Biweekly update 25th September — 9th October

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Aion Token Swap Update Week #3:

Ledger

There is now official support for the AION Coin in Ledger Nano S. Coin holders can now benefit from the security of Ledger’s industry-leading hardware wallet during the token swap. To read more about the Ledger Aion support, read our blog here.

Exchanges

AION Token holders can exchange their AION Tokens to AION Coins on the following exchanges who are currently supporting the swap.

Changelly — https://bit.ly/2Qrjmg1

BITBOX — https://bit.ly/2NfTUs1

LAToken — https://bit.ly/2zPAlmG

Dragonex — https://bit.ly/2QuZV6h

The Aion Token swap is mandatory and will be ending at the end of November.

Social encounters

ClanPlay CEO Leonard Frankel AMA on Thursday, October 4th at 3pm EDT: ClanPlay chooses Aion platform to launch Good Game social gaming token to over 2 million platform users. CEO Leonard Frankel to do AMA on Aion Reddit Channel at 3pm EDT Oct 4th. Reddit discussion — A summary of the Q&A.

Aion (AION) — Community AMA — 04 Oct 2018.

Aion Mining Community Manager Jason Zaluski speaking at YYChain Blockchain event in Calgary.

Videos:

Matt Update for the Week — October 1st: From Seoul, South Korea Aion Foundation founder Matt Spoke shares updates regarding the token swap, current partnerships including those with Ledger and Blockdaemon, and a general overview of Aion’s global adoption efforts in Asia.

Introduction to Bitcoin: Matt Spoke discusses his introduction to Bitcoin.

Leaving Deloitte: Matt Spoke discusses leaving Deloitte.

Blockchain Futurist Conference — Anna Niemira interviews Matthew Spoke, Founder of AION Network: “Sobriety is coming back to the market.” Matthew Spoke, Founder of AION Network discusses with Anna Niemira of CryptoChicks the value of ethics, transparency, and hard work to achieve success in the innovative technology ecosystem.

Matt Spoke’s Address at the Engage Aion Toronto Event: Aion Foundation founder, Matt Spoke, speaks about the importance of maintaining and growing a vibrant ecosystem at the inaugural Engage Aion event in Toronto.

AION Network’s Matt Spoke: Entrepreneurs must challenge the status quo.

Elevate Tech Fest Keynote: The Future of Blockchain with Matthew Spoke, CEO of Aion Foundation: Aion Network Founder Matt Spoke delivers the keynote speech “The Future of Blockchain” at the Elevate Tech Fest’s Blockchain track event at TIFF Bell Lightbox on Wednesday, September 26th, 2018 in Toronto.

2018.10.01AIONマチューさん:

From Telegram group — @TheInterstellar:“Aion Virtual Machine (AVM) testnet is coming in December. The AVM will be Java-based instead of Solidity based. Next Aion Consensus spec coming in “next month or so”.

Finance

Token holders and the number of transactions dynamics (from Etherscan.io)

AION Coin now supported on Ledger Devices: the AION Coin is now supported on Ledger Nano S. AION Coin holders can benefit from the added security of holding their cryptographic private keys in Ledger’s industry-leading solutions.

Swap your AION Tokens with LATOKEN: LAToken — a rapidly growing cryptocurrency exchange, is supporting the Aion Token Swap. AION token holders can use LAToken’s infrastructure to facilitate the coin swap between their AION Tokens to AION Coins.

Swap your AION Tokens with DragonEx: DragonEx — a Singapore based cryptocurrency exchange, is supporting the AION Token Swap. AION Token holders can use DragonEx’s infrastructure to facilitate the coin swap between their AION Tokens to AION Coins.

KuCoin Will Support The Aion (AION) MainNet Token Swap.

Roadmap

Right on target.

Phase 1: Kilimanjaro 2018

Virtual Machine — FastVM with EVM Source Compatibility

Aion Interchain — Token Bridge and Interchain Communication

Aion Proof of Work — Equihash 210_9

Aion Core — Multi-Chain Framework, Wire Protocol (P2P), Tx Pool, Event Manager

Aion APIs — Java API, Web3 API Compatibility

Partnerships and team members

CLANPLAY RECEIVES A STRATEGIC INVESTMENT BY BICAMERAL VENTURES TOWARDS LAUNCHING ON THE AION BLOCKCHAIN: Popular social platform for gamers, ClanPlay, is announcing the launch of its Good Game (GG) Marketplace with upcoming tournaments for top games like Fortnite, on top of the Aion interoperable blockchain platform.

Bicameral Ventures Makes Strategic Investment in ClanPlay to Create Marketplace for Gamer Skills on The Aion Platform in Bicameral Ventures blog.

Aion Partners with Blockdaemon: Aion Network is partnering with Blockdaemon to provide the Aion community with easy access to a robust and scalable cloud based-node hosting infrastructure. If you want to deploy smart contracts, build dApps or tools or send AION Coins from your wallet, a Blockdaemon node will allow you a quick onramp and seamless onboarding process providing the fastest and easiest way to launch an Aion node. Blockdaemon provides a simple out of the box hosted node service to quickly spin up your infrastructure requirements. Together, Aion and Blockdaemon enables an easy, quick deployment of nodes on Aion public networks — both mainnet and testnet.

CANADIAN TECH LEADERS FORM COALITION ADVOCATING FOR NEW BLOCKCHAIN REGULATION: Conceived earlier this summer, the Blockchain Technology Coalition of Canada officially launched today during Elevate’s blockchain track. Spearheaded by Clearbanc co-founder and president Michele Romanow, Aion Network founder and CEO Matt Spoke, MIX Space CEO and Big Viking Games co-founder Albert Lai, and MIX Space executive chairman Bill Rayburn, the BTCC’s mandate contains several objectives. The organization hopes to raise awareness of developments in blockchain to people outside the industry; educate both consumers and government decision-makers on blockchain projects; and advocate for favourable regulation.

Matt Spoke listed as a Founding Director of BTCC.

Founders William Rayburn, Albert Lai, Michele Romanow, and Matt Spoke. Source: Mobilesyrup.com.

Twitter — Matthew Spoke‏ @MattSpoke: “Another cool project helping build out the @Aion_Network ecosystem. Thanks to the team at @nodesmith! Check them out at https://nodesmith.io/”

Telegram group:

@Interstellar: “Vodafone was added to MavenNet.com homepage & Jay said we will soon hear more about their enterprise partnership efforts”.

@AionJay (admin, Aion Community & Events Logistics Manager): “Please wait for an announcement. You guys are so quick, they are almost ready to let you guys know the plans for their enterprise efforts”.

Rumors

Aion has been mentioned in Forbes article Ethereum Cofounder Invests $6.5 Million In A Former Competitor: “MState’s first investment in New York-based Blockdaemon is designed to give its clients point-and-click deployment of applications powered by Bitcoin, Ethereum, Stellar, Aion, Corda, Hyperledger Fabric, Multichain and Quorum”.

Telegram group:

@XboxGuy: “Aion’s competitor, Ark, in comparison is only “36%” complete with their ArkVM. Whatever that means. Aion seems quite a bit ahead”.

What to expect soon:

@TheInterstellar:

“ Several milestones coming in the next few days:

. Ledger will announce support of native Aion coins anyday now.

. AMA with ClanPlay is this Thursday (App with 2 million users launching on Aion by end of Nov)

. Final TRS token distribution to public is Nov 9

. Token Swap ends in November 30

. 15 projects including Velocia.io, VeriTransfer.io, AFX logistics to announce launching on Aion before EOY 2018

. 2-way cross-chain bridges were demo’ed earlier last week at Engage Aion event & will soon be released.

. Mavennet to release info on validators & bridge operators by end of November

. Aion Virtual Machine (AVM) testnet coming this December.

. MaivenNet is busy evangelizing AFE (Aion for Enterprise) worldwide.

. Matt Spoke is now Director of Blockchain Tech Coalition of Canada & on the borad of directors of Ethereum Enterprise Alliance (new partnerships are a phone call away)”

Twitter:

Matthew Spoke‏ @MattSpoke: “Decentralized systems provide an opportunity to break the geographical barriers that exist within web2.0

Being in Asia reminds me that the networks that power our future need to be built with a global perspective. The winners will be those who effectively bridge that gap”

Matthew Spoke‏ @MattSpoke: “Awesome meeting with our friends at @LINE_Global and @bitbox_official at their office in #Seoul. Life is better with giant teddy bears”:

Matt Spoke, LINE Global and Bitbox team members in Seoul. Source: @MattSpoke.

Matthew Spoke‏ @MattSpoke: “Why does all the @Tronfoundation marketing material I see look like a dating profile for @justinsuntron? #decentralizedtinder?”

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AION Report: A solution to bring interoperability in a world of isolated systems in Good Audience blog.

The Future of Blockchain is Private by Tyler Jewell.

Why I Love AION — Mine AION For $1400 Per Month Profit? AION Token Swap — World Crypto Con Winners: video.

AION Network + Ledger Nano S | Token Swap | migracja: video.

AION Network :Solution and Roadmap + KPIs (part 2 of 2): video review.

Reddit discussion — Should AION reconsider DPoS?

Social media activity

Social media activity

The community is quite active discussing latest news, development, mining, token price and possible partnerships.

Twitter — Average number of retweets is 15–30 for one post. The number of followers increased by 6 thousand over the last week.

Facebook — 10–15 likes per publication. The number of subscribers increased by 21 thousand the week 25th September — 2nd October.

Reddit — threads with 2–10 comments. The longest treads has 35 comments — ClanPlay CEO Leonard Frankel AMA on Thursday, October 4th at 3pm EDT (2nd October, 2018). The number of subscribers increased by 22 thousand the week 25th September — 2nd October.

Reddit discussion — Subreddit subscribers: How does this subreddit have 72k members and only 490 online?Are there a lot of bots ? I see the same thing with AION telegram- where there are 51k members.

Information from Cryptocompare.com

Aion forum — latest discussions on mining, latest news, network statistics etc. Popular topics:

Discord — active discussions on the latest updates and mining.