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Another new merchant accepting nano popped up in Nigeria to celebrate Free Money Day!
You can now buy cakes and pastries from Aniesodo Cynthia Iwunor at her business G-SYL Cakes!

"I am a professional Baker, I do all kinds of cakes and pastries and also train people how to bake and be good in what they do.

My brand is registered with CAC

My location is Awka Anambra State and I deliver nationwide."

We're honored to be featured in this Startup Showcase by UKT News! 🌍
Discover how we at Nano Foundation aim to blend digital transfers with an eco-friendly approach!

Fellow nano enthusiasts and world-changers, it's time for us to come together! We're joining hands with the Post Growth Institute for this year's Free Money Day, and we're beyond excited! 
From WeNano spots to online sharing, the possibilities are endless. 

Dive into the article to find out how you can be a part of this worldwide movement.

George Coxon, Director at the Nano Foundation, has been quoted on how Blockchain is creating new models for change in this Forbes article about ‘How To Get Hired In Web3’

“Blockchain is about creating new models for change. Every day, blockchain innovators are discovering how to use the technology’s unique benefits to decentralize power, redefine value, forge new alliances and reshape the status quo.”

In contrast to traditional blockchain structure of cryptocurrencies, a few currencies use Directed Acyclic Graphs instead. This DAG structure is also used in nano.  Nano is mentioned in this article as one of the currencies harnessing the unique structure of DAG to transcend the limitations of traditional blockchains.

Thomas James, a brand that sells leather goods such as bags, wallets and accessories with completely custom designs, now accepts nano!

You can now even get a 20% discount when paying with nano.

Redeemfor.me, a website that allows users to buy gift cards with nano, just added over 1000 brands from all over the globe to its assortment! 

This means users can now spend their nano on 1450 different gift cards and purchase goods or services with nano. Great for those that want to spend nano directly!

Tune in September 9th at 8pm UTC for Nano Community Initiatives 3 Stories Episode 11! 🙌

Hosted by Colombian Ambassador Carlos Murgas, this episode will feature 
- Diva's Kitchen, a vendor in Nigeria selling food on a preorder basis, accepting nano for payments
- RsNano.com, an initiative to port the nano node software to the Rust programming language
- Ririro.com, giving all children in the world free access to stories and using nano to reward translators and writers.

Link to the twitter space coming soon!

The Nano Community Initiatives twitter spaces are a great way to learn about different businesses, people and initiatives that use nano one way or the other. You can check out previous episodes on our YouTube channel.

We all know the nano network is blazingly fast - transactions are usually confirmed in less than a second!

But how fast is it exactly? Check out this great new website nanospeed.info to see exactly how fast nano transactions are confirmed!

The streaming platform Perseeve has now implemented YouTube Faucet Streams! You can now turn your YouTube livestream and other content into a Perseeve Faucet Stream! Pay viewers in cryptocurrency called nano for every second of watching - anywhere in the world, instantly!

You can simply add some nano to your account, create a Faucet Stream and link to your YouTube video explaining your product. Payments to viewers will be made every few seconds as they're watching your content.

A great incentive for new viewers to view your content. And a great way to reward your most loyal viewers for watching!

Texas-based coffee manufacturer, Brand 425 Coffee, now accepts payments in nano!

Want to start your morning routine off well? Then start it off with a cup of joe paid with nano!

"Once you start drinking our coffee, the only problem you will have is realizing that you will need to brew more."

The United Nations System Staff College - UNSSC just published a blog article about 'Grasping governance trends: Seven videos on disrupting business as usual' which features George Coxon's speech to the United Nations!

"To fulfill the goals of both the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement, we need a renewed understanding of governance and a better grasp of emerging governance trends.

George outlines five ways digital currencies can tackle financial hurdles: enhancing accessibility, reducing transaction costs, promoting financial empowerment, increasing transparency and trust, and stimulating economic growth..."

Is it the time? Are you ready to propose to that loved one?
Or perhaps you’re just looking for a beautiful and stylish ring to finish your look!

Joyería Real de XIV, a charming family-owned jewellery shop from Yucatán, México, now accepts nano! They specialise in the design and craft of custom jewellery. While primarily a local business, they also have plenty of experience working with international customers.

St.Zibahs, a natural oil vendor for beauty and skin care, now accepts nano for payments!

She sells self made natural oils at cheap prices such that everyone can have access to quality skincare products without breaking the bank. She wishes to cross borders with her business and believes crypto and community might be one of the best ways to facilitate international commerce. According to Zibah, she has challenges with international transfers when selling online and wishes to reach out to many people as possible with original skincare routine without restrictions.

Location :Port Harcourt City, Rivers State  Nigeria

Great article by our friends over at NOWPayments, exploring the steps towards accepting digital payments and delve into the importance of user-friendly technology and infrastructure, as well as building awareness and educating users. 

Many might believe that cryptocurrency is just for holding. But with nano's frictionless transfers, spending is the natural thing to do!

Check out this article from CryptoWallet.com diving deeper into spending nano instead of just holding!

On the 27th of June 2023, Director at the Nano Foundation George Coxon delivered a speech about nano at the United Nations Summer Academy!

The impressive audience consisted of government bodies and United Nations staff!

Wonder what George said in her speech? Check it out right here!

"Another cool little thing that can be very easily achieved with XNO - triggering an arduino to do something in response to an account receiving a specified amount."

Great video showcasing how easy and fast nano payments can be for Arduino projects! Check out the video and don't forget to subscribe to Cryptotronics YouTube channel!

NFC tags can be so useful - Discord user Max actually made a super easy tutorial showing you exactly how to encode a nano payment request into an NFC tag!

What awesome project would you make with this?

Nanobyte is a browser extension for easy nano payments and logging into websites. A short update on the Nanobyte service after a small hiatus!

 "...what makes Nano different from the others is the fact that the transactions are completely free. This represents a substantial difference in the cryptocurrency landscape, offering a significant cost advantage for users."

Great article by Financial-World.org about nano diving into what sets nano apart, why nano was created and more!

This great article by NanoWatchman dives deeper into the importance of nano's fee-free approach.

"Removing fees would make everyday transactions, both large and small, more cost-effective for individuals, businesses, and organizations. This would stimulate spending, investment, and overall economic growth. A feeless environment would enable greater financial inclusion, allowing under-served populations to better access financial opportunities without being burdened by extra costs. What a dream!"

Perseeve, a livestreaming service that uses nano micropayments, has introduced Faucet Streaming! This allows streamers and businesses to create a livestream where viewers are paid in nano for every second of watching the stream!

"Instead of waiting for viewers to find and reward them, streamers can now take the initiative. By compensating viewers for their time, streamers create an attractive incentive for potential fans to give their content a chance."

Nigeria is embracing nano at an impressive pace. Not only are small vendors hopping on board, but a local football club, FC Espada, is also using nano for fundraising and has even sported Nano-branded jerseys!

It's genuinely inspiring to see an emerging economy harnessing the benefits of instant, fee-free and global transactions that nano offers. If you're curious about the real-world application of nano for vendors and how they can bring about significant positive change, this is a must-read!

How can a cryptocurrency do good and make life easier?

Check out this article to find out more!

“Nano's design places emphasis on scalability, financial inclusivity, energy efficiency, and decentralization.”

The Dutch exchange Coinmerce.io has published their informational page about nano to inform their users more about the fast, ecofriendly & fee-free currency.

Originally written in Dutch, the page is also available in English.

Coinmerce has seen growth recently as Binance have been moving their users towards Coinmerce since Binance is leaving the Dutch markets. A great moment for Coinmerce to inform Dutch users about nano!

It's great to see the amazing strides we're making this month in the theme of accessibility. That's why we're excited to announce that nano is now also available to buy with euro on FinchPay.io! 
It allows you to buy nano easily Visa or Mastercard and has more payment options planned to come in the near future.

Arctic Wallet has now integrated nano, allowing you to easily buy, exchange and store nano in a non-custodial wallet!

Arctic Wallet allows you to store 200+ assets including nano, and gives you insights and analytics into your funds.

The grassroots nano movement in Nigeria is expanding! Enaanapu Gabriel, our Community Ambassador from Port Harcourt in Nigeria, convinced two vendors at the Bole Festival to accept nano.

The Bole Festival is the largest food festival in Nigeria with more than 25,000 people sharing the popular local dish: Bole & Fish. The theme of the event is #loveandvibes with focus on Earth’s sustainability.

“We plan to share at least 50 plates of bole with nano, print phamplets and create beautiful memories at the event. With these in place, we can kick-start the dream to give the beloved continent something to remember when a nano product or campaign is mentioned.” Gabriel says.

The event is on the 5th and 6th of August.

Nano aims to be accessible for everyone. Therefore, we’re happy to announce that ChangeNow.io just released 10 new local currency/XNO pairs. That’s another 180M people with credit cards in ten countries can easily access nano. What does this mean in practice? 

ChangeNOW.io adding the fiat pairs: VND, MYR, THB, PHP, TRY, BRL, ARS, CLP, MXN, PEN builds bridges to the nano ecosystem for people living in Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Turkey, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Peru.

For a cryptocurrency to be successful, it needs to be widely used. This can only happen if people have easy access to the currency and can use it in their day-to-day transactions. Increased access may lead to a rise in merchants accepting Nano, thereby enhancing its utility.

But that’s not all, local & global business merchants can now easily accept nano and have it automatically converted to those fiat currencies using NOWPayments.

CryptoWallet will host a Twitter Space on the 20th of July at 2pm GMT+3 about spending nano! 

In this Twitter Space, Moody Hallab, the Token Lead at CryptoWallet, & Forest Horsman, Social Media Lead & Ambassador at Nano Foundation, will discuss the future of spending nano.

Join in the conversation!

Change is afoot in the financial world, and the Nano Foundation is leading the way in building the best version of digital cash. We're calling out to all builders, tinkerers, and changemakers who want to make a difference. Join us in developing an empowering digital currency. Be a part of the change today! 

Learn more in this inspirational article by Developer Bob Linster.

Nano is now available to buy and sell with euro on CryptoWallet.com! They aim to make cryptocurrency as widely adopted as fiat currencies!

Nano Community Ambassador in Uganda, Niwamanya Martin, recently introduced students at Muni University to nano as part of his University Outreach Initiative.

Great work Martin!

Nano is great for gaming!

Why?

Check out this article by NOWPayments explaining how nano's fast and fee-free transactions are perfect for gaming, some examples, and how NOWPayments fits in!

We are excited to announce the release of our latest Nano Digest! It covers all partnerships, community activities, and integrations that have taken place over the past three months.

We would like to express our gratitude to our vibrant and dedicated community as well as our partners for your ongoing support and engagement. Here's to the next quarter of innovation and growth with Nano!

You can now rain Nano on other WeNano users in two different ways.

Spot
If there is a lot of activity within a Spot, you can now rain on up to 10 users that have been active the last hour. If there is more than 10, it will randomly pick 10 out of everyone.

Map
You can now zoom in on any location on the map, and it will tell you if there are any active WeNano users around. It will list users that have opted to sharing their location, and their last activity was within a few days. You can then decide to rain to up to 10 randomly picked users. 

Nano Donate v1.4.0 has just been released! This minor update replaces the ⋰·⋰ symbol with the Ӿ symbol in logos and elsewhere throughout the extension. Also nano addresses now link to the NanoLooker explorer!

The team at StackWallet interviewed developer of Nautilus, Matthew Fosse, about nano and Nautilus for their StackCast show. They discussed how Nano manages network spamming and instant transactions, running nodes for a feeless currency, and more.

The response time of NOWNodes nano node for developers is now 34 times faster than before! 

From the NOWNodes team:

"Yesterday we finished maintenance and our tech team achieved 34 times faster node response time for nano! Even with high-load methods 🚀   

Use http://xno.nownodes.io endpoint for $XNO integration and interacting with on-chain data

🔓 http://nownodes.io/nodes/nano-xno"

Nice article from our partners at CoinDCX mentioning nano as one of the cryptos with the lowest transaction fees - perfect since nano has no transaction fees at all!

"Nano also does not have any transaction charges and facilitates small to large transactions just within a few seconds. "

The popular nano app WeNano and the additional WeNano Business app for businesses got some new updates. These updates allow for more ways for business owners to promote their business, connect with customers and receive payments.

Check out this great article by The Bulletin Time diving into the tech behind nano, the benefits of nano, and more!

George Coxon, Director at the Nano Foundation, spoke at the United Nations Summer Academy yesterday.

George says:
"Really pleased with how yesterday's Trend Talk for the UN Summer Academy went. The audience were national & local government bodies, civil society, academia, as well as private sector sustainability entrepreneurs and organisations such as WWF in addition to UN Staff - everyone was really engaged, asked lots of great questions and then had a flurry of connections post talk wanting to chat further! Thank you all for the well wishes of support!

I have been approached to now to give a similar workshop/talk at the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) which I am just over the moon about (and hopefully fully secure) this would be a wonderful showcase of how nano has the potential to be incredibly helpful in crisis and disaster zones in the future.

Off to Reset Connect today which I hope to update you all on later. I am not speaking like last year however going to network and educate myself on the latest news in the sustainability sector."

George Coxon, Director at the Nano Foundation, will be speaking at the United Nations Summer Academy on the topic of 'The Intersection of Sustainable Digital Currency and Governance: How can we build a more resilient digital economy?'