Velas Flashlight #35 — Velas successfully completes the second space-mission phase and hits multiple blockchain events

5 min readDec 9, 2022

35th edition of everything that has happened with Velas over these past few weeks

What is Velas FlashLight?

It’s all in the name — Velas FlashLight is the latest and greatest news behind Velas across the globe broken down into fast, digestible bites to highlight the hard work the Velas team has delivered over the past few weeks.

Velas FlashLight is a bi-weekly roundup of Velas in the news and across social media. From videos and mentions by your favorite YouTube and Twitter influencers to waves Velas is making in traditional media and articles, all in one place.

Solana vs Velas — Discover the key differences and how Velas has built its own path

In the light of recent events, we try to define our key differences from Solana. Is Velas blockchain affected by Solana network outages or hacks?

We have prepared a detailed Twitter thread where you can find all answers to the latest questions of concern by our community.

Read here: https://twitter.com/velasblockchain/status/1598707314499928067?s=21&t=0CFUJi1dUydW-WiIlM3I7A

Blockchain to Infinity and Beyond — Velas Server has Boarded the ISS

We are proud to announce that the idea of bringing the light-client of the fastest EVM blockchain to the 🛰#ISS went from a plain concept to full-on execution in less than nine months.

Find out more: https://velas.com/en/blog/velas-server-has-boarded-the-iss

We’re delighted to announce that Velas is becoming a participant member of the Metaverse Standards Forum

The Metaverse Standards Forum provides a venue for cooperation 🤝 between standard-shaping organizations and companies to foster the development of interoperability standards for an open and inclusive #metaverse, and accelerate their development and deployment through pragmatic, action-based projects.

Find out more: https://metaverse-standards.org/members/

Velas was present at #PopConMe 2022 in Dubai — The Biggest POP Culture & Gaming event in the Middle East

We had a huge stand and a big branded 🦇Batmobile there, and we also got to hang out with different celebrities from Web3.

More information: https://linktr.ee/PopConMe

Shirly Valge at the AIBC Europe Summit 2022 in Malta 🇲🇹

Our COO Shirly Valge made a presentation to all the attendees who also had the opportunity to chat with us about Velas and future opportunities building the future of Web3.

More information: https://sigmamalta.events/aibc-2022

Velas was a partner of The Big Metaverse Evening

The Big Metaverse Evening was an exciting event to discuss everything #Metaverse.

More information: https://austrianbc.ae/event/metaverse-2022/

A full interview with Alex, Velas Global Community Lead for CCC.io

Alex talks about Velas and its products, current situation on the market, and benefits of switching to Velas for developers.

Listen now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix-oz6VfhDU&t=5s

Here is the recap of our AMA with Ayush Ranjan and Hamza Fathallah, CTO and CFO at Warlands

During this interview, they discussed the fundamentals of Warlands gameplay, the prospects for the game’s impact on eSports, its tokenomics and sustainability, as well as the partnership with Velas.

Find out more: https://velas.com/en/blog/velas-x-warlands-ama-session