ProtonUK Newsletter #14
Hello Protonians,
Welcome to Newsletter #14
It's been solid 14 weeks and there's always something new and exciting to write about and share with you.
Happy reading and thank you for your support!
Proton
An amazing announcement by Proton team today - Developers Grants! The Proton Worker Proposal System allows developers to apply for funding of up to 2,000,000 $XPR to build on Proton Chain:
Get funding to build on #Proton.
— Proton | $XPR ⚛️ (@ProtonXPR) February 18, 2022
The Proton Worker Proposal System provides up to 2,000,000 $XPR to developers who can build something great that runs on Proton.
Put your best ideas to the test - you just might get funding to make your vision a reality.https://t.co/xgZXHbBaUr
Metal Pay
Today, the Proton team announced another coin is being added to Metal Pay - Telcoin (TEL):
The people have spoken: @telcoin_team ($TEL) is now available on Metal Pay!
— Metal Pay (@metalpaysme) February 18, 2022
Our community voted for the next coin to be added to the Metal Pay Marketplace, and Telcoin came out on top! Now Metal Pay users can buy and sell #TEL in just a few clicks.https://t.co/cJJ4Tq3ZIa
In case you missed that, you can also deposit your paycheck to Metal Pay and pay your bills. Don't worry, it's safe as it's FDIC insured:
Did you know you can deposit your paychecks directly into your Metal Pay Cash wallet?
— Metal Pay (@metalpaysme) February 17, 2022
Your Metal Pay account has a Cash wallet that can be used to pay bills online, send money to friends, and so much more.
Plus, it's FDIC insured through our partner bank.
Set it up today! 🤘 pic.twitter.com/vdoAj1T7EZ
Following the recent Taxbit integration with Metal Pay, you can now import your transactions and get a report of your transactions. Read how to do it here.
Proton Loan
Proton Loan continues to grow, reaching TVL of $16M within the first month of the platform release! I'll let that sink in.
Great news for long term holders and the first step into the governance of the platform is the release of LOAN staking. You can stake LOAN for a period of time ranging from one week up to four years! It's been only three days since its release and there are 19B LOAN staked already! It looks like 8B new LOAN was added to the supply to support the staking rewards. You can find the LOAN supply here. Read more about the LOAN staking here:
Loan, meet staking.🤝
— Proton Loan (@ProtonLoan) February 15, 2022
Now Proton Loan users can stake their $LOAN, earning variable interest and growing their stack passively. Once the governance dashboard is live, staking LOAN will also unlock the ability to vote for new coins and more.
Read more:https://t.co/tx1rlQnetw pic.twitter.com/8A9OkUNnsO
Just yesterday the team released a very detailed and nice-looking statistics dashboard of the lending platform:
NFTs
I feel like ProtonMint releases new updates every week, they keep enhancing the platform and offering new features:
Another #PROTONMINT update 🥳
— Proton Mint - NFT marketplace on proton $XPR (@protonmint) February 14, 2022
- New Holders tab on the collection page! You can now see who's holding your #NFTs! 🔥
- Buy Now added on the collection page, it also display the USD value in real time (The price is taken straight from #proton swap) 🤟
🔜⚛️🍃🚀$XPR $MINT pic.twitter.com/bZqNKk7WEr
New major #PROTONMINT update 🤯
— Proton Mint - NFT marketplace on proton $XPR (@protonmint) February 17, 2022
🔥 Brand new Explore page & NFTs categories!🔥
You can now filter,sort & change display settings like never before! 🤟
We also added categories for every #NFTs, to help you find exactly what you are looking for! ❤️
⚛️🍃🚀🌛$XPR #PROTON $MINT pic.twitter.com/5oDWS8AG63
We also saw traction around another NFT marketplace that is in development - soon.market:
This is about us. Power of Soon. Builders of https://t.co/a1sLKsKceN - leading marketplace for #NFT auctions on @ProtonXPR! pic.twitter.com/ryUFK4h8YE
— Power of Soon ⚛️, 🤘, 🤝, 🔜 (@powerofsoon) February 16, 2022
ProtonUK
We are very proud to continue our growth and happy to share that we passed over 800M votes this week. Thank you for all the support 🙏
⚛️800M votes⚛️
— Proton UK ⚛ (@Proton_UK) February 16, 2022
We couldn't do it without your support! Thank you all who voted for ProtonUK! 🙏 pic.twitter.com/KOMhJuz3sX
Last weekend we upgraded our primary block producing node and the response times improved by more than 50%. This might not be significant now but we are getting ready to welcome a heavy workload in the future. Remember EOSIO blockchains can scale to up to 4000 transactions per second.
We are always looking for improvement and bringing new stuff to the community. Over the weekend we upgraded our primary block producer node and our response times improved with more than 50% ⚛️💪 $XPR #XPR pic.twitter.com/RMpZqeDOYT
— Proton UK ⚛ (@Proton_UK) February 15, 2022
- Proton and Metal data source: CoinMarketCap
- Price change based on Thursday close price using latest data in range (UTC)
- Loan data source: Protonscan (Alcor exchange + Protonswap)
This week Tweet of the week goes to Will who has a birthday today! Happy Birthday Will and many happy returns of the day 🥳
You learn something new everyday! Today is #ironmanday and also my birthday..
— Will Cleaver ⚛️ (@willxpr) February 18, 2022
My next @IRONMANtri is in Mt Tremblant on August 21st, and I’ll be raising money for @alzheimerssoc with NFTs on @ProtonXPR $xpr pic.twitter.com/1I4CRMkXGR
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