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Flow introduced the Flow Ambassador program

• A new program meant to recognize, support, and empower the most passionate community members who want to help Flow grow. 

Increment Liquid Staking Protocol Live on Flow Mainnet

• Flow-based DeFi platform Increment announced that its Liquid Staking Protocol (LSP) is live on the Flow mainnet. Users can stake $FLOW with LSP to receive $stFLOW. $stFLOW price against $FLOW will grow over time. Staking rewards are automatically re-staked at the beginning of each epoch.

Binance support the Flow Network upgrade and hard fork

• Binance will support the Flow network upgrade and hard fork. The Flow network upgrade and a hard fork will take place at approximately 2022-08-24 15:00 (UTC). 

Introducing Observer Nodes

• An unstaked node (a new permissionless node type on Flow) that runs on consumer-grade hardware, and provides a locally accessible, continuously updated, verified copy of the block data.

Permissionless smart contract deployment is live on Flow

• Anyone can deploy a contract to the mainnet, without review. Since both the protocol and Cadence—Flow's native smart contract programming language—were in their infancy, we established a mainnet review process as a checkpoint to ensure the security of the network. With Secure Cadence officially deployed to the mainnet on June 15, developers can safely develop and deploy smart contracts on Flow.

$FLOW listed on Coinbase

• Coinbase announced that it will add support for $FLOW. Trading will begin on or after 9 am PT on May 19th if liquidity conditions are met. Once a sufficient supply of this asset is established trading on FLOW-USD, and FLOW-USDT trading pairs will launch in phases. 

Flow launches a $725 Million ecosystem fund backed by a16z, HashKey Capital, and more

• Public chain Flow has launched a $725 million ecosystem fund backed by a16z, HashKey Capital, CoinFund, Digital Currency Group (DCG), and others. Flow will support their developers through investments, $FLOW token donations, and more, focusing on gaming, infrastructure, decentralized finance, content, and creators, which will further develop the ecosystem.

Flow launches decentralized decision-making and governance tool CAST

• Flow announced the launch of CAST, a decentralized decision-making and governance tool, to be used in the first public vote on April 8. Developed by the Dapper Collective team, CAST is based on Snapshot improvements and is currently in Alpha testing for the Flow community only. Users can connect Flow wallet addresses to CAST in order to vote, and data from the community, proposals, and votes on CAST are stored on IPFS.

Flow Mainnet Updated from Mainnet-14 to Mainnet-15

Flow’s First US Dollar-Backed Stablecoin, $FUSD went live

Validator Rewards

• Node operators are required to stake a number of tokens in order to participate in the network and earn rewards. Token holders can delegate to specific operators to earn a share of rewards. The Slashing Rate is set to 0% until the Slashing mechanisms have been tested for false positives.

Open Source Licensing

• The full node implementation is publicly published under an open-source license. 

Token Generation Event

• The $FLOW token is minted and held by Dapper Labs pending distribution to pre-launch investors and a Community Sale on CoinList.

Beta Mainnet v0.1 

• Beta Mainnet hosting smart contracts/dapps in production with real user data, starting with the NBA collectible experience and associated NFTs.

Dev Portal 

• Onboarding developers to Cadence via a hosted hackathon.

Multi-Node

• Multiple nodes of each role allow simple transactions to go on a complete round trip through the network.

Flow MVP

• Complete transaction cycle processed by a single instance of each node.

Flow Developer Preview

• Emulator software was released to allow the development of smart contracts without access to a full network instance. Used by Dapper Labs to start the development of NBA Top Shot.

Flow Blockchain Launched

• Dapper Labs raised $11 Million from Warner, A16z to launch the Flow blockchain.