2023 is in the books!

December was a fantastic finish to a remarkable year for the entire Oasis ecosystem. We hope you enjoyed celebrating the entire holiday season with friends and family. Oasis is already at work building towards its 2024 goals, but here’s a quick recap of the last month from 2023. 😃

Engineering and Team Updates

Oasis engineers contributed to a detailed overview of Nexus, one of the core products for anyone building or using the Oasis Network. Read more about what Nexus is and what’s planned for its future development in this post on the Oasis blog.

Confidential voting in Web3 communities is an important use case for Oasis privacy. Check out this secret ballot demo and learn about confidential voting on any EVM network.

The Oasis Eden Mainnet upgrade was completed! Dig into what this means for the future of the Oasis Network here. 

Community Activities

The Oasis community team continues adding new education content to the Oasis Academy portal. Check out the latest courses!

Also, browse the latest Oasis Q&A here if you missed it on Reddit!

Andreja Cavnik, Director of Human Resources at Oasis, spoke to the community about her vision for building strong Web3 cultures and teams. Read a transcript or watch the full recorded conversation here.

If you missed the Oasis end-of-year town hall event, watch the recording! 

Ecosystem Project Update

Oasis ecosystem projects had a busy end to the year too!

• Ocean Protocol’s Predictoor extends its rewards through 2024.

• NFTb received a grant from the Oasis Grants Program.

• Oasis Sentinel explains why he joined the community program.

• Empyreal debuted their enclave on Ethereum Mainnet.

• Oasis is proud to be part of the Universal Privacy Alliance, which received coverage from The Block.

illumieX completed its testnet upgrade and plans support for Bitcoin in cross-chain confidential swaps.

Read More on the Oasis Blog!

Anyone who wasn’t keeping up with the Oasis blog throughout 2023 has definitely missed out! Here are a couple major posts to review from the end of the year. 

After the Oasis engineering team and network validators completed the Eden upgrade on Mainnet, they debriefed the entire community on how they executed the upgrade. Eden represents a major improvement for multiple elements of the Oasis protocol, and digging deeper into this technical debrief is an exciting read even for non-technical audiences. 

Sealed bid auctions are a key mechanism for improving the fairness and efficiency of digital collectibles markets in Web3, and importantly, they can only happen on Oasis – not other EVMs. Why is this the case? And why do sealed bids matter for NFTs? All of this is explained in this post on the Oasis blog. 

Last but not least, find a full in-depth review of the Oasis Network’s progress in 2023 from this year-in-review blog post! Highlights from engineering, product development, new ecosystem partners, community growth, events, and more are included. The past 12 months were a fundamentally transformational period for the Oasis Network! 

Want to join Oasis full-time?

Oasis is always looking to hire passionate privacy advocates in Web3.

 
Anyone who cares about bringing better privacy to crypto should consider joining the Oasis team! There are open roles across developer relations, operations, business development, and more. See a complete list of open roles here.

 
Oasis is happy with a strong finish to 2023 and looking forward to a bright start to the new year. Stay tuned for more updates each month as we continue building better privacy for crypto.

 
Onward!
The Oasis Team

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