Zilliqa Blog

— Codename: Mao Shan Wang We launched Testnet v2 back in June this year, which came with critical features, including documentation and the Scilla IDE, that enabled developers to write and test their smart contracts on our platform. Today, we are thrilled to announce that Testnet v3, codenamed “Mao Shan Wang”

We believe that a blockchain protocol cannot succeed without a talented community looking to build on it. That’s why we started the #BuildonZIL program — to seek out talented individuals and teams to build on our protocol. As we make progress with our first wave of awardees, we are continuously

Developing decentralized applications on blockchain can be challenging. Unfamiliarity with the new technology, long waiting times and the inability to “trace” errors on smart contracts are some of the reasons why development is an uphill task. To tackle some of these challenges, we have developed Kaya RPC — Zilliqa’s RPC

Last year, we announced a partnership with Mindshare to build applications for the digital advertising industry. The partnership will evaluate how Zilliqa’s blockchain protocol can best address some of the challenges in the digital advertising industry. Over the past few months, we have been working with a few industry

Note: ➤ We’re on Slack [https://invite.zilliqa.com/]! Join our community, ask us questions, and get updated on the latest (and hopefully the greatest!) Since the start of the Zilliqa project, we have been talking about two very important topics that are core to Zilliqa’s blockchain infrastructure: 1.

— Updated Roadmap, Ramping Up Marketing, Zilliqa Infrastructure As always, we have been focusing on BUIDLing over the last few weeks. The Zilliqa team is committed to delivering our secure, decentralized, and scalable blockchain platform. We are dedicated to not just delivering our mainnet by the end of this year or

Recently, we announced our #BuildonZIL Ecosystem Grant Programme [https://blog.zilliqa.com/buildonzil-introducing-the-zilliqa-ecosystem-grant-programme-6ccb98892712] , a grant programme to encourage teams and developers to contribute to our new, scalable, secure, and truly decentralized blockchain application infrastructure. When we launch our mainnet, we intend to have an ecosystem of applications running on Zilliqa

We are excited to announce and welcome the newest member of our team. Yiling Ding, formerly with Google, will be joining Zilliqa as our Chief Marketing Officer. Yiling is an incredible fit for our team. She spent the past four years working with Google in the APAC region, more recently

— Enterprise Partnerships, Scilla Made Open Source The Zilliqa team is committed to building a secure, scalable and decentralized blockchain platform. Over the past few weeks, we have been making several enhancements to our protocol as presented in our whitepaper (released back in August 2017). For instance, we have merged the

We have launched our dedicated website for Scilla. Stay tuned as we will be adding more videos and tutorials shortly. Check it out at: https://scilla-lang.org/ The past two weeks have been extremely busy with our attendance at major events across Asia and strong progress from the technical team.

— Driving Adoption, Testnet Improvements — — A Quick Statement About Comment Bots and Spam: It has come to our attention that there have been lots of people (or bots) commenting on social channels promoting Zilliqa, especially on YouTube. We have never and will never use this as a marketing tactic. Our position

Zilliqa is a new blockchain platform that is using the technology of sharding to scale to thousands of transactions per second as the number of nodes in the network increases. Zilliqa is built from the ground-up to be a more secure environment for high-throughput smart contract applications. In Q1 2018,

— Preparing for Testnet v2, Building the Zilliqa Ecosystem Hello everyone, over the past few weeks we have been extremely busy preparing to release the latest version of our testnet — that will begin to support Scilla, our new smart contract language to bring a new level of security to decentralized applications

Zilliqa is a project that has brought together leading academics, engineers, and entrepreneurs with the goal of building a better blockchain infrastructure that is scalable and secure. To do this, we have built the first blockchain platform that uses the technology of sharding to enable increasing throughput as the network

Note: ➤ We’re on Slack [https://invite.zilliqa.com/]! Join our community, ask us questions, and get updated on the latest (and hopefully the greatest!) On May 23, 2018, we demonstrated a Crowdfunding smart contract [https://youtu.be/_7Rv1Q5exbE?t=4403] written in Scilla [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.00687]

— Technology Adoption, Application Building Over the past two weeks we’ve been busy preparing for the release of the next version of our Testnet and continuing the development of Scilla, our new smart contract programming language that aims to be developer friendly and more secure than Solidity (the programming language

Thanks to our amazing team and partners for pulling off Zilliqa: Sharding in Action & Security by Design on 23 May 2018. It’s heartening to see what we have accomplished in such a short amount of time with one of the strongest teams and the greatest community in the

Since we first officially began work on Zilliqa [https://www.zilliqa.com/], our plan has been to fix actual problems with actual solutions. The team we have assembled for Zilliqa is made up of the top research minds in blockchain and security from some of the leading universities around the

What an incredible past two weeks it has been for Zilliqa. We’re immensely proud of the encouragement and input we receive from our community and much of our success is due to them. We truly have one of the best communities in the blockchain world and we are humbled

Hello everyone! Every week, there is growing enthusiasm for what our team is building at Zilliqa. The community of Zilliqa supporters is growing and, most importantly, we feel that it’s one of the strongest and healthiest communities in all of blockchain. We are glad to share our latest progress

It was great to have Pavel Bains — CEO of Bluzelle — on our Telegram channel for a live interaction with the Zilliqa community on April 16, 2018. Pavel Bains — CEO of BluzellePavel is an entrepreneur and investor in exponential technologies. Pavel was the co-founder of Storypanda, a digital book platform that

Greetings everyone. Two weeks ago we released the Zilliqa Testnet [https://explorer.zilliqa.com/home], the first public blockchain to use the technology of sharding to solve the scalability problem, and since then we’ve been making improvements on the stability of the system. We’ve also distributed testnet ZILs

It is official — sharding is now live in action with Zilliqa. This bi-weekly update marks the end of Q1 2018 and as we enter Q2, we have reached an important milestone with the release of Zilliqa testnet v1.0 (codenamed Red Prawn [https://blog.zilliqa.com/zilliqa-testnet-v1-0-release-codename-red-prawn-27974ca46ecb] ). This testnet release

Scalability (or rather the lack of it) is one of the biggest challenges with existing public blockchain platforms. Without scalability it is hard to imagine a real-world decentralized application built on a blockchain. Whilst there are various different approaches to solving the scalability problem, sharding [https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/op-ed-many-faces-sharding-blockchain-scalability/