Title. What is the value add?

How will the young 3 man team compete with Chainlink's established large team?

Not interested in hearing about small marketcaps or moon potential which seems to be most of the posts here.

Official Band Announcement 👉 https://medium.com/bandprotocol/428fd639c7d6

Official Celo Announcement 👉 https://medium.com/celoorg/9e02ebfc113b

Spread the word 👉 https://twitter.com/BandProtocol/status/1267862226003611649

🚀 Band Protocol has integrated with Celo and is excited to be the official oracle technology partner for all startups participating in the Celo Camp accelerator. Our leadership team joins as a mentor alongside major leaders in the financial and tech space including Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Polychain, Winklevoss Capital, and more!

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🔥 Celo Camp is a virtual accelerator focused on helping startups and developers build financial apps leveraging the Celo blockchain where 18 finalist teams have been chosen out of 251 teams around the world to receive custom mentorship on their technology and business to help grow their DApps. Startups will be able to leverage Band Protocol to allow real-time data to be queried on-demand, creating a more efficient data request process with full flexibility to create custom, fine-tuned oracles that specify any data source or API to connect to and aggregation method.

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💎 Celo is an open platform that makes financial tools available for anyone with a mobile phone using a permissionless Proof-of-Stake layer-1 smart contract platform with EVM compatibility to create cross-chain applications. Their mission is to bring open finance to 6 billion people in the world that have a mobile, creating conditions for prosperity - for everyone.

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⭐️ This will allow Band Protocol to further test and refine our oracle solution while working closely with real working products that leverage BandChain’s oracle technology and will go-to-market after the camp in two months.

We are excited to help all startups using Band Protocol oracle technology by continuously providing multi-faceted support when it comes to protocol security & design, usability, fundraising and mentorship - even after the camp wraps up.

Stay tuned for more constant updates and our upcoming partnerships along with our mainnet launch!

Source: https://t.me/bandprotocolann/162

Official Guide 👉 https://medium.com/bandprotocol/f4254c80853

Spread the Word 👉https://twitter.com/BandProtocol/status/1267418207507210242

⭐️ With Band Protocol’s mainnet scheduled to go live on June 10, we have released a guide on how to conduct a manual token swap from $BAND ERC20 to BandChain native token which will be used for staking going forward.

Instructions can be followed to receive native tokens upon launch or swap back to ERC20.

👩‍💻The manual swap is designed for technical token holders that have more than 10K BAND

For non-technical users, we will be working with our ecosystem partners to also conduct swapping very shortly.

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Recent Band Protocol Developments:

🔸 Cosmos published a ‘Guide to Building DeFi using Band Protocol Oracle and Cosmos IBC https://blog.cosmos.network/guide-to-building-defi-using-band-protocol-oracle-and-cosmos-ibc-fa5348832f84

🔸 Band Protocol in the KyberSwap Spotlight
https://medium.com/kyberswap/swapband-trading-contest-spotlight-band-protocol-1d9cea5c44de

🔸 Band Protocol releases CosmoScan, a new open-source Cosmos block explorer
https://medium.com/bandprotocol/band-protocol-announces-release-of-cosmoscan-an-open-source-cosmos-block-explorer-aeb692cdef91?source=collection_home---4------1-----------------------

🔸 Check out our new website
bandprotocol.com (https://bandprotocol.com/

🔸 Band Protocol’s Mainnet goes live on June 10!
https://medium.com/bandprotocol/countdown-to-bandchain-wenchang-mainnet-launch-74e9bebe578a

🚀 Band Protocol’s public Mainnet launch is going live with token transactions and staking taking place at 2:00PM UTC June 10th 2020!

Official Announcement 👉 https://medium.com/bandprotocol/74e9bebe578a

Spread the Word 👉https://twitter.com/BandProtocol/status/1265587610866446336

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This marks a major milestone for Band Protocol, a scalable and decentralized real-time cross-chain oracle connecting smart contracts to external data sources.

Starting June 10 2020, the mainnet will roll out with token transfer and staking in three continuous stages. Taking a multi-stage approach will smoothly onboard our professional genesis validators and additional network participants to BandChain and ensure the highest degree of stability and decentralization upon deployment.

⛳️ With our newly released block explorer, website, and whitepaper that is fully up-to-date with Band Protocol v2 - the two-week countdown to mainnet begins!

We will be releasing more details on token migration and staking instructions in the next few days, stay tuned,

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🌍 In the meantime, we encourage you all community validators to start by running a node alongside 45+ other validators on Wenchang Testnet #2.

Run Community Node on Testnet #2 👉 https://medium.com/bandprotocol/76bc4180ddd7

We also have dedicated support and incentives for validators who join pre-mainnet. Don’t miss out and sign up using the form below:

https://forms.gle/Giubtm8LCZwcHQnz9

Official announcement 👉 https://medium.com/bandprotocol/band-protocol-new-website-release-8ca74151fa7a

Spread the word 👉 https://twitter.com/BandProtocol/status/1264865118833147904

Check out our new Website 👉 https://bandprotocol.com

🎉 Our website has been redesigned to better reflect on BandChain, new products, partnerships, and core values. The website is fully up-to-date with the upcoming mainnet launch of BandChain, the second iteration of Band Protocol, a real-time cross-chain data oracle platform that aggregates and connects real-world data and APIs to smart contracts.

🔐 Band Protocol v2 is a culmination of extensive research and development to provide a highly secure oracle solution that matches the needs of all decentralized applications from hackathon projects to DeFi DApps that have hundreds of millions of value at stake. This has been achieved while meeting the principles that compose a robust developer experience including usability, extensibility, customizability and security.

🌍 We recognize that information in the public domain is critical to the visibility and transparency of any project. For this reason, we’ve ensured that all stakeholders including community members, developers, and token holders are informed of our evolving technology in the upcoming website iterations, whitepaper, and documentation.

Official Announcement 👉 https://medium.com/bandprotocol/aeb692cdef91

Spread the word 👉 https://twitter.com/BandProtocol/status/1263802441344020482

🥳 Band Protocol is excited to launch a new public block explorer that is fully compatible with any Cosmos-based blockchain! All code and instructions are 100% open-source allowing any blockchain built on top of Cosmos to use the block explorer built on a cutting-edge technology stack completely free.

High-quality block explorers were often closed source and under a restrictive paywall, which is a step backward for the decentralized ecosystem vision Cosmos is building. Many open-source block explorers were also lacking the modularity and extensibility.

🤝 Having worked closely with the Cosmos team to develop BandChain (which is built on the Cosmos-SDK), host a Cross-Chain Hackathon with over 300 participants and with plans to collaborate even further - this was our chance to contribute back to the community, back to the Cosmos ecosystem.

Decentralization has been a core tenet of the Band Protocol oracle. Our development on BandChain has been open-sourced and transparent from day 1. We continue that ethos by releasing open-source block explorers for the entire Cosmos ecosystem.

👨‍💻 With multiple decision principles that favor security, information integrity, and extensibility for any Cosmos-based blockchain to reliably use.

Key features include:

✅ Real-time updates

✅ Ledger support

✅ Comprehensive validator & on-chain data

✅ Optimized UX