As part of #Fantom's ongoing research series led by the technical development team, this update goes in depth around experimentation using #PebbleDB as an alternative for #LevelDB 💽 In production, there was a significant reduction in I/O bandwidth usage (~90%) experienced ⬇️ https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1565016914350440449?s=20&t=aPaOdNqweiLsOfOSai5HnQ

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Fantom Ecosystem Spotlight: Swim #Swim facilitates native stablecoin swaps backed by sophisticated, multi-asset liquidity pools. By definition, Swim is a multi-chain Automated Market Maker (AMM) for native assets, designed to make bridging as easy as possible. Swim currently supports native stablecoin swaps across eight chains. With an aim to be a solution which reduces the barriers faced by users when performing cross-chain transactions and offers an easy-to-use, cost-efficient, native asset bridge. "Our decision to integrate #Fantom was driven by substantial community demand while also aligning with our focus on building for the future. On top of pioneering use cases in DeFi, NFT activity on Fantom is particularly interesting as it’s been a bottom-up movement with users and devs accelerating organic growth in the space and driving network effects. Fantom represents one of Swim’s most sought-after destinations for native stablecoin swaps. " https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1564618409119059979?s=20&t=ZtPu9A6BIPd9CwXczK2gsQ

Fantom General Update: August 29, 2022 The past 2 weeks at Fantom! 🔹 #Gitcoin confirms integration of #Fantom to launch in October. Gitcoin uses quadratic voting to democratically allocate funding to projects 🔹 GDA Capital announces funding for developers building exciting projects in the ecosystem 🔹 Bubblemaps brings transparent visualizations of blockchain data to Fantom tokens and NFT projects 🔹 Cask Protocol has rolled out NFT subscription based payments to Fantom 🔹 Vertical Blocks Episode Two featuring Chief Research Officer Prof. Bernhard Scholz is available on YouTube and Spotify. And much more! 👇 https://fantom.foundation/blog/fantom-general-update-august-29-2022/ ↪️ RT + share: https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1564237751721119747?s=20&t=rbwpL1FSH_Fq08mAawZBow

⚠️ Voting remains open for Lowering Validator/Staking Rewards This governance proposal would adjust staking rewards to closely reflect market-rate & increase emission duration. Current progress sits at 44% with 67% total participation required. 🗳 Vote here: https://beta.fwallet.fantom.network/governance/proposal/0x17 🗣 Original Announcement: https://t.me/fantomfoundation/1436

▶️ Just released: Vertical Blocks Ep. 2 featuring Chief Research Officer Professor Bernhard Scholz In this episode, Prof. Scholz details his background, the team's ongoing research efforts, and the continuous evolution toward the Fantom Virtual Machine #FVM 👁 Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/7a1aogmNXt8 Or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/50L27oDLpawSJklRXuRJxt?si=a28d1266a53f47e5

#Gitcoin is coming to #Fantom in October 2022 ↪️ RT + share : https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1561735316574294016?s=20&t=eE0T_PlBwGbeMfXaDygKzA

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Fantom Ecosystem Spotlight: Solace In the history of commerce over the millennia, insurance has played a vital role in mitigating loss, stimulating commercial activity, and promoting sustainable economic growth. Therefore, the growth of insurance services in #DeFi signals maturation in the space. But as in TradFi, not all providers are created equal. The DeFi insurance protocol #Solace, which integrated #Fantom in June 2022, distinguishes itself with its unique, scalable offerings accompanied by transparent risk data, risk models, and pricing. Solace is a DeFi insurance protocol that covers users against smart contract risk. Solace products are designed to build user trust, maximize capital efficiency, and offer complete transparency into the protocol. "The DeFi ecosystem on Fantom is robust. Constant innovation and a wide array of tools enhance the user experience. We share with Fantom a commitment to growth and a vision of making DeFi accessible to all ‒ Solace and Fantom are a perfect match." https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1559951182541488130?s=20&t=4BXy-HqgVPcFGy8P0mQTSg

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Fantom General Update: August 15, 2022 The past 2 weeks at Fantom! 🔹 A new governance proposal goes live to adjust staking rewards, voting is open now! More details can be found in the forum post. 🔹 #CypherCapital announces strategic funding for gaming, #DeFi and other #Web3 projects and builders on Fantom 🔹 Node service provider #Blockdaemon adds Fantom support 🔹 Fantom will attend the #Chainlink SmartCon 2022 this year in NYC. CEO Michael Kong will speak alongside 100+ Web3 founders, developers and researchers. 🔹 Vertical Blocks Episode One featuring CEO Michael Kong and Director of BD Sam Harcourt is available on YouTube and Spotify now! 🔹 PaintSwap, SpiritSwap, Beethoven X among others release their newest protocol updates and they are MASSIVE — read more inside! 👇 https://fantom.foundation/blog/fantom-general-update-august-15-2022/ ↪️ RT + share: https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1559195315709906945?s=20&t=QansYRYFF3-Ck6lm2OE0Mw

🎙 In 30 minutes, CEO Michael Kong and #Binance will go live for an AMA! ⏰ 4pm EDT / 1pm PDT / 8pm UTC 👉 Click here to join 👈 https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1558140038919118852?s=20&t=4E3nzPyZo-1GkXNxsarpkA

Rapid transactions AND low fees? ✅ It's true that #adoption begins with accessibility. Crypto users & builders experience a fast, low fee platform for any use-case. Learn what keeps #Fantom transactions fast, while gas price + energy use stay low 😎 ↪️ RT + share: https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1557773891946401794?s=20&t=3PbvlTOQKW5qsoeJme1kJw

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Fantom Ecosystem Spotlight: WigoSwap For a while now, builders across the Fantom ecosystem have called for a renewed focus on the elements of user experience that will support the seamless onboarding of new users. Enter WigoSwap. WigoSwap enables you to trade your tokens efficiently, earn passive income, and have fun in DeFi. With an array of products, including gamified DeFi applications embedded in an intuitive UI, WigoSwap is laying the groundwork for the next wave of crypto adoption. "From the outset, our aim has been to build an easy & enjoyable-to-use DeFi protocol that leverages the capabilities of the Fantom network and lowers the barriers to entry that limit new users. One of the significant advantages of the Fantom ecosystem is the engagement of an active and demanding community that is receptive to innovation. Along with this, Fantom's speed, scalability, stability, & very low fees make it an easy choice." https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1557400160057147393?s=20&t=kUW2OOzYHmITgYKDtGu67A

▶️ The Fantom Foundation is excited to release a new podcast: Vertical Blocks 🎥 This podcast serves to provide the community a place to learn about the technology developments taking place, hear perspectives from the team & also give the opportunity to the broader Web3 ecosystem to learn more about what is happening on #Fantom! In this episode hosted by Fantom's Head of Marketing Juan Angel, viewers hear from Fantom CEO Michael Kong and Director of Business Development Sam Harcourt 👁 Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfXrjrSsCj4 or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5gnr39bn12x8Rnql0Y5KQN?si=ef2d51caf11b48a0

📢 New governance proposal: 🔹Lowering Validator/Staking Rewards🔹 Fantom's dApp community and users adopting the network have shown strong growth. This proposal seeks to adjust staking rewards to resemble the market-rate & increase emission run-rate. 💸 Fees paid to validators: Jun 2021: ~102,928 FTM Jun 2022: ~1,834,672 FTM (18x increase) • Max Supply (minus burned FTM) = ~3,167,199,793 • Rewards per Day = 534,247 • Circulating Supply = ~2,770,317,593 (3,167,199,793 - 2,770,317,593) / (534,247x365) = ~2.03 years left 💪 Considering this current trend, the #Fantom network is in a position of strength to provide a longer emission rate, enabling more time to take into consideration community feedback, internal analysis and macroeconomic conditions for the structuring of a post-emissions network. 🗣 For further information, future-facing considerations for validators & stakers supporting the vote, and a market comparison, head to: https://forum.fantom.network/t/reducing-validator-rewards/86 🗳 Voting is now OPEN at: https://beta.fwallet.fantom.network/governance/proposal/0x17

We are excited to announce the Fantom integration of node service provider Blockdaemon! Blockdaemon provides total "node stack" support for the Fantom network, a true validator-as-a-service solution. With #Blockdaemon, Fantom users have access to: 🔹Institutional-grade node infrastructure 🔹99.9% uptime 🔹End-to-end node support This partnership underscores Fantom’s commitment to push decentralization across its rapidly growing network. To support builders on the #Fantom network, Blockdaemon offers 25% off dedicated nodes for the rest of 2022 -- use code BUIDL25. https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1555242900447002626?s=20&t=0p7skHNt09W5BU2DqS9i9g

Fantom General Update: August 1, 2022 The past 2 weeks at Fantom! 🔹 Governance votes 'Yes' on #EcosystemSupportVault. Through this vote, the community will have the ability to fund projects and creators via governance proposals. More details in the forum post. 🔹 Smart contract security firm Dedaub will deploy #Watchdog + contract library security tools on Fantom. This investment brings more security, more safeguards for projects and developers deploying. 🔹 Llamapay arrives on Fantom. With #Llamapay, companies, DAOs and protocols can automate transactions by streaming them to an address. The recipient can withdraw the funds in real-time. 🔹 Fantom CMO Simone Pomposi speaks about #DeFi at Blockchain Expo Vietnam. 🔹 Exodus Wallet adds full Fantom mainnet support. and more! 👇 https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1554149212090155013?s=20&t=j4tmvz5mhKo6Y484waGW9A

3/ Next he created Soufflé, a logic programming language short for Systematic, Ontological, Undiscovered Fact Finding Logic Engine. One of the major challenges in logic programming is performance and scalability, sound familiar? Try checking out the docs https://t.co/pCKMy07qSG

Fantom Ecosystem Spotlight: The Granary 🌾 The Granary is a user-driven borrowing and lending liquidity market with a wide range of assets. The protocol notes their specialty in two areas: Risk Management and Community Focus. A stand-out trait is the LTV (Loan-to-Value) ratios which are higher than most. With higher capital efficiency, users can borrow a more significant percentage of their collateral to farm, trade, etc. 👨‍🌾 "We believe #DeFi is the path toward making self-banking a possibility. We hope DeFi protocols start to have more of a user focus, as that is supposed to be the point. We've been able to grow very quickly on #Fantom, and users have been very supportive of our mission to create a low-fee, high-efficiency money market. The Fantom community has been and continues to be the most supportive network we have deployed on." https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1552688361978187780?s=20&t=7nfgq0KRbp3CP5yVF_fOPQ

#Fantom is proud to announce partnership with leading smart contract security firm #Dedaub 🛠 This partnership brings well-known security deployments of sophisticated analysis tools, including #Watchdog, to all builders. Watchdog doesn’t stop at the higher-level solidity code itself, but analyzes the underlying virtual machine instructions. Combine this with automated static analysis & continuous auditing and you’ve got a recipe for confident builders 💪 Read the full partnership details: https://fantom.foundation/blog/smart-contract-security-tool-watchdog-will-deploy-on-fantom/ RT + share 🔄 : https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1551962390559948800?s=20&t=oI5-cOXMZfTeZgmdM4TK1A

Ecosystem Spotlight: Zerion Zerion is a Web3 smart wallet and investing tool that enables anyone with a phone to manage their DeFi and NFT portfolios easily. 👀 Our relentless focus on user-centered design, combined with a technology stack that aggregates across every major wallet, network, and decentralized exchange, gives users a single point of entry to Web3 for managing all of their digital assets, including NFTs. 📍📈 https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1547618618652762112 https://fantom.foundation/blog/fantom-ecosystem-spotlight-zerion/

We've all head the term Web3. But what does Web3 mean, and how will Fantom help build it?🎯 Web3 refers to the next iteration of the internet, one that uses blockchain technology to change how we exchange and control information online. The idea behind Web3 is that the internet can be made peer-to-peer through decentralization. This vision is tied to a number of technologies that Fantom is building in its mission to grow a high-performance, public, and decentralized user network. 🛠🌎 https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1547255540497145857 https://fantom.foundation/blog/fantom-and-the-web3-paradigm/

🎙 In 15 minutes, CEO Michael Kong and #Chainlink will go live to chat about the recent Keepers + VRF v2 integration and its implications on the innovative #Fantom ecosystem! 🗓 TODAY ⏰ 5pm EDT / 2pm PDT / 9pm UTC 📍 Twitter Spaces 👉 Click here to join 👈

🎙 Join the discussion with #Fantom's CEO Michael Kong along with the #StaderLabs team around the recent ecosystem support governance proposal + building regardless of the market 🏗 🗓 Tuesday, July 12 ⏰ 11:00am EDT / 3:00pm UTC 📍 Twitter Spaces 👉 Click here to set your reminder 👈

🔹 #fWallet performance update 🔹 ✅ Mobile optimizations implemented ✅ Fully responsive web + mobile interface ✅ Minor bugs fixed We welcome you to submit any issues encountered & constructive feedback 👂 🔗 https://beta.fwallet.fantom.network/ https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1545454177765261315?s=20&t=KnB_74MfQYtNbscQ0TgdKw

Fantom Ecosystem Spotlight: ChunkNFT Chunks are 64 handcrafted NFTs representing lands in a bigger world. Each world is made of 64x64x64 voxels carefully placed to create a unique kingdom with diverse biomes. Releasing soon is the RPG update which is a game inside the world that will have players fighting monsters, levelling up with found gear and casting spells. "I don’t see [the metaverse] being a thing in the next 1-2 years. Before moving to a Metaverse, I believe we will see many games come and go until builders figure out a working formula to build a true metaverse that players want to immerse themselves in. It needs to be fun for people to want to spend time there, and there need to be easy ways to onboard people onto crypto. Better UX is also needed to make the experience seamless so that crypto is the back-end and not experienced as the front-end, as it often is now." https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1545079196430499840?s=20&t=6W8sagSuQqUvP2jvN7221w

With the recent sublimation of many CeFi products, its time to aim the spotlight on #DeFi 🔍 Where is DeFi going? What are the biggest adoption challenges? We asked some of the builders at #SpiritSwap, #GeistFinance, #SpookySwap, #ByteMasons & more to share their thoughts on the current state of decentralized finance and the building going on in the Fantom DeFi ecosystem, plus which Fantom projects they are keeping an eye on 👀 👇 https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1544714142694744065?s=20&t=GEhXEFzLGuwBiRv7upesFw

📢 A new governance proposal + discussion has been created: 🔹Ecosystem Support Vault 🔹 As part of Fantom’s continuous evolution toward decentralization, this proposal empowers the #Fantom community of validators and stakers through an on-chain Ecosystem Support Vault. 💰 This Ecosystem Support Vault will provide an alternative avenue via community driven decisions for the funding of projects, ideas, and creations on the Fantom Opera network. All proposals regarding use of ecosystem funds should be submitted via the governance portal through the fWallet. 🔥 How will it be funded? One third of the existing 30% burn rate from transaction fees would be diverted to the Ecosystem Support Vault. These diverted funds would be controlled by the validators/stakers via on-chain governance and proposals. 🗣 For further information and parameters around how making a proposal would work, requirements to pass and other important details, head to the forum + participate in discussion: https://forum.fantom.network/t/ecosystem-support-vault/69 🗳 Vote on the newest proposal around ecosystem support: https://beta.fwallet.fantom.network/governance/proposal/0x16

Fantom General Update: July 4, 2022 The past 2 weeks at Fantom! 🎆 🔹 Chainlink Keepers and VRF are live! Developers are now able to securely automate smart contracts with Chainlink's keeper functionality and also create fair, random outcomes using verifiable randomness 🔹 Qi Dao releases their new liquidation engine to ensure the $MAI peg, additional risk management updates and an upgraded frontend. Check out the blog post for all V2 updates 🔹The Piece will bring fractionalized NFTs to Fantom, introducing the potential for a broader holder base for blue-chip NFTs and more! 👇 https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1543991952919650314?s=20&t=KC32x-oozZSlCi6ZLIn7Cw

✅ The rpc.ftm.tools public RPC service is now restored ✅ https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1542899574561546241?s=20&t=WCmSAfLRijHG2P8zDr-9sw

⚠️ Attention ⚠️ http://rpc.ftm.tools is having issues at the moment and should not be used. If you're using that RPC, please change it to the following: https://rpc.ankr.com/fantom

Fantom Ecosystem Spotlight: Slothtopia #Slothtopia is a 3D #metaverse game focused on social interaction while bringing together communities of artists and collectors. Most recently, Slothtopia has completed their first in-game mint, built a 3D world, implemented beautiful architecture, released a fully functional and interoperable avatar collection, and finally, a fully customizable metaverse space in their own “luxury living” collection. "The metaverse called to me because of the ability to innovate with it. So much space needs to be filled in the transition to Web3, and I saw the metaverse as the logical step to find and fill these needs. The community was so different [...] I gravitated to Fantom as the network I wanted to create on. We work just as hard to lift each other as we do to lift ourselves up. WAGMI is not a meme in the Fantom NFT community…it is a war cry" https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1542539731782754304?s=20&t=AyEd_20yIolr29xrUHHl5g

#Chainlink #Keepers and #VRF are live on Fantom! 🎉 #Fantom developers can now utilize VRF for provably random outcomes within their dApps & securely and cost-efficiently automate any smart contract function. Chainlink Keepers, benefits to developers 🤖 1️⃣ Decentralized Execution — Chainlink Keepers provide reliable, trust-minimized automation with no single point of failure, mitigating risks around manual processes and centralized servers. 2️⃣ Increased Efficiency — Projects that use Chainlink Keepers can reduce time spent on DevOps, minimize operational overhead, and streamline development workflows. 3️⃣ Enhanced Security — Tamper-proof, Sybil-resistant Chainlink Keepers sign on-chain transactions themselves, enabling automated smart contract execution without exposing private keys. 4️⃣ Reduced Costs — Chainlink Keepers perform efficient off-chain computation for smart contracts, allowing developers to build feature-rich dApps at lower costs. Chainlink VRF, benefits 🎲 1️⃣ Cost-Efficient Randomness Requests — Chainlink VRF includes a subscription management app that lets smart contract applications fund multiple requests for random values using a single token balance managed by the subscription owner. 2️⃣ Variable Callback Gas Limit — Chainlink VRF allows users to adjust the callback gas limit to a 2.5M gas maximum. This enhancement enables smart contracts to execute more sophisticated smart contract logic in the same transaction that delivers verifiable randomness, making the execution of critical tasks involving randomness reliable even during times of network congestion. 3️⃣ Multiple Random Outputs in a Single Request — Chainlink VRF leverages a VRF Coordinator contract that lets users request multiple random numbers in a single transaction. In addition, the fulfillment of randomness is also delivered with a single transaction, lowering costs and reducing response latency. 4️⃣ Subscription Delegation Between Multiple Addresses — Chainlink VRF allows up to 100 smart contract addresses to fund their randomness requests from a single subscription balance managed by the subscription owner. This upgrade saves on gas costs and simplifies funds management for developer teams who operate multiple smart contracts needing verifiable randomness. “We’re excited to support the Fantom ecosystem with the native integration of Chainlink Keepers and Chainlink VRF. With access to a secure source of automation and randomness, Fantom developers can now develop more advanced hybrid smart contract applications that further drive innovation in the Web3 space.”‒ Sergey Nazarov, Chainlink Co-founder. Read the full blog post: https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1542139133929426944?s=20&t=q0rXaiKO1tXThheMEQOdxA

🎙 Come by for a discussion with #Fantom's Head of Marketing Juan Angel joined by the #QiDao Protocol team! QiDao will be introducing information on their V2 including new type of vaults and collateral. 🗓 TODAY, June 28 ⏰ 2:00pm EDT / 6:00pm (18:00) UTC 📍 Twitter Spaces 👉 Click here to set your reminder 👈

🎙 Listen in to the discussion with #Fantom CEO Michael Kong and #Blockpour! Blockpour brings real-time decentralised token data to Fantom for you to view, compare, and track. Happening TODAY at 10:00am EDT / 2pm UTC! 🐦 Listen in via #TwitterSpaces 👉 Click here to set your reminder 👈

📽 Watch the entire #CoinDesk #Consensus2022 Foundations: #Fantom recap! ▶️ https://www.coindesk.com/video/recent-videos/consensus-2022-foundations-fantom/ 🔁 RT + share: https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1541476270726340609?s=20&t=0Ymj0QpXEjIMjjJ-n9g1Hg

#Fantom continues to attract investment as billionaire investor & founder of HyperChain Capital, Stelian Balta notes: "Fantom has the strongest technology stack out there. They can process multiple transactions simultaneously, dramatically increasing network throughput. I am extremely confident in their technology roadmap with further improvements to consensus and the launch of the Fantom Virtual Machine." 🤝 Thank you for your continued support! https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2022-06-24/billionaire-investor-stelian-balta-founder-of-hyperchain-capital-triples-down-on-fantom-with-an-additional-15-million 🔁 RT+share: https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1540367986476843008?s=20&t=dJ7kI2ylVxgjjjoiAawuDw

🎙 Join #Fantom CEO Michael Kong and #Solace as they chat about the insurance landscape + shaping the future of DeFi! https://twitter.com/SolaceFi/status/1538979396211572739?s=20&t=jJEsoqaF3C67nVK1Wh0CmQ Happening TODAY at 11:00am EDT! 🐦 Listen in via #TwitterSpaces 👉 Click here to set your reminder! 👈

Fantom Ecosystem Spotlight: Orkan by Strudel DAO Orkan self-describes, in short, as taking Bitcoin, locking it in a vault, and distributing tokens that represent pieces of ownership of that vault. Orkan by Strudel DAO offers users high-yield DeFi opportunities that are backed by wrapped Bitcoin and Bitcoin derivatives with meta-governance baked in via their token model. Next up on the roadmap is to offer a stablecoin backed by BTC reserves. "Technologically speaking it's [Fantom] quite accommodating and handles L1 traffic quite well. We liked the distinct lack of VC funding and commitment of strong developers. Originally we developed a completely decentralized trustless Bitcoin bridge from the Bitcoin blockchain to the Ethereum ecosystem. Yield farms, though great, tend to have the downside of being rather gas-intensive which can make it less inclusive of smaller participants. We started down the road of moving to a different L1 to accommodate that and went with the chain we thought had the better financial and technical foundations ‒ Fantom Opera" Learn more about Orkan and what the protocol brings to Fantom 👇 https://twitter.com/FantomFDN/status/1539654800966664195?s=20&t=Rz8kOWTAWkcmIUJidhBvhQ