Fantom General Update | August 01 2022
What’s going on in the Fantom ecosystem? Get up-to-date!
Governance votes ‘Yes’ on Ecosystem Support Vault
Through the Ecosystem Support Vault, the community can fund projects, ideas and creations on Fantom via governance votes. ⅓ of the existing 30% burn rate from transaction fees (10% of transaction fees) will be diverted to the vault.
Client Performance - Does it matter?
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The Fantom research team, headed by Professor Bernhard Scholz, released its first of a series of tech articles.
👉 Read our findings on the performance bottlenecks in block progressing and how we can address them.
Smart Contract security firm Dedaub will deploy on Fantom
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Fantom is proud to announce a 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.
👉 Learn more about how Dedaub makes the Fantom ecosystem more secure.
LlamaPay arrives on Fantom
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With Llamapay, companies, DAOs and protocols can automate transactions by streaming them to an address. The recipient can withdraw the funds in real-time. Paying contributors has never been easier!
Already trusted by multi-chain teams Yearn and Beefy, LlamaPay has now been adopted by native Fantom ecosystem protocols such as SpookySwap, Morpheus Swap, and Solar Protocol.
LlamaPay is being built by the highly-respected DeFiLlama team.
Fantom @ Blockchain Expo Vietnam
Fantom CMO Simone went on-stage to represent Fantom in a DeFi panel.
https://twitter.com/theotherpomp/status/1550838309617803264
Together with CTO Quan Nguyen, they also visited the team of Tank Wars at their office! Tank Wars is a P2E game built on Fantom.
https://twitter.com/TankWarsZone/status/1550392895714504704
Exodus Wallet adds Fantom mainnet support
Self-custodial crypto wallet Exodus added FTM with full mainnet support.
Network Stats
In the future, ⅓ of the existing 30% burn rate from transaction fees will go towards the Ecosystem Treasury Vault. To get a better idea of how much that can be, check out our dashboard.
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- Wharton School launches metaverse-focused business course
- Soulbound Tokens: The basis of a Decentralized Society
- A comparison of Uniswap and Curve
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🔦 Our new ecosystem spotlight features Froqorion and The Granary.
🎧 Fantom Head of Marketing Juan talked with SwimProtocol about their expansion to support cross-chain bridging on Fantom.
🎙️ Fantom CEO Michael and Director of BD Samuel joined Mapleblock Capital, discussing the past, present, and future of the Fantom ecosystem.
🌐 FantomIntern with a data-driven overview of the Fantom ecosystem
🎮 BomberPunks is in playable Beta
https://twitter.com/BomberPunks/status/1551224893953425408