On behalf of Koinos Group I’d like to wish everyone Happy Holidays and thank you for being a part of this community. It’s easy to get caught up in the technical details of Koinos, especially when you have as many exciting features as Koinos does, but it’s important to…

While people were being distracted, once again, by the failure of a centralized solution, a totally new blockchain was successfully launched on the auspicious date of November the 5th; Koinos. This blockchain was built by us, Koinos Group, one of the most experienced teams in crypto. Koinos is designed to…

We are excited to announce that the KOIN ERC20 snapshot was successfully generated early this morning (October 31st) at 2022–10–31T04:02:23Z (12:02 AM EDT) in preparation for the Koinos main net launch. You can view the transaction containing the snapshot on Ethereum here: https://etherscan.io/tx/0xf28c62da7a075d42f471527c8305421fba4d964cf3fb9eea0169927b53e9cf03 As we said in our September 8th…

There’s a lot of exciting things going on in the lead up to the snapshot on October 31st (or later), far too much to cover in one post. Performance of the test net remains excellent having now surpassed its 1.5 millionth block! That means the snapshot is on track and…

What is a snapshot? The KOIN ERC20 was created using OpenZeppelin’s tooling which includes a “snapshot mechanism.” When a snapshot is created, the balances and total supply at the time are recorded for later access. Snapshots are created by the internal snapshot function, which emits the Snapshot event and returns a snapshot id. …

Harbinger V4 (the latest version of the Koinos testnet) has now processed its 450,000th block and performance continues to be fantastic! That’s why we’re excited to announce… The date of the snapshot will be October 31st (or later)! Yes, this is going to be one spooky Halloween because following the snapshot, the KOIN ERC20s will become effectively worthless. That’s because the…

In our last update we announced that we had completed all the features for Koinos mainnet, (everything in our burn down chart) and were getting ready to launch version 0.4.0 of Harbinger (V4). On August 23rd, we did just that! The FIRST blockchain… V4 is now the first fully functional blockchain ever to…

The launch of v0.4.0 (V4) of the Koinos testnet (Harbinger) will take place on August 23rd at 1:00 PM EST! In our last developer update we announced that Koinos is now feature complete which means all of the features that will make it the most accessible blockchain in the world…

We made a lot of progress last sprint so this sprint we were able to quickly close the remaining 13 story points needed to complete version 0.4.0 of the Harbinger testnet! Our goal with V4 was for it to be a feature complete version of mainnet to make mainnet testing…