ICON Newsletter - February 2023
Hello, ICON Community!
What’s Trending
👉 A BTP milestones list was published with the January Development Update. Offering a closer look into Parameta’s BTP development and integrations progress.
👉 ICON announced a fresh Unchained newsletter sponsorship. With over 12K subscribers, the Unchained daily newsletter offers a no-hype resource for all things crypto.
👉 Omm recovery proposal get voted in with a 98,97% approval rate. The recent Omm hack saw a 1.9M USD loss in collateral, an amount which this recovery proposal aims to cover.
👉 Studio Mirai & Friends Twitter Spaces reach Episode 5: Stories from the ICON community.
👉 In person ICON meet-ups are popping up in Colombia and the Netherlands. Connecting Web3 enthusiasts, developers and investors as Web3 Partners.
👉 Submissions to the ICON Hyperbuild Hackathon have officially opened and will remain so until the 16th of March.
👉 The Korean Financial Services Commission (FSC) introduced a set of policy tasks to overhaul regulatory system on the issuance and distribution of security tokens in order to allow security token offerings within the regulatory scope of FSCMA.
“The FSC’s recently published guidelines around security tokens (STOs) could prove to be a big step in the right direction. Although it pertains to private blockchains in the short term, it will vitalize new innovation in our space that may eventually spill over to the public blockchains.“
ICON Development Update - January 2023
In January, the ICON team continued making progress on BTP and ICON 2.0. Work on the xCall service integration into IBC has commenced. We’d like to share our BTP 2.0 Milestones with our community. What stands out is that, as the BTP 2.0 protocol is being built, the team is also developing two key integrations: BSC and ETH 2.0.
In the coming month, we aim to publish a milestone board, similar to the BTP milestones, for the IBC integrations work.
Ecosystem Highlights
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BTP Milestones Released 🔗
New in-depth articles from community builders 🔗
Ecosystem Insights Ep. 1 with Fez and David 🔗
Funding cycle 24 of the Decentralized CPS Grant system underway 🔗
ICON hits 20K+ followers on CoinMarketCap Community 🔗
Highlight from the Community
Builders on Twitter
FRĀMD has partnered with web design firm Design House - @FramdNFT
ICON and HAVAH are Interchain Infra Partners - @HAVAHofficial
Balanced kicks off an imporant governance vote on POL - @BalancedDAO
Sudoblock and Drogon development leveraging each other - @helloiconworld
Pengwyn BINC project announces field of operations - @Pengwyn_BINC
GangstaVerseDAO has been updated with new CPS proposals - @Gangstaverse
FRĀMD reveals Thaenia card #20 - @FramdNFT
Season 2 kicks off for 16 Bit Fight Club with a drop-quiz - @16bitfightclub
Everstake introduces a weekly $ICX data dashboard - @vadym_everstake
Ben Konrath on the FYEO auditting process - @helloiconworld
Ultimate Pengwyn auction kicks off on Craft Network - @Pengwyn_BINC
GangstaVerse releasing pre-alpha version of Gangwars - @GangstaVerse
The Balanced Q1 roadmap update is now live - @BalancedDAO
Picks from YouTube
Tune in to the first episode of Inside ICON, with Min and Fez!
👉 Once a month, Min will sit down with Fez or David and chat about what goes on inside ICON. Next episode will drop towards the end of February.
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