Second Quarter 2018 Review: Riding It Together - ZenCash

It feels like a 2018 Q1 déjà vu as I sit here compiling Zen’s accomplishment for 2018 Q2 while the market bleeds red. Crypto is not for the faint of heart or those not vested in it for the tech and social impact this technology will bring to the world. Even with the ups and downs, it’s still an exciting time to be alive working in the most cutting-edge industry that has a low-barrier for competition… All working towards a goal of bringing technology that will equalize the world.

Zen in 2018: Usability, Transparency, and Innovation.

Zen aims to build a virtual nation that allows individuals to communicate, transact, perform commerce, exchange goods and services, and build applications… all without having users necessarily know they are doing so on the Zen network.

We cannot achieve this goal all at once so let’s focus on some themes and accomplishments that will get us there.

Our community has expanded to nearly 70,000 users and the growth continues thanks to our amazing team: marketing, engineering, business development, operations, finance, legal, and user experience/customer support.

Zen released two software upgrades, developed a flagship wallet that will standardize the look/feel of our products while upgrading existing wallets, built partnerships with other organizations, integrated with other products, built a support system with excellent documentation, etc. All while dealing with crisis such as a 51% attack and volatile market conditions.

Are you in it for the tech?
Let’s create a P2P, borderless world together and measure our progress towards this goal. Brace yourself and let’s ride the slump together.

2018 Second Quarter Accomplishments

TECHNOLOGY

Received fully functional DAO Treasury Prototype from IOHK
UX: Released a support system & comprehensive documentation: ZenHelp
Began Flagship wallet multi-OS development
Designed Super Nodes – a multi-tiered node system supporting sidechains
Zen 2.0.11 software upgrade
Released Z-NOMP security update for mining
Arizen wallet upgrades: now supports shielded transactions for Secure & Super Node operators
Secure Nodes surpass Bitcoin nodes – top 3 node architecture!
Zen faucet Improved release https://getzen.cash/
Released a new white paper proposing Enhancements to the Satoshi Consensus to prevent the 51% attack
Mandatory upgrade Zen 2.0.14: Robust Code Base & New Node Class

NEW EXCHANGE LISTINGS

Zen easily available to you with 10 new listings!

Coindirect – P2P exchange
CryptoWolf
OpenLedger – DEX
Binance
Cred
BiteBTC
Stocks.Exchange
Godex
Panda
BlockBid
Changelly

PARTNERSHIPS & INTEGRATIONS

Paytomat, a cryptocurrency payment solution for POS and e-commerce – spending ZEN made easy!
Ledger Nano S hardware wallet
Xeeda, the world’s first cryptocurrency wallet for your phone
Coinomi – an user friendly IOS Wallet for your ZEN!
Athena ATM integration in Colombia
Began Trezor T integration
Zen is being accepted as a payment option on all MindGeek websites – the world’s largest digital entertainment website network for adults.
Blue-Frontiers exploration of Zen’s voting system & buy your island with ZEN
DCG adds ZenCash to its portfolio of 5 select coins
Grayscale Investment adds ZenCash
InfoPulse software engineering firm partnership
Buy or rent your Italian Villa
www.bitcoinpercasa.it
www.vistallicasa.com

NEW & #ZENTASTIC TEAM MEMBERS

General Council, Dean Steinbeck, brings a wealth of experience to strengthen our legal position.
Jonathan Teplitsky joined the Marketing team, and helped grow our mailing list by almost 24%!

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Website translated in: Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish
Held community survey to understand our growing community
Maintained community abreast with promotions and marketing
Publications in normalbooks.io, The Times UK, Core Digital, and more!

Zen Around The World In Q2

Crypto Conference – Berlin, Germany
Metta Event in Nairobi, Kenya
Meetup in Nagano, Japan
TalentLand in Guadalajara, Mexico
Blockspot in Sao Paulo, Brazil World
Blockchain Forum – Dubai, UAE
Chainges – Amsterdam, Netherlands
Innovation & Free Enterprise Summit – Charleston, SC
Consensus – New York City, NY
Smart Taler – Minsk, Belarus
Crypto42Summit – Vienna, Austria
Blockchain Summit – Frankfurt, Germany
Network of Africans – Kampala, Uganda
Zen Secure Node Workshop – Bloxpo – Stockholm, Sweden
KryptoSør – Oslo, Norway
ZenCash Meetup – Tokyo, Japan
ZenCash Meetup – Moscow, Russia
CIR Club – Seoul, Korea
Nairobi Tech Week – Nairobi, Kenya
FEECon – Atlanta, GA
Cryptolina – Raleigh, NC- Togliatti International Blockchain Forum
– Togliatti, Russia
Etherlab’s Meetup – Seoul, Korea
Blockchain+Data Meetup – Seoul, Korea
Korean National Assembly Debate – Seoul, Korea
Bitcoin Meetup – Tokyo, Japan

Moving Forward, One Step At A Time

So what exciting tech do we have for the remaining of 2018 and beyond? First, transitioning to sidechains that will allow dApps and moving our secure node and node architecture on-chain making Zen even more decentralized! And finally, along with IOHK, we will also complete a prototype for our Scaling Solution.

By Rosario Pabst
Source: https://blog.zencash.com/second-quarter-2018-review/