A Candidate Chain & Recognizing Community Effort [EOS Launch Update]

Lately, we have been very busy helping the community to build an open network that will spearhead EOS into the world.

A Candidate Chain

We are pleased to say that yesterday around 5pm, we started receiving blocks from a community started chain. They loaded 694,947 actions into 4,550 initial blocks, honoring the contribution of everyone participating in the ERC-20 token crowdsale.

Since then, an impressive number of Block Producer Candidates have been tirelessly working to ensure all the contracts were correct, all the balances were honored properly, and all the governance texts were correct and on-chain.

A special contract (`eosio.unregd`) was also included to honor those who have not been able to register their EOS key: this account holds 3,301,220.3641 EOS right now. By having that included in the chain, Block Producers will be able to, in the future, honor those contributions as well.

We are being extra cautious in how events unfold, but I have to say that all validation, stress testing by all participating Block Producer Candidates, have passed on that chain. The chain in question has a `chain_id` of:

579a649aae8f660aa1abbab262437596d1f388f709b0b94a9fd6bba479889ea5

Going The Extra Mile

Today, the team at EOS Canada took the time to do a profound deep-dive on this issue that could have put the whole network at risk, if not clearly understood. A solution was found by Block.one in a timely fashion and we are now confident to move forward.

Recognizing Community Effort

In the past weeks, we had a total of 150+ community members working together to prepare and practice the launch of the mainnet. Through video conference calls and Telegram chats, all actively coordinating the launch with the group, sharing their opinion, learning about the boot process and asking questions - in both Chinese and English. We have been getting better every day with great rehearsals, rapid consensus, multiple Block Producers able to boot and more validation.

With all the excitement around the launch, we would like to take the opportunity to thank each member of the community who helped out setting up 20 testnets, improving the boot process together, and baking it into software.

It's an honor to work with you all! (in alphabetical order)

1. Aloha EOS
2. Bitspace
3. BlockEOS
4. Blockgenic
5. Block Matrix
6. BlockPro1
7. Cybex
8. Cypherglass
9. DposClub
10. DutchEOS
11. Easypayx
12. EOS 42
13. EOS 90s
14. EOS Amsterdam
15. EOS Antpool
16. EOS Argentina
17. EOS Asia
18. EOS Authority
19. EOS Beijing
20. EOS Bepal
21. EOS Bixin
22. EOS BlockSmith
23. EOS Cafe
24. EOS Cannon
25. EOS ChainClub
26. EOS COCOS
27. EOS Costa Rica
28. EOS Cube
29. EOS Detroit
30. EOS Dublin
31. EOSeco
32. EOS Flare
33. EOS Germany
34. EOS Gravity
35. EOS HCC
36. EOS India
37. EOSIO.SG
38. EOS JRR
39. EOS Japan
40. EOS LaoMao
41. EOS Meso
42. EOS Metal
43. EOS Mediterranean
44. EOS Nairobi
45. EOS Nation
46. EOS Network
47. EOS New York
48. EOS-NL
49. EOS NodeOne
50. EOS ONO
51. EOS Pacific
52. EOS Palliums
53. EOSpace
54. EOSphere
55. EOStark
56. EOS Rio
57. EOS Romania
58. EOS Silicon Valley
59. EOS Singapore
60. EOS SoCal
61. EOS Store
62. EOSYS
63. EOS TaxRelief
64. EOS Thu
65. EOS Titan
66. EOS Tribe
67. EOS Vibes
68. EOSvillage
69. EOS Union
70. EOS UK
71. EOS Vikings
72. EOS Wancloud
73. EOS Wenzhou
74. EOS Worbli
75. EOS WTZ
76. GenerEOS
77. GEOS
78. LibertyBlock
79. HelloEOS
80. HuobiPool
81. JEDA
82. MeetOne
83. onechaindapp
84. Oracle Chain
85. shEOS
86. SuperOne
87. TokenPocket
88. Top.one
89. Unlimited EOS

We hope we haven't forgotten anyone. If we have, please contact us and we will fix it immediately.

We want to acknowledge the following individuals in a special way:

• People who did a great job helping with translation to successfully bridge the discussion between Chinese and overseas Block Producer communities: Dafeng from EOS Asia, Joshua from EOSeco, Tyee from EOSpace, Winlin from EOS Bixin, Bean from EOS Cannon, and Zhao Yu -from EOS LaoMao. We feel that bridging the West and the East is a great achievement of the EOS community.
• Denis Carriere, from EOS Nation, for his community leadership in the Scholar Testnet all the way through a mainnet candidate.
• JJ from EOS Germany kindly led an effort to try and attack the network launch to test the security of the network.
• Craig from EOS BlockSmith for helping to onboard new Block Producers to the multiple testnets in the last weeks.
• Bean from EOS Cannon, who wrote an introductory article on the `eos-bios`
• Nate from Aloha EOS, for helping with the issue this afternoon.
• Sharif and Sam from EOS Dublin, for their leadership.
• Bohdan from Crypto Lions, for his deep technical expertise on the EOS software, his commitment to testing and his willingness to share in his knowledge.