ICON: New team members from Kakao and SK Planet, launch of program for MBA at aSSIST Paradigm Follow Oct 9, 2018 · 3 min read

Biweekly update 25th September — 9th October

Development

Github metrics

Github page is being updated on a daily basis.

Social encounters

Posted a video with ICON members talk about the beginning, the present, and the vision of the ICON Project to celebrate One Year of the company.The full video can be found here.

UZI, Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency trader & analyst, Blockchain advocate, interviewer, took an exclusive interview with ICON Foundation. The full interview can be found here.

ICON Council Chair KJ Eee was just invited to be the President of the ICO Committee of the Korea Blockchain Association. This was stated in the article.

Posted a monthly report of ICON and Deblock activities over September. The full report can be found here.

The largest blockchain demo day in Korea is being hosted by Deblock and ICON with a panel of judges from LINE Unblock, ICONLOOP, Deblock, Hashed, and Lambda 256.

The ICON Foundation will be a title sponsor for San Francisco Blockchain Week taking place in San Francisco, California starting this coming Monday, October 8th. More information can be found here.

Finance

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

The number of token holders is decreasing over time.

Roadmap

Token Swap going on June 25th– September 25th

Wallet : done for both Android and iOS

Mainnet : done (tracker.icon.foundation)

Ledger : in development — will be ready in August 2018

Partnerships and team members

ICONLOOP has recruited Director YJ Chung for a Business Management Officer role and Woong Kim for a Product Management Officer role. The two come from existing platform companies Kakao and SK Planet. ICONLOOP aims to help expand ICON’s public blockchain ecosystem and partnerships through adding these new experts. More information can be found here.

ICON has been selected to run an official program for the Digital Strategy MBA course at aSSIST, (a Seoul School of Integrated Sciences & Technologies) which is a leading professional business school offering masters and Ph.D degrees in business administration. More information can be found here.

Rumors

No updates

Social media activity