A Singapore-based project called Zilliqa is strong contender for tackling the problem of scalability, and has quickly established itself as one of the hottest coins of 2018. Then they went under the radar, mostly due to their own fault and missed deadlines.

After open public criticism picked up so did the Zilliqa team, both in their communication and technological progress.

The primary strength that Zilliqa brings to the table is that it is one of the first projects to successfully harness the power of sharding as a scaling solution. While other projects (including Ethereum) are planning to implement sharding, Zilliqa was among the first to demonstrate that it can really work.

Zilliqa’s two high-profile enterprise partnerships (with Mindshare and japanese Infoteria) have yet to come to fruition, and mainnet release has been postponed from the planned Q3 of this year to January 2019. While Zilliqa’s scalability solution holds massive potential, the question of adoption will ultimately play a key factor in the future of the project.

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Official mainnet will be a rocket launch event – if it goes right, Zilliqa is gonna be a major player in 2019. If it fails or gets delayed again, the ever smaller community will jump ship and that could be the end for ZIL.

The team itself wrapped up the year with a review of what’s been done, what could’ve be done better and what to expect in the next year.

Zilliqa, one of the more successful Ethereum clones and a project often cited as being very close to full implementation of the sharding technology, published a post on its Medium page detailing their experiences in the year behind. The post revealed that the project was quite busy, as they managed to achieve several key milestones.

Overall, the big accomplishments of the year for ZIL wouldn’t have mattered without the launch of their Shan Wang public testnet, which gave everyone a glimpse of what the actual, sharding-ready mainnet will be able to do. A native smart contract Scylla was developed as well, while several important partnerships and collaborations saw Zilliqa explore potential application in use cases such as digital advertising, Insurtech, digital content and gaming. The team further mentions work on programmatic advertising (done alongside Mindshare on Project Proton) and describes the #BuildonZIL Ecosystem Grant Programme, an initiative seeking applications for scalability (e.g. layer 2 solutions), gaming SDKs, DApps, and Scilla additions.

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The team acknowledged that while a lot has been done on the permissioned prototype platform, a lot of work lies ahead of them before Zilliqa can offer true sharding-powered public blockchain. They themselves have expanded from 5 to 20 to face this work with increased intensity and have noted that more tools/documentation/tutorials will be provided for budding developers looking to build with Zilliqa. With all that in mind, they confirmed that their focus for 2019 will be the rollout of a complete operational mainnet and addition of real world use cases.

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