Biweekly update 9th october — 23rd October

Development

GitHub metrics

Developer activity (from Coinlib.io)

AION Token Swap Week 6 Update: The Aion Token Swap is currently on it’s 6th week.

All AION Tokens that were deposited on Binance were automatically swapped to AION Coins. The deadline for depositing AION Tokens onto Binance was October 15th. Binance support has announced that trading has now resumed and all users are able to deposit/withdraw AION Coins.

There is now official support for the AION Token swap to the AION Coin in Coinomi. Coin holders can now benefit from the security of Coinomi’s industry leading desktop and mobile wallet during the token swap. Read more about the Coinomi token swap process here.

AION Token holders can exchange their AION Tokens to AION Coins on the following exchanges who are currently supporting the swap.

AION Coin can now be purchased or sold on the following exchanges.

The Aion Token swap is mandatory and will be ending at the end of November.

Compile Solidity Smart Contract for AION on a non Ubuntu OS in Coinmonks blog.

AION GraphQL — A Query Layer for AION Blockchain.

Social encounters

Aion Engage Toronto: Last month Aion community came together in the Toronto area for the Aion Engage Toronto event. The event brought community members together to explore and connect with other members of our growing ecosystem.

Presentations were given by Matt Spoke (Aion’s Founder) as well a several key members of the business and technical team. Video.

Aion ecosystem partners at Aion Engage event. Source: Aion Network Reddit.

October 11, 2018: Meeting with the Oath Protocol team in Shanghai:

October, 18th: Aion Co-Founder & Mavennet CEO Kesem Frank speaking about Aion bidirectional bridges at the Blockchain Solutions World in Barcelona.

Sam Pajot-Phipps (Strategy at Aion) at Web 3 Summit with Lisk team (22 October, 2018, Berlin):

Singularity University (Canada): Introducing Matt Spoke as new Blockchain Faculty Member.

A Request for Decentralized Infrastructure by Mike Mason: This article is a snapshot of problems Aion is looking to co-create, invest and partner on.

Videos:

Cultural Understanding: Matt Spoke and Jin Tu discuss how they came to be co-founders at Aion.

The Intelligence Age: Matt Spoke and Jin Tu discuss the realities of emerging technologies and the value of Aion.

Problems & Solutions:

“When you design generic versions (of decentralized technologies) that can apply to anything, you’ve broadened the scope of the problem (and potential solutions), way larger than Bitcoin.”

– Matt Spoke, Aion Founder.

Finance

Token holders and the number of transactions dynamics (from Etherscan.io)

Swap your AION Tokens with Binance: Binance — a global cryptocurrency exchange, is supporting the Aion Token Swap. AION Tokens deposited on Binance will be automatically swapped to AION Coins. On October 15th, users will no longer be able to deposit or withdraw AION Tokens onto Binance. An announcement will be made by Binance when the swap is complete and users will be able to deposit/withdraw AION Coins.

How to swap Aion tokens: Coinomi has put together documentation on how to swap AION tokens to AION mainnet Coin for the Aion Network.

AION Coin Listing on BCEX: BCEX, a global cryptocurrency exchange, has listed the AION Coin. Boasting over 150m in daily traded volume, BCEX is a top exchange and is a trusted venue to buy and sell AION Coins. BCEX provides real-time, secure, multi-asset trading to consistently growing user base.

Reddit — Aion being delisted from Koinex due to migration issues and bad tech support.

Roadmap

Right on target.

Phase 1: Kilimanjaro 2018

Virtual Machine — FastVM with EVM Source Compatibility

Aion Interchain — Token Bridge and Interchain Communication

Aion Proof of Work — Equihash 210_9

Aion Core — Multi-Chain Framework, Wire Protocol (P2P), Tx Pool, Event Manager

Aion APIs — Java API, Web3 API Compatibility

“Aion Virtual Machine (AVM) testnet is coming in December

The AVM will be Java-based instead of Solidity based

Next Aion Consensus spec coming in “next month or so”.

Partnerships and team members

WinMiner is launching it’s token sale on the Aion Network.

Video — WinMiner Co-Founder & CEO Presenting at the BSW Conference: Ariel Yarnitsky presenting at the Blockchain Solutions World conference.

CryptoCurve announces partnership with and Aion: Integration of Aion into the CryptoCurve ecosystem is currently completed and will be made available with the latest update to the Curve Wallet scheduled for late October. “Interoperability is in our DNA as a company,” explained CryptoCurve Founder and CEO Joshua Halferty. “Our longstanding partnership with Wanchain has helped us build our applications to be natively interoperable, and this new integration with Aion and ICON will open a lot of new doors for us in terms of scaling and expanding our ecosystem for our users.”

Aion Network co-Founder Kesem Frank participating in University of Toronto’s (UofT) start-up accelerator Creative Destruction Lab blockchain program.

Interview with Alex Mcdougall, Bicameral Ventures — Irish Tech News.

Bicameral Ventures speaking at Blockchain Solutions World conference(Barcelona, Spain).

Velocia — Uberizing Transportation: New chat with Velocia’s COO Greg Boutin on applying the Aion Network blockchain to their transportation project.

Twitter — Aion teamed up with Barbados Ministry of Education to share Blockchain Tech in Barbados.

Rumors

Top 10 Altcoin Picks for Mid-Long Term on Cryptoadvocate.net: AION listed as an honorable mention for top 10 altcoins for mid-long term.

How To Swap AION ERC20 To AION Coin On Changelly: Explained — a brief guide by Changelly on how to swap your AION ERC20 tokens to Aion Coin without any fees.

Twitter — CNBC Ran NeuNer: Our traders from Miami calling AION in the next couple of weeks.

CNBC Ran NeuNer @cryptomanran joins Advisory Board of ClanPlayApp that will launch on Aion in November.

Aion Bridge Stats — Made by a community member.

AION Network | Metcalfe’s law = Network Effect — video.

Telegram group:

@TheInterstellar (group member):

Upcoming milestones & events in Q4 2018:

Ledger adds native Aion: Done

Kesem & Bicameral team speaking at Barcelona Oct 17; Vegas CoinAgenda Oct 23–25 & FinextCon Oct 25

Matt & Jinius at events & partnerships in Japan, S.Korea & visiting Aion team China

Aion presents at Ethereum Devcon 4 Oct 30: : Mike Mason (Ecosystem Manager) and Sam Pajot-Phipps (Strategy), Kimberly Luu (Dev Evangelist), Yao Sun (Director of Engineering).

Matt on Heavybit panel, SanFrancisco Nov 6

Final public TRS distribution: Nov 9

Token Swap period ends: Nov 30

15 projects launching on Aion by EOY 2018:

Fifth-9.com tweets Dapp launching in Oct

WinMiner.com (pilot w/ public security firm w/ 100s millions users)

Clan-Play.com GG (2M users) launching late Nov

Velocia.io (Pilot program with 10k taxis)

VeriTransfer.io

NorthernBlock.ca AFX logistics

Centrys.io THÉO project & SPiRO for enterprise.

Risepic.com

2-way cross-chain bridges were demo’ed at Engage Aion event & will soon be released

MavenNet team to release info on validators & bridge operators by end of Nov

Java-based Aion Virtual Machine (AVM) testnet coming this Dec & to Mainnet in Jan

Next Aion Consensus specs coming in “next month or so” according to Matt’s Oct 5 update”

@AionJay (Community manager, admin):

“Vote to get Aion Founder Matt Spoke in the running for Coindesk’s “Most Influential People in Blockchain 2018.” His name was not considered in the choices, you have to add it in the other field.”

Twitter — Watson’s Reports‏ @WatsonsReports: Aion number 2 on that list regarding positive sentiment:

Social media activity

Social media activity

The community is quite active discussing latest news, development, mining, token price and possible partnerships.

Twitter — Average number of retweets is 15–30 for one post. The number of followers has increased by 5 thousand over the last week.

Facebook — 10–15 likes per publication.

Reddit — threads with 2–10 comments. The longest treads has 20 comments — Aion ecosystem partners at Aion Engage event (16th October, 2018).

Reddit discussion — How does this sub have 72,000 subscribers?

Information from Cryptocompare.com

The graph above shows the dynamics of changes in the number of Aion Reddit subscribers, Twitter followers and Facebook likes. The information is taken from Coingecko.com.

Aion forum — discussions on mining, news, network statistics etc.

Popular topics:

Top:

Discord — active discussions on the latest updates and mining.

Social media activity