ONEWeekly #6 : OpenSwap, SonicSwap, Chat with Harmony CTO

Harmony Protocol announced the Mainnet upgrade 4.3.9 and detailed the advancements coming to users and developers building within the Harmony ecosystem. This upgrade will bring key features and improvements that further our mission to be the sharded blockchain for millions.

Our native decentralized exchanges announced major updates this week, from both Sonicswap and OpenSwap. Sonic Swap deep dives into their innovative Cloud mining features and announced receipt of a Harmony Grant to further their development.

OpenSwap announced the launch of OpenXSwap, enabling Harmony users to seamlessly achieve the best rates across multiple blockchains in one easy-to-use interface. Their development of OpenXSwap represents a great step forward to enabling decentralized finance for everyONE.

Gaming continues to be a strong driver of growth on Harmony as we are leading the charge in the space, this week's updates reinforce this. Rocket Monsters announced a partnership with Defungify and released their second round of unique Warrior avatar NFTs. This is in addition to new gameplay footage and beta information for users.

Fish Fight rounds out our gaming update this week with exciting updates for existing players and invites thousands of newcomers to join in exciting real-time battles for the title of sole survivor. Their team held a joint ama with Harmony native Cerebral gaming that provided amazing insight into the games development and future features arriving over the summer.

We close with an interview with Harmony Chief Technical Officer Ronjian Lan (RJ) where we discuss the forthcoming updates along with the Harmony development roadmap and deep dive into the features positioning Harmony as a leader in the Gaming space.

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Relevant Links
Cerebral Gaming Discord :   / discord  
Full interview with RJ:    • ONEWeekly Exclusive: Harmony CTO on 2...  

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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:45 Mainnet Upgrade/Hardfork
1:40 decentralized exchanges
2:05 SonicSwap Grant Approval
2:30 SonicSwap Cloud Mining
3:06 OpenSwap+OpenXSwap
3:41 RocketMonsters + Defungify
4:37 Fishfight + Cerebral Gaming
5:24 Harmony CTO introduction + Roadmap Overview
5:54 Roadmap #1 - Features and Tools
6:25 Roadmap #2 - Security and Decentralization
7:12 Roadmap #3 - Efficiency and Performance
8:15 Cross Shard Messaging + Harmony as Gaming Leader
10:34 Recap and Outro
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