diff --git a/public/articles/retrospective-2023.md b/public/articles/retrospective-2023.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c0c8299 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/articles/retrospective-2023.md @@ -0,0 +1,48 @@ +--- +title: "Retrospective 2023" +author: "Zahnentferner" +date: "2023-12-28" +image: "/images/2023-in-review.webp" +excerpt: "Recaps Djed Alliance’s 2023: research breakthroughs, new stablecoin deployments, expanded chains and community growth." +--- + +# Retrospective 2023 + +2023 has been an incredible year for Djed and for the Alliance. We have achieved so much. Since we are a completely decentralized meta-organization that does not even have a “core team”, it is even hard to know everything that we have achieved, because we don’t always have visibility about everything that everybody else is doing. So, let's have a look at just some of our major 2023 highlights. + +## Research + +- 2 new versions of Djed! + Osiris, used on Milkomeda, and Shu, used in Zephyr. + +- 1 completely new protocol researched: Gluon! + +- The Djed paper was accepted in a major academic conference! + +- The Stablecoin article was published in the Encyclopedia of Cryptography, Security and Privacy. + +- We published papers on oracles and even got a yet-unannounced research award for that. + +## Development + +- 3 New Djed-based or Djed-inspired stablecoins were implemented and deployed! + We had only SigmaUSD until the end of 2022. + Now we have COTI’s Djed, Milkomeda Djed Osiris and Zephyr as well. + +- The implementation of a Gluon-based Gold-backed stablecoin on Ergo is in the last stages. + +- SigmaUSD is almost completing 3 years old, and is completing yet another full calendar year without ever trading below the peg. + It is now more integrated into Ergo's ecosystem than ever. + +- We now have a native implementation of Djed with built-in privacy (Zephyr) + +- Milkomeda's WSC (wrapped smart contracts) was integrated into Milkomeda Djed Osiris, to allow Cardano users to interact with this stablecoin contract directly from their cardano wallets. + +## Growing Traction + +- 4x increase in the number of blockchains that are benefitting from Djed. + Besides the initial Ergo, we now have Cardano, Milkomeda and Zephyr. + +- ~6x increase in the number of real followers of our Twitter account! + +- ~5x increase in the number of participants in our Discord server! \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/public/images/2023-in-review.webp b/public/images/2023-in-review.webp new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c2ddc99 Binary files /dev/null and b/public/images/2023-in-review.webp differ