Welcome to the February edition of Theta biweekly!

To take the Theta blockchain to the next level, the team thinks they must give the Theta community the tools to innovate and build upon their foundation. The community needs to govern the Theta blockchain with Guardian Nodes in addition to the Enterprise Validator Nodes, create new Theta use cases with full smart contract support, and have a robust block explorer with real-time analytics to monitor the blockchain. Altogether, these community-focused updates make up Theta vision for the next phase of its growth — Theta Mainnet 2.0, coming in March.

We love keeping track of the continued growth of the Theta network. At the time of writing, there are 665 Pre-Guardian Nodes / Edge Cachers and 10 Enterprise Validators. Theta Network AMA featuring Theta CEO Mitch Liu and Head of Strategy Wes Levitt was streamed live on THETA.tv yesterday, on February 12th. Some exciting highlights of AMA: Samsung is to join Binance, Blockchain and gumi Cryptos Capital in running an Enterprise Validator Node on Theta blockchain! Press release soon. There are several more Enterprise Validators on the way. The team will share an update soon alongside their public announcement of their long-term strategic investment in blockchain technology.

Theta’s focus for 2020 will be onboarding video platforms to build out the decentralized Theta Network. The integration with Bitmovio is live. You can earn TFuel and MoviBits by watching videos (available on Chrome browser and selected video only). Huge video platform name as a new partner to be announced soon to integrate Theta! Moreover, the team is working with Sony + Littlstar to add native Theta support into Playstations and collaborating with the NASA to bring you a livestream of rocket launches!

Last week, the Theta Network team published the last video from their exhibition at Samsung Developer Conference, discussing the vision for Theta integration in Samsung smart TVs and using Theta to create a global network of edge devices to share video and data. A must-see! Coming soon the team will have a more public exhibition at NANO OPT Media in Tokyo April.

Stay tuned for more updates soon, and the Theta Mainnet 2.0 in March!