Harmony

In December, the Harmony team gathered for <a href="https://open.harmony.one/monthly-newsletters-updates/community-events-conferences/day-one" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">DayONE</a> in San Francisco to celebrate the growth of the ecosystem in 2021. The team hosted 400 guests to discuss the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v&#61;3nh6tv0i0hU" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">future of Web3</a> along with the leading founders, builders, and investors. We also launched <a href="https://data.chain.link/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Chainlink price feeds</a> on Harmony mainnet as the oracle solution for DeFi projects in the Harmony ecosystem.TL:DR - December Updates<ul><li><a href="https://medium.com/harmony-one/chainlink-price-feeds-running-live-on-harmony-mainnet-empowering-developers-building-defi-apps-4ddcd2208af9" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Chainlink</a> launch on Harmony</li><li><a href="https://open.harmony.one/onequest-daily-race-for-1m-users" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">ONEquest</a> to onboard 1m users</li><li><a href="https://open.harmony.one/monthly-newsletters-updates/community-events-conferences/day-one" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">DayONE</a> hosting 400 plus builders &amp; leaders</li><li>Team offsite on 2022 initiatives</li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/OneAfricaDao" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">ONEAfrica DAO</a> hosts first meetup in Kenya</li><li><a href="https://open.harmony.one/daos-plans-progra/join-one-of-our-regional-daos" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Regional DAOs</a> have begun translations in regional languages</li><li>Want to become ONE with Harmony? Join us</li><li><a href="https://zku.one/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Zku.one</a> launch - A learn to earn initiative by Harmony</li></ul><a href="https://medium.com/harmony-one/chainlink-price-feeds-running-live-on-harmony-mainnet-empowering-developers-building-defi-apps-4ddcd2208af9" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Chainlink</a> - has launched on Harmony. With this integration, it&#39;s never been easier to create and execute such smart contract logic in a highly secure and reliable manner. To start building with Chainlink Price Feeds on Harmony today, refer to the following <a href="https://docs.harmony.one/home/developers/tools/oracles/chainlink" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">developer documentation</a>.<a href="https://open.harmony.one/onequest-daily-race-for-1m-users" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">ONEquest</a> - Harmony aims to onboard ONE million users in the coming months. Now you can enter #ONEquest and win 1,000 ONE tokens as daily prizes for the race! To enter and win, complete the <a href="https://open.harmony.one/onequest-daily-race-for-1m-users" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">assigned five tasks</a>. The fastest time from a wallet creation to posting #ONEquest on Twitter wins.<a href="https://open.harmony.one/monthly-newsletters-updates/community-events-conferences/day-one" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">DayONE</a> - Our team hosted 400 web3 builders and leaders in San Francisco for our #DayONE event to discuss the future of web3! The event was started with Stephen Tse’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v&#61;58Gn-C0mSYc&amp;t&#61;76s" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">keynote speech</a> on “<a href="https://harmonyone.notion.site/100-DAOs-Cross-Chain-Web3-dfa19481e3644c1181593a113d9c7e3a" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">100 DAOs &amp; Cross-Chain Web3</a>” followed by Gmunk<a href="https://youtu.be/ejUphgUn_m8" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> showcasing his catalogue</a> of digital art &amp; NFT collection. Next, was a fireside chat with <a href="https://twitter.com/AnnieFauv" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Anne Fauvre-Willis</a> from OpenSea on the “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v&#61;KPjh2FacdN4" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Next Era for NFTs</a>”. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v&#61;3nh6tv0i0hU" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Harmony core team</a> came together to talk about the <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1fNKqkbROn63L8jSAZufO6GD8w5hY_moPehln_m8vFO4" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Harmony Project Highlights</a>”. The event also had the top leaders &amp; builders from Polychain Capital, FalconX, Next Hollywood and more engage in web3 discussions.  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v&#61;AvmYCu-wwhU" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Watch the whole event</a>.Team Offsite - To cap off the year, the Harmony core team met offsite to build strategies  on 2022 initiatives. Topics included NFT infrastructure, ZK proofs, and scaling the Harmony Ecosystem.<a href="https://twitter.com/OneAfricaDao" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">ONE Africa DAO</a> - made blue waves in Kenya by hosting one of the first Harmony Africa meetups. The DAO hosted a “<a href="https://twitter.com/OneAfricaDao/status/1471858571612676096?s&#61;20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">What is the future of blockchain</a>” themed meetup on 21st December 2021 calling out aspiring African DAOs to present their innovative projects and asking the Harmony community to join in on sharing their opinion.<a href="https://open.harmony.one/daos-plans-progra/join-one-of-our-regional-daos" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Regional DAOs</a> - Our <a href="https://blog.harmony.one/harmony-2021-year-in-review-december-updates-chainlink-dayone-ecosystem-growth/open.harmony.one" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">open.harmony.one</a> page has begun translations in 8 regional languages that include <a href="https://www.notion.so/harmonyone/b95dd01e13ee4084a381d48e228b90b5?v&#61;cd1be0cea0be4e7299defd7ce1cc771d" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Portuguese</a>, <a href="https://www.notion.so/harmonyone/1b26aa8b1b5147bca5121f16e3c24341?v&#61;564b35a13aee4b91bf36860c504fa014" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Spanish</a>, <a href="https://www.notion.so/harmonyone/621eddbc944140109e8804287c3f6619?v&#61;518ef90afd384210a47d669d45fab040" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Russian</a>, <a href="https://www.notion.so/harmonyone/8fae858e58eb4dff9d3373123e348218?v&#61;56fe556849e247ce90e79960b5425793" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Korean</a>, <a href="https://www.notion.so/harmonyone/8b4e1621136244359f608cae7cd7b4cb?v&#61;9b6914f174574bc69b8b57eba4da876e" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">French</a>, <a href="https://www.notion.so/harmonyone/d6b998ee316a4d0fb61afabecde2de3f?v&#61;45420b50689f40d49496e421e8c5c041" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">German</a>, <a href="https://www.notion.so/harmonyone/a09c6833e25b43a1abdb96170e3b8b6e?v&#61;0ec21801fbe54f8ebd1af8a0385e6bcc" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Indonesian</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.notion.so/harmonyone/b400ac5b161a4b798fe4583fe1523397?v&#61;8c88f485af0c42daa4e755dd41877df4" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Chinese</a>. We aim for more!Harmony Careers - Harmony is a <a href="https://twitter.com/shmula/status/1471191584884637702?s&#61;20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">community-driven project</a>, a network with billion dollars of assets, and a team wearing crazy ambitions on their sleeves. If you are an engineer, product designer, ecosystem builder, business developer or extremely passionate about the blockchain ecosystem, we’ve got a place for you! Apply today at career&#64;harmony.one.<a href="https://zku.one/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">zku.ONE</a> - is a #learntoearn initiative from Harmony. ZKU is a 7- week intensive course with practical hands-on learning and mentorship from industry experts. Guidance and further mentorship opportunities will also be provided for students who complete their final project, to allow them to apply for a $50,000 launch grant to kickstart their careers. The course starts on Dec 23 (Thursday). Register <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScM2VcunY80K1jmlHvXqsjLlFnUBMva9j8mcdATPCAWLW66Gg/viewform?usp&#61;send_form" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">here</a> by January 2nd, 2022.<h2 id="header-0">Harmony 2021 Year in Review &amp; Ecosystem Growth</h2>From launching on mainnet to achieving 2-second finality, 2021 has been a year of growth of our ecosystem, the Harmony team has been focused on adoption, interoperability &amp; decentralization. We accelerated adoption for the next 1 million users through workshops for developers, <a href="https://open.harmony.one/1m-hackathon-dao-on-building-bridges" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">hackathons</a> &amp; <a href="https://open.harmony.one/300m-on-bounties-grants-daos" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">grants</a>.Our success metrics for 2021<a href="https://harmony.smartstake.io/history" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Apps</a> - 227 apps with 553,511 walletsPayouts - $7.71m payout for 108 Gitcoin bounties<a href="https://bridge.harmony.one/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Assets</a> - 400m&#43; assets locked across cross chain bridges<a href="https://davinci.gallery/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Artists</a> - 7,483 artists with $1.07m NFT salesTL:DR 2021 Year in Review &amp; Ecosystem Growth<ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/harmonyprotocol/status/1357446592597348352?s&#61;20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ethereum Tooling</a></li><li><a href="https://medium.com/harmony-one/sushi-and-harmony-announce-full-stack-partnership-with-4m-in-incentives-6dfaf6dd8887?source&#61;false---------2" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Sushiswap launch</a> &amp; <a href="https://gov.curve.fi/t/launch-curve-on-harmony/2092" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Curve finance</a> launched on Harmony</li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v&#61;wpLEemEncuo" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Harmony Explorer</a> went live.</li><li>Harmony launched on <a href="https://medium.com/harmony-one/introducing-horizon-an-ethereum-harmony-cross-chain-bridge-2f56ed7214b3" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Horizon Bridge</a></li><li>We launched our <a href="https://medium.com/harmony-one/harmony-launches-cross-chain-nft-bridge-4de450cdb00e" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">cross-chain NFT bridge</a></li><li>Our <a href="https://hack.harmony.one/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$1 Million Hackathon</a> was incredible</li><li>You can build on Harmony using our <a href="https://open.harmony.one/300m-on-bounties-grants-daos" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$300M ecosystem fund</a></li><li>Check what <a href="https://messari.io/article/at-one-with-harmony" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Messari</a> has to say about Harmony</li><li>Events: <a href="https://twitter.com/lijiang2087/status/1419445306626740226?s&#61;20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">EthCC</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/harmonyprotocol/status/1451299755456282624?s&#61;20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Liscon</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/harmonyprotocol/status/1455507726453202947?s&#61;20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">NFT NYC</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/harmonyprotocol/status/1461438241039536134?s&#61;20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Dcentral Miami</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/harmonyprotocol/status/1477720029235798016?s&#61;20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">DayONE</a></li></ul>Harmony Network &amp; Blockchain EcosystemHarmony started the year by publishing our <a href="https://medium.com/harmony-one/harmony-2020-year-in-review-ecosystem-growth-f414a86dbda9" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">2020 ecosystem growth</a> and writing out our <a href="https://twitter.com/harmonyprotocol/status/1349459929506091009?s&#61;20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">roadmap</a> and strategy for 2021. We also completed <a href="https://twitter.com/harmonyprotocol/status/1357446592597348352?s&#61;20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">full Ethereum tooling</a> compatibility to allow developers to scale their applications on Harmony with low fees.We delivered products and partnerships that greatly advanced our mission of building the future of cross-chain finance. Automated money markets like <a href="https://medium.com/harmony-one/sushi-and-harmony-announce-full-stack-partnership-with-4m-in-incentives-6dfaf6dd8887?source&#61;false---------2" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Sushiswap</a> &amp; <a href="https://gov.curve.fi/t/launch-curve-on-harmony/2092" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Curve Finance</a> launched on Harmony, the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v&#61;wpLEemEncuo" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Harmony Explorer</a> upgrade went live. Harmony also launched <a href="https://medium.com/harmony-one/introducing-horizon-an-ethereum-harmony-cross-chain-bridge-2f56ed7214b3" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Horizon bridge</a>, the first version of its Ethereum-Harmony cross-chain bridge on mainnet and then further extended to Binance Smart Chain (BSC).We also launched our <a href="https://medium.com/harmony-one/harmony-launches-cross-chain-nft-bridge-4de450cdb00e" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">cross-chain NFT bridge</a> as part of the Horizon bridge. Cross-chain NFT bridge is as easy-to-use as the ERC20 token bridge on Horizon. There is a short video to demonstrate <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v&#61;xmPYG0XxFNk" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">how to use the NFT bridge</a>.We also launched our <a href="https://hack.harmony.one/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$1 Million Hackathon Announced</a> to bring Traditional Finance to Decentralized Finance. With over $1,000,000 in prizes and seed funding from Harmony and Prize Partners.In September before ETH Lisbon 2021, we announced our <a href="https://open.harmony.one/300m-on-bounties-grants-daos" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">$300M ecosystem fund</a> for <a href="https://open.harmony.one/100-daos-and-top-domain-country" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">100 DAOs</a>. By now, we have 23 DAOs that are now funded with Gnosis Safe multi-signatures and Snapshot votings.Harmony was featured in the <a href="https://messari.io/article/at-one-with-harmony" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Messari Report</a> that goes in-depth about Harmony’s competing power, they said, “Harmony has the potential to compete with both L1s and L2s using its low fee, fast, and trustless bridge.”Ecosystem &amp; Partners<ul><li><a href="https://twitter.com/justziit" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Zi Wang</a> -  (Timeless CEO): <a href="https://harmonyone.notion.site/Zi-Wang-Timeless-CEO-Curator-DAO-for-NFT-Moments-406be9f618194fd8af64dd365942ede9" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Curator DAO for NFT Moments</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/polymorpher" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Aaron Li</a>: 1Wallet with <a href="https://www.notion.so/Aaron-Li-1Wallet-with-Smart-One-Time-Password-Authentication-414b62305044493d8ed4f260c65d0429" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Smart One-Time-Password Authenticator</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/tranquil_fi" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">0xKrillin</a> (Tranquil Finance): <a href="https://www.notion.so/0xKrillin-Tranquil-Finance-Permissionless-Money-Market-8d5de938263b4de3bcb16ea48bea29fb" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Permissionless Money Market</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/DreamerDFK" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">&#64;DreamerDFK</a> (DeFi Kingdoms): <a href="https://www.notion.so/DreamerDFK-DeFi-Kingdoms-Play-to-Earn-Cross-DeFi-7a30e46686ba469b94a90bd11196716a" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Play-to-Earn Cross DeFi</a></li></ul>Harmony EventsOur team connected with partners in Paris during the <a href="https://twitter.com/lijiang2087/status/1419445306626740226?s&#61;20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ethereum Community Conference</a> (EthCC).Our team gathered in Lisbon to partner with builders, creators, dreamers, and the crypto community. The Harmony team <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list&#61;PLAzkb1vJXQOTu8tHzt8ZYFUH6RS9z2S1N" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">spoke to over 100 Web3 builders</a> to plan out products and campaigns. We launched our first billboard video during NFT NYC titled “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v&#61;lYoL5mQciFA" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Create Wealth in Harmony</a>’’ in Times Square.We also participated in <a href="https://open.harmony.one/monthly-newsletters-updates/community-events-conferences/dcentral-miami" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Dcentral Miami</a>, with our booth featuring our ecosystem project that included Defi Kingdoms, MadinArt and others.Lastly, we hosted a year-end event DAY ONE in San Francisco on December 8th to celebrate the entire ecosystem.Become ONE with HarmonyDevelopers can<a href="https://docs.harmony.one/home/developers/sdk" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> build on Harmony today</a>, a fast and open blockchain for decentralized applications. Harmony Mainnet supports state sharding with instant finality. Our staking mechanism reduces centralization while supporting delegation and slashing.We ❤️ DevelopersGot an idea? Build it on Harmony and Apply for a Grant.<a href="https://harmony.one/telegram" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Telegram</a> |<a href="https://harmony.one/twitter" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> Twitter</a> |<a href="https://harmony.one/discord" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> Discord</a> |<a href="https://harmony.one/youtube" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> Youtube</a> |<a href="https://harmony.one/medium" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> Medium</a> |<a href="https://harmony.one/facebook" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> Facebook</a> |<a href="https://harmony.one/linkedin" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> LinkedIn</a> |<a href="https://harmony.one/reddit" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> Reddit</a> |<a href="https://harmony.one/instagram" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"> Instagram</a>

Harmony 2021 Year in Review & December Updates: Chainlink, #DayONE & ecosystem growth!

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