Welcome to the fresh biweekly report on æternity! Making an overview of projects’ recent progress updates and news, it becomes apparent that the team, foundation, operational entities, and grantees are working hard. After several years of rapid growth, there are currently hundreds of public blockchains worldwide. Although the industry has now entered into a period of rising competition among these blockchains, æternity remains one of the leading projects! During the last two weeks, ample effort was put on the development side.

First and foremost, a brand new website was introduced to deliver a more comfortable, more structured resource hub for both old-timers and newcomers. They are streamlining the site so that developers, miners, node operators, tech, and community builders will be able to get involved with æternity faster. Don’t forget to check it out — we loved it! Furthermore, progress was made on Elixir SDK development: a new version of the Elixir SDK 2 was released, new docker container version 0.5.3 was tagged, documentation, examples, and tests were updated. Also, Sophia compiler v4.2.0 was launched with FATE code generator improvements and bug fixes. Retrospectively, Æternity Tech and Ecosystem Newsletter for December 2019 was published. You should definitely check it out to catch up with all the past news, associated with the protocol, developer tools, æmbassador program, and a December Special — Advent of Code!

A lot of events appeared on the public life of æternity. æmbassadors Manel Ruiz & Nelson Melina attended ParisP2P to present æternity to the French crypto community. They talked about functional programming and building on æblockchain. Manel Ruiz was also speaking of æblockchain, state channels, a naming system, fintech, interoperability, and more at European Blockchain Convention in Barcelona. Indian æmbassador Ashish Chawla held one more great meetup in Hyderabad city, where he introduced the project and explained the basics of blockchain technology. Ashish also presented æventures Starfleet startups incubator. Apart from numerous community meetups and workshops, the æteam attended the most important event of January — the 50th World Economic Forum! The biggest takeaway for æternity was the blockchain discussion-highlight of amazing minds & ideas, harnessing new platforms and philosophies to change the world for the better.

Moreover, in our last update, we mentioned the first blockchain elections in Africa that were smoothly and successfully held on æternity. Watch the video and learn how the University Of Jos in Nigeria has selected a President, a Secretary-General, and a Welfare officer using æ’s voting aepp.

Besides, lots of articles and videos featuring æternity were posted. ShapeShift listed æternity among the most innovative smart contract projects that will dominate the blockchain tech space in 2020. The first Mood Video from amazing æternity Universe One finally appeared on projects’ YouTube channel. Another video was made during AIBC Summit, while Liliana Carrillo, Eduardo Javier Munoz, Kenneth Garofalo, and Lewis William shared their insights on how public services and organizations could be improved via blockchain. Watch and learn how æ’s governance æpp is used to bring more transparency to voting in Uruguay!

By the way, the æcommunity is prone to increase — there is a slight growth in the number of subscribers in social networks and forum participants. Join æworld, You won’t regret it!