Horizen support channel is here: https://discord.com/invite/z8eebsj7Sv

Btw big news: https://twitter.com/JSeyff/status/1696530277198393353

"Horizen has been built to be the world’s most secure interoperable blockchain ecosystem. It is possible to unlock its power for real-world use cases."

Read the latest article about Horizen by The Currency Analytics.

https://thecurrencyanalytics.com/22461/horizen-zen-choosing-function-over-fashion-in-blockchain-technology/

The Horizen halving event was a mixture of a ton of fun and amazing interviews by people like Charles Hoskinson

Check out his interview:

https://youtu.be/FPojOC2MAbY?list=PLhZisbhyYIXLPPOBLzjjkqvWev7c0SWm5

Weekly Engineering Update

Halving: First Halving successfully completed at block 840000!

Zend: Working on a Reindex performance optimization. Preliminary measures show a speedup. Currently measuring benchmarks

zend_oo: Completed first draft with all the relevant functionalities and integration tests. Proceeding with improving the performances with code refactoring and adding Unit Tests.

Proving System: Identified bottleneck on the GPU optimizations.

SDK: Applying changes related to the state reorganization, new state extensibility mechanism, state view concept introduction and a new forger transactions collecting logic

Sidechain Explorer: Started working on the SDK in order to allow the future support of sidechain Explorer. Implemented websocket server architecture on the sidechain node and started to add the endpoints needed by the Sidechain Explorer. Design of related unit tests to follow

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Horizen has completed its first halving at block 840000!



You can check the Halving party video: https://youtu.be/hNSnbr0ieQI

Only 1 day until the first Horizen halving.

This means only 1 day until the Horizen halving party!

Get party details at https://horizenhalving.com/

Please use: https://support.horizen.io/

But anyway they won't provide you any information about your referrals, they must protect the privacy of their users.

Btw Faucet is constantly changing and the Referal program is relatively new.

“The only consistent thing about Bitcoin and crypto markets is a large degree of uncertainty,” Viglione told Cointelegraph. “We’re witnessing, in real-time, the birth of an industry, the birth of a new monetary system, and the birth of a new peer-to-peer economy; creating a new world is a messy business.”


https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-is-disruptive-making-its-market-cycles-erratic-horizen-ceo-says

The latest Sphere by Horizen upgrade is here.

This upgrade is only mandatory if you use Sphere by Horizen in full mode. Changes include compatibility with ZEN 2.0.22.

Learn more about ZEN 2.0.22 and get download links:

https://blog.horizen.io/mandatory-software-upgrade-download-zen-2-0-22-now/

Read the official announcement for details:
https://blog.horizen.io/sikoba-and-horizen-partner-to-bring-transparency-to-the-decentralized-credit-market/

Begin your blockchain journey at https://youtu.be/6oU8EnEmrgA

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https://dappradar.com/blog/horizen-an-ecosystem-designed-for-dapp-developers

The Zendoo Tutorial Series Ep 6 is out now!


Learn how to aggregate all the custom elements and business logic and initialize the Zendoo SDK node instance.

https://youtu.be/sBL2xWQhI_Q

Rob's interview with Girl Gone Crypto covers our scalable ecosystem, DeFi, tacos, and much more!


Check it out on YouTube. https://youtu.be/DK7nENGLebQ

Horizen Sidechain SDK Tutorial Series Ep 5 is out now!

Learn about object serialization and how to implement bytes and JSON serialization of custom objects like transactions, and so on.

https://youtu.be/ZfTkXDwwL4g

DOGE is listed on the PipeFlare Faucet

 https://pipeflare.io/

You can claim it every day. 




(You can claim at the same time ZEC and DASH and involve yourself in the referral program, but I will leave this to you to investigate)