Boid Season 2 Statistics
Boid Season 2 ended on September 21st and we have some great statistics to share with the community about the performance of the Boid platform this season.
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- The Boid platform has completes an average of 31675 Work Units per day with over 3959 active daily CPU cores.
- Over 380 new devices registered during Season 2.
- We also welcomed 67 GPU devices producing 1.8GH/s (avg 25MH/s) for the first time this season.
- During season 2 the maximum achieved global boid power was 2,736,516 BP.
- Boid.com has accumulated over 3830 years of research.
- Our standing among other WCG contributors moved up this season from #19 to #15 globally.
- The top team during Boid Season 2 was Secure-blockchains with an average of 310k Boid Power.
Top 5 teams
- Secure blockchains
- Trybe
- EOS-Nation
- eosDAC
- Rise
Platform Development Progress
Development on the Boid platform has continued at a brisk pace. Here are a few highlights.
- The [Boid Desktop App](https://github.com/boid-com/BoidDesktop/releases) has a new maintainer who has released multiple updates to improve the performance and reliability of the application.
- The Boid Linux CLI tool [boidcmd](https://www.npmjs.com/package/boidcmd) has a new maintainer who published several bug and reliability fixes.
- The new EOS account creation tool was released, enabling new users to purchase an EOS account with their earned BOID tokens. [accounts.boid.com](https://accounts.boid.com)
- The [Boid Validator](https://github.com/boid-com/boidValidator) codebase was updated and validators are now generating Boid Power ratings and power reports are now issued on-chain.
- The [Boid Power Oracle](https://github.com/han-so1omon/BoidDac/tree/master/contracts/boidpower) smart contract upgrade has been under active development, the new updates are currently live on testnet and are slated for live deployment this week. [Technical Documentation](https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Ul6_fvwKmC2jT8hWPxomKWHCr_9pXFcv)
- We announced our ongoing partnership with [ankr.com](https://www.ankr.com/) You can read the details in their [announcement post](https://medium.com/ankr-network/boid-is-the-next-blockchain-project-to-host-their-nodes-on-the-ankr-cloud-c6339302e48f).
- Boidjs alpha NPM module created. This module contains helpful wrapper functions that make it easier for JS developers to communicate with Boid smart contracts.
- community.boid.com site launch. This is our forum where Boid community members can post information and have conversations about the Boid Network. All Boid news and token bounties are posted there.
- The new Boid Token contract was reviewed by Somish Labs who performed a comprehensive audit of the contract functions and security.
- The BOID Token Contract was improved and deployed onto EOS mainnet. All new functionality is now live.
Read the entire article on the Boid community site
