Fantom General Update | May 03 2021
In the last two weeks the Fantom ecosystem has seen unprecedented growth. Here’s your overview.
Fantom network completes successful upgrade
The Go-Opera update went live on April 29, further improving the network’s performance and reliability.
- Time-to-finality has been optimized. On average, a transaction takes 1 second to be finalized.
- Improved decentralization: New nodes can join the network more easily as a) P2P synchronization has become 3 times faster, b) new nodes won’t need to process previous events.
- Event emission has also become more efficient, making the network more resilient during suboptimal conditions like slow propagation between nodes
👉 Check out all the improvements
HyperChain Capital invests $15m into Fantom
HyperChain Capital, a leading digital assets management company, has acquired an additional $15 million stake in the Fantom ecosystem through the purchase of FTM. HyperChain has invested $2.5 million into Fantom in 2018 and is running a validator node through its subsidiary Hyperblocks.
👉 HyperChain announces $15m investment into Fantom
Project launches on Fantom
SpiritSwap: A native DEX on Fantom offering trading, farming and staking, with more features planned.
ZooCoin: Ecosystem of fun blockchain projects, such as DEX charts, NFT marketplace and a wallet.
HyperJump: DeFi protocol of different projects, like a DEX.
BitGem: NFT farming protocol that lets you stake tokens to mint NFTs.
Fantom gives out grants to support devs #BuildOnOpera
SpiritSwap and SpookySwap received a grant from the Fantom Foundation to continue their work within the Fantom ecosystem. The grant follows SpiritSwap and SpookySwap achieving $165m and $30m in TVL while also being drivers of the tremendous growth in addresses and daily transactions in the last days.
HyperJump also received a grant and will use it for a community giveaway.
Finally, ZooCoin was given a grant for their development of a unified DeFi ecosystem.
Hello SpiritSwappers,
We have some great news we want to share.1) We have received a grant from @FantomFDN
2) We are in the process of having an audit done! This will support our credibility and should be completed sometime in mid May.
Thank you all for the support!$FTM
— SpiritSwap (@Spirit_Swap) April 29, 2021
Thank you @FantomFDN for the generous grant to help #BuildOnOpera with $BOO!
This will immensely help us achieve the features listed in the #SpookySwap roadmap as we continue to improve the first native $FTM DEXhttps://t.co/feNRO4Woag pic.twitter.com/H5HMqqA3GN
— SpookySwap (@SpookySwap) April 29, 2021
The wonderful folks at the @FantomFDN 👻 wanted to send us a grant 💵 as a gift!
To extend that kindness 🙏we will be using it towards a big #Fantom giveaway this week.
Follow @FantomFDN, @hyper_swap & @HyperJumpBSC to enter when it's ready!#Fantom $FTM
— HyperJump (@HyperJumpBSC) April 29, 2021
We are so excited to announce that ZooCoin got a Fantom Foundation grant to support the development of unified DeFi ecosystem powered by incredibly fast & feeless platform.
We are looking forward to work closely with Fantom Foundation in future!
— ZooCoin (@CoinZoo) May 2, 2021
Barek Sekandari named COO of Fantom Foundation
In his previous role as Chief Government Relations Officer, Barek played a leading role in securing government contracts in South Asia. Congrats Barek on your promotion to Chief Operating Officer!
👉 Barek Sekandari announced as COO
Fantom meeting with regional Pakistani government
Today, Fantom met with the KPK speaker Mushtaq Ahmed Ghani.
KPK is the second largest province in Pakistan; the meeting was to define the details of the digitalization of Provincial Assembly and other government departments using Fantom's blockchain.https://t.co/AdGyYfoarJ pic.twitter.com/jZ9lnkeNMU
— Fantom Foundation (@FantomFDN) April 26, 2021
Fantom in the media
Coindesk: $15m into Fantom investment by HyperChain
Yahoo Finance: Opera Network upgrade boost FTM price
Cointelegraph: FTM surges after network upgrade
Investing.com: 5 things that can make Fantom the ideal blockchain for all
Entrepreneur: Fantom partners with Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly
Fantom network stats
With these high-quality project launches and increasing social engagement on Twitter, we saw a tremendous growth in network activity.
Over 77,000 Fantom wallets have been created by users. That is a 70% increase month-over-month.
And users are active: 200,000+ daily transactions, meaning an average of 2,6 daily transactions per wallet.
- Arthur Hayes makes it into our update back-to-back, this time with a piece about the history of financial markets since 2008 and thoughts on their future development.
- Our friends at yearn.finance released their quarterly report for the first 3 months of 2021, with impressive TVL and revenue numbers.
- JPMorgan is preparing to offer an actively managed bitcoin fund.
Simone was interviewed by Fantom supporter Intro to DeFi, talking about the basics of Fantom, real-life use cases, UX, governance and new project launches on Fantom.
With so many projects coming to Fantom, it’s difficult to keep an overview. Here’s a great ecosystem infographic by our community member Alexej.
The ecosystem of Fantom involves key #DeFi players, governmental projects, institutions, cross-chain initiatives, #NFT market places & a lot of investors that believe in the future of $FTM.
Want to know more about #Fantom? Read here: https://t.co/D6QgSTMpaM#bitcoin #binance pic.twitter.com/sZLE6kNjzZ
— Alexej Romanovic (@AlexejRomanovic) April 25, 2021
