Hello everyone! In the past few weeks we have shared plenty of achievements with you on academic paper publishing, event sharing, smart home PoC solutions, partnerships, etc. and received great recognition by our community and industry leaders. Now we are happy to announce that our Mainnet Preview will be released in November, which will bring in more innovations to kick off the mainnet building through out next year.

As our early supporters know, each of our code release was named after a permutation of the name of world-class cryptographer/Mathematician. There is no exception this time for our Mainnet Preview. The only difference is — it is our dear community, you, to choose the name for us!

Through our wallet and smart contract, you will be able to submit proposed names and be the winners of this campaign!

Let your proposed name to be shown in our next code release!

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Thank you for proposing so many great names! We received over 12,600 submissions and out of five finalists, Photon was the winner with ~27% of total votes. Thanks to all who participated!

Here are the result 5 candidates.

🏆 Photon — 27%

Named After: Kenneth Thompson Kenneth Thompson is a researcher for more than 30 years at Bell Laboratories (now a division of Lucent Technologies), was named the first recipient of the IEEE Computer Society’s Tsutomu Kanai Award for contributions in the area of distributed computing system. The co-creator of Unix and a developer of the prototype language B on which C was based — Thompson’s research has focused on operating systems, programming languages, computer games, and voice and data programs. Address to Vote for: io1qyqsyqcy28hgrmv4h3xju6ljcv9dx3e6jzhrmn4eys0hqy

🏅 MadLane -25%

Named After: Leonard Adleman Leonard Adleman is an American computer scientist. He is one of the creators of the RSA encryption algorithm, for which he received the 2002 Turing Award, often called the Nobel prize of Computer science. He is also known for the creation of the field of DNA computing. Address to Vote for: io1qyqsyqcyn5m2zgw8lyu6q350hxqnuc5rqsl5pu82shg7ey

🏅 IronMan — 17%

Named After: Moni Naor Moni Naor is an Israeli computer scientist, currently a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science. He works in various fields of computer science, mainly the foundations of cryptography. He is notable for initiating research on public key systems secure against chosen ciphertext attack and creating non-malleable cryptography, visual cryptography (with Adi Shamir), and suggesting various methods for verifying that users of a computer system are human (leading to the notion of CAPTCHA). Address to Vote for: io1qyqsyqcy7k8lt30y8smt6jyyz0alctfxxwyyynnda2n5yg

🏅 Zeus — 16%

Named After: Konrad Zuse Konrad Zuse was a German civil engineer, inventor and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world’s first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse has often been regarded as the inventor of the modern computer. Address to Vote for: io1qyqsyqcyrz7nhu6qp8ms92y8lg296qv9hxf2nsk76r8qdd

🏅 Slate — 15%

Named After: Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla was an engineer known for designing the alternating-current (AC) electric system, which is still the predominant electrical system used across the world today. He also created the “Tesla coil,” which is still used in radio technology. Address to Vote for: io1qyqsyqcy2m8395pww0y2mx9q7a6cmx0urupwms39zhfv4y

Announcing the Winner!

№1: 13y7f — 10,000 points №2: 1ze93— 4,000 points №3: 1kzay — 4,000 points №4: 1k9bh — 4,000 points №5: 1dn12— 4,000 points №6: zm8x — 2,000 points №7: 140ed— 2,000 points №8: 1prvu— 2,000 points №9: 1gtnd — 2,000 points №10: 1ncdj — 2,000 points 750 points for 90 randomly selected winners

*All rewards will be granted no later than 11/21/2018. Please feel free to check the full candidates pool here.

About IoTeX

IoTeX is the auto-scalable and privacy-centric blockchain platform for the Internet of Things (IoT). IoTeX’s global team is comprised of distinguished research scientists, top tier engineers, and experienced ecosystem builders. IoTeX is developing several in-house innovations to push the frontier of blockchain 3.0, including a blockchains-in-blockchain architecture for heterogeneous computing, Roll-DPoS consensus mechanism for high scalability, and lightweight privacy-preserving techniques. IoTeX is bringing autonomous device coordination to the masses by “connecting the physical world, block by block.”

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