An explanation on what went wrong, how the Witnet development and node operators community successfully fixed it, and a wake-up call to prevent future episodes. — TL;DR: Hetzner shut down many of the Witnet nodes running on their cloud platform, which expelled many reputed nodes from the network, precluded broadcasting of superblock votes, and halted the Witnet chain. In the course of our investigations, we also found a now-fixed bug that made the recovery unnecessarily take…

New releases for the Sheikah wallet and the witnet-rust node are out just in time for Halloween — but you shouldn’t be scared of them, as they introduce key usability and stability changes that act as an important stepping stone for what’s to come next in Witnet — Sheikah Witnet Wallet 1.11.4 The Sheikah Witnet Wallet is the most powerful way to store and spend Wit tokens, as well as a convenient tool for creating, debugging and deploying Witnet data requests using its visual editor.

GM! Growth, growth, growth! It’s been another busy week for the Witnet team and the community, that’s probably why we missed last weeks issue. We’re back on track and ready to ride now. Witnet stole the show at EthCC 🇫🇷 Witnet consumed the audience at EthCC with its landmark game, Witty Creatures. Witty Creatures is an NFT…

The Witnet oracle is already providing data to smart contracts on Klaytn in an accurate, transparent, and censorship-resistant way — Klaytn is a public blockchain focused on the metaverse, gamefi, and the creator economy. It combines the best features of both public blockchains (decentralized data & control, distributed governance) and private blockchains (low latency, high scalability) via an efficient ‘hybrid’ design.

This is our “Hello, World!” To have or not to have a newsletter… that’s the question! Many members of the Witnet community have asked for a weekly newsletter focused on the progress of the Witnet project. While we’re not totally sure if this format is the right fit for the project, we said — why not trying? So here we are…

The Witnet oracle will immediately start to trustlessly provide data to smart contracts on OKC in an accurate, transparent, and censorship-resistant way — OKC (OKXChain) is a high performance Layer 1 blockchain specialized in trading and designed to provide the community of the famous OKX exchange and their $OKB and $OKT tokens with a faster, more convenient and low-cost blockchain experience, solving problems such as low performance and high cost of other public…

The Witnet oracle will immediately start to trustlessly provide data to smart contracts on Cronos in an accurate, transparent, and censorship-resistant way — The Cronos chain is a high performance Layer 1 EVM blockchain, designed to scale the Web3 user community by providing builders with the ability to instantly port apps and crypto assets from other chains while benefiting from low transaction fees, high throughput, and fast finality. Backed by the famous Crypto.com…

Witnet-Rust 1.5 hugely expands the capabilities of the Witnet protocol, bringing new use cases to the Witnet oracle and its 10+ supported EVM chains. All miners are encouraged to upgrade their nodes by April 5. — Since the Witnet mainnet was released on October 2020, the network has seen a continuous and astonishing growth: 280,000 different addresses have mined at least 1 block and 426,000 different addresses have solved at least 1 data request.

Witnet will be supporting KCC developers in the Unicorn Contest with incentives, advising sessions, and integrations support — A few months ago, Witnet and KuCoin Community Chain (KCC) began a partnership which made available the Witnet oracle suite to all KCC developers: KCC partners with Witnet to bring decentralized oracles, price feeds to KCC KuCoin Community Chain (KCC) is a high-performance layer-one blockchain designed to provide KuCoin's famous community…cointelegraph.com