# Last Month at QRL - October 2022

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Published: 2022-11-04
Updated: 2022-11-04



Author: Jack Matier



Categories: technical












Highlights Strategic update: The Sleeper Must Awaken Today, crypto is so much more than just a peer-to-peer value transfer, with DeFi, NFTs, DAO’s, DEX’s and more coming into the space over the last few years. The market capitalization has exploded and blockchain technology is on the verge of entering the mainstream.
QRL, being well into its 7th year of existence, is changing with that, introducing smart-contracts for programmable assets, and Proof-of-Stake as a more efficient and robust consensus mechanism.
Important changes to project governance and funding will soon be announced. The first step of this will be a public grants system aimed at supporting: core development, research, education and documentation and for the first time, community.
More can be read in our Sleeper Must Awaken blog.
Advocacy Awesome projects built at the QRL Hackathon 2022 At QRL’s first ever in-person Hackathon, which took place in Amsterdam in September of this year, some really impressive projects were developed, which we’ve given an overview of on youtube.
In the community QRL ↔ NUDES Meme Contest The QRL ↔ NUDES communities joined forces and launched a meme contest October 11th 10:00 AM UTC to October 31st 10:00 AM UTC with over $5000 in prizes and the winners have been announced!
AND THE WINNING MEMES ARE:
1st place - $1,200 in QRL tokens
QRL will change your life, by kurubatermit
2nd place - $750 in QRL tokens
Protected Dating, by tema1923
3rd place - $500 in QRL tokens
QRL’s pony is ready to give BTC a ride!, by amer1can_qrl
4th place - $300 in QRL tokens
QRL - ENTANGLE ME, by cuetum_ (Since cuetum_ is a Nudes General, his prize is donated to the Excellence Awards prize pool)
5th place - $250 in QRL tokens
Quantum computers getting crazy, by MEMEFORLAMBO
Excellence Awards
For this contest we had the QRL community team and Nudes Army OGs pick their favorite memes to win Excellence Awards! $2,300 in QRL and 250 Billion NUDES will be divided equally among winning memes.
~$143.75 USD in QRL and 15.6 Billion NUDES will be awarded to each of the following 16 winning memes:
QRL ALWAYS WINS, by EmmanuelAlufa clever brain, by dimaeth What QRL can do for you, by wormpke_11 QRL Waves, by 0xff_qrl most crypto now, by dimaeth Blockchain Transactions, by not_wong_cityx Stay safe, join now, by wormpke_11 BTC is not #futureproof, by 0xff_qrl NUDES X QRL, by EmmanuelAlufa More QRL Memes Coming for NUDES.army, by happysmash27 To The Moon!, by AlanTob28214727 !!!, by dimaeth The Lost On Galaxy, by RumbLeZet handmade night lamp, by DodyChalkzone Something Big is Coming !, by crypto_bearzz Guys literally only want this one thing, by Robyer To see more QRL meme’s, you’ll want to check out the contest page.
OneQRL: Questions & Answers Since the launch of OneQRL.com at the 2022 Hackathon, the OneQRL Team intentionally left the FAQ section unfinished.
Last month, the OneQRL Team got the community involved and gave a 10 Quanta reward to the most voted Questions/Answers each. This event lasted from October 24th to October 31st
Quantum Computing Advances Changelog theQRL/qrandomx Minor fix for RandomX Block Verification while mining block at different seed + more unit tests
[6f711] Fix: RandomX block verification while a block with different seed hash is mined [1b712] code cleanup [87841] Updated google test git link [aaef9] qrxminer store mainHeight and seedHeight params for threads theQRL/theqrl.org New blog: The Sleeper Must Awaken
[99f84] New blog: The Sleeper Must Awaken QREVM -> QRVM (and remove unofficial repo)
[ce3a1] QREVM -> QRVM (and remove unofficial repo) Fix Discord invite link
[724f8] Adjust assets [bbdcf] Fix invite link Add last month at QRL - September 2022 blog
[13130] Allow image includes for quantum news [95334] Update quantum news [31a70] Add last month at QRL - September 2022 blog Fix API links on homepage
[79a48] Fix API links on homepage [ec2ae] Merge branch ’theQRL:main’ into main