A monthly recap of whats happening in Iron Fish
Iron Fish Monthly Pulse - May 13, 2022
High Level
Phase 2
Open source contributions are a high priority
Stats
Anecdotal observation about transactions in blocks (1.5MB transaction!!!) # of nodes online concurrently (around 5500 now, almost 7k before the great crash) 5200+ accounts with non-zero points 19,277 transactions in the last 24 hours (.25 txns/1 second) 176,370 transactions since we launched Phase2
The great crash of yesterday
we're working on further improvements — expect another release soon
Other engineering focus areas
Derek / Daniel: gossip work Rohan: notes/nullifier bug; research on confirmation range
New hires!
Ambassador program
Going through contributions, estimated to be finalized 20th May, 2022 Work on tasks for intake 2!
Community doc
New place for community members Iron Fish Monthly Pulse - April 8, 2022
High level
New hires
Daniel - Backend Protocol Engineer @AdiDev - Community Manager
Phase 2
Emails for Phase 1 KYC and rewards will be bundled with Phase 2. Entire Phase 1 was 1% of genesis block coins For Phase 2: 0.5% of genesis block coins For Pull Requests during Phase 1 and Phase 2: .25% of genesis block coins
Current Projects
Updating dependencies in librustzcash
We're hiring
Offices in SF and New York Iron Fish Monthly Pulse - March 11, 2022
High Level
Phase 1 is coming to an end
Non-mining points we'll make the cutoff 12AM PST March 12 We have 500+ community contributions to go through
Roadmap
Roadmap is now updated and live!
Phase 2 is coming! It'll be announced in the next few weeks
Eng Updates
Almost 10k people with points > 1.5k community contributions
> 10k unique graffitis
98% of blocks are marked with graffitis
~3,000 nodes participating in telemetry
Phase 1 is coming to an end Iron Fish Monthly Pulse - Feb 11, 2022
High level
Getting to mainnet sooner and upgrade when it’s live. Roadmap updated to reflect features we want to add before mainnet launch We will be as transparent as we can with our community in regards to the end of testnet Phase 1 We will announce testnet plans very soon Meme contest - 100s of entries Catch phrase contest being counted 
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