Ontology Weekly Report (February 14–20, 2023)

Ontology’s Philippines Harbinger Alvin Abalos was interviewed by Ontology, and shared some of his insights about the development of Ontology.

Li Jun, Founder of Ontology, was interviewed by the well-known media outlet Crowdfund Insider to share his views on the Ethereum Merge Performance Enhancements and Ethereum user experience change.

Ontology released the first OWN Insights AMA review, focusing on “Four key points of DID implementation” shared by Shrey Jain, a famous Microsoft Web3 Researcher.

Li Jun, Founder of Ontology, was selected as one of the “Top Genre Peoples on Crypto’s Research” by A Fan Of CoinMarketCap, a well-known blockchain consulting platform.

Li Jun, Founder of Ontology, was invited to join the Ethereum Merge Watch Party hosted by Crypto Slate, sharing in-depth insights on the Ethereum Merge and the follow-up development of Web3.

The 7th OWN Insights “The Financialization of DAOs and DID” has been published, written by Erick Pinos, Ontology Americas Ecosystem Lead, sharing the pathway to the broad adoption of DAOs and DID.

Odaily published the 5th OWN Insights “The Realization of Web3”, sharing the possible realization of Web3. The article suggests that the future will see Web3 combined with Web2, and iteratively upgrade the underlying technology of the blockchain.

Welcome to “Staking Fridays” with Ontology. We will regularly update the detailed data for Ontology nodes every Friday, to help community members participate in ecological governance.

The latest installment of OWNInsights has been published, written by Humpty Calderon, our Head of Community, as he talks about, “DAOs Being The Next Unlock in Web3”.

The latest survey report of Huobi Research pointed out that the implementation of blockchain requires the development of middleware, and the decentralized identity represented by ONT ID will become one of the protagonists of the next bull run.

W3C press release: “Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) v1.0 becomes a W3C Recommendation”, Ontology ONT ID framework is built on this standard, and its definitions and features are extended to better fit application scenarios.

Cointelegraph Chinese released the article “People, Platform, Web3” by the Ontology Business Development Manager, Ge Li.

To celebrate the 4th anniversary of the MainNet launch, Ontology, together with its ecological partners, brought a series of 4th anniversary carnival events to the global community. Come and join to win big rewards.

Li Jun, founder of Ontology, published “Technology and System — Which is the primary productive force?”, discussing the development factors of Web3 from the aspects of “technology” and “system”, as well as the problems and solutions in practice.

Ontology announced the release of the OWN (Ontology Web3 Network) infrastructure for Web3, providing universal blockchain protocols and products.

Ontology Bridge has been upgraded, global users can now choose customized approval when using the Ontology Bridge.

Ontology has launched the decentralized identifier communication protocol Mercury, alongside enhancements to ONT Login and ONT TAG.

Ontology Explorer’s further upgrade has been completed. Global developers can submit the contract source code to make it open source.

As part of our ONT ID framework upgrade, we’re pleased to announce that the Ontology Verifiable Credentials SDKs are now open source.

The Ontology Grant Hackathon with DoraHacks throughout April has officially entered the voting session, and the global community can participate in the voting with prizes to select the most valuable Web3 applications in this competition.

We successfully held our Ontology and DoraHacks hackathon discussion panel.

Ontology is launching the Ontology Grant Hackathon with DoraHacks through April, 2022.

Ontology Explorer has been upgraded to provide various new functions related to the Ontology EVM.

Ontology has launched the Ontology Bridge to provide efficient and convenient digital asset exchange functions for Ontology EVM ecosystem developers.

Ontology has officially launched a $10 million EVM Fund.

​Ontology released the MainNet Upgrade Announcement. The MainNet will be upgraded at 8:00 UTC, Feb 28, formally integrating EVM and upgrading the decimal change of ONT and ONG.

This week saw lots of work around Ontology technical developments, as work continues on preparing Ontology chain’s EVM. Good progress is being made to ensure the launch happens in quarter 1 of this year.

Ontology has joined the global membership network of SME Finance Forum, which is managed by IFC, sister organization of the WorldBank. Membership will provide Ontology with increased global reach.

In the face of the upcoming Metaverse revolution, DID has demonstrated its powerful utility: it will serve as the entrance to the Metaverse and carry the user’s trusted identity and privacy data.

Ontology has announced the opening of a new European office in Berlin, Germany. We believe that both the industry heritage and the policy environment have given Germany a key strategic position in the field of blockchain and Web3.

The Ontology 2022 Roadmap has been officially released. Our goal for 2022 is to make the Ontology high-speed, low-cost, public blockchain, the blockchain of choice for Web3 applications.

After careful consideration, we decided to reopen the “Cyberspace 4 Philosophers’’ Limited Edition NFTs activity in order to allow even more of our community members to participate in Ontology’s 4th anniversary celebration.

The once fictional concept of the “Metaverse” is fast becoming a reality — and Ontology is set to be an integral part of this evolving ecosystem.

To celebrate Ontology’s 4th anniversary, Ontology and community members jointly designed the anniversary special event “Cyberspace 4 Philosophers”.

The Ontology global community is constantly growing, with membership now close to 110,000.

Recently, Ontology founder Li Jun was interviewed by MarTech Series.

Recently, Ontology announced that it has further deepened its cooperation with ROCKI.