Horizen Monthly Update – August 7th, 2019

At Horizen, we believe in transparency and value community involvement. Horizen broadcasts a monthly live stream on Youtube to keep the community update to date on project progression. As part of the live stream, the team also holds a short live Q&A session.

July Updates: 

July was an incredibly exciting month for our project. All of our teams had major news this month, including two new integrations, welcoming a new team member, a massive leap in our FCAS rating, and reaching a major milestone for our sidechains project. We can’t wait to see is in store for our team and our community next month!

Core Development:

• Horizen’s first sidechain node is now live on Devnet! This is an exciting milestone for our project and brings us one step closer to Alpha.
• We welcomed a new member to the Dev Team, Oleg Alesandrov
• ZEN 2.0.18: deprecation successful! New features include check block at height safety control for orphaned blocks and update RPC method ‘getblockfinalityindex’
• Sphere by Horizen v.1.1.2b released. Included support parsing null data transactions, compatibility with ZEN 2.0.18, and more.
• Horizen’s public repo ramping up
• Announced new Horizen Developer Environment in the works

Business Development: 

• ZEN listed on BW and TOKOK
• Coinbase Custody exploring support of ZEN pending regulatory approval 

Marketing: 

• Weekly team calls are now open to the public every Thursday!
• Horizen is among the top 25 crypto projects by FCAS rating on CoinMarketCap
• The Horizen CoolWallet S giveaway received almost 2,000 entries. Congratulations to the winner, Matt from New Jersey, USA.
• New website updates to our Exchanges, What is Horizen, ZEN, and Wallets pages

Regional:

• China
  • The Horizen ambassador network grew. It now includes Shanghai, Inner Mongolia, Chongqing, Beijing, Foshan, and Taiwan
  • Team Horizen joined the ‘Logic of Privacy Coins’ meetup
  • Upcoming event ‘Smart China Expo’ in Chongqing
• Latin America
  • Levis hosted a joint meetup in Long Beach, CA with BitActive
  • Angie spoke at Blockchain Summit LatAm, a major event in Mexico City!
  • Angie hosted a webinar with formacionencriptomonedas.com for their students. 
• Central EU
  • The team spoke at the AirConnect Radio meetup in La Calmette
  • The team translated Horizen whitepapers in French
• Eastern EU, RU, GE, & CIS
  • Country Lead, Vano, attended Blockchain Incredibile Party to network with local blockchain enthusiasts
  • Vano also did an interview with ForkLog about Horizen and Crypto in Georgia
  • Vano is attending several conferences over the next couple of months

July Live Stream Slides