxtech 🛠️ Image 1/ Released Polaris Patch - v1.4.16 mainnet upgrade which addresses an error treatment refactor for wrong usernames used in transactions.

The full release notes are published here:
multiversx.com/releases/relea…
Feb 19, 2023 18 tweets 4 min read
A SuperApp, to open digital finance, Web3 and the Multiverse to the world.

Simplifying onboarding, elevating experience, expanding access. Just like the web browser dis for the internet.

@xPortalApp is coming.

Weekly #multiversxtech 🛠️ 1/ Releases across the MultiversX protocol and several services now follow a new procedure with feedback window and an easier to follow and understand format.

More details & notes of the first release in this series, Polaris v1.4.8, can be found here:
multiversx.com/releases/relea…
Dec 18, 2022 17 tweets 3 min read
Tough times separate substance from noise.

With the first core application upgrade done, we are ready for a productive year and new milestones for the entire MultiversX Ecosystem.

Weekly #multiversxtech 🛠️ 1/ With the new economics model, every swap executed on xExchange brings revenue for LKMEX & xMEX holders. Claimed for the first time this week, the batch of passive rewards packs +10 token transfers in 1 tx at <0.001$, demonstrating once again the cost efficiency of our network.
Sep 25, 2022 20 tweets 4 min read
Blockchains are growing in adoption.
There is a systemic change being explored in several fields and taking place one step at a time.
Elrond has been built to enable and scale that adoption.
Weekly #elrondtech 🛠️ 1/ Release v1.3.42 is now live on the Elrond mainnet and includes a global setting role to burning NFTs, trie sync improvements, partial miniblock execution, and several other improvements & optimizations.
Jul 17, 2022 17 tweets 4 min read
The next logical evolution of the internet is happening now, accelerated by Smart Contracts, NFTs, Decentralized ID & everything blockchain has to offer.

As blockchain fundamentals keep getting stronger, so does the imperative for it to scale.

Weekly #elrondtech 🛠️ 1/ The Maiar Launchpad smart contract for managing the lottery ticket sales & winners has been audited, tested & loaded with the participants’ data. It successfully handled the pledging of more than 400k $EGLD and will determine the winners as the network progresses to epoch 718.
May 8, 2022 25 tweets 5 min read
NFT technology will be the language that will transport humanity’s greatest achievements, passions, and possessions, into the Metaverse.

Human culture will continue to exist, thrive and evolve, in a space with infinitely more opportunities than constraints.

Weekly #elrondtech🛠️ 1/ elrond-wasm v0.31 is here, with an improved formatter, Mandos Rust testing framework v2, nested sync call results (fixed), and the removal of several legacy items such as backwards compatibility flags and var-args annotation.
Feb 27, 2022 21 tweets 4 min read
Web3 is the first essential step towards a post-scarcity world.
One where humanity will be free of strife and conflict over resources.
Free to unite and look upwards to the stars.

Weekly #elrondtech 🛠️ 1/ Metastaking Phase 1 is live on the mainnet - Maiar DEX users can now stake $RIDE tokens and get $RIDE rewards. This feature is replicable for any ESDT token in the future. Metastaking Phase 2 will bring the ability to also stake Farm tokens and earn additional rewards.
Jan 23, 2022 24 tweets 6 min read
Internet-scale blockchain tech will catalyse a digital revolution that will help society transition into a post-scarcity world.
One with new & enormous opportunities for everyone. It will take time, will have ups & downs. But we’re getting closer each day.
Weekly #elrondtech 🛠️ 1/ The latest Elrond VM improvements - such as the major API refactor, external view contracts, managed reference types and new message formatting macros - have been included in the elrond-wasm v0.26.0 release.
Oct 24, 2021 23 tweets 5 min read
The Maiar Exchange launch is locked in. Laser focus on the last two prerequisites:
1. @ElrondNetwork mainnet upgrade
2. Liquidity bridge

Weekly #elrondtech 🛠️ 1/ Multi ESDT & NFT transfers have been implemented in the maiar Exchange service transactions. Several different tokens can be transferred with the same transaction, thus improving overall performance by reducing the number of TXs & amount gas used.
Oct 4, 2020 13 tweets 4 min read
Most devs solve 99% of their problems by looking them up online. But when building something truly new, innovative solutions which cannot be reached via conventional means give a unique value to an entire architecture.

Weekly #elrondtech 👇 1/ Preparations for open staking: a more inclusive validator model & the migration of the delegation functionalities directly into the system smart contract, decreasing trust concerns between delegators and providers while enabling governance.
Jun 20, 2020 15 tweets 4 min read
Looking back at over one year of weekly tech reports is like looking down from the top of a mountain, after slowly & painfully climbing it, step by step. It’s a humbling & inspiring view. And so, we push forward. 1% better each day is all we need. Our week in #elrondtech 👇 Image 1/ Situations, when forking can occur, have been reduced by improving the block data broadcast fallback scenarios, when validators in consensus group are responsible to send the cross-shard data in case the block producer fails the broadcast (intended or not).
Apr 17, 2020 13 tweets 3 min read
Our bug hunting and stabilization actions make the Elrond blockchain as powerful as the Unstoppable Force and as resilient as the Immovable Object. Just a little bit longer and the age-old question will soon have an answer. Here’s our week in #elrondtech 👇 Image 1/ We enhanced the process of writing dApps using Javascript & Typescript by adding several improvements to our erd.js front-ent framework, in line with the needs of developers. Some extreme edge cases were found and fixed.
Jan 31, 2020 9 tweets 3 min read
We are focusing attention on helping our external audit partners understand what makes @ElrondNetwork tick. We are proud of our work so far and welcome any chance to make it even better. In the meantime, our progress continues, here are the highlights for last week. 👇 Image 1/ In preparation for a code freeze - stop developing new features & only focus on fixing the existing code - we have engaged several outside review partners who are performing in-depth audits to our architecture, security and code
Jan 30, 2020 9 tweets 2 min read
Transaction finality is one of the key metrics when considering blockchain speed. Here’s how it works in @ElrondNetwork’s protocol. 1/ “Transaction finality” represents the time needed for a transaction to be irreversible. Roll-back mechanisms, such as fork recovery, can invalidate blocks and thus transactions. For this reason, a transaction is only considered final if it is included in an old-enough block.
Dec 20, 2019 13 tweets 3 min read
Christmas came early this year and the @ElrondNetwork team prepared new features and bugfixes for our community. Happy holidays! 🥳

Here’s our latest This week in Elrond 👇#blockchain #BUIDL Image 1. Battle of Nodes ShadowShards rounds continue to show us that our code is improving every day. Great efforts are put in closing all known issues.

2. The anti-flooding component is in a "fine tune-test-refactor-test" loop improving each iteration.
Nov 1, 2019 9 tweets 2 min read
Technical workshops in USA and Germany but at the same time working hard at home🛠️. This Week in @ElrondNetwork is here! Thread below 👇 Image 1. San Francisco Blockchain Week and Regensburg technical workshops for a first demo of Elrond's smart contracts' capability.
2. Elrond IDE (Visual Studio Code extension) improvements in terms of stability, user experience: more logging, better error handling and form validation.
Oct 4, 2019 8 tweets 2 min read
.@ElrondNetwork It's the end of another week and this is the weekly tech update. Elrond #BUIDLs 🛠️
See below ⬇️⬇️ Image 1. Preparations for the Battle of Nodes (improvements, bugfixes, benchmarks, tests)

2. Initial implementation of a System VM and smart contract for validator staking, that will allow nodes to join the network real-time, through a fast protocol built-in mechanism
Aug 30, 2019 9 tweets 2 min read
.@ElrondNetwork - #9 This week in Elrond is here. The last week of summer is almost over, but we are still working hard. 🛠 Read the thread below for the weekly tech update Elrond #BUIDLs 🛠️

See below
👇 Image 1. Improved bootstrap from storage and syncing mechanisms in order to eliminate attacks when syncing from malicious nodes or when the database is corrupt.
Jul 26, 2019 4 tweets 2 min read
.@ElrondNetwork Another week has passed and our team has been working hard. Read the thread below for the weekly tech update👇Elrond #BUIDLs Image 1. First Live Demo of the Cryptobubbles game with rewards and multiple servers for different regions to reduce latency.
2. Adaptive transaction limit per block based on network performance (speed/latency).
3. Node's heartbeat refactoring for real time network health estimation.