EOS Celebrates its Second Birthday

It’s been two years since the launch of the EOS Mainnet – and what a wild ride it’s been!

The pace of innovation in this space has been mind boggling. So much so, that it feels like a blur and is easy to forget what we’ve accomplished as a community in such a short time.

So to celebrate, let’s take a short pause to look back and appreciate how far we’ve come with a week-by-week look at everything that happened on EOS from June 2019 to May 2020.  

          June 2019

• B1June, Voice announced, Coinbase Learn, EOS VM
• Prospectors beta, Upland funding secured, EOS Studio Web
• Decentium decentralized publishing, Uncloak
• Scatter 11, Effect Force demo, Chintai 2.0, Bountyblok intro
  
  July
• Start of Equilibrium’s voting governance process, Emanate reps gear up for Alpha, AlohaEOS’s Reliability Tracker, Tokenika’s EOSIDE, PUML, Crypto Sword and Magic
• EOSIO 1.8 Hardfork announced, Effect.AI launch, HireVibes launch, Bithumb votes
• Block.one Strategic Vision, CHAINWISE group (ClainClash, Wombat wallet), ITAM Games
• PredIQt intro, PARSL, BOID Season 2

  
  August

• eosfinex 1.0 launch, Everipedia Guilds
• ‘regproducer’ contract update, EOS Events, NewDex anniversary
• HireVibes, Moonlighting, KROWN DAC
• Equilibrium on-chain voting, Account Lock, ITAM Games

  
  September

• BitGo, TokenPocket Pro, SimplEOS, MYNT
• EOS Upgrade Tracker, EOS Authority’s EOS Explorer, Sense Chat, history solutions
• Emanate launch, BlockBase intro
• 1.8 Upgrade Success, PredIQt launch, Scatter Embed, EOS Name Service, EOS Map

  
  October

• Block.one settlement, Korea Blockchain Week Community Meetup, BlockBase airgrab
• Proxy4Nation, network usage and CPU costs rising, WordProof, EOS Telegram bots, Cryptolions’ Simple Assets, Tapsonic VR, RocketBattles
• EOSIO 2.0 release, RIO Blockchain Week, StartEOS Formal Verification Project, High Fidelity, EOS Locally
• EOSIO 1.8 feature Only_Bill_First_Authorizer activated , EOS Community Conference, EOS Tutorials, Wombat, Everipedia
• Equilibrium’s DeFi on EOS, custom Proxy4Nation rewards, Creator.eco, ITAM Games on Samsung Blockchain Wallet, KROWN Fairdrop

  
  November

• EOS Network CPU Update, Blocktivity, Anchor intro
• History of EOS CPU, Effect.AI & United Nations, EOS Writer 3.0
• Last Vegas Blockchain Week, OKEx votes: BP Pursuit, EOSIO Swiss Workshop, EOS Studio for EOSIO 2.0
• REX Upgrade, CPU Improvements, Mythical Games funding

  
  December

• EOSIO Resource Allocation Reimagine, EOS VC Galaxy Digital Investments, Everipedia
• EOS Nation Re-Enters Top 21, Voice Beta Announced, ECC videos
• Greymass Fuel, EOSDT’s Stability Fund, REX fix proposed,Crypto.com
• Block.one Grants announced, DACH-EOS.io, StartEOS’ Acorn, EOS Events Rankings, KROWN #DACathon, Tipit
• Effect.AI’s Rosette, MetalPackagingToken, free CPU from Meet.one and EOS Authority

  
  January

• REX fix implemented, free CPU from Greymass FUEL and Anchor, Wanchain integration, Dungeon Princess release
• EOSIO 2.0 release, Salah Zalatimo introduced as Voice CEO, 100M blocks produced on EOS, USDT cross-chain conversion
• xNation, missed blocks update, EOSIO tools, Danchor, Blockbase testnetwork, EOS Discussion 2.0, MYKEY
• Infrastructure Update, EOSIO fine-tuning, EOSIO Invasions

  
  February

• EOSIO Developer Portal, EOSIO Interoperability Challenge, GBA’s “The Future of Money, Governance, and the Law”
• EOS VM implementation on mainnet and increased stability, ecosystem dapp updates
• New Mainnet Node Architecture, Voice Beta Release, Promotheus file storage
• EOS Inflation Reduced to 1%, EOS VC Investments, BlockBase sandbox, dapp updates

  
  March

• EOS mainnet performance and the History of Histories, EOSIO.EVM, Equilibrium Framework, Bountyblok leaderboard
• InterNATIONal Reward Proxy, EOSIO 2.0.3 settings, Emanate mobile, big Prospectors update
• EOS WPS, DeFi Stress Tests, Sense Chat 2.0, Croneos
• Block.one Hires EOS New York team, 115M+ actions in 24hours on EOS, xNation Liquidity Pools, dfuse goes open source, Staking on EOS Discussions

  
  April

• Voice funding received, EOS VM WASM activated, Binance votes, Equilibrium’s Reward Proxy
• deWeb launch, EvoDex, Chain-Clash launch
• EOS Nation & University of Sherbrooke Partnership, REX Explainer video, 2x Daily Snapshots EOS Rapid tools, StartEOS RAM release tool
• Anchor 1.0 lauch, Apple Store Authenticator Wallet update, WPS security audit by Slowmist, Charm

  
  May 2020

• pBitcoin on EOS, EOSX free transactions, BOID Season 4, Trybe
• Learning EOSIO, Everything Newdex, EOSDT portal
• Block.one voting requirements, WordProof, Spielworks, EOS Open Office
• Hyperion 3.0, Sense Chat 2.0 preview, Decentralization of Equilibrium, EOS Rate, KorEOS relaunch
• EOS Nation Infrastructure Improvements, EOS VC Grants, EOSIO Challenge winner, EOS Lost Keys renewal, Anchor mobile, Block.one votes, EOS Detective, EOS Resource Planner, Alcor DEX

Technical note regarding EOS’ actual birth date: June 1st is the 2nd anniversary of the EOSIO 1.0 release. The first block on the EOS Mainnet was produced by the Appointed Block Producer (APB) on June 8, 2018, at 8:08AM 8.888 seconds. The “go vote” was obtained on June 9, 2018, at 01:00 UTC. The Mainnet was launched on June 10, 2018, at 13:00 UTC and the chain hit 15% voting (it’s own metric for official activation) on June 14th, 2018.