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After community discussions, a change from the term pending to receivable/ready to be received and similar was decided on and implemented in V23.0. These changes can be seen in various areas of the node wallet as well as across many RPC calls.
The variety of units previously noted in the spec has been simplified down to two units only:raw (10^0) and nano (10^30). All RPC calls, QR code amounts and other machine-related functions should use the standard raw unit for the most accurate precision.
This change is not related to the node or release, but is is helpful to be aware of if you participate on the network. We recently rolled out updates for the nano ticker, which transitions from the previous “NANO” to “XNO” for standards compliance, as well as a new symbol.
The Nano Foundation welcomed Pim Coffeng as the Growth Strategist for the Nano Foundation.
Having worked for the gaming platform Poki for 7 years and expanded their user-base to 35 million users a month, Pim has set his sights on initiatives that deal with forming an economy around nano.
Using his extensive knowledge and experience in the area, Pim is going to focus on such areas as user growth in emerging economies, educational alliances, nano use cases in gaming, and more.
As the Growth Strategist of the Nano Foundation, Pim will help accelerate awareness around nano and expand partnerships.
Because of the reliable network, nano is perfect for using in point of sale payments.
No transaction fees and instant transactions makes nano an amazing currency for donations.
Nano is a global currency. Send it to anyone, anywhere in the world instantly without fees.
We saw a strong uptick in applications for our community program. We welcomed around 15 new members to the Telegram group. Made contacts in multiple universities. We are in touch with a business owner that wants to implement nano.
On February 15, 2022, Colin LeMahieu, Director of the Nano Foundation, spoke on the topic of “Building a better Digital Currency”. The Real Time Club is one of London’s foremost networking institutions, bringing together people from diverse professional backgrounds with common interest in technology and society. Every year, the Real Time Club runs a series of dinners with distinguished speakers on current issues of the information age.
On February 22 of 2022, George Coxon participated in an event organized by the Royal Docks School of Business and Law at UEL where students could pitch business ideas to experts and fellow Dragons.
On March 10th of 2022, George Coxon and Colin LeMahieu participated as speakers at a Virtual Congress on architecture, engineering, innovation and sustainability hosted by the Zigurat Institute. They spoke on the topic “Digital Money shouldn’t cost the Earth”.
Listen to the stories of different projects and businesses in the nano ecosystem. Hosted by Colombian ambassador Carlos Murgas.
French ambassador Corentin Hanonge organised an online nano meetup for other french speaking community members
The patches included multiple fixes including adding an in-memory implementation of the unchecked table and re-enabling vote hinting.
The assets page includes all the brand colouring, fonts, symbols and Nano Foundation logos that can be used across websites and in the real world to maintain our brand consistency. We also added 'Nano Accepted Here' stickers so you can proudly let the world know that your business accepts nano!
We have welcomed some amazing new people to our team such as Piotr Wójcik as full time developer, Patryk Prejs as summer intern, and Forest Horsman as Social Media Lead.
Unfortunately, we also had to say goodbye to team members Russell Waters, Kate Lifshits and Zach Hyatt.
Director at the Nano Foundation, George Coxon, spent brilliant few hours with some of the MBA students Royal Docks School of Business and Law at University of East London! The purpose was to re-design a paper wallet for the UEL Centre of Fintech Launch on Thursday at the UK Houses of Parliament.
Nano, the feeless eco-friendly cryptocurrency, was used for the first-ever crypto transactions to take place at an official event inside the Houses of Parliament. This took place at the launch of The Centre of FinTech at the University of East London, an educational institution with which the Nano Foundation has deep ties.
George Coxon participated in the Women in Payments EMEA 2022 Symposium as moderator during the session 'One Coin to Rule Them All: CBDC, Stable Coins and Crypto Assets: Where We Are Today'.
George Coxon and Colin LeMahieu presented a keynote speech at CyNam 22.2 for the Cheltenham Science Festival. The speech focused on web3, cryptocurrency and blockchain with an audience full of cryptography experts.
Colin LeMahieu, George Coxon and Forest Horsman attended the Reset Connect event with a booth to spread awareness about nano as the only currency at the event. The event focused heavily on sustainability and green solutions. Additionally, George and Colin did a presentation about nano's sustainable aspects at the event.
New episodes of the Nano Community Initiatives hosted by Carlos Murgas have been released to learn about different projects, businesses and organisations in the nano ecosystem.
The original nano-node is written in C++. C++ is a very powerful language, but it makes it easy to introduce potentially exploitable bugs, like buffer overflows, dangling pointers, race conditions, integer overflows, and the like. Rust, on the other hand, offers similar performance characteristics as C++, but guarantees memory safety and thread safety at compile time. The Nano cryptocurrency should not suffer from the security issues that C++ can introduce, so that’s why RsNano was started.
Gustav attended the nano meetup in London in August of 2022 and has been collaborating with the Nano Foundation ever since. Other community members, such as Gr0vity, have been actively contributing to the Rust port of the nano node software as well.
Despite a continuing heatwave in London, we were excited to have our first London meetup since 2019 on August the 13th 2022! The meetup hosted a variety of speakers from industry leading businesses to speak about nano, payments, fintech and FX. Additionally, there were fun activities at the event and an enthusiastic crowd of community members and partners.
Buying a Tesla with nano at the event, paying (a fraction of a penny) for a water bottle using a Kappture terminal, or generating proof of work using a bicycle - it was possible at the Nano London meetup!
With speakers ranging from Colin on The Road to Commercial Grade, Pim on Adoption within Nigeria, Entrepreneur Duncan MacInnes being interviewed about FX markets and their need for improvement, setting the scene nicely for the first introduction to Trustable, a new asset settlement network.
George Coxon & Colin Lemahieu, Directors of the Nano Foundation attended a private invite event to strengthen business bonds between London and Chicago with Lori E Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago.
Director of the Nano Foundation George Coxon speaks about how nano came to exist and what makes it unique, solving the carbon footprint issues of cryptocurrencies, and the potential future of a global currency.
Nigerian ambassador Olapade Samuel organised an orphanage outreach to help orphanages and spread awareness about nano.
Free Money Day is a day to make us think differently about money and share with others. What better way to share money than with some nano?
Our ambassador in Uganda, Niwamanya Martin, recently attended an event hosted by the Blockchain Club of Uganda and the Ministry of ICT at Makerere University!
Crypto for the homeless, a charity that accepts nano with New Zealand volunteers fed over 500++ people over the summer.
Generate AI images or earn nano by offering GPU power for image generation.
One significant advancement for V24 is improved unit test stability and clarity. For a long time, we’ve had a discipline of including a unit test for each functional change added to the node. This discipline allows us to make more significant changes to the node while ensuring there aren’t regressions. Unfortunately over time, older unit tests were starting to fail intermittently, which was slowing down development progress. We took several weeks reviewing, documenting, and improving the node’s unit tests which has significantly aided subsequent development work.
We’ve added the ability for the bootstrap process to request blocks in ascending order. Doing this allows blocks to be inserted in their natural order, greatly decreasing reliance on the unchecked table.
In V23, we added the election scheduler process and set out an initial schedule of “buckets” in which transactions get prioritised for confirmation. This initial schedule uses powers of 2 from 0 to 128 to specify the lower bound for each bucket. This was a simple way to initially balance buckets but it needed refining to operate in the range of natural transactions. We’ve made an iterative improvement in this area, allowing our limited development resources to work on other advancements.
Read the blog article for more on this update.
Continued progress is being made by Gustav Schauwecker and other contributors to port nano to Rust. Additionally, Gustav has done a livestream showing how he ports a piece of the nano node software to Rust and he has created a video with an explanation how others can contribute.
Piotr has come from the community to become part of our team. He started off back in May with a summer internship and has wonderfully dedicated his spare time to help solve difficult problems in the node software and make major improvements in efficiency, election handling and bootstrapping.
We’ve also had some amazing contributions from other community developers working on the nano node, such as Bob (also known as Gr0vity) and Gustav.
Bob has been a massive addition to the team. Among other achievements, he has written a test framework that runs multiple nano node dockers in a private test network. And has written a number of tests that use that framework to test the node in a variety of situations.
Gustav has been doing amazing work on a Rust implementation for the nano node software. He recently split the Rust codebase into libraries and has created a convenient way to access the ledger from Rust without the need to use the nano node.
At the end of September we said goodbye to Theo who had been with the team since April 2021 as a part-time developer. Theo had been working on the Open SSL sockets task since joining the team and we look forward to implementing this in a subsequent release.
We welcome Chris Unwin to the team as Communications Lead to work alongside Forest, our Social Media lead and Pim, our Growth Strategist. Chris is a professional copywriter, has worked for the likes of Google and other household names, and has joined the team to drive nano forward through brilliant storytelling, alliance formation, and a brand new communication structure. Having volunteered in both Ghana and Zambia for Challenging Heights and Families for Children respectively and with education at Chris’ heart, we enter into a new chapter of sharing the global stories within the nano ecosystem.
And finally, we give a big warm welcome back to Aneena, our Community Lead, who came back from maternity leave at the end of October while also welcoming to the world, possibly the youngest member of the nano community!
At the end of the year, we released the new nano blog on our nano.org website. This is the place to find all the latest updates, stories, events and innovations from the Nano Foundation and beyond.
From here we’ll tell nano’s ever growing story to the wide world and keep our fantastic, passionate community up to date. We’ll fill you in on protocol developments, community initiatives and all the exciting Nano Foundation projects as they happen.
It will also be home to our new educational content, starting right now with The beginner's guide to cryptocurrency and nano. We know that nano has the power to change the world for the better. But we also know that the cryptocurrency space can be confusing and intimidating for many people. This is our first step towards removing these barriers and explaining how nano can make a positive difference to the lives of millions. It’s one to share with friends and family that have always wanted to know more about cryptocurrency but didn’t know where to start!
The popular Kakele MMORPG attended the Brasil Game Show 2022 and showed off their awesome nano integration that lets users buy and sell in-game gold for nano.
Nano Foundation Director, Colin LeMahieu, attended the event, which this year focused on how frontier tech can be used to create a more sustainable and prosperous future for humanity - aka, the Nano Foundation’s specialist subject.
George Coxon, Director at the Nano Foundation, presented at Zigurat’s Innovation Week on the topic “How to Build a More Efficient Digital Economy? Nano, an Eco-friendly & feeless Digital Currency
Our ambassador from Nigeria, Olapade Samuel presented about nano and decentralisation at a religious organisation with about 300 participants! That's surely a great way to spread awareness! He even made a WeNano spot so people can claim nano each Sunday!
The NanOrlando meetup is a great event to chat with fellow nano enthusiasts at Fantasia Gardens and Fairways Miniature Golf and play some nano golf together!”
French ambassador Corentin Hanonge organised another french online nano meetup!
Ambassador in Uganda Niwamanya Martin organised a meetup in Kampala where you can learn everything about nano.
Niwamanya Martin, our ambassador in Uganda, also organised an event to inform SafeBoda drivers about nano and how they can start using nano to earn tips.
JayCoxx created a setup to generate proof of work for a nano transaction using solar power.
Ambassador in the US NanoNerd99 experimented with user generated content, funded by the community!
An awesome new service on Twitter called SendNano allows people in the nano community to easily send nano to each other.
