By Michael Chen

Hey Fantomians! I’m incredibly excited to share that we’ll be moving to a bi-weekly format for the recaps, instead of a huge monthly write up! With the recent pace in our technical- and business development, we felt that it was justified to round the activities up more often.

The past two weeks have been incredibly eventful, we’ve listed on a multitude of top tier exchanges, started deploying a part of our Korean strategy, published multiple technical articles such as the ‘Behind the Scenes with Sfxdx’ series, and we’ve been growing our identity as a consensus-as-a-service platform.

Let’s Talk All Things Tech

The past few weeks have been incredible for Fantom’s technical development, we introduced a multitude of technical articles such as the eleventh technical update, and the new ‘Behind the scenes with Sfxdx’ series.

We also introduced a new paper, ‘StakeDag: Stake-based Consensus For Scalable Trustless Systems’, which was well received within the developer community and had received multiple mentions from prominent newsletters and reputable researchers.

With all of that research and text in mind, the Github hasn’t been standing still either. We upgraded the bridge between Ethereum and Binance Chain to support swaps in both ways, we introduced an aBFT consensus mechanism which will co-exist with our Lachesis Protocol in the form of go-txflow, and we’ve managed to get the compatibility between our consensus mechanism and Cosmos SDK working.

Exchanges

In the first week of July we listed on OKEx, Bittrex International, and OKEx Korea. This was incredibly exciting for us, as our partnerships consultant, Bariq Sekandari, had been working on these listings for quite a while. He expedited the process, and managed to get all 3 listings for Fantom without the need for us to pay any listing fees. We believe that these 3 exchanges have given a significant footing in Europe and Asia, and we’re looking forward to building a stronger presence upon the excitement that these exchange listings have brought to the community.

We were also incredibly honored to list on Coinfinit and Coinzest in the second week of July. Both of the exchanges named above included a KRW (Korean Won) trading pair for the FTM token, which has allowed us to push our presence into the Korean community slowly but surely.

Bringing ecosystem expansion to FTM holders.

At Fantom we always strive to excite our community in new ways, by integrating with interesting projects that mostly focus on a specific region for example, or experimenting with new ideas that other projects may afraid to venture towards.

First of all, we have listed on the Bitberry wallet which allows Korean citizens to send and receive FTM through their phone number. Bitberry is operated by RootOne, which is a subsidiary of Dunamu (UPbit’s mother company), and it has proven to be one of the favorite wallets among community members in Korea.

We also had the pleasure to work together with xFutures, a new family member in the OKEx ecosystem, which will allow people to participate in their edgewa.re style lockdrop using FTM tokens. We believe that this was a significant sign of confidence from people outside of our community that Fantom is heading into the right direction, and we are incredibly happy to keep bringing opportunities like this to the Fantom community.