It seems like a busy week is the norm for us lately. A lot of this is foreshadowing for 2018, with all the new events and press articles. Expect a strong Qtum public presence next year, as we are moving beyond the initial launch of our main network back in September. We have released many of the deliverables we said we would for 2017, some were missed, but a lot of new DAPPs were announced.
We understand many of you are waiting for some details about the United Bitcoin airdrop. Please be patient, we are waiting for the go ahead.
There has been a big uptick in the community lately, so thank you all for following our official channels. Everyone is welcome to join us in our journey to make Qtum the most influential smart contract platform.
Internet Governance Forum in Geneva
Our Co-Founder and CEO, Patrick Dai, visited Switzerland to discuss Blockchain technology at the IGF conference in Geneva. The Qtum community came out in force to watch this, the portion with Patrick attracted 16,000+ views on Youtube, while the other sections of the conference were significantly lower. There were 3800 people watching the live stream within minutes of it starting. To watch this video, please click the link below:
Patrick Dai is seen at the top left portion of the video. To visit their website, please click this link:
Qtum DAPP News
Vevue
ICO is open!
Make videos to earn tokens, anywhere in the world! Vevue is an exciting new social network for peer2peer video exchange. How to Vevue: 1. Search the map to find Tokens near you 2. Record a 30 sec video 3. Receive payment after approval
Join the 7-Day Spectacular Giveaway to earn Vevue Tokens! Ongoing now until December 25, look for daily special offers on twitter. More details:
Website:
ICO info:
Robin8
The presale is live on their website, and the crowdsale for this DAPP will start early January.
Here is a copy of their roadmap:
If you would like to know more about this project, please visit their website:
OBEN
ObEN, the leading US firm in personal AI (PAI) which was invested in by Tencent, has recently announced its plan to build a Blockchain lab with Qtum. ObEN’s has raised over 21 million USD with funding from Tencent, SoftBank & others. ObEN’s developers have been focusing on Project PAI’s applications supported by blockchain technologies for over a year. According to ObEN and Project PAI, the 2 most popular IPs, AI & Blockchain could be combined perfectly.
For more information, please see this blog post:
AWARE
Recently, AWARE announced its plan for a Qtum-based development of their investment management platform for digital assets, aimed to boost the liquidity of innovative assets and to serve blockchain entrepreneurs across the globe.
Beechat
BeeChat, the world’s foremost QTUM-based messenger and cryptocurrency community, updated its app this week with more integration features to foster the development of its open standards blockchain ecosystem.
With the new release, the number of activated users on the platform quickly grew to reach 2 million users only months after initial launch. On top of the core features, the new version will provide more integrated services for users and developers to contribute to and benefit from the open community.
CFun
Congratulations to CFun for raising $15 million USD. This did not take long, there was a lot of interest in this DAPP, so we expect to see good things in the months to come:
Qtum Community Development Bounties
The Qtum team has released a lot of developer bounties. We expect these to run over the course of 5 months. We will begin to discuss the finer points with the bounty participants, so please take a look at this document and get on the list if you are interested. We expect work on these to start in early January, with the first round of payments to go out on February 1st.
Development Updates
Week Of December 4th and 11th:
Core Releases:
* Mainnet v0.14.11: Add restore wallet feature to GUI, add new RPC API features
* Mainnet v1.1.4: Upgrade LevelDB resolving logevents issue, and fix a syncing issue
Work Completed:
* [Core/GUI] Add option to restore wallet in the GUI
* [x86/Tests] Implemented custom testing infrastructure to test various short series of instructions to compare their behavior
* [x86] Fix various bugs in opcodes like LEA that caused programs to behave incorrectly
* [x86] Fix various bugs in the external x86 interface functions
* [Milestone/x86] The x86 VM is finally capable of running a simple hello world program written in C
* [x86/Toolchain] Built and documented how to build a GCC based toolchain targeting the Qtum x86 VM
* [x86/Design] Revamped how the x86 standard library model will work so that community library contracts can benefit from the same infrastructure
* [Wallet/Web] Completed create, sendto, and call contract support
* [Wallet/Web] Completed QRC20 token support
* [Misc] Updated docker node images to support GUI usage
* [Misc] Update docker node images to support testnet development work
* [Wallet/Mobile] Fixed UI and localization errors
* [Wallet/Mobile] Will now verify if a contract was deleted or not
Work In-Progress:
* [Core/GUI] Working on a complete revamp of the theme and layout for the Qtum Core wallet
* [Core] Working on upgrading the wallet source code to include improvements in Bitcoin Core 0.15
* [API/QtumJS] Redesigned how sendtocontract API worked so creating a transaction and confirming it can be done separately
* [Documentation] Working on crowdsale tutorial for Qtum
* [x86/Tests] Adapting “test386.asm” to work on x86 VM
* [Mobile/Electrum] Adding smart contract support to Electrum
* [Core/P2P] Refactoring how mempool rules are enforced
* [Insight] Improved token support and adding custom page for tokens
* [Wallet/Mobile] Improved token support
* [Misc] Redesigning official Qtum logo and icons for use in all products
* [x86] Refactoring memory access to prepare for gas model implementation
* [Insight/API] Fixed supply reporting issue
* [Core] Researching issue that sometimes causes a segfault while synchronizing
* [Documentation] Working on the beginnings of a complete book covering developing with Qtum
New Optional QT Wallet Update
Some minor updates to the new wallet. Allows users to adjust their change addresses, along with some RPC bug fixes:
JB395’s Weekly Qtum Network Updates
This week Jackson goes into passwords, and how easy it is for you to lose everything if you do not take this seriously. Highly recommend you read this issue:
Qtum In The Press
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