Fantom General Update | July 12 2021
Your Fantom update for the last two weeks!
#OneMillionWallets hackathon winners announced
We are happy to announce the winners of the Fantom hackathon, in collaboration with Covalent and SpiritSwap. The contest was a great success with awesome entries from all of the participants. Submissions ranged from a slick multichain token and NFT wallet, a mind-bending 3D wallet and a detailed SpiritSwap analytics dashboard
- 3,500+ participants
- 200+ wallets created by non-developers
- 20+ stellar submissions
Two new governance proposals are up for voting
FTM stakers, it’s time to vote!
Both proposals have the goal of further decentralizing the network
- Decrease the maximum multiplier (currently 15x) of self stake for a validator node
- Introduce the maximum self stake limit per node to encourage decentralization
🗳️ Go vote at pwawallet.fantom.network
Ankr API now available for Fantom developers
Developing on Fantom has just gotten easier! Developers no longer need to run read-only nodes themselves thanks to Ankr’s API services. Requests per day determine the costs, so developers only pay for consumed bandwidth.
Chainlink Price Feeds live on Fantom testnet
With Chainlink Price Feeds, Fantom developers can build and test a wide variety of DeFi applications with accurate reference data, running natively on Fantom for high speed and low costs. This integration was made possible by the Chainlink Community Grant Program, which awarded a grant to block42 to perform the development work. Block42 is actively working to launch Chainlink Price Feeds on Opera mainnet in the near future.
👉 More about Chainlink Price Feeds on Fantom
Fantom AMA with FTM Alerts
Michael Kong (CEO Fantom Foundation), Sam Harcourt (Director of Asia Operations) and John Morris (Head of US Operations) sat down with Austin from FTM Alerts to talk about current tech development, business development activities and the Fantom ecosystem.
Fantom at the DeFi Virtual Summit by SCB 10X
Michael Kong, CEO of the Fantom Foundation will speak alongside other industry leaders at the 2nd DeFi Virtual Summit taking place on July 22-23.
👉 Register for free at https://www.zipeventapp.com/e/REDeFiNETOMORROW2021
Binance adds FTM to its flexible savings program
If you hold FTM on Binance, you can now earn interest on it (1% APY). Or you know, you can stake your FTM to secure the network and earn 3.5% to 11% APR.
Coin98 wallet adds mainnet support for FTM and Fantom-native tokens
Coin98 wallet now supports mainnet $FTM!
Download it now for iOS and Android at https://t.co/FZpPQHUAd6 https://t.co/NGilAb6cZE
— Fantom Foundation (@FantomFDN) July 1, 2021
Hello @FantomFDN lovers, we now support $FTM & FRC20 tokens on both the Mobile App and the Extension.
This is just the very first wave, more is coming. Can you reveal your favorite projects to us? $SPIRIT $BOO $ICE $LQDR $WAKA $BASED $FINS $AURORA $ELK $EST pic.twitter.com/uUCij8xYN0
— Coin98 Wallet (@coin98_wallet) July 8, 2021
Fantom’s news feed on crypto.com
After the listing of FTM, users can now also keep up with Fantom news and announcements right on crypto.com.
Fantom network stats
The Fantom network can celebrate more than 200,000 unique addresses!
That’s a 4,100% growth YTD
There are now more than 200,000 unique addresses on Fantom!
More and more users are joining the network and actively using DeFi dapps like @Spirit_Swap, @SpookySwap, @Reaper_Farm, @CoinZoo and many others.
Why?
🔹 1 second transactions
🔹 near-zero fees
🔹 easy onboarding pic.twitter.com/VhqqPQgrv6— Fantom Foundation (@FantomFDN) June 30, 2021
- Andre released some cool prototypes.
- Blockworks podcast with Anil Lulla from Delphi Digital about how to get started in DeFi.
- Web3 & NFT report for Q2 by Messari.
🎉 Fantom cannot only celebrate 200,000+ unique addresses (yay!), but also 100,000 followers on Twitter (double yay!)
We surpassed 100,000 followers on Twitter!
Thank you for all the support so far 🙏 pic.twitter.com/WL7pwnLOvb
— Fantom Foundation (@FantomFDN) July 1, 2021
🌎 The Fantom community around the world
Thanks to our community member @KasperNeist, we discovered that people from 178 countries worldwide use Fantom daily!
Here are the 10 countries with the most traffic:
🇺🇸 USA
🇬🇧 UK
🇯🇵 Japan
🇨🇦 Canada
🇩🇪 Germany
🇫🇷 France
🇸🇬 Singapore
🇦🇺 Australia
🇭🇰 Hong Kong
🇦🇪 UAE pic.twitter.com/h0qFbaqe3t— Fantom Foundation (@FantomFDN) July 1, 2021