MONTHLY RECAP: DECEMBER

KardiaChain
14 min readJan 7, 2021

We have been through a month of overwhelming activities. This article combines 5 most notable angles.

I. Partnership, II. Token utility, III. Mainnet. IV. Community and Press and V. Ranking.

I. PARTNERSHIP

  1. Geleximco — Kardia Labs ready to develop first of many real-world applications built on KardiaChain

1st joint venture with Geleximco, a use case that was finalized after we recently formed a new center for blockchain research. This joint initiative provides both parties with an environment for our best thought leaders, economic strategists, and blockchain architects to coordinate on new products and not yet disclosed DAPPS to be built collaboratively with Geleximco and eventually deployed on Mainnet KardiaChain.

2. KardiaChain & Theta Network Join Hands To Foster Blockchain Live Streaming And eSports — billion-dollar industries

Theta Network is the leader in blockchain-based live streaming and decentralized video with a vast user base and audience.

Vietnam expects to have about ten millions eSports players in 2021 and live streaming becomes a major e-commerce channel.

3. Nami exchange — Kardiachain’s gateway to millions of Vietnamese users

Nami will help us tap into an active local trading community. Nami will also introduce the swap feature to general users as an easy way to acquire KAI. As this partnership provides easy access to non-crypto people, it adds strong support to the KAIstarter platform and KAI Membership.

Nami exchange has listed KAI/VNDC pair.

4. VNDC issues Vietnam most prominent stablecoin on KardiaChain

VNDC will issue its stablecoin on KardiaChain, bringing around 1 million VNDC hodlers. VNDC is the 1st Vietnam currency VND-backed stablecoin in Vietnam and the 2nd largest stablecoin by holders in the world featured on Etherscan.

VNDC Wallet Pro allows users to gain access to many benefits and rewards that KAI Membership offers, including investment vehicles in KAIStarter, Mobile Top Up discount, and Play & Earn.

$KAI is officially listed on the VNDC Wallet from December 14, Staking Daily up to 9% per year for users.

  • Opening Credit Line feature for KAI token, users can mortgage KAI to create loans to VNDC or USDT.
  • Opening P2P Trading feature for users to trade KAI.
  • Exchange: Users can buy/sell KAI on VNDC Wallet with many incentives. Rates are updated according to market prices
  • And many other products such as: VNDC Luckydraw, VNDC Farming, VNDC Escrow,…

5. KardiaChain X DID Alliance to reinforce the pioneering DID proposition in Vietnam

DID alliance is an open industry association focused on the development and maintenance of new industry standards for interoperable decentralized identity and use of digital identities &personal information worldwide; as together we strive for a more interconnected yet data secure world. More on https://www.didalliance.org/

DIDalliance.org is made up of the world’s leading technological and financial institutions.

6. KardiaChain joins forces with Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) to help foster mass blockchain adoption in Asia

EEA is the de facto-standard organization for enterprise blockchain — one that is backed by the largest developer community with the largest member-base in the world.

7. KardiaChain to utilize the world’s first AI-oracle “Oraichain”

Oraichain is a data oracle platform that aggregates and connects Artificial Intelligence APIs to smart contracts and regular applications. KAI will also become a staking option when yAI.Finance DeFi staking vault was kick-off on Oraichain.

8. The partnership with Handy, a mobile platform built on FLETA offering users prediction games to play freely and rewards for winners and participants. This is similar to our existing DApps KAI Membership and our prediction game functionality of ONSports and Esports to provide a unique experience and increase the targeted user base for the ecosystem in SouthEast Asia market.

II. TOKEN UTILITY

  1. Pool-X LaunchED the Third Round of KAI-60D Staking, Enjoy an APR of 12% and NFT Reward!

Subscription Period: 01:00:00 on November 28, 2020 to 23:59:59 December 4, 2020 (UTC+8). The top 100 users can each get an exclusive KAI Zodia NFT!

2. KAIStarter №4: Experience “Sugar Rush” with #SDSB2

https://kaistarter.kardiachain.io/sugar-baby2

Similar to the previous project, Sugar Baby 2 offers supporters a revenue share from its Youtube advert income. It was officially be broadcasted in December 2020 on Ghien Mi Go channel every Saturday night.

Supporters of the projects will lock a total maximum of 10 million KAI for 3 months.

3. KAI Membership crossed 113,000+ installs in just two months! Our flagship product reached a significant milestone. Our mass adoption goal is a step closer. Install here:

III. MAINNET

The Last Testnet Goes Live “Fengari” Testnet 3.0 — Final Step Toward Mainnet

The name Fengari, meaning Moon in Greek, symbolizes the starting point of our 420 days voyage announced previously. Introducing the essential features of mainnet, Testnet 3.0 Fengari allows staking and implements full BFT dPoS consensus. https://testnet.kardiachain.io

By Bug Bounty campaign with 1,000,000 KAI pool reward, we have had more than 2000 participants to join and gave feedback. We are thankful for this amazing contribution!

Feel free to join our KardiaChain Developer Community: @KAIdevcom

Read more about our Testnet Fengari

Read more details on the Technical report

The complete user guide for KardiaChain Wallet and Explorer is available HERE.

  1. The mainnet starts with the landing page, join our journey towards an accessible blockchain for millions

🗓 Save the date 29th Dec 2020

2. We released the Mainnet Research Series: An In-Depth Analysis of Minimum Staking Amount (by our CFO Anthony Vo), to give you a better understanding of how block rewards are distributed as well as the minimum staking for each role in the Mainnet platform.

3. The Mainnet name minigame has finished with the output of our Mainnet “Aris” — Beyond the Moon, now we go to Mars!

4. KardiaChain Mainnet Launch Audited By CertiK

It provides solid assurance of our software readiness for the long-awaited mainnet launch.

5. KardiaChain’s mainnet source code now published on GitHub!

Our latest release features 2000+ commits with many new features!

6. Kardiachain Genesis Validators And How To Become One

KardiaChain is very fortunate to have a powerful set of 20 genesis validators that will support our launch, 15 of which are ranging from the top enterprises in Vietnam.

7. Leading traditional businesses to join KardiaChain Mainnet As Genesis Validators

Following five crypto partner validators, we are thrilled to announce our next five traditional enterprise partners to join our validator list, as mentioned on CoinTelegraph.

The Developer of LG’s blockchain Monachain will act as a validator for the upcoming mainnet of KardiaChain

These companies are the market leaders in their industry: LG CNS, Geleximco, HPT, Mai Linh, and Big Cat.

We are proud to have support and recognition from these well-established businesses across industries from construction, telecom to transportation, and entertainment.

Mai Linh — Top 1 Vietnam traditional taxi operator, $74.71 mil charter capital

LG CNS — An IT and consulting subsidiary of LG Corporation — Blockchain MonaChain

HPT — National advanced ICT solutions and services, 25-year establishment

Geleximco — Vietnam’s leading conglomerate, $2.2 bil total asset, 9000 employees in Vietnam

Big Cat Entertainment — Talent industry, owned by Asia Innovation Group (AIG) — 7 digit deal

Phu Long — Famous real estate giant in Vietnam, owns many “gold” land funds https://phulong.com

VNDC — The first Vietnam stable coin pegged 1:1 to the Vietnamese dong (VND)

Bitis- Vietnam top 1 shoe brand and leading footwear exporter (40 countries)

Mantra Dao- Community-governed DeFi platform for Staking, Lending, and Governance

ANKR- Cloud infrastructure and marketplace for Web3-stack deployment

District 5 HCM Youth- The largest social-political organization of Vietnamese youth https://youthunion.kardiachain.io

Coinplug — #1 blockchain patent holder in Korea and #2 in the world

Vietfootball- The governing body of football and national competitions in Vietnam

Orai- The world’s first AI-powered data oracle

Thai Son Foundation- A charity established in memory of our beloved teammate, Son Nguyen

Mitch:NET- An active community member, committed to the project and holding long term

Kardiachain Ambassadors- Official KardiaChain Ambassador team

Provisn- Crypto made easy. (Provisn — taking the cryptic out of crypto)

KAI Hodlers- Business owner, traveler, and crypto investor from Sydney

GenesisBeat- Have a firm belief in KardiaChain with a wish to contribute to blockchain mass adoption

KardiaChain Community Validator Nomination Section finishes in around 30 minutes.

Check it here: https://mainnet.kardiachain.io/validator

8. Explore Aris and claim 50,000 KAI in our mainnet celebration game!

50,000 KAI to share between 10 lucky Kardians who have the TXID ending with “A6”

For example: 0x…A6

Join now: http://explorer.kardiachain.io

Let’s change the avatar and be part of our Mainnet journey like you have always done! APPLY HERE: https://facebook.com/KardiaChain/posts/1171815189941654

For early swap token participants, please check your account balance via Github link:

https://github.com/kardiachain/go-kardia/blob/master/cmd/cfg/genesis.yaml

9. KardiaChain has successfully completed the ERC-20 Token Burn and Native Token Issuance!

We have burnt approximately 860 mils ERC20 KAI for the following purposes:

1, 187.5 mil KAI from business validators

2, 72,168,005 KAI from community validators

3, 100,226,000.982 KAI from Early token swap pool

4, 500 mil KAI from block rewards

Total token burn: 859,894,005.982 KAI

We will reissue the same amount of native KAI token on the genesis block.

You can check 4 txIDs for the burnt action HERE.

10. Early token swap 1: join the network early and start earning rewards as well as a place in our history.

Delegators were able to swap their ERC tokens to mainnet tokens in advance of the Dec 29th. The first 100M ERC20 KAI has been swapped to the native KAI token before Mainnet launch on 29/12:

1M USD worth of KAI delegated in 27 minutes! 100,000,000 KAI (~2.5M USD) Successfully Swapped to Native Token in only 14 hours.

Only those native KAI tokens can be used to stake or utilize the KardiaChain Mainnet ecosystem.

11. Community ahead of mainnet launch with Huy Nguyen, KardiaChain CTO

Wed, Dec 23rd | 7pm GMT+7 | Official Kardiachain Telegram Group @Kardiachain

We have moved our Fengari Test 3.0 to the following URL: https://testnet.kardiachain.io as the old one https://explorer.kardiachain.io will be ready for Mainnet Explorer.

12. The fully-fledged master web wallet. Production-ready for mainnet launch!

Users can utilize all wallet-related functions such as building Dapps, interacting with a smart contract, staking and much more!

https://wallet.kardiachain.io

13. Official announcement for the Launch:

14. The birth of KardiaChain mainnet: “After 3 years of research and development, we officially launched the first interoperability blockchain infrastructure in South East Asia, and in doing so we have produced the world’s first non-invasive cross-chain solution.” HUY NGUYEN- CO-FOUNDER & CTO

15. The Mainnet launch was also covered on the top traditional media sites in the world and in the nation: CryptoSlate, BTCmanager, CryptoNinjas, Investing.com, Thanhnien.vn (The Young news) and ICTnews (News for technology)

https://www.investing.com/news/cryptocurrency-news/lgs-consulting-arm-joins-kardiachain-mainnet-validators-237095

Please see the translation for those Press releases here. (English version).

16. Youtube Mentioning: Mainnet:

With 1inch exchange hype, KardiaChain mainnet hype was attractive:

Huy Nguyen, CTO & Co Founder of KardiaChain on MAINNET Release! | Blockchain Interviews

IV. COMMUNITY AND PRESS

  1. CEO KardiaChain and the passionate journey to blockchainise Vietnam — featured on the no.1 newspaper VNExpress:

“I want to build a national blockchain for Vietnam”

English version:

2. The Top Tech Trends and Companies To Watch In 2021.

Proud to have us.

Source: Yahoo Finance, Benzinga, Newsbreak

3. KardiaChain is considered a trend technology company.

[…] this technology will help Vietnamese businesses in particular and Southeast Asia, in general, go off and take advantage of blockchain.

- reported VNExpress, top 1 Vietnamese newspaper.

KardiaChain — blockchain platform development startup with a team of 100% Vietnamese has recently been mentioned by Yahoo Finance as one of the promising names, at the forefront of the Cross-Chain Communication trend.

BitCourier (UK) once mentioned KardiaChain technology as a push that could change the face of the world’s blockchain industry.

We are humbled to be the blockchain model being highlighted in the summit. Another step for $KAI to Southeast Asia expansion.

4. KardiaChain featured in “Proud of blockchain Make in Vietnam” article by The world and Vietnam report — Special publication for the 37th ASEAN Summit. The readers are high-level delegates and officials from all around the Southeast Asia region who participate in the event. This publication shows the attention of the Ministry of Science and Technology on blockchain.

https://t.me/kardiachainofficial/394

  1. KardiaChain CTO as speaker in TechFest Vietnam 2020— the most prominent technology conference in Vietnam! on November 27–29th

This is the largest tech event hosted by the Ministry of Science and Technology, in collaboration with the Communist Youth Union and other ministries and socio-economic organizations.

KardiaChain in TECHFEST 2020 Highlights: Prime Minister Keynotes, Government on Innovative Tech, and DeFi discussions

CTO Huy Nguyen has joined the panelist of Fintech Village: Blockchain 2030. The whole conference was covered in 550 news articles in over 25 countries, 6,500 direct attendees, 300 businesses have emerged themselves with innovative tech.

2. HOT CRYPTO PROJECTS 2021: Poolz | KardiaChain | Duck Dao | Plus More! — By The New Kids On The Blockchain Youtube Channel

KardiaChain Co-founder and CTO Huy Nguyen has had the honor to line up with other hottest projects, initiating 2021!

🎥 16:07: 20:50 — One to watch ‘KardiaChain With Huy’

3. A random office tour at KardiaChain Headquarter — District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

For a personal approach, we filmed this unofficial video while everyone’s working on their things.

3. Congrats to our beloved KardiaChain Saigon FC (KSG) on conquering SPL (Saigon Premier League) 2 times in a row. After presenting Ho Chi Minh city to join VPL (National scale) championship on 27th December right before our crucial #mainnet #launch, we won the Second rank eventually. Such a fruitful tournament!

4. A casual interview from our developer: From Testnet Fengari 3.0 to Mainnet Aris 1.0

V. RANKING IN CRYPTO LANDSCAPE

1. TOP-15 tokens by Current ROI that had a premier listing on CEX in 2020

2. ​​TOP 10 best performing coins that had premiere listing in 2020.

3. TOP 15 coins by LunarCRUSH Galaxy Score

4. KardiaChain was featured on LunarCrush single post by a current high Galaxy Score™ of 78/100

TOP 15 coins by @LunarCRUSH Galaxy Score

TOP 10 best performing coins that had premiere listing in 2020

Top Altcoins by 6 Months Price Performance

Top 5 Tokens by Alt Rank: November 18th

5. UPCOMING EVENTS IN NOVEMBER: KAI Zodiac Hunger Games, Mainnet — AERGO vs other Hybrid Blockchains Kadena, Kardiachain & Insolar

https://t.me/c/1271194353/2112

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