The new year is off to a great start for eCash and the eCash ecosystem! 😍
A lot has happened in the first month of the year. Did you miss any of the updates? 👀
Let's dive in and check out all that happened! 👇
🌟 Key Highlights - Cashtab Wallet
📭 eCash aliases development is underway
🔗 https://reviews.bitcoinabc.org/D12972
🧑💻 Work is underway to upgrade XEC transaction creation methods to the latest dev libraries
🧑💻 eCash transaction support PR submitted for review at Bitgo library
🌟 Key Highlights - Electrum ABC Wallet
🛠 💻 Electrum ABC 5.2.0 & 5.2.1 are released bringing bug fixes, privacy & CashFusion CLI improvements, and a new feature to display the XEC amount for selected coins and addresses in the status bar.
🔗 https://www.bitcoinabc.org/electrum/
🌟 Key Highlights - Bitcoin ABC Node Software
🛠💻 @Bitcoin_ABC releases versions 0.26.10 and 0.26.11 adding a connectivity check for Avalanche staking nodes and bringing various RPC and performance improvements.
🔗 https://www.bitcoinabc.org/releases/
🌟 Key Highlights - Avalanche on eCash

🧑💻 The development of Avalanche Pre-Consensus on eCash is underway.
Coming Soon:
🔹 Instant Transaction Finality ⚡️
🔹 Real-time Transaction Processing 🚅
🆕 diffs on 👉 https://Avalanche.cash
✨ eCash Avalanche Network Overview

Total Staked: 85.4B XEC
Number of Nodes: 38
Number of Peers: 23
🌟 Key Highlights - News/Media 🗞️
💱 Changelly exchange lists eCash (XEC)! 🔥🚀
📈 https://changelly.page.link/exchange-xec
📰 MSN: Ethereum Tops This Major Level; eCash Becomes Top Gainer
🛠️ A new starter guide for devs by Cashtab lead developer Joey King explaining how to create an eCash app using the Chronik Indexer:
📝 https://e.cash/blog/building-on-ecash-january-2023
🌟 Key Highlights - Community & Milestones
🎉 eCash's new Coin Market Cap Community is now verified ☑️
🥳 eCash's new CMC community surpasses 2.9K followers.
Follow 📲 https://coinmarketcap.com/community/profile/eCash
🚀 Lunar Crush data shows a surge in the eCash (XEC) social metrics! 🔥
🔗 https://lunarcrush.com/coins/xec/ecash?metric=social_score%2Csocial_volume
That is all for this month. 🙌
Exciting times ahead, the eCash team has a lot in store planned for 2023. Stay tuned! 😉