In the past 2021, we were impressed by many memorable spots, the boiling of meme coins, the emergence of NFT, and the popularization of Metaverse. Behind the flourish of everything, one thing is limited addressed – public blockchains have mostly evolved to their ecological expanding stage. In fact, we’ve seen DOT initiate the parallel auction, SOL’s technical innovation, LUNA’s independence, and many more. Among the public chain projects, one historically temperate-developing project drew unprecedented attention from the public – aelf. With the start of its mainnet token swap in September, aelf has upgraded and rebranded to a new version from tech to marketing. Internally, as the completion of the Trail of Bits audit, aelf mainnet has upgraded to its v1.1.1 equipped with the more decentralized and more secured blockchain mechanism. Externally, the team has launched re-designed its website, collaborated with exchanges for many marketing campaigns, holding the Top of OASIS hackathon, and moany. And most significantly, aelf has completed its first stage node election with 17 reputable nodes invited to its mainnet. The elected nodes have subsequently started to contribute to aelf ecology with their own network. The node election was initiated on November 18th, 2021, and concluded on time, with a long-running duration of xxx. The 17 qualified nodes include the world’s leading trading platforms re...
