If you're in Kyiv, Ukraine, on December 5th, 2019, make sure to visit Leonardo Business Center.
OKEx is hosting a 'Crypto Revolution 2020' meetup, and Audo will be on stage talking about Komodo!

The entry is FREE.

https://twitter.com/KomodoPlatform/status/1202249729880526849?s=20

Komodo CTO Kadan Stadelmann spoke with Decrypt about the new way of performing atomic swaps with Komodo.

“We’ve been working on atomic swaps since 2014 and have even collaborated with their inventor, Tier Nolan."

Read the full article here.
https://decrypt.co/12783/komodo-makes-big-upgrade-to-its-atomic-swap-technology

Komodo CTO Kadan Stadelmann was interviewed by Crypto Murmur about his past and his journey in the blockchain scene.

Read this great interview to get to know ca333 a little better.

https://cryptomurmur.com/get-to-know-kadan-stadelmann/

You can watch yesterday's presentation of Komodo Marketing Manager Audo Kowitz at the OKEx crypto meetup in the link below. See the follow-up tweet to download the presentation slides.

If there are community members, who would like to present Komodo in a local event or meetup feel free to reach out to us and we will do our best to help you out. You could use the same presentation deck as a base and make any necessary changes to it.

https://twitter.com/AudoKowitz/status/1202916655464091649

Komodo is upgrading the code base to version 0.5.0!

On December 20, 2019, at block height 1670000, Komodo will activate a platform-wide update that provides improvements to the Antara Framework, including upgrades to Komodo’s Proof of Stake (PoS) implementation and new modules that make DeFi capabilities available within the Komodo ecosystem.

This is a mandatory platform upgrade, so all miners, exchanges, and individuals running full-seed nodes must update to the latest software prior to block 1670000. Those who do not update prior to December 20 will not run on the correct network.

Find all the details you need in this post.👇
https://komodoplatform.com/komodo-to-activate-platform-wide-update/

Komodo CTO Kadan Stadelmann sat down for a superb interview with Andy Pickering from Brave New Coin. He talks about his past and his background as a white-hat hacker, describes Komodo's vision, and explains why AtomicDEX is the industry leader today.

Listen to the podcast here.

https://bravenewcoin.com/insights/podcasts/atomic-dex-how-the-komodo-decentralized-exchange-enables-atomic-swaps

Friendly reminder that we will upgrade the Komodo code base to version 0.5.0, dubbed Obsidian Dragon on December 20, 2019, at block height 1670000.

As a precaution, we have also advised all services and Exchanges to pause the deposits and withdrawals from Dec. 19th - 21st, 2019.

This is a mandatory platform upgrade, so all miners, exchanges, and individuals running full-seed nodes must update to the latest software before block 1670000. Those who do not update before December 20 will not run on the correct network.

All ecosystem Smart Chains (asset chains) will upgrade on Friday, December 20, 2019 11:06:40 AM UTC (timestamp: 1576840000)

Wallets:
Komodo OceanQT:
https://github.com/DeckerSU/KomodoOcean/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta1-9979ca2

Komodod (core daemon):
https://github.com/KomodoPlatform/komodo/releases/tag/0.5.0

Verus Agama:
https://github.com/VerusCoin/Agama/releases/tag/v0.6.0-1


Details about the Obsidian Dragon update
https://komodoplatform.com/komodo-to-activate-platform-wide-update/?utm_source=Komodo+Main+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5959f75965-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_Newsletter_2019_Dec_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ed5b384f14-5959f75965-589687121

@everyone Komodo wrote blockchain history once again:

This is the first fully automated atomicDEX XTZ <-> ETH cross chain atomic swap:

1. Taker fee: https://ropsten.etherscan.io/tx/0x4cec281438f2b6fe62e77d3cc5c0115fa261f3578fce82f3dd2c4f6fbbab06ee
2. Maker payment: https://babylonnet.tzstats.com/oogYxmZzj5agsW96KJTRtDZQ19wm77bQkqLCv4pPPBzMsR3oEe7
3. Taker payment:
https://ropsten.etherscan.io/tx/0xc83cdee20fda1b55a9b0de28d48c560acb8444e1e2dff60d36100e96090ed651
4. Taker payment spend: https://ropsten.etherscan.io/tx/0xa272e80c8f660d6fc3aee8cd944f3d1cc1de4156240652c4da098667a43da7e3
5. Maker payment spend: https://babylonnet.tzstats.com/ooLVpZc4UU5ozJMM55RCehHHCp3WnwF4tLa19a3NGJhHWzaTgmg

AtomicDEX can now swap XTZ with 99% of all #BTC protocol based coins but also most ETH/ERC based tokens. Full FA1.2 token (XTZ's own smart contract tokens) DEX support is coming soon!

https://twitter.com/0xca333/status/1206576738324680707

@everyone

A friendly reminder that Komodo's mandatory Obsidian Dragon upgrade to the code base version 0.5.0 will happen at block height 1670000. That's about 57 hours from now. This is a mandatory platform upgrade, so all miners, exchanges, and individuals running full-seed nodes must update to the latest software before block 1670000. Those who do not update will not run on the correct network.

As a precaution, we have also advised all services and Exchanges to pause the deposits and withdrawals from Dec. 19th - 21st, 2019.

Wallets:
Komodo OceanQT:
https://github.com/DeckerSU/KomodoOcean/releases/tag/v3.0.0-beta1-9979ca2

Komodod (core daemon):
https://github.com/KomodoPlatform/komodo/releases/tag/0.5.0

Verus Agama:
https://github.com/VerusCoin/Agama/releases/tag/v0.6.0-1

Find all the details about the Obsidian Dragon update here.
https://komodoplatform.com/komodo-to-activate-platform-wide-update/?utm_source=Komodo+Main+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5959f75965-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_Newsletter_2019_Dec_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ed5b384f14-5959f75965-589687121

In August 2019, Komodo introduced nSPV technology, the next generation of Simple Payment Verification (SPV). This new nSPV technology is hundreds, or in some cases even thousands, of times more efficient than traditional Electrum SPV server methods.

As development continues on nSPV, several additional features are emerging.

Read more here.
https://komodoplatform.com/advancing-nspv-technology/

The Komodo Network is ~1860 blocks away from the upgrade to the code base version 0.5.0, dubbed Obsidian Dragon - Please make sure to update in advance!

Those who do not update will not run on the correct network❗️

💥Final reminder everyone. We are 483 blocks, ~8.5h away from the Network upgrade. This is a mandatory platform upgrade, so all miners, exchanges, and individuals running full-seed nodes must update to the latest software before block 1670000. Those who do not update will not run on the correct network.💥

We are happy to announce that our website is now available in Spanish! - Feliz año nuevo! Estamos felices de darte a saber que ahora puedes accesar la página web de Komodo Platform en Español. Únete a nuestra comunidad de Blockchain en Latinamerica y España.

https://twitter.com/KomodoPlatform/status/1214153843921113089?s=20

We have added two new tasks to the bounty campaign! The prize pool has over 3000 $KMD. Increase your chances of winning by completing these two new tasks. 🎁
https://gleam.io/voeqw/komodo-platform-community-portal-bounty