At Horizen, we believe in transparency and value community involvement. Horizen broadcasts a monthly live stream on Youtube to keep the community update to date on project progression. As part of the live stream, the team also holds a short live Q&A session.

July Updates:

July was an incredibly exciting month for our project. All of our teams had major news this month, including two new integrations, welcoming a new team member, a massive leap in our FCAS rating, and reaching a major milestone for our sidechains project. We can’t wait to see is in store for our team and our community next month!

Core Development:

Horizen’s first sidechain node is now live on Devnet! This is an exciting milestone for our project and brings us one step closer to Alpha.

We welcomed a new member to the Dev Team, Oleg Alesandrov

ZEN 2.0.18: deprecation successful! New features include check block at height safety control for orphaned blocks and update RPC method ‘getblockfinalityindex’

Sphere by Horizen v.1.1.2b released. Included support parsing null data transactions, compatibility with ZEN 2.0.18, and more.

Horizen’s public repo ramping up

Announced new Horizen Developer Environment in the works

Business Development:

ZEN listed on BW and TOKOK

Coinbase Custody exploring support of ZEN pending regulatory approval

Marketing:

Regional:

China The Horizen ambassador network grew. It now includes Shanghai, Inner Mongolia, Chongqing, Beijing, Foshan, and Taiwan Team Horizen joined the ‘Investment Logic of Privacy Coins’ meetup Upcoming event ‘Smart China Expo’ in Chongqing

Latin America Levis hosted a joint meetup in Long Beach, CA with BitActive Angie spoke at Blockchain Summit LatAm, a major event in Mexico City! Angie hosted a webinar with formacionencriptomonedas.com for their students.

Central EU The team spoke at the AirConnect Radio meetup in La Calmette The team translated Horizen whitepapers in French

Eastern EU, RU, GE, & CIS Country Lead, Vano, attended Blockchain Incredibile Party to network with local blockchain enthusiasts Vano also did an interview with ForkLog about Horizen and Crypto in Georgia Vano is attending several conferences over the next couple of months



July Live Stream Slides