Abelian Newsletter: Q2 2019
Development progress
In the past few months, the Abelian team has made tremendous progress and targeted to push the first release of testnet on June 27th. The development team has:
- Forked the Monero v0.13 for the Abelian codebase and selected fixes from Monero upstream to merge to the Abelian source code, to improve stability of the application.
- Successfully integrated the “Dilithium” signature scheme from pq-crystals in the foundation codebase.
- Completed initial modification of the blockchain storage, wallet function modifications, transaction format modification, JSON-RPC/serialization, as well as implementing some workarounds to cater to the absence of key images and ring signatures, etc.
- Deployed 4 testnet nodes and developed various functional testing on mining, block propagation, and monitoring block and transaction sizes.
Community update
We would like to introduce two new members to the Development department: Bic Methachaiyasit and Joseph Alcantara.
Bic is an experienced project manager having spent the last 10 years developing games for a triple-A game studio to start-up game studio including his own start-up studio. He has determined to tackle new exciting challenges in Abelian project as a project manager.
Joseph, with a background of software engineering, has been an active player in the retail industry working on embedded development and recently fascinated on the blockchain space. He is very ecstatic in contributing in the Abelian code and looking forward to major challenges ahead.
We are also excited to have our technical advisor and researcher Dr. Khoa Nguyen onboard. Dr. Nguyen is an experienced and world-renowned researcher in cryptography. To know more, click here.
Another good news is that our advisor Professor Huaxiong Wong has been invited to be the program co-chair of the prestigious international cryptology conferences Asiacrypt for the years 2020 and 2021. The Asiacrypt conference is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), a renowned non-profit organization devoted to supporting the promotion of the science of cryptology.
Our technical research advisor Professor Guomin Yang provided a very inspiring article on anonymous digital signatures and their application in cryptocurrency, which introduced the digital signature application to develop the features of privacy and accountability in ABE.
Abelian is thankful to every community member that has expressed their support and believe in our vision of a post-quantum cryptocurrency platform with accountable privacy. To find out more about ABE, check out our website and follow us on Telegram and social media: Medium and Twitter.
