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After four months of intensive research, implementation, and testing, today we made a 3.6 pre-release (3.6.0) and shipped it to Least Authority for audit. This marks a tremendous milestone for the Loopring team.

Last night, Avihu Levy and Louis Guthmann reported a bug to our team regarding the way Loopring Exchange’s frontend generates EdDSA keypairs for users based on their trading passwords. We have confirmed it is a valid bug, and very much appreciate the responsible disclosure.

We are thrilled to announce that Brecht Devos is now Loopring’s Chief Architect.Going forward, Brecht will lead all efforts on the design of future Loopring protocol versions as well as the development of other smart contracts that will benefit Loopring’s product and ecosystem.

Loopring has transferred the ownership to the following self-destructed contract, effectively making it ownerless. Thus, from now on, and specifically after October 2020, the only risk factor for participants is gone.

China CCTV，the predominant state television broadcaster in Mainland China，conducted an interview with Loopring CEO in the early days. Daniel Wang shared his views on the concept and trends of the blockchain technology, and features and advantages of the Loopring Protocol and DEX in general.

Loopring decided to grant 10 million LRC from its Loopring Ecosystem Advancement Fund to WeDEX, a decentralized exchange founded by Loopring’s co-founder and former COO, Johnston Chen. WeDEX will build their product on top of Loopring 3.0, our latest trading protocol that scales with zkRollup.

This is a recap of an AMA we did with the Cryptoverse community, an India based group of crypto enthusiasts. The questions were posed by the Cryptoverse community, and answered by me (Matthew). Please excuse typos, as the AMA took place in their Telegram channel, and was originally recapped here.

Loopring CTO Steve Guo and CMO Jay Zhou attended DevCon5 and other Osaka blockchain week events. Besides meeting and learning from the extraordinary Ethereum community, we also shared some DEX and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) developments on our side.

Xangle Provides Institutional Grade Reports of Loopring For Prominent Global Investment Banks, Venture Funds and Investors.

We are thrilled to announce that Hoss Ma has joined Loopring as our Chief Scientist.

Loopring has allocated up to 1,000,000 LRC for those who identify significant security issues in Loopring Protocol 3.0.

We are thrilled to announce that Steve Guo joins Loopring as our Chief Technology Officer. Steve will lead the effort on DEX product design and development, matching-engine and relayer engineering, as well as optimization of zkSNARK proof computation.

The dxDAO is an experiment in creating what is known as a super-scalable organization. This is an organization that gets more effective at coordinating the more it grows. It accomplishes this with it’s governance framework, known as Holographic Consensus.

TokenMarket, the blockchain-based global investment platform, today announces its partnership with Loopring, the protocol for decentralised token exchanges. The collaboration will accelerate security and transparency in the US$222 billion digital asset trading market.

Loopring is excited to sponsor ETHNewYork, an Ethereum hackathon held by ETHGlobal that is sure to bring Ethereum’s best and brightest to Brooklyn on May 17–19! We will be requesting 2 challenges, with 2 prizes totaling $4250 in LRC.

We have completed LRC token contract upgrade. LRC now lives at: 0xBBbbCA6A901c926F240b89EacB641d8Aec7AEafD (lrctoken.eth).

As previously announced, we have scheduled an upgrade for the LRC token smart contract on May 8th, 2019 [00:00 to 24:00 Beijing time]. Please read on to see what LRC holders may need to do.

Today, we have open-sourced our implementation of a fully functional Loopring backend: something we call Lightcone relayer version 1.0. Here is a link to the GitHub repository: http://github.com/Loopring/lightcone.

We are excited to announce that LRC will be listed on the Coinvest Plus exchange on 8 am CDT on Thursday, April 11th and available for trade with $BTC, $ETH, $GUSD, and $COIN. Coinvest Plus is a secure and simple exchange with a low flat-rate of just $0.99 for trades and withdrawals.

This interview was originally published on Elastum’s blog on Feb 27th; https://medium.com/@elastum/elastum-insiders-so-what-is-loopring-66f28a021922. It provides a great summary of our past, and a look at where we’re headed.