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Last Month at QRL - October 2022
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.
read moreThe sleeper must awaken
State of QRL First off, the hackathon in Amsterdam was a fantastic affair. It was brilliant to meet up with so many members of the passionate QRL community in person. It was certainly successful and I very much look forward to a bigger and better successor event next year - the only questions are when and where? Development continues apace with multiple new developers joining the project in recent months. The QRL network is about to become a very exciting place to be with the advent of POS and smart contract capabilities at the next major release.
read moreLast Month at QRL - September 2022
The official Public Devnet Launch of Zond with EVM Smart Contracts and Proof-of-Stake! A number of interesting ideas were presented at the first real-world QRL Hackathon in 2022, and the community was fantastic. The winning entry, QRLPay, won with being a simple, quick-to-deploy, lightweight QRL payment processor and woocommerce website that connects to your own QRL node
read moreQRL Hackathon 2022 Entries
With the final day of the hackathon upon us, we’re happy to reveal the projects that’s being worked on and for the team and community to take a vote on some of your favourites for Best Ecosystem Improvement. Voting will be taking place in our Discord between 2pm and 3:30pm Amsterdam time (UTC) and be weighted 50/50 between the team and the community. Please vote responsibly. 100,000 QRL is at stake so vote responsibly!
read moreIntroducing a powerful post-quantum safe public devnet pre-release with Ethereum Web3 ecosystem compatibility
Anyone is now able to run their own Proof-of-Stake node connected to the public devnet network, stake, and enjoy many of the pleasures of the web3 ecosystem, all while knowing that it was created with longevity and security in mind.
read moreLast Month at QRL - August 2022
The QRL Hackathon 2022 has officially begun, opening the doors for everyone from institutions to individuals to be able to build post-quantum secure web3 applications more through Ethereum compatible smart contracts. Interested? Join the hackathon today.
read moreThe QRL Hackathon 2022 Begins
The team at QRL is delighted to announce the ‘Build on QRL Protocol’ hackathon event has officially begun! We’re beginning the Hackathon with Team Building & Ideation (Stage 1). The importance of this stage is threefold: For you to understand Hackathon Rules & Guidelines Register (if you haven’t already)! Join Discord for Team Building to inform us if you’ll be in-person/online, ability to form teams/ideate/ask us questions/and so on. Click on the link here to Get Started
read moreLast Month at QRL - July 2022
Another developer joins QRL to work on project Zond with more to come! The Hackathon registration is open for everyone of all skill levels to build on the QRL. Make sure you don’t miss out on our talk about QRL, Geometry Labs, and NIST Working in parallel to create post-quantum resistant cryptographic algorithms.
read moreGrowing the QRL family
A warm welcome to Prajjawal who joined the team earlier this month and is working as a Software Development Engineer on project Zond - the Proof-of-Stake/EVM compatibility upgrade
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