Mainnet Launch + Release Candidate (RC)

ICON Mainnet will officially launch on January 24, 2018, one week before 2018 ICON Annual Summit. And today, we have launched our release candidate (RC) version of the ICON Testnet based on various loopchain implementation to generate the genesis block after additional data showing of stability and security of the network. As mentioned, the ICON team is focused on delivering exceptional results. We believe that by publishing RC and timing the Mainnet Launch right before our Annual Summit would again bring exceptional results.

We would like to remind our community that the capability of loopchain, the core engine of ICON, has been validated and proven through number of business implementation projects. With loopchain, our team was able to implement various blockchain services, including CHAIN-ID (authentication), crypto asset exchange, and information sharing system. Our technology is fully enterprise-ready with proven commercial applications.

Our RC represents that all functional implementation and basic tests for actual launch are completed. This also means that our Testnet, which has been operating since early December, has been successfully deployed on the global infrastructure and that we are conducting our final testings before the Mainnet launch.

ICON team is testing following features on the latest RC version:

- ICX transfer and transaction fee processing

- Public Treasury

- Attributes and scoring for IISS system

- ICX distribution under IISS

- Testing IISS under modified attributes

- Run stress test and verify various bug condition (~20 nodes)

- Chrome Extension Wallet

We would like to once again thank our community members for their support.

Thank you,

Hyperconnect the world

ICON Team

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