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X-and-Earn Ideas by the IoTeX Community

X-and-Earn Ideas by the IoTeX Community

Introduction MachineFi makes it possible to "x-and-earn", meaning that virtually anything is possible. Machine economy is a $12.6T one, and it has the potential to be integrated into every part of everyday life, making it more rewarding, more fun and easier. We have asked you, IoTeX Community, to come up with some innovative and creative ideas for MachineFi-driven dApps, and you have been amazing at delivering unique and potentially world-changing concepts. Together with you, we’re creating a
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A Deep Dive Into The W3bstream Roadmap

A Deep Dive Into The W3bstream Roadmap

IoTeX is in its sixth year since inception. In that time, IoTeX built and kept building, and its team grew, and it also reached its most significant milestone: the release of W3bstream, the world's first decentralized infrastructure for real-world devices and data. And this is only the beginning. As you already know, W3bstream is a unique and groundbreaking blockchain-agnostic infra that will disrupt the machine economy. It will disrupt the entire smart device connectivity industry or, if you w
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W3bstream Launch: Smart Devices to Smart Contracts #BuildAnything
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W3bstream Launch: Smart Devices to Smart Contracts #BuildAnything

Own, earn and build amazing and unique dApps with W3bstream, a world’s first. For over a year and a half, we've been building a groundbreaking off-chain data compute technology that has never existed before. It is a unique blockchain-agnostic framework that connects devices and data. It will revolutionize how we use our data and interact with our smart devices in the physical world in exchange for rewards, other unique benefits, and opportunities in Web3. W3bstream is here, and although it is
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Learn to Register Your FIO Name in ioPay

Learn to Register Your FIO Name in ioPay

ioPay and FIO’s partnership is bearing fruit. You can now create a user-friendly wallet identity to send and receive crypto payments. Just one identity for all of your crypto. If you’d like, you can stop reading right here and jump into our video tutorial to get set up in an instant. Or hold off on the video and learn why we think you’ll love this! Get set up right from your ioPay wallet. The principles of user focused design, interoperability, open standards, and decentralization continue to
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IoMonthly September
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IoMonthly September

This has been an eventful, exciting month (and, no spoilers, but the next one is looking to be even more exciting! See the hint dropped by Raullen at SmartCon!). September has brought us several steps closer to 20 million blocks, to W3bstream, and to unlocking a $12 trillion machine economy. Let's take a look at all the new releases, interesting events, exciting announcements, innovative partnerships and amazing community activity this month has shown us. New Releases IoTeX 1.9.0 Mainnet is
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The IoTeX Developer Portal

The IoTeX Developer Portal

Our developer community has been great. The updated IoTex Developer Portal, after a few months of beta testing, has launched its 1.0 release. This release is the result of gathering and incorporating the creative ideas of our developer community into our vision of a space designed to serve the needs of our developers. A Place to Learn and Build MachineFi dApps You probably know this. A good community of Developers is where people learn, share, teach each other, network, and ultimately thrive.
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Ways and Whys to Become a Delegate
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Ways and Whys to Become a Delegate

The Merge: Both a Major Achievement and a Major Meh First, the accolades. The move by Ethereum to a Proof-of-Stake consensus model is a major success. This change reduces Ethereum’s energy usage by 99.95%. Now, for the Meh. It went smoothly and for IoTeX it was a complete non-event concerning its impact on IoTeX. This is an epic case of “No news is good news”. IoTeX and the Ethereum Merge As expected, the Merge did not impact IoTeX during and after. How did we approach the run-up to the Merge
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What’s New on the IoTeX Delegate Portal

What’s New on the IoTeX Delegate Portal

IoTeX uses a Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism called Roll DPos. That means delegates are the lifeblood of the IoTeX blockchain and are essential for the functioning of the platform. Fortunately, getting set up as an IoTeX Delegate and running a node are now easier than ever. We’ve updated the portal to take you, step-by-step, through the process of becoming an IoTeX Delegate and now it’s also much easier to navigate within the portal. And if you use Fastblocks, you’ll have the option to buy,
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Pebble Tracker + Morpheus.Network Disrupt Supply Chain
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Pebble Tracker + Morpheus.Network Disrupt Supply Chain

Morpheus.Network and IoTeX are partnering on a blockchain-based proof of concept that will usher in a new standard for supply chain tracking. Together with IOTEX, we will provide our clients with trust, data, and provenance in a way we've never had before.We look forward to this partnership. - Morpheus Network This pilot will use geolocation data from the Pebble tracking device that proves presence within geofenced locations. That trusted proof will trigger a smart contract to generate cros
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IoTeX and the Ethereum Merge

IoTeX and the Ethereum Merge

As most people in the blockchain community are aware, Ethereum will be moving from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake. This transition, being called the Merge, is scheduled to take place roughly on Thursday, Sept. 15 at 04:25 2022 UTC. IoTeX fully supports the Merge and in a TechTimes article last month announced that post-merge, developers will be able to build MachineFi-focused dApps using W3bstream on both the IoTeX and Ethereum networks. Here, you will find answers to any questions about IoTe
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ioPay and FIO Partner to Simplify Using Crypto
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ioPay and FIO Partner to Simplify Using Crypto

Experts, investors and technologists all agree. Web3 technology and cryptocurrency will only be widely adopted when it’s intuitive to use and trustworthy. Right now it’s difficult to learn, use, and mistakes can be very expensive. But help is on the way. ioPay Partners with FIO to Make Using Crypto a Pleasure The Foundation for Interwallet Operability (FIO) and ioPay are excited to announce their new partnership to make using crypto simpler. IoTeX is founded on a commitment to open source, o
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Web2 Businesses Diving into Web3 with MachineFi
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Web2 Businesses Diving into Web3 with MachineFi

With the recent closing of MachineFi Lab’s $10 Million seed round, there’s been a spate of discussion from the investors who participated in this round and what we can expect to see from MachineFi Lab. Among the updates, we’re eager to share is W3bStream, IoTeX’s advanced computational Oracle. We’re not revealing any spoilers here, but this is a big step towards a fuller realization of the MachineFi future. Stay tuned for more in the coming weeks. And speaking of our funding round, we think you
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IoTeX Governance

IoTeX Governance

As IoTeX continues to expand at a rapid pace, we are excited to introduce a new governance framework to ensure the network grows sustainably, transparently, and fairly. Ensuring the voice of the people is heard is paramount for any decentralized network -- our goal is to bring together users, developers, Delegates, and more to participate in decentralized decision-making and iterate upon the rules and operating procedures that will power the IoTeX Network for years to come. In this blog we intr
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IoTeX Community Mid-Summer Highlights
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IoTeX Community Mid-Summer Highlights

It’s mid-crypto winter in a sweltering summer and the IoTeX community continues to build. Recently, we’ve been in Barcelona, Paris, Denver and, of course, in other parts around the globe. We’re heads down building a completely new vertical with MachineFi - the most ambitious platform for IoT + Blockchain + DeFi yet to be conceived. We’re bringing on new projects weekly, awarding Halo Grants, and seeing tangible progress from our existing projects. And this week, we have news from Balcony DAO, A
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Welcome to the IoTeX Forum
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Welcome to the IoTeX Forum

First off - thanks for being a part of the IoTeX Community! Whatever role you play, projects are really great when people like them and use them. Communities vote with their participation. It’s what you and I do that matters. We are always striving to foster the most effective, engaged communities in the IoTeX ecosystem. What will that look like? It will be a place where you see more discussion, with more people talking in greater depth on topics of interest to us all. It will mean more dialogu
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Ecosystem Highlights: mimo DEX launches v2.1 and HealthBlocks goes live
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Ecosystem Highlights: mimo DEX launches v2.1 and HealthBlocks goes live

Full speed ahead! IoTeX and many of the projects on our platform keep buidl-ing. One example: mimo DEX has launched their v2.1 into Beta. If you’d like to give mimo your high-quality feedback, you’ll be eligible for rewards! Learn more here. Live-to-earn dApp HealthBlocks has also launched and is ready for download! Kickstart your health journey by connecting your fitness wearable, setting your health goals, and start earning $HEALTH tokens. Read more about how HealthBlocks is shaping Web3 heal
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Recapping an Eventful Week with IoTeX
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Recapping an Eventful Week with IoTeX

Hi IoTeX Community, Since we last reached out to you, we’ve had more than a few events to tell you about. Probably the biggest news being that MachineFi Lab has raised $10M at a $100M valuation, led by Samsung Next, Draper Dragon, and Jump Crypto. This fundraise will let us strongly support more projects to change the web from a taker, extractive economy to one where your real-world efforts and data reward you. That’s a day we’re working tirelessly to make happen. It's time to bring MachineFi t
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IoTeX & Hacken Partner to Advance Ecosystem Security
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Latest Partnership: IoTeX Ecosystem Stays Ahead on Security

We hope you’re having a great summer, getting outdoors, spending time with friends and family, and, most of all, staying healthy. There’s so much going on at IoTeX. Much is not yet visible but will bear fruit shortly. (underpromise and overdeliver.) Raullen said it best: IoTeX x Hacken Partner to Provide Cybersecurity for Ecosystem IoTeX has entered into a partnership with Hacken, a cybersecurity company with a primary focus on blockchain security. This will add an additional layer of security
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IoTeX Mainnet v1.8 Release Announcement
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IoTeX Mainnet v1.8 Release Announcement

Two months after the release of version 1.7 of the IoTeX protocol, the core team of developers has just released the new version 1.8. This release represents a "hardfork" of the current protocol. It will activate at block 17,662,681 (approximately, 05/30/2022 UTC 11pm), and all block producers and delegates should upgrade the node software to latest official release v1.8.0. Full node installation instructions can be found here. Here's a detailed breakdown what’s new in this release. IoTeX Sta
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IoTeX Staking with Web3 Wallets
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IoTeX Mainnet v1.8: Staking on MetaMask & Web3 Wallets

With the release of IoTeX Mainnet v1.8.0, you will now be able to stake your IOTX tokens with MetaMask, Trust Wallet, or any other Web3 compliant wallet. This release represents a "hard-fork" of the current protocol; it activated at block 17,662,681 (approximately, 05/30/2022 11pm UTC) and all block producers should upgrade the node software as instructed here. Check out the official Release Announcement here. This significant advancement required months of development and accurate testing by c
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IoTeX x Hacken Partner to Provide Cybersecurity for Ecosystem
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IoTeX x Hacken Partner to Provide Cybersecurity for Ecosystem

IoTeX has entered into a partnership with Hacken, a cybersecurity company with a primary focus on blockchain security. Their client list for protocol and contract audits is a Who’s Who of the most well-known and respected names in the blockchain industry. Other core services offered by Hacken include Penetration Testing and Security Assessments.The scope of their work with IoTeX will include helping to maintain the security of the IoTeX network and of the projects working on the IoTeX platform.
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IoTeX Offers Direct RPC Endpoint Via Ankr

IoTeX Offers Direct RPC Endpoint Via Ankr

IoTeX now has a dedicated endpoint for RPCs (Remote Procedure Calls) that makes it much easier to connect to the IoTeX blockchain. The public URL, https://iotexrpc.com, does not require a username or password and will be fast and reliable. What are RPCs and why are they useful? RPCs (Remote Procedure Call) are a type of API (Application Programming Interface). These let developers run code remotely and receive a response from, in this case, the IoTeX blockchain. For the IoTeX community and tho
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IoTeX at ETH Amsterdam: Recap & Reflections

IoTeX at ETH Amsterdam: Recap & Reflections

Fresh from attending ETHAmsterdam, Dan Knobelsdorf, IoTeX’s DAO Sherpa & Community Architect and Simone Romano, Head of Developer Relations, gave us their impressions of this major European blockchain event, the broader blockchain scene, and how IoTeX grabs more mindshare with each event. ETHAmsterdam brings together developers, designers, investors, artists, and community builders from the blockchain space. They share stories, skills, opportunities, and go away richer for the experience. Sim
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Meta-Pebble NFT Mint List: What's Next?

Meta-Pebble NFT Mint List: What's Next?

Hello Meta-Pebble Community! After one month of open registrations, the Meta-Pebble NFT Mint List officially closed on April 30, 2022. When the dust settled, the Mint List grew to 413,000 total signups from 80+ countries. An incredible turnout for what will be a defining product of the IoTeX Network – get excited! Now the fun part begins ... it's time to MINT your Meta-Pebble NFTs. Expect the first round of minting to begin during the week of May 9, where the first 1,000 people on the Mint List
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IoTeX Staking User Guide

Staking Your IOTX [What’s New + a Guide]

Staking - that is, depositing your IOTX to participate in governance - is the fuel that makes it possible to validate blocks and receive staking rewards on the IoTeX network. The guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough to start staking your IOTX in the Staking Portal. Bonus points: watch the tutorial video at the end for additional guidance! Why Should You Care About Staking? A core part of decentralized governance in the IoTeX Network is staking, where token holders deposit (“stake”) IOTX
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