🔓 Distributions​

✅ Private investors receive 10% STAKE release and ongoing daily distributions begin​

Initial investors hold a total of 1,970,951 STAKE tokens. On May 27, 10% of this amount was released (~ 197,095). Each day for the next 224 days an additional 5,719.20 tokens will be released to private investors. Investors must actively claim amounts in order to receive them.

See unlock dates and circulating supply for more details on upcoming releases (next % release scheduled for July 22, 2020)

Private Investors release schedule

Date	Percentage	Type	Rounded Amount
29.04.2020	25%	1 time	492,738
27.05.2020 ~ 13:02:59 UTC	10%	1 time	197,095
28.05.2020 - 06.01.2021	65%	Daily	5,719.2 (per day)

📡 Listings​

✅ TokenInsight Rating Added to CoinMarketCap​

Listing: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/xdai/

Note that **** some values on the CMC listing remain in “?” status. This will shift as data is verified and reporting accuracy confirmed. To get the current circulating supply, see https://supply.xdaichain.com/

https://twitter.com/xdaichain/status/1265360044910088193

✅ STAKE added to DeFi Pulse Token List​

The Token List is an accurate directory of authentic tokens on Ethereum. Integrating The Token List into an app gives users confidence that they're interacting with the token they intend to.

https://twitter.com/defipulse/status/1264270756780937217

✅ :tada:BitMax Pre-Staking StakeVault nears 600 participants​

Since its inception, more participants have tried the pre-staking program every day! See the details on the Pre-Staking Program page.

Follow the latest stats on Bitmax Twitter - https://twitter.com/BitMax_Official

📰 Media​

✅ AMA with BlockTalks​

The team answered questions from Twitter, ran a quiz for participants, then answered live questions. See the full transcript:

https://medium.com/@BlockTalks/blocktalks-x-xdai-ama-transcript-f8b641535894

✅ xDai Energy Efficiency Article​

We released an article with data from lab10 Collective which shows just how energy efficient xDai is. For a quick comparison, Bitcoin uses the equivalent energy of 5,250,408 US Households, Ethereum 721,223 US Households, and xDai 2.1 US Households!

✅ YellowBlock Video​

The YellowBlock team continues to support xDai and STAKE. This video provides a simple explanation of the 2 Token Model.

https://twitter.com/TeddyCleps/status/1265671262606508032

🏢 Development​

✅ xDai POSDAO on OpenEthereum​

As we move towards public POSDAO, xDai is already functioning in a PoS context written in Solidity. https://github.com/poanetwork/posdao-contracts. Starting from v3.0.0, the OpenEthereum client supports all POSDAO features https://github.com/openethereum/openethereum. 3.0.0 has been released for several weeks, and POSDAO is functioning as expected, including random number generation, malicious reporting, and transactional consensus with the current validator set.

📡 Exchange News​

✅ xDai STAKE listed on CoinMarketCap​

Listing: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/xdai/

Note that **** some values like circulating supply are still in “?” status. This will shift as data is verified and reporting accuracy confirmed. To get current circulating supply, see https://supply.xdaichain.com/

https://twitter.com/xdaichain/status/1262772122528727040

✅ STAKE on UniSwap V2​

In addition to being listed on UniSwap V1, STAKE is also on UniSwap v2. As this is a new listing, you must enter the Token Contract Address to swap STAKE.

• Link: https://uniswap.exchange/swap
• STAKE Contract Address: 0x0Ae055097C6d159879521C384F1D2123D1f195e6

✅ :tada:BitMax Pre-Staking StakeVault hits 500+ participants​

The amount of STAKE , but each day more participants have tried the pre-staking program. See the details on the Pre-Staking Program page.

📰 Media​

✅ AMA with KUCOIN & LUKSO​

Igor participated in an AMA with LUKSO. As a technical advisor to the LUKSO team, he answered some questions about his role and what he's working on with xDai.

https://twitter.com/kucoincom/status/1262353670357700608

✅ AMA with theblockcircle​

Igor and Andrew answered questions and chatted with theblockcircle community

https://theblockcircle.com/xdai-full-ama-transcript/

✅ CoinSpeaker Article​

STAKE featured in a coin speaker article about the BitMax listing and pre-staking program.

https://www.coinspeaker.com/top-performing-listing-xdai-stake/amp/

✅ YellowBlock Infographics​

The YellowBlock team has been creating some great visuals to help explain xDai and STAKE in simple terms.

https://twitter.com/TeddyCleps/status/1262727344449617920

https://twitter.com/crypto_birb/status/1263822947661361153

🏢 Development​

✅ The Galt Project​

The Galt Project provides land and property owners the ability to tokenize their properties as NFTs (ERC721) on the Ethereum mainnet. The first voting of apartment owners using smart contracts on blockchain will be held in June on the xDai chain!

https://twitter.com/galtproject/status/1263155418148360192

✅ STAKE on 1inch.exchange​

STAKE is now available for trading on 1inch.exchange. 1inch is a DEX aggregator, as more DEXs add STAKE (currently UniSwap is the first STAKE DEX) you can use 1inch to find the best rates and even split trades across multiple DEXs.

https://1inch.exchange/#/DAI/STAKE

✅ Etherscan Overview​

Etherscan now includes a price fee and other useful information for the STAKE token.

https://etherscan.io/token/0x0Ae055097C6d159879521C384F1D2123D1f195e6

✅ CoinMarketCal listings​

Check out the latest xDai STAKE events (like upcoming AMAs on 20 & 27 May) on the CoinMarketCal site. You can also add them to your calendar and include reminders. Upvote listings to increase their exposure!

https://coinmarketcal.com/en/coin/xdai-stake

✅ AMA Recaps​

xDai STAKE was featured in 2 AMAs over the week. Checkout the links below for answers to Twitter and live Telegram channels!

• 12 May with Generation Crypto: http://gcrypto.media/xdai-recap/
• 14 May with CryptoDiffer: https://cryptodiffer.com/news/xdai-chain-ama-recap

✅ Biconomy Integration​

xDai DApp developers can now use Biconomy to give users an improved UX with gasless transactions.

Instructions and links are available here: **** https://medium.com/biconomy/biconomy-supports-xdai-chain-4d21d1f70222

✅ Burner Wallet xDai Giveaway​

The CryptoMonk ran a cool Burner Wallet promotion to get community members involved with the Burner Wallet.

https://twitter.com/thecryptomonk/status/1261288167774322688

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✅ Pre-Staking with STAKEVAULT​

This week BitMax announced STAKEVAULT and the first token to be included in this program was STAKE! It’s been a runaway success, it's easy to do and users are earning 36.4% APR on STAKE.

Here are the latest stats from the first 4 days of the program!

• 95 users staking
• 373,802.52 STAKE staked.

✅ STAKE on UniSwap​

STAKE made its first appearance on a DEX - it is now available to trade on UniSwap with a custom URL.

✅ TokenBridge Grant Award​

The TokenBridge project, which powers xDai interoperability (for both Dai -> xDai and STAKE) received funding support from the Ethereum Ecosystem Support Program. While not directly related to xDai, this grant will help support new features and enhanced functionality for the bridge that will directly impact the xDai chain.

✅ Wallet Improvements​

Nifty Wallet now supports STAKE. Nifty is a great MetaMask alternative that includes native support for xDai and now STAKE support on the Ethereum Mainnet.

🔥 Burner Wallet instructions- we’ve added some tutorials on how to use basic Burner Wallet features. We are working on some burner-based giveaways, stay tuned for more and familiarize yourself with this awesome wallet at xdai.org.

✅ AMA with CryptoDaku​

The team completed another fast and furious AMA - tons of questions and a very engaged community. We will post some of our favorites soon.