Zilliqa Blog

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/

Greetings everyone! Time is flying by fast as we are already on our 4th project update since completing our TGE. We’ve been very busy and are excited to be on track to release the initial version of our blockchain testnet by the end of this month. Our goal is

Our amazing team at Zilliqa continues to grow. I’m pleased to announce that En Hui Ong is joining our team as Head of Business Development. En Hui is instantly a great fit for our team and we are very glad that she decided to leave the world of finance

It’s an honor to announce two new members of our advisory team who are both experts in smart contracts and programming languages: Ilya Sergey and Evan Cheng. Ilya Sergey, Assistant Professor at UCLIlya Sergey Dr. Ilya Sergey is currently Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University College London (UCL)

Dear all community supporters, we’re seeking the most informative and creative infographics on the strengths, features, and offerings of Zilliqa as a next-generation high-throughput blockchain platform! Criteria: * Infographic must fit into one page * Feel free to utilize all materials currently available on Zilliqa * Creativity is strongly encouraged! Suggested topics

We’re heading into March and the pace of development at Zilliqa is picking up. We’re actively hiring new developers, marketing people, and operations staff for our third-generation blockchain platform. One of the topics that we are going to start discussing much more in the coming weeks and months

Happy Lunar New Year! As we’re heading into the Year of the Dog, we’re making progress on our platform and technology and putting all the pieces in place to build our third-generation blockchain. Zilliqa aims to be a new blockchain platform capable of processing thousands of transactions per

Note: ➤ We’re on Slack [https://invite.zilliqa.com/] and on Telegram [https://t.me/zilliqachat]! Join our community, ask us questions, and get updated on the latest (and hopefully the greatest!) In our previous article [https://blog.zilliqa.com/the-zilliqa-design-story-piece-by-piece-part-2-consensus-protocol-e38f6bf566e3] , we discussed why Zilliqa needs a different consensus protocol

Greetings everyone, and happy February! Thank you everyone for your continued support! We are elated to welcome all of you who have become part of the Zilliqa community. We love the conversations about the future of Zilliqa and want to bring you some updates about what we are accomplishing. Looking