This month, the beta release of the live Zap platform became accessible to the public through the Zap Admin ( admin.zap.org ), meaning it is operating on the main ethereum blockchain.

Here are some bonding stats as of today, February 28th:

Number of Dots Issued:

BinanceSignal: 21,106 Dots

Poloniex: 7,602 Dots

YahooQuotes: 4,227 Dots

IEXQuotes: 2,001 Dots

TrendSignals: 1,350 Dots

Fomopoints: 1,000 Dots

BitStamp: 810 Dots

Number of Zap bonded:

BinanceSignal: 328,272.171 Zap

Poloniex: 342,204.03 Zap

YahooQuotes: 118,947.78 Zap

IEXQuotes: 2,001 Zap

TrendSignals: 13.50 Zap

Fomopoints: 12,005 Zap

BitStamp: 8,954.55 Zap

In total, there are currently 38,096 Dots issues across all oracles. The total number of Zap bonded across all oracles amounts to 812,389.03 Zap.

For our written guide or for a video tutorial put together by one of our Zap community members on how to access the Zap platform with the Zap admin, use these links below:

Zap community members (i.e., tokenholders) now have a working, functional user interface. The development team’s focus is increasingly shifting to partnerships and adoption and away from straight development, although we expect revising and perfecting and maintaining our code and documentation (which you can see at tech.zap.org) and rolling out new tools will remain the top priority and nothing will be lost there.

Remember that not too long ago, the idea of a curation market with oracles using bonding curves was only a concept. Zap has made it a reality.

Now you have limitless opportunities to develop markets!

Zap continues to partner with Blocktech to help spread education and awareness for smart contract and oracle technology. Blocktech created Blocktech Lab, which partners with colleges and universities, globally, to make blockchain education accessible to any student that has a desire to learn more about it. Zap is able to provide technical and industry expertise to these students through these entities. Here’s some of the work they have done:

Blockathon

Zap was the main sponsor of the first ever Blockathon event which was hosted by The French University in Armenia’s UFAR Blockchain Research Hub (which is officially partnered with Blocktech). France sent representatives from its embassy in Armenia to the event. The multi-day event had participants discuss trends in blockchain technologies such as smart contract applications within the legal, financial, crisis management, and healthcare industries. Ultimately, teams competed by showcasing their specific smart contract use cases.

The winning team presented an auction platform using smart contracts between buyers and sellers. The contracts would hold the buyer’s payment in escrow until oracles informed the smart contracts that the buyer received the item.

Startup Boost Weekend

In Yerevan, students came together for three days to celebrate entrepreneurship and were encouraged to make changes in their communities and around the world. One aspect of this event is a competition where students conceptualize and present their ideas to a panel of judges.

Peter Mikkelsen, the director of business development at Zap who works with Blocktech to promote smart contract and oracle technology, mentored one of these teams, named Hush. Hush represented a completely anonymous purchase and delivery system for sensitive products using pre-existing frameworks and smart contracts. Peter’s guidance and the team’s hard work landed them in 2nd place!

YSU Workshop

This week, a workshop was held at Yerevan State University where Peter introduced students to the concept of smart contracts, oracles, and the Zap platform. The students, who represented a broad field of study be it technical, legal, and even lingual, were then divided into groups to begin discussions for development projects. Finally, Zap blockchain developer Max Inciong skyped into the workshop and spoke to these students about oracle and smart contract development both generally and on Zap’s decentralized platform.

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