Zilliqa Big Debut Is Tomorrow: Is It Linked to Facebook?
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Zilliqa Big Debut Is Tomorrow: Is It Linked to Facebook?
Last week we wrote about how the Zilliqa team announced that they have successfully launched the first in the history smart contract platform built on sharding. They’ve said they are now ready to introduce their developments.
It seems that they were serious and boy do they aiming high. As most of the crypto community know – tomorrow’s day could change everything we knew about cryptocurrencies as such. 18th of June is the day when Facebook is planning their cryptocurrency debut.
From Zilliqa they’ve tweeted:
How excited are we for Tuesday?? Just two days to go! Join us to learn about our milestones, our vision moving forward and meet our friends! #ZilliqaDay2019 #finalcountdown https://t.co/4YVj5XVukg
— Zilliqa (No airdrops or ETH giveaways) (@zilliqa) June 16, 2019
They seem not to care at all with their writer Andy Little beginning announcement with:
“Tuesday the 18th June will just be another boring Tuesday for many around the world, but if you’re ahead of the masses and lost in crypto euphoria it should be marked down as one of the biggest… But what could it be? Yes, you guessed it… The second annual Zilliqa conference!”
But will they or will they not partner with Facebook – it’s still not answered. As Little explains the bases of these rumors are set on the Facebook team releasing their white paper on the 18th June as well as old advisors tying the Zilliqa team to Facebook. Remind you, the head of blockchain at Facebook, Evan Cheng, acts as an advisor for Zilliqa.
Even Little doesn’t deny possible partnership concluding with:
“Let’s hope we find out once and for all at the conference if the rumours are true or made up in the hopes for a quick pump by the community.”
The truth is that in one of the recent interviews, Zilliqa’s founder, Max Kantelia said that there are 3 vertical markets they want to tackle: gaming, entertainment, and financial services. They recently went into a partnership with Mindshare, a 30 billion turnover group, with whom they are working on an end-to-end reconciliation platform for the digital advertising industry.
Kantelia also confirmed that they are looking for more partnerships in order to widen their network and become a worthy competitor to the likes as Visa or Mastercard. Knowing that both of these card companies have already partnered Facebook – it could mean that this is the way Zilliqa chose to take in order to “widen”.
What will happen with eventual partnership and with Zilliqa as such, will be known tomorrow. After all, we have been witnessing a lot of not-really-successful PR attempts so we wouldn’t be surprised if this shows as one as well.