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LikeCoin Half Year Report 2020

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2020 is halfway through, a new surge of Covid-19 infection hit Hong Kong but we are still scattered across the city bringing you our half-year report. You can also review the weekly updates for the latest progress.

✅ The first half of 2020,

  • 1800+ Civic Likers (80%+ YoY), which is 2.5%
  • 70,000+ Likers (75%+YoY), who rewarded
  • 33mil+ LikeCoin to
  • 268,000+ content by
  • 10000+ creators on
  • 1200+ media

we also

LikeCoin chain

Passed the #1 on-chain proposal. Relaxed validator requirements to transform LikeCoin chain to a permissionless, BPoS mechanism. Allowed validators to set their commission rates, and update max validators number to 10. The validator ecosystem is expected to become more vibrant.

ISCN (International Standard Content Number)

First Proof of concept released on ISCN. Created ISCN information page for rising interest, it includes the data model, architecture design, and specification of ISCN.

LikeCoin website

Revamped LikeCoin website homepage, focuses more on technical development information. Expected to integrate with Quick Exchange widget in July where users can swap LIKE to other crypto assets directly.

LikeCoin Half Year Report 2020
https://like.co/

Token Listing

Liquid started the support of LIKE token on LikeCoin chain. Available spot trading pairs on Liquid are LIKE/BTC and LIKE/USDT. Quick Exchange widget will also integrate on like.co to provide instant crypto swap for users. It is a major milestone for us to work with top tier exchanges in the crypto space.

Liquid Starts Support of LIKE token on LikeCoin chain

Civic Liker Movement

Expanded civic liker membership benefits and partnered with eight Hong Kong bookstores to provide special discounts and giveaways.

LikeCoin Half Year Report 2020
LikeCoin Half Year Report 2020

LikerLand App

  • Save to Liker Land extension is available on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Brave Browser.
  • Enabled referral feature. Refer your friends and earn rewards.
  • Enabled app rating prompt. Share your feedback!
  • Added history of creation’s value and contribution for users.
  • Upgraded Delegation flow. Delegate and redelegate is much easier now.
  • Users are able to manage their following list.

Last but not least, thanks to everyone who gave us 5 stars on the app rating! It gave us tremendous support for our team!

LikeCoin Half Year Report 2020

LikeCoin plugin

Integrated LikeCoin button with Vocus. Content creators are able to upload their content with LikeCoin button enabled.

內容有價 X 化讚為賞:當華文創作第一站遇上 LikeCoin | 方格子 vocus — vocus

Funding

Participated in Round 5 Gitcoin grants. Finished with 55 contributors, 1467 DAI donation, and 970 DAI as matched funding. The grant page will stay on at Gitcoin as one of our funding sources.

Github sponsor application is approved and able to receive public funding through Github.

Sponsor @likecoin on GitHub Sponsors

Open Source effort

Launched Liker Land Open Statistic for community interest in learning the growth of the DAO. Set up LikeCoin documentation page that includes LikeCoin user guide, FAQ, and developer resources.

LikeCoin Half Year Report 2020

Events

Hosted the 1st Likerthon. Received 10 submissions and 2 final winners are selected by the community. A total of 800,000 LikeCoin had distributed to the winners.

https://github.com/likecoin/likerthon

Revisit some of our team sharing:

LikeCoin Half Year Report 2020
LikeCoin Half Year Report 2020

Public Relations

Launched english monthly newsletter. Subscribe to our updates!LikeCoin NewsletterLikeCoin – Republic of Liker Landlikecoin.substack.com

Published post-interview thoughts with Taiwan minister Audrey Tang’s on LikeCoin infrastructure design.

與唐鳳談流動民主 — Matters

Interviewed by Business Next in Taiwan

按讚有錢賺!LikeCoin 用區塊鏈打造創作者生態系,實現創作可當飯吃 — Meet 創業小聚

Interviewed with 港故仔

港故仔

Presented at Business Next’s event with over 100 attendees downloaded the LikerLand app.

LikeCoin Half Year Report 2020

Participated in the Guest lecture on LikeCoin for teachers and students of NTUT (國立臺北科技大學)

LikeCoin Half Year Report 2020

Hosted community workshop at Direction Association for the Handicapped. Around 20 people attended and registered as Matters users.

LikeCoin Half Year Report 2020

Participated in HKOSCon 2020 on open source work culture and ISCN Specification.

Open by default: trying to run a startup with open source culture in mind

Joined DystopiaLabs VC Lair call for proposal campaign

Phoebe Poon’s video

Participated in g0v hackathon39n第參拾玖次又在家黑客松

Our plan for Q3 & Q4:

  • LikeCoin chain upgrade with ISCN feature
  • Recruit overseas validators for LikeCoin chain
  • Work closer with exchanges on listing
  • Upgrade WordPress plugin with IPFS feature
  • Release Super Like feature on Liker Land

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