ICON is an interoperability layer that helps teams and developers build successful cross-chain apps.
🔀 Use one messaging standard to connect all chains!
Operate cross-chain seamlessly, build momentum and gain reputation 🔄
ICON's Cross-Chain Framework simplifies cross-chain development with the easy-to-use ICON General Message Passing and modular connections to secure bridging protocols. $ICX
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📣 The May ICON Roadmap Update has been published!
BTP Litepaper included 🤩
In May, the ICON team continued making progress on ICON 2.0, BTP, and ICON Bridge. The update shares what we worked on in May, and what our core focuses will be for June 👇
📣 The June ICON Roadmap Update has been published!
Significant progress was made on the architectural design of BTP and a necessary shift of development focus is mentioned!
Read more about June, and what our core focuses will be for July 👇
ICON Foundation turns ONE today! What price will $icx be on our next birthday? Guess correctly and we’ll send you a prize next yr. You have the next 24hrs to put your answer below. GO!
#happybirthday
Incredibly rare 'Super Blue Blood Moon' to appear for the first time in 150 years on Jan. 31, 2018, just in time for our very first ICON Annual Summit: The Genesis -
#whatacoincidence
#whatdoesthismean
✔️
#ICON
#MainNet
Version 3.0 has been released today! ICON’s SCORE (Smart Contract on Reliable Environment), the implementation environment of ICON smart contracts, is now fully operational. 📢More details on Medium:
Introducing Crypto’s First Interoperability Incentive Program Led by ICON 🌐
💸 $200,000,000 💸
💥 "2022 is the year that ICON is going ALL-IN to bring adoption for Blockchain Transmission Protocol (BTP)" -
@minterchain
Read the full announcement here 👇
Who's excited for ICON 2.0? And the next 10x improvement?
Alphanet is now live... let's get it $ICX
Find out more details here, and come join the best community in the space:
The long-awaited ICON 2.0 migration is nearing completion, the
@iceblock_chain
continues to progress, & our first BTP integration target to the
@MoonriverNW
parachain,
@KusamaNetwork
, is now complete.
✔️ ICON 2.0 mainnet upgrade in final stages as nodes and exchanges prepare for the hard fork
✔️ BTP ecosystem grows as
@BinanceChain
and
@NEARProtocol
integration nears completion
✔️ Details about
@iceblock_chain
launch soon to be shared
1/ We are very excited to announce the creation of the Blockchain Transmission Protocol (BTP) Working Group, a team of ICON core members along with a growing set of 3rd party developer groups.
We are excited to announce our strategic partnership and successful integration with
@BandProtocol
! Learn more about the integration and what it means for the
#ICONProject
in this short blog post
The Algorand Foundation announces an Algorand Foundation Bridges SupaGrant to integrate Algorand into ICON's BTP Interoperability Ecosystem.
🌐 This BTP integration sees Algorand join the growing web of interoperable connections within the BTP Working Group!
We're excited to share
@helloiconworld
has received a Bridges SupaGrant to integrate
@Algorand
into ICON's BTP Interoperability Ecosystem. This BTP integration sees Algorand join the growing web of interoperable connections within the BTP Working Group. 👉
A new EVM compatible blockchain called "ICE" is coming to ICON. ICE will become the application hub for the
#ICONProject
w/ its own native token.
What does this mean for the $ICX community? Keep reading 👇
👏👏 Thanks to all the P-Reps who have successfully set up their ICON 2.0 nodes, we have completed Stage 2 of the network migration process and can now proceed with the final stage, Stage 3, ahead of schedule.
$ICX governing a billion-dollar layer one ecosystem is just the start
What happens when $ICX is governing and securing billions in cross-chain liquidity 🤔
#AggregatorChain
#ICONProject
#BTP
We just released the article on our strategy of the public blockchain ecosystem expansion. Along with
#ICONSENSUS
, we will enhance corporate blockchain alliance and global accelerator program, as well as release a DEX and DID.
#ICON
has been selected to run an official program for the Digital Strategy
#MBA
course at
#aSSIST
, (a Seoul School of Integrated Sciences & Technologies)
“Doing it right means take your time, don’t rush just to raise money, take your time in building something out, talking to your contributors, talking to your team - building a team.” Story of how ICON started, grew up, and what we learned over 1 year.
Korean Government announces “Digital New Deal 2.0” and pledges to invest 2.3 billion USD in growing “hyperconnected new industries” (“초연결 신산업”)
#Blockchain
#ICONProject
$ICX
Hyperconnect with ICON 🌎
We are very excited to announce a new audit fund focused on securing ICON's growing ecosystem. 💸
Projects launching on $ICX now have access to a ~$1mm fund dedicated to security audits for their respective projects. 🛠️
Let's BUILD 🤝
Two weeks since completing block import testing ahead of ICON 2.0 mainnet launch, ICON developers are now in the process of preparing for the hard fork itself. The first part of that was upgrading the Sejong testnet, which despite some delays and bug fixes, went smoothly overall.
📢As of today,
#ICX
will be available on
@cryptocom
's pioneering wallet and card app. Now, ICONists can actually spend/use ICX in normal everyday commerce furthering our goal of mainstream adoption!
"Passion to Hyperconnect" - Here we highlight some of our past achievements and provide a sneak preview of our new development roadmap, including the Mainnet launch.
#ICON
#Hyperconnecttheworld
#thegenesis
1/ Today, we are excited to announce our next significant technical advancement - ICON 2.0: BATANG, a new blockchain software architecture based on Go $ICX
#ICON
#yellowpaper
containing main operational policies is now open to the public. This is a turning point for ICON, as the Yellow Paper outlines our path towards full decentralization. ✔️More details on Medium
2018 has come to an end and 2019 is upon us! As the ICON Team has strived for blockchain mass adoption over the past year, in the 4th quarter our motto was 'Mature for a Greater Leap.' Thank you all for the past year.
ICON has announced its sponsorship of Deblock Japan on March 7th! Deblock Japan will operate a Tokyo Launchpad of ICX Station with partners both inside and outside of Japan.
#ICON
$ICX
We are very excited to announce that starting September 12th, you can purchase and trade ICX, the native token for the ICON network, on Kraken, a leading U.S. based cryptocurrency exchange!
Trading pairs include ICX/USD, ICX/EUR, ICX/XBT, and ICX/ETH!
We’re proud to announce that ICX Station is partnering with Deblock to manage the Seoul Launchpad of ICX Station.
We look forward to the expansion of ICX Station as we add launchpads around the globe, and collaborating to hyper-accelerate ICON together.
ICON has released its own token specifications for 3rd-party market players interested in developing and commercializing blockchain-based assets and securities.
#IRC16
Today we are excited to officially launch the CPS, our community-owned grant funding system. 💸
Submit your ideas to grow the $ICX ecosystem here and, if approved, receive funding for your initiatives! 🦄
#ICONProject
🚀
The official token swap for the ERC20 ICX Token has closed at the final swap rate of approximately 96% on October 25 at 13:00 (KST). For more details, please check the Medium:
The ICON Team is proud to announce that we have signed a strategic partnership with LayerX. This MOU aims to vitalize the ICON developer community in Japan as well as ensure the integrity of the ICON Network through a code audit alliance.
Can I get a ❤️ and RT?
Huge milestone for South Korea. You can tell the importance of this news w so much news coverage.
TY to everyone who contributed in steering and shaping crypto regulation in South Korea. You bet the ICON team played a role.
#ICONFoundation
is proud to announce that
#ICON
Developers Portal is officially launched to foster our DApp developers community! More details on Medium:
ICON-SK Planet MOU
ICON signed MOU with SKPlanet, which has the largest point mileage service OKcashbag and syrup in Korea.
Proceeding with technical and business cooperation to discover new market opportunities
We will be celebrating the launch of the ICON 2.0 mainnet via livestream hosted by
@fezbox
,
@bwhli
, and
@iconographerICX
.
It will take place on Nov 3rd 11:30 pm KST (note the change in time).
Prizes will be given out throughout the event, so don't miss it!
#ICONProject
$ICX
February was busy... but nothing like what's to come in the next few months ✅
Check out the latest roadmap update here🛠️ 👀
Stay tuned for details soon 🌕
ICON and
@ThunderToken
will be at “The Next Generation Blockchain” event hosted by Kenetic Capital and Blockchain at Berkeley on June 21st. We look forward to seeing you!
The ICON Team has been updating the development roadmap on the last day of every month. At the end of February, we would like to share what we plan to do, based on our recent achievements focusing on the key components of the roadmap.
#ICON
$ICX
#roadmap
Earlier today, we announced ICON’s entry into the Polkadot Ecosystem with this blog post:
Let's take another look at the details in a freezing cold thread 🧊❄️
🔃 Retweet your favorite parts!
We want to make it clear that the ICON Foundation is not under investigation by the Korean National Tax Service authorities.
Please read the rest of our Official Response on Medium:
Friendly Reminder: ICON 2.0 BATANG is coming.
✅ Java Virtual Machine
✅ Blockchain Transmission Protocol
✅ Enhanced economics
✅ Stable & scalable core written in Golang
The migration is ongoing - all block data up to decentralization is complete. We never stop working.
Data migration is now complete. Node operators can help accelerate the next stage of launch by upgrading their Loopchain nodes as soon as possible.
👉Deadline for upgrade is October 26th.
#ICONProject
$ICX
"Paycoin will integrate Icon’s (ICX) cryptocurrency. This will allow Paycoin users in Korea to pay using ICX at any of Danal’s 60,000 merchant partners, including major retailers like 7-Eleven, KFC and Domino’s Pizza."
$ICX
@payprotocol
$PCI
We now have less than three months left in 2018! The keyword of the ICON team's third quarter was
#Transformation
, as it was full of new challenges and successes. Let’s take a brief look at a few key categories in which ICON made progress over Q3 2018.✔️
We are excited to announce that
@fortmatic
successfully integrated Magic SDK, passwordless authentication and pk management in the ETH ecosystem, into the ICON public blockchain. ICON developers can now create an easy user onboarding experience with dapps.