16 Mar Symbol blockchain news update – 16/03/22
Arghh, too many things to do and not enough time! Have a mountain of work and a presentation for this afternoon not written but I can’t neglect the blog any longer so here’s Wednesday’s (very rushed) Symbol Blog update!
Update your nodes!
A vulnerability has been found in openssl and as a consequence a new version of Catapult client has been released which includes a fix. If you run a node then please make sure that you update your node! Symbol Bootstrap has now been updated too – you can download the latest version here. I have just updated my mainnet and testnet nodes, it only takes a couple of minutes to do!
Valkyrie update
I wanted to post this days ago but haven’t had a chance to sit and write anything so apologies for the delay! You can read the update for yourselves here but It looks like Valkyrie continue to be busy on many fronts, great to see that there is all of this work going on behind the scenes! It will also please many of you that the team are actively reaching out to major exchanges 😊
Birthday celebrations
It’s almost the big day, Symbol will be 1 year old tomorrow! EDIT: maybe it is today at 23:27, time zones are so confusing (plus I barely know what day it is at the moment!). I am not sure of the exact time but expect to see a flurry of birthday tweets in the coming hours! Remember there will be a “The Tower” gaming competition where there is now 30,000 XYM up for grabs! It starts soon and runs from March 17, 2022 0:00 – March 23, 23:59 (JST) which would be 15:00 UTC today! Get ready to hack and slash your way up the leaderboard!
I also saw that Mikun was running a competition to win 5 x 1,000XYM by tweeting about why Symbol is awesome. Unfortunately due to my recent schedule, I am posting this after the competition has closed 😭 Sorry guys, from next week hopefully I will have a bit more time to provide more regular posts.
Fuku-Fuku Buncho
Haha! The pirate captains have been transformed into cute birds! I love these, we need to see them in soft toy form and I will get some for my son 😂
A surprise package
This brought a smile to my face. The lovely people at Valkyrie have sent a package full of cool things to @umesetu2011 who has been promoting the Valkyrie and Symbol brands on a range of cars that he has been racing in Gran Turismo. Love to see that his work is recognised, this is a really kind thought!
And nice work @umesetu2011! Maybe I should buy GT7 and join some races 😁
Thanks!
OK, that’s it for today. I really need to write this talk for this afternoon!! 😬 Hopefully I will be back tomorrow as I am sure that there will be birthday events to report on!
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