Hello ICONists,

What an exciting time for the ICON community! ICONists around the world have been staking and earning I_Score for nearly a week now. We hope everyone is enjoying the new staking & voting functionality as well as the updates to the wallet & tracker. If you haven’t seen them yet, what are you waiting for!? Get started with staking today and begin earning rewards for doing so. Here is a video tutorial if you need any help with the process. ICONation will be releasing more video tutorials for various tools and DApps in our YouTube demos and tutorials series.

As does the wallet with new staking and voting functionality

ICONation would like to thank all ICONists that have participated and have cast votes with your ICX. We are extremely appreciative for your votes and intend to continue to earn your votes moving forward. Even if you are not voting for ICONation — Thank you for participating in ICONSENSUS and choosing the P-Reps that you believe can provide the most value to the ecosystem.

What’s Next?

We have an exciting month ahead of us as we work to set up our business, finalize reward distribution plans, internal processes, and documentation for the community review relating to these items.

We’ve also got a roadmap with a backlog that is growing by the day. If all continues to go well with the ICONSENSUS election, we are eager to begin accumulating rewards that will enable us to contract developers and community members that can help to complete these initiatives. While ICONation will not be providing additional rewards on top of the ones we earn from staking to those who vote for us, we will be paying ICX to ICONists that can help contribute towards completing initiatives that will help to grow and improve the ICON ecosystem.

For example — Those who contribute to the By ICONists, for ICONists series can earn ICX for doing so. Also, NorskKiwi has been brainstorming and putting his pen to paper to write up plans for an ICON merchandise DAO and he may need help from the community with parts of that effort. We also have a need to bring in some additional developer talent to help chew through our backlog of development related items. Those who assist ICONation with these efforts will be rewarded with payments in ICX for doing so.

The ICONation backlog is growing and we need your help!

We are also excited for Radiofriendly to be appearing on an upcoming episode of The Rhizome Report. Thank you to William for the invitation to be a guest on the show!

Roadmap Updates

We’re working on a new roadmap format that will help us to better clarify our initiatives and their status. While that is not yet completed, we were able to put together a graphic that helps to list nearly all of our current public-facing initiatives.

We will be providing more thorough updates on these items as we begin working on them and in future roadmap presentations.

As always, please feel free to reach out to us if you ever have questions about ICONation and thank you for stopping by our Medium for the latest!

By ICONists, for ICONists

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