- Blockchain Integration — What You Should Know about ICON by DappReview

Last month, we are excited to announce that DappReview has officially integrated ICON blockchain, to showcase the ICON dapps and provide trusted data analytics to users. This partnership will benefit each other in many ways. DappReview will help dapps on ICON get more exposure to the larger audience.

Roadmap

Development roadmap plans for 2020

Hotfix, LFT 2.0, BTP and IISS improvements

Hotfix Update

ICON will be releasing a new hotfix update during the second week of April. In this update, the team will implement a Block Production Time Limit function to the network which will resolve network failures. This function will support setting a maximum execution time for a transaction to be added in a block. After this, transactions running within 15 seconds will be included in a block on a first-come, first-served basis.

Additionally, the SHA256 Hash function will be added to the ICON Network, and some codes will be added to improve the network performance. Lastly, minor bugs related to Fee 2.0 will be resolved.

LFT 2.0

In the coming days, Foundation will be releasing the white paper for their new consensus algorithm. This is a major achievement for the ICON ecosystem and the adoption of our technology in Korea and abroad. In tandem with that release, developers will also be sharing an audit report verifying the algorithm’s performance improvements vs. the market alternatives. KAIST, one of the leading universities in South Korea, completed the audit. Please stay tuned for more details!

BTP 1.0

The core team is currently preparing a draft IIP (ICON Improvement Proposal) for BTP 1.0. Recall, BTP 1.0 is the interchain technology allowing the transfer of value and information between private loopchains and public chain. Through this, the team will release the overall structure of the BTP technology to the community. They will also be including a demonstration video.

IISS 3.0

The team successfully released the IISS 3.0 revision proposal and are currently collecting feedback from the community. Note, this upgrade is still being researched and is subject to slight modifications. Outside of the design, the core team continues to define the scope of development and the respective timing of each improvement. As you know, our goal is to move towards a stronger contribution-oriented DAO with improved voter behavior.

Read the full description of updates on medium.

Finance

The number of transactions dynamics (information from tracker.icon.foundation)

ICON Tracker

ICON Foundation has approved grand for Atomic Wallet Proposal

Exodus has added ICX to their wallet

Changelly exchange has listed ICX

Partnerships and team members

ICON Hyperconnect, P-Rep and ICON accelerator, is partnering with BlockArrow Capital, a digital assets management fund, based in Chicago, Illinois.

After several discussions, both parties concluded that their goals of actively adding real value to the ICON ecosystem via increased global presence and growth were in clear alignment.

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Other

STATE OF THE DAPPS IN Q1 2020

P-REP News

Our team is proud to present ICON ROADMAP paper!

The Iconist wants to become an even bigger piece of the ICON Republic.

G3 Partners, the Seoul-based marketing and PR company that operates this humble publication, is proud to announce that they have launched a peer node on the ICON public chain.

Today weBloc team is bringing great news — weBloc Token (WOK) has got listed on Coin Market Cap! Finally!

ICON Transparency Report — block42

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