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 second based on the technology of sharding. Using sharding, Zilliqa has the potential to match the transactions per second of the largest payment processors in the world. Most importantly, Zilliqa transaction rates have been shown to increase (roughly) linearly as the network size increases.

To learn more about Zilliqa or to discuss technical aspects of our project, feel free to connect with us in any of our official channels below:

Telegram: https://t.me/zilliqachat

Slack: https://invite.zilliqa.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/zilliqa

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/zilliqa/

Github: https://github.com/Zilliqa/zilliqa

Community Updates

Over the past two weeks we’ve been working towards scaling our team and improving our community engagement. Zilliqa will be an open source, public blockchain, and interaction with our community is something that we see as being crucial to the development and adoption of our technology.

AMA

On February 10, we held our first AMA on Reddit where we invited our community to ask us questions about the project. We answered some great questions and we plan to do this more often in the future, perhaps with a live video component or partnering with a YouTube influencer — stay tuned for details.

In case you missed it, the Q&A is available here. If you still have a burning question, do not hesitate to ask us on our Slack, Telegram or Reddit channel.

Meetup

We gave a talk at the National University of Singapore (organised by the NUS Greyhats community — a group of cybersecurity enthusiasts), a place very dear to us as several of the team members have strong links with the university and the student community there. The talk was developer-oriented and we were delighted to see a large number of students and faculty members interested in Zilliqa.

Xinshu presenting at a meetup hosted by NUS Greyhats

Great engineers and a strong developer community are keys to any open-source project and hence we will continue organizing such meetups to attract them towards blockchain and Zilliqa in particular.

To find out more about careers available at Zilliqa visit here.

Hiring — Saiba Kataruka

Our team is rapidly expanding and the first addition to it is Saiba Kataruka. Saiba previously worked at IBM as a consultant for five years, in the payment technology field, in Asia and Europe. He then left the company to pursue an MBA degree from the University of Oxford.

Saiba will be working on the marketing front and will push the adoption of Zilliqa among enterprises and developers.

He loves reading, writing, public speaking and traveling. He is most interested in the decentralization aspect of the Blockchain technology and in the many ways that it can improve the current social and financial structures.

Partnership with Bluzelle

We are happy to announce that we will be partnering with Bluzelle, a decentralized database provider.