LONDON (Bywire News) - In case you missed it: EOS News Review 2021 - Part II
July
- 1, CryptoFed Becomes the First Legally Recognised DAO in America…
…and it’s based on the EOS blockchain. Its mission is to create and sustain a monetary system with zero inflation, zero deflation and zero transaction costs. It comes after Wyoming became the first state in the nation to recognise DAOs as a distinct form of limited liability company came into effect at midnight.
- 2, First Physical Book Connected to an NFT Arrives
In another first, Hoken Tech announces that they have created a smart contract for the creation of NFTs of the book ‘Mastering NFT – Practical Guide for Beginners and Advanced’, by Alfredo de Candia.
B1 announces a $7million investment in Chintai, a company that uses blockchain technology to expand capital markets. The investment will be used to expand its business operations and to enable compliant tokenisation of traditional financial assets on Chintai’s blockchain network.
“Asset tokenization is an important trend that brings efficiency, liquidity, and fractional ownership to markets of all types," said Kevin Rose, Senior Vice President at B1.
“We're excited to work with Chintai toward our shared vision of a blockchain-enabled digital asset revolution built on regulated financial services.”
- 26, Voice Promotes NFTs for Everyone
Voice.com announces an August release promising to make NFTs more universally available for everyone. From August, they say, the world will be getting the most sustainable platform for NFTs ever seen.
The blockchain and NFTs have often been seen as being a poor fit for the current drive towards net zero. The computing power required to create them makes NFTs, as they stand, inefficient and unsustainable. Voice.com promises to be different. It will be 65,000 times more energy-efficient than Bitcoin and 17,000 times more energy-efficient than Ethereum.
- 27, Bullish Moves into Private Pilot
Bullish announces a seven-week pilot involving specially invited retail and institutional investors as part of their move to a full launch later in the year. The pilot will involve simulated crypto assets, paper money and will give its target users a chance to experience its trading interface and proprietary hybrid order book. Participants will be given access to features such as spot trading, margin trading and new and unique ways to earn through Bullish Liquidity Pools.
August
- 3, EOS Costa Rica Launches Dashboard to Check EOSIO statistics
EOS Costa Rica launches a new dashboard to check the statistics of the EOS blockchain and other EOSIO based blockchains. It will be an open-source platform adaptable to any EOSIO network which will provide real-time blockchain data. Already, it’s operating on several leading EOSIO blockchains including the EOS Mainnet, LACChain EOSIO Telos, Wax, Proton and Jungle Testnet.
- 5, Voice Partners with Circle Pay
With its relaunch imminent, Voice.com announce they will partner with Circle Pay as their pay payment processor. Among the ways Voice accounts can be funded is with their multichain USDC. In a Tweet, Salah Zalatimo promises they are working to find a payment processor which can handle EOS payments.
- 6, the EOS Network Foundation is Born
The world gets to find out what Yves La Rose has been working on since quitting EOSNation and it’s big. The EOS Network Foundation rides over the hill like the white knight the community has been hoping for. It will fulfil the role which most believed B1 would by enabling businesses, individuals and developers to build the EOS ecosystem.
La Rose announces he will now be asking the block producers to show support for the foundation by “increasing the inflation of the network by 2% for its use. From the onset, the foundation will request the legacy name and ram fees be placed under its stewardship, and on a periodical basis it will request transfers from the inflation savings account for ongoing operations.”
- 19, The EOS Mainnet arrives on MetaMask
After months of testing, the world’s most popular wallet arrives on the EOS Mainnet. To sign up all people have to do is go to chainlist.org and look for the EOS Network.
- 25, EOS Inflation Rises
As Yves La Rose called for, inflation rises from 1% to 3% which will enable the transfer of more than 3 million EOS to develop the network.
After much speculation about how closely the new Voice.com will be linked to EOS, they announce plans to use a private EOSIO blockchain initially with the possibility to migrate NFTs to other blockchains, such as EOS or Ethereum in the future. This, they say, will help them to provide creators with a value that other platforms can’t meet and to be flexible enough to respond to the needs of creators as they learn about and interact with NFTs.
September
- 6, Dan Larimer Announces First Blockchain Election for Eden
In a blog post, Dan Larimer announces the first on-chain election for Eden. For the last couple of months, he says, the team at Clarionos have been working behind the scenes to prepare intuitive, smart,contract-driven, fractal elections and distributing funds to delegates elected as a result. To help them, the EOS Foundation agrees to provide funding of 200,000 EOS (about $1.2 million) plus an additional 200 EOS (about $1,200) to the community’s treasury per Eden member who joins before the election.
- 17, Google Cloud Begins Accepting Votes for its block producers.
Google Cloud announces it is going to accept votes for its block producer. The corporation announced its intention to become a block producer on EOS last year and declares that the “EOS network is one of the most active public blockchains, built and run by a community to enable decentralised solutions to solve inefficiencies in our world.”
(Research from Alfredo de Candia and Tom Cropper, writing by Tom Cropper, editing by Klaudia Fior and Michael O’Sullivan)