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ICON Decentralized Applications (Part 2)
Today we are continuing our journey through Decentralized Applications (DApps) built on the ICON network. In our previous article, we presented overviews of some DApps built on ICON. We covered Blue Whale, weBloc, SOMESING, VELIC, and ZenSports. In this article, we continue with 3...
Overview of ICON P-Rep Candidates
As we have said in our previous article there are 43 P-Rep Candidates that seek to represent ICONists (as of July 5th, with more being added daily). These P-Reps are comprised of teams from all over the world, with unique skill sets and goals.
The full active list of...
ICONSENSUS and the election of P-Reps (Public Representatives)
I would like to start off by providing background information necessary to further understand this article.
What is a P-Rep: P-Reps “propose and vote on policies that maximize overall ICONists interest of the ICON network.” (as stated in the ICONstitution and Governance paper)....
ICON Decentralized Applications (Part 1)
What is a Decentralized Application?
A decentralized application(DApp) is an application which runs on a decentralized network and utilizes its resources. The main characteristics of a DApp include: open source code, all users have equal rights to change the data, no central point...
Overview of Staking on ICON Network
Overview of Staking on ICON Network
You already know all about ICONSENSUS and P-Reps from my last article, if not take a look here.
What is staking?
Staking is a mechanism by which a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) cryptocurrency holder locks their cryptocurrency for a period of time to...
ICON… READY… SET… GO…
This year will be a great year for ICON. During the ‘crypto winter’ of 2018, ICON continued to build and develop their technology, laying the foundation for even bigger things to come in 2019, especially in the second half of 2019 with ICONSENSUS!
So what is ICONSENSUS?...
ICON P-Rep TestNet 2nd Phase has started
ICON P-Rep TestNet 2nd Phase has started. Ubik Capital is in the front line with two nodes, on two continents: Europe and North America.
More info here from Russell, one of our team member.
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Phase 1 for ICON P-Rep TestNet has ended
Phase 1 for ICON P-Rep TestNet has ended.
Ubik Capital has participated in Phase 1 together with several teams from around the world and everything went well.
Phase 2 for ICON P-Rep TestNet will start in June 3rd.
You can find here more information regarding P-Rep TestNet.