Collaboration will be focused on advancing inter-chain DeFi in a bid to foster mass adoption of blockchain-based solutions.

Conflux Network and Waves are committing to bridge their ecosystems to advance the creation of a powerful blockchain-agnostic structure focused on inter-chain DeFi, the embodiment of technological freedom for blockchain-based finance.

Waves Technologies is an all-encompassing ecosystem of innovative blockchain solutions and products, with a special focus on inter-chain decentralized finances (InDeFi). Waves Technologies leverages three powerful blockchain protocols, Waves, Neutrino and Gravity, providing a developer-friendly infrastructure for creating cutting-edge products with substantial potential for mass adoption.

As part of their agreement, Waves and Conflux will join forces to promote blockchain adoption on a global scale, including technology advancements in the area of blockchain interoperability and marketing efforts. …

Summarizing Conflux Network’s latest progress and activities.

Technical Development

• Upgraded Conflux-rust to v1.0.3, added two RPC methods, improved stability.
• Released JS-SDK v1.1.2, support for new RPC, added more documentation.

Ecosystem

• Added 15 new ERC20 tokens in ShuttleFlow.
• Supported to change withdraw fee of cross-chain tokens at runtime.
• Fixed bugs in MatchFlow.

Global Office

• Our founder Fan Long was interviewed by Decrypt for an exclusive interview to discuss Conflux’s beginnings, mainnet launch, compliance and regulation in China, scaling Conflux as a Layer 2 solution and being a member of Open DeFi.

Check out the interview here.

• Fan Long sat down with Charlie Shrem for his podcast ‘Untold Stories’ to discuss what it’s like running a blockchain company in China as well as government regulation in the crypto space. …

An Open Source Tool for Connecting Conflux Network and Gaming

Written by Conflux Network’s Research Engineer Aaron Lu

Blockchain and gaming is a rapidly evolving space. The days of Cryptokitties in 2017 have evolved into the creation of metaverses or battle-royale games where assets are tracked on a blockchain’s immutable ledger with non-fungible tokens (NFTs). While the blockchain gaming space has seen an explosion of growth with over $2.1 million in trading volume (as of November 17, 2020), it is only a small sliver of the gaming industry that is valued at $155 billion and includes established giants such as League of Legends and Minecraft.

Bringing blockchain to the rest of the gaming industry is a monumental task that faces two major obstacles — speed and complexity. Speed, specifically blockchain transaction speed, is vital for integrating with modern games. Users should be able to trade and purchase assets quickly without needing to wait minutes for transactions to confirm. Complexity is another roadblock for connecting in-game assets with NFTs. To integrate blockchain-based assets, a developer must first set up all the necessary components — user key management solutions, a deployed smart contract, create all of the necessary functions for interacting with the blockchain, and create a marketplace for exchanging goods. …

Today, we are happy to announce the formation of the Conflux DAO. 👏

To achieve decentralized governance and healthier development of the Conflux Network, we believe that the formation of the DAO is critical not only for the future of the network but also for the benefit of every staking member in the community.

Along with the community, the Conflux Foundation will continue to explore the governance methods of the DAO. Conflux is prepared for its first vote on governance which includes but is not limited to improving user experience, enhancing network efficiency, and modulating CFX circulation. …

Written by Conflux Network’s DeFi Analyst Sami Tannir

Congestion and gas fees on layer-1 blockchains are steadily rising and hitting new heights as decentralized finance (DeFi) continues to grow into the alternative financial layer of the global economy. As the fees related to gas continue to break all-time highs, the initial target market of DeFi users — those who cannot afford traditional financial infrastructure — are now seeing themselves priced-out of DeFi because of transaction fees eating into their profits. Ethereum Average Gas Price is currently averaging $2.50, up from $0.67 one year ago. This is an increase of 239.1% …

Summarizing Conflux Network’s latest progress and activities.

Technical Development

• Released JS-SDK version 1.0, supports Internal contract and websocket.
• Fixed Conflux-rust sponsor whitelist removal bug.

Ecosystem

• Supported CFX-USDT asset pair on MoonDEX.
• Developed admin management tool for sponsor faucet.

Global Office

• Open DeFi, an initiative led by Conflux Network has announced the launch of a Western arm and onboarding of eight new member firms. New members include decentralized finance notables Aave, Balancer, BlockScience, dYdX, Ocean Protocol, Outlier Ventures, Quantstamp and SuperRare, with the organization now spanning 16 firms in total.
• Conflux has announced the eight grant recipients in the first wave of the Conflux Ecosystem Grants Program. Across the eight applications, Conflux will be issuing close to $300k in Conflux tokens to help fund the development of the new infrastructure and DApps coming to Conflux. …

Conflux Network Phase III — Tethys is officially launched.

Born in 1969, the Internet has been diverse due to the participation of the public and it has re-constructed our world. For the first time, everyone has the right to equally communicate with the world.

Before Google appeared, Web 1.0 already existed. As the first-generation network, it is static and one-way. It solves people’s needs for searching information and aggregation. Portals and yellow pages are the most common examples of Web 1.0.

However, one-way human-computer communication could not meet people’s needs, so in 2004 Web 2.0 was introduced. The original intention of Web 2.0 was to include more diverse elements on the Internet, and give the general public their own voice. Web 2.0, the Read/Write Network, is composed of social media, blogs, and online communities. …

Congratulations to our grantees Bitquery, Decentology, DeepSEA (CertiK), Fullet, Mixpay, Simpli DeFi and Superfluid!

Today, we are excited to share the first wave of grants awarded through the Conflux Ecosystem Grants Program! First announced in July, our grants program is focused on building the decentralized future through DApps and infrastructure on our fast, secure, and permissionless next-generation blockchain.

Over the past few months, we received many grants applications with some very innovative DApp ideas and projects with applications coming in from over 12 countries across six continents!

After many rounds of review, we are proud to announce the eight grant recipients in the first wave of the Conflux Ecosystem Grants Program. Across the eight applications, Conflux will be issuing close to $300k in Conflux tokens to help fund the development of the new infrastructure and DApps coming to Conflux. …