Partnerships and team members

The IOST Foundation announced an official partnership with Dapp distribution platform — DAPPX. DAPPX has officially launched an exclusive section to showcase IOST Dapps to its blockchain users and community.

DAPPX, a Dapp distribution platform integrated with multiple blockchains, aims to make entering the blockchain world easier and fuss-free for users. It provides a complete Dapp experience starting from discovery to exploration to sharing for users, and assists in the full life cycle of development to promotion to operations for Dapp developers.

DAPPX Website: http://dappx.com

The Indian blockchain market has attracted increasing attention in recent years,with the growth of blockchain technology having accelerated significantly in India. With rich developer resources, the Indian market has huge potential in promoting the development of blockchain and technology adoption.

Supported by Bluehill Foundation and in collaboration with DoraHacks, IOST plans to hold the first online DApp development hackathon from early May to June 15. DoraHacks has been rapidly expanding its global community since its inception. By utilizing its global developer resources, IOST aims to gain popularity and recognition among global developer community and discover more high quality developer individuals and teams.

The theme of this hackathon is DApp Game Development Based on IOST Mainnet, and BlueHill is providing generous rewards for DApp development participants. What differs this from other hackathons is that this event applies a unique way to give rewards away: the rewards pool is divided into 200 sections, with 10 held by each of 20 reviewers. Reviewers give rewards to the team they support in the form of voting. This method benefits skillful teams with more rewards, hence a huge motivation for them to further improve development quality.

Reviewers for this event are IOST core technical team members and IOST Node Partners, who are all from the core Dapp platforms, and excellent Dapp development teams with rich experience and deep understanding in blockchain and DApp products. In addition, several prominent Indian KOL and developers are also invited to be reviewers. These leading figures in Dapp industry greatly increase the credibility of this hackathon and help IOST better select DApps of high quality.

IOST announced its partnership with FishChain, bringing IOST Fish, a fun and exciting blockchain game to IOST community members. IOST Fish is scheduled to launch on IOST mainnet in early May.

FishChain is a virtual asset trading platform with built-in games, as well as an in-app exchange. It is the first of its kind, which gathers investors and gamers onto one platform through its unique mechanism. As an open platform, it provides more games with “crypto-assets” functionality.

IOSTFish extends traditional pet-raising and collection onto blockchain, with a variety of things players can do, including raising fish, fishing, cross-breeding, trading, breeding, fighting, mining and dividends. With the combination of token economy model and game, it rebuilt the gaming economy model for players by creating ownership of interactive gaming assets.

IOST announced its partnership with HorseSaga, a horse breeding game, which is scheduled to launch on the IOST mainnet in the middle of May.

This partnership between IOST and HorseSaga aims to bring about a more multifaceted Dapp ecosystem for IOST. In return, IOST will provide HorseSaga with user acquisition, DApp exposure and technical support through multiple Dapp discovery platforms (listing on DappReview, Dapp.com, DappTotal, DappBirds, Dapp.CC and more) and within the IOST mainnet ecosystem.

The IOST Foundation has struck a partnership with NEST to develop new applications, use cases and drive greater user adoption in Decentralized Finance (DeFi).

NEST is a decentralized financial service protocol that allows developers to conduct application development and launch decentralized financial products on the NEST protocol. To date, NEST’s Ethereum Dapp already has a user amount of over 10,000, with over 3,000 collateral loan contracts and transaction volumes exceeding USD 6 million.

IOST, a scalable and decentralized blockchain project, is dedicated to creating a practical and useful mainnet, where developers, creators and enterprises can fulfill their potential. With high scalability and excellent performance in running smart contracts, IOST is the perfect platform to power the underlying infrastructure for NEST protocol developers. Besides being highly developer-friendly, IOST continues to build and launch tools that create development efficiency for developers. NEST and IOST will have in-depth collaboration in areas like decentralized financial products application and R&D to create transformational change in finance across the world.

With NEST’s proven success on Ethereum and IOST’s next generation high-speed, decentralized infrastructure, the IOST Foundation is confident that this partnership will create a wealth of opportunity for both parties in the area of decentralized finance.

IOST announced its partnership with Chainlink, the leading blockchain middleware (or “oracle”) that allows smart contracts to access key off-chain resources like data feeds, various web APIs, and traditional bank account payments. As a bridge for data exchange between blockchain and the real world, oracles can be used in many scenarios. It’s safe to say that oracle is a necessity for all Dapps that need off-chain information, such as lending platform, package tracking / IoT, stablecoins, gambling, insurance, to name a few. After the integration of Chainlink into IOST, developers aiming to build cross-chain Dapps can realize this goal on IOST.

IOST has partnered with Pioneer Fund, an exclusive fund focused on DApps under the BlueHill Foundation, to launch IOST Featured DApps Support Program for IOST developers.

The Featured DApps Program application is now open for submission to all DApp teams who have released DApp(s) on IOST mainnet. Successful candidates in our Featured DApps Support Program will receive full support from IOST to further refine the operation of their DApps.

Once adopted by IOST team, the operation plan proposed by the DApp team will receive all-round resources and financial support by IOST. To apply for the Featured DApps Program, the following information needs to be specified in the plan submitted:

Operation objectives The type and content of campaigns involved (principally online operations) Time span of campaigns (within two weeks) Resource support required Budget estimates

IOST announced the partnership with DappRadar, the biggest DApp data, discovery and distribution platform worldwide. IOST joins DappRadar with an exclusive listing including full integration, data tracking and analysis. This further cements IOST’s positioning in the top 4 DApp Platforms, joining ETH, EOS and TRON.

To celebrate the launch and in partnership with DappRadar, IOST is hosting an 500,000 IOST airdrop event and free account giveaway. All participants can receive free mainnet accounts and IOST rewards by visiting the IOST section of DappRadar. With an IOST account and IOST tokens you can then try out and play the various DApps.

Event time

From 10th May — 17 May 00:00 GMT

Rules:

Download iWallet: http://bit.ly/iost-iwallet Visit any IOST DApp listed on DappRadar and click on the Airdrop banner to visit the account creation and airdrop details page. 200 free IOST accounts will be released every hour during the event for the first 3 days, then reduced to 100. To avoid bots and spam, every phone number is eligible for one free registration code only. Every successfully created account will be rewarded with 10 IOST, which is credited directly into the account. Note: After registration, please copy your key and keep it safe. Paste your key in iWallet and you will be able to check the IOST balance. Users who play any IOST DApp with the new account will receive 10 IOST reward. 10 users will then randomly chosen to receive 2000 IOST each. These IOST rewards will be paid within 1 to 3 working days.

The IOST Foundation announced a strategic partnership with Enterprise Singapore, alongside regional blockchain incubator Hashed Venture Labs, to support the growth of blockchain startups and grow the blockchain ecosystem in Singapore. In addition, IOST aims to work with Enterprise Singapore to drive enterprise blockchain adoption and help Singapore MNCs and SMEs unlock the transformational value of distributed ledger technologies.

Enterprise Singapore is the government agency championing enterprise development. Enterprise Singapore works with committed companies to build capabilities, innovate and internationalize. It also supports the growth of Singapore as a hub for global trading and innovative tech startups. As the national standards and accreditation body, Enterprise Singapore aims to build trust in Singapore’s products and services through quality and standards.

To support the growth of Singapore as a leading blockchain hub globally, Enterprise Singapore will provide startup grants worth SGD30,000 to founders launching innovative blockchain solutions. In addition to the startup grant, Enterprise Singapore will also support startups meeting certain criteria with overseas expansion grants (SGD20,000) and follow-on investment rounds by SEEDS Capital, its venture capital arm (up to SGD4 million).

IOST, through regional blockchain incubator Hashed Venture Labs, will help to evaluate and recommend promising Singapore blockchain founders to receive startup grants from Enterprise Singapore, supporting the growth of the Singapore blockchain ecosystem and mentoring the blockchain founders under its care.

To learn more: https://hashedlabs.io/startup-sg-founder-grant/