Fantom Insights Vol.2

Welcome to our Team!

Fantom would like to welcome a number of new additions to our technical team. Each individual brings a variety of experiences and technical knowledge in their respective fields, and will make great contributions toward the project over the coming months.

Quan Nguyen: Quan is a software engineer and researcher. He was previously a Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sydney, where his fields were in Graph Drawing, InfoVis, Data Mining and Visual Analytics. His PhD thesis is titled “Models and Methods for Big graph visualizations.” He has won multiple mathematics competitions and awards for his research. Quan was also a software enginner at IBM, working on WCM, cloud computing, and RESTful web services. Prior to that, he worked on the Smarts market surveillance system with NASDAQ.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quannguyenh/

Alex Kampa: Alex is a blockchain developer and economist. He is currently the director of Sikoba Ltd, a peer-to-peer credit lending and rating system. Alex was also a part-time consultant for the European Union Commission on blockchain-related subjects.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksander-alex-kampa-97436571/

Quan will be joining the Opera Core development team, while Alex will be leading our account based cryptography implementation.

Development Progress

Fantom has made great technical progress over the past week.

Achievements includes the following:

• Our testnet is now operational and is a continued work in progress. Currently it is running amongst 4 nodes, and has been integrated into the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), allowing us to test its ability to confirm smart contract transactions. Note: the EVM will be used temporarily only to prove the performance of Opera Core, pending Fantom’s own virtual machine.
• Current finality is achieved within 300ms given a configuration of 100ms per event block.
• Testnet dapp development is ongoing, with a planned launch within Q3.
• Development of visualizers and block explorers for the testnet is ongoing.
• Three technical positioning documents to be released this week.

Technical Q&A Sessions on Slack

We will be holding Technical Q&A Sessions via our Slack Group for Developers every Thursdays at 1pm KST. The community can ask questions via our official Telegram channels, Subreddit, and Slack group. Join our Slack Group for Developers to participate in our discussions! Please continue to submit your questions via our Official Telegram Group. Our community managers will be there to hear you out.

Official FANTOM Telegram: https://t.me/Fantom_English

Join Slack Group for Developers: https://join.slack.com/t/fantomdevelopers/shared_invite/enQtNDEwODI0NTg0NTE2LTZkYTg0NTQxMjVkNzM4NDM0MGRkOTZlNDE0YTMwMTZlNTY5N2JjYTM5YTE1MDJmNmVjOGJjMzY1MmJhYzNiZjY

Until next week!