In this blog series we would like to keep you regularly updated about our lastest contributions to the ICON ecosystem. So let’s have a look what happened the last couple of weeks.

P-Rep voting

On Monday, 26th August the first step towards real decentralization was taken by starting the ICON P-Rep election (find out more on: https://icon.community/iconsensus/). As described in our application form we love the idea of how blockchain technology will change the world for the better and empower those who contribute and participate. The ICONSENUS journey perfectly supports this idea. Therefore, we’re fascinated about ICON and are willing to fully contribute to its ecosystem.

We’re delighted how the first week of voting evolved for block42. At the moment we’re residing on place 14 with slightly more than 1.6 million votes. (check out current rankings here).

Thank you for every single vote! Your are amazing!

This was just the first week of voting — three more are up to come. Don’t forget that every P-Rep in the top 22 needs at least 1.6 million votes in order that the election succeeds. So distribute your votes wisely. If you need support at your voting, we’ve published a infographic describing each single step.

Tech

Our dev team also accomplished amazing things in the last couple of weeks. First of all Paul Plessing started to publish his blog series about comparing different DLT frameworks with each other. He implemented the same use case (watch out all Game Of Thrones fans!) on every framework. In this week ICON was described and tested in more detail. Check out his blog post!

Another project was initiated this week. Our dev team started the implementation of an ICON-based voting dApp. P-Reps will be able to collect the sentiment of ICONists to certain topics and consider that in their voting decisions. We’ll provide you with more details in the upcoming week.

Among several other P-Rep candidates we managed it to setup our Citizen Node — we struggled with some weird bugs but finally we’re up and running as you can see here:

ICON Europe

This week we officially announced our ICON Europe initiative. Our goal is to give all European ICONists a strong voice in the community. Together with our founding member POS Bakerz we were able to onboard six additional European P-Rep candidates. Read more about ICON Europe in our blog post or check out its official website.

Blockchain Consulting

We’re keen to spread the word about blockchain and especially ICON in the business world. At the beginning of November one member of block42’s team will take part on a business trip to Seoul and Tokio together with more than 30 representatives of Austrian’s economy. Our plan is to introduce Austrian businesses to ICON. We’ve already reached out to the ICON Foundation for organizing a meeting at their headquarters.

We will keep you up-to-date about our efforts in growing the ICON ecosystem!