September EOS BP Meeting Recap
Introduction
The monthly EOS Block Producer (BP) meetings are intended to establish regular communications between the top 30 EOS BPs and the EOS Network Foundation (ENF), to foster an open dialogue between network operators and custodians in support of the mutual development of the EOS ecosystem.
Meeting Overview
The meeting began at 1:00 UTC on September 27th, 2023. 21 BPs attended the call, and a total of 28 people participated in the discussion. The Interprefy tool was used in the call for synchronous translation to facilitate the free flow of information across multiple languages in real-time.
Beatrice Wang, Communications Manager for the ENF, greeted those in attendance and kicked off the meeting with a brief overview of the topics to be discussed.
ENF Founder and CEO Yves La Rose began the discussion with an update on the forthcoming release of Leap 5.
Leap 5 Update
Yves revealed that issues were discovered during the integration phase of incorporating Instant Finality into Leap 5 which would bring a low-to-medium risk for either a double spend or halt in operations. This risk to the network is non-negotiable for deployment. Consequently this will require a couple of extra months for ENF engineers to sort out in partnership with the UX Network team. Leap 5 will still ship with a number of innovative new features, while Instant Finality will be included in the next major release, Leap 6, as it is a consensus upgrade (hard fork).
This update goes into greater detail around the rationale for the pivot as well as the ample features still contained within Leap 5.
Additional context can also be found in the September 28th Antelope Coalition call.
EOS Network Now Carbon Positive
EOS was the world’s first carbon neutral blockchain. This initiative was originally led by block producer EOS Authority beginning in November 2018, while Upland, the open web3 metaverse super-app mapped to the real world, has been driving sustainability efforts on EOS as a carbon offset sponsor since 2021. This year we’ve partnered with Upland to be able to continue that, and have taken things a step further and we are now climate positive. Being climate positive means that we are going beyond achieving net-zero carbon emissions to create an environmental benefit by removing additional carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
EOS Labs update
EOS Labs Founder and CEO Huaqiang Wen next delivered some remarks on the recent activities of EOS Labs.
EOS Labs has recently communicated with a total of 107 projects, of which 22 are investment-related. Four of the investments are onboarding. ENV will disclose the final investment results at the appropriate time.
The EOS EVM Mainnet Bridge will soon support USDT and other native assets. Third-party decentralized bridges will also begin connecting EOS and other public chains.
EOS Labs is cooperating with licensed and compliant institutions such as centralized exchanges to issue BTC, stablecoins, and other assets on EOS. Labs may also introduce Real World Assets (RWA’s) in the future.
EOS Labs is contacting more game developers and platforms with a focus on social games. At the same time, EOS Labs is also exploring the Telegram mini app, so users can play games or use web3 applications without leaving Telegram.
Q: On the topic of social logins, will Discord also be considered to build this easy-onboarding wallet functionality? For example “POP” NFT’s are using this Discord EOS account linking.
A: It will take some time to study; however, the current focus will be on Telegram. At present, it seems that Telegram’s number of users and daily active users are better.
Block Producer Attendee List
- GenerEOS
- Newdex
- EOS Nation
- EOSeoul
- Big.ONE
- EOSFlytoMARS
- StartEOS
- Blockpool
- EOS SG
- Hashfin
- Defibox
- EOSUSA
- EOSlambdacom
- EOSphere
- Moreisfuture
- EOS WIKI
- Slowmist
- EOS42
- EOSSupport
- Greymass
- Detroit Ledger Technology
EOS Network
The EOS Network is a 3rd generation blockchain platform powered by the EOS VM, a low-latency, highly performant, and extensible WebAssembly engine for deterministic execution of near feeless transactions; purpose-built for enabling optimal Web3 user and developer experiences. EOS is the flagship blockchain and financial center of the Antelope framework, serving as the driving force behind multi-chain collaboration and public goods funding for tools and infrastructure through the EOS Network Foundation (ENF).
EOS EVM
The EOS EVM is an emulation of the Ethereum EVM, housed within an EOS smart contract. It offers feature parity to other EVMs in the space but with unmatched speed, performance and compatibility. EOS EVM connects the EOS ecosystem to the Ethereum ecosystem by allowing developers to deploy a wide array of Solidity-based digital assets and innovative dApps on EOS. Developers can use EOS EVM to take advantage of Ethereum’s battle-tested open source code, tooling, libraries and SDKs, while leveraging the superior performance of EOS.
EOS Network Foundation
The EOS Network Foundation (ENF) was forged through a vision for a prosperous and decentralized future. Through our key stakeholder engagement, community programs, ecosystem funding, and support of an open technology ecosystem, the ENF is transforming Web3. Founded in 2021, the ENF is the hub for EOS Network, a leading open source platform with a suite of stable frameworks, tools, and libraries for blockchain deployments. Together, we are bringing innovations that our community builds and are committed to a stronger future for all.
