What You Missed in EOS | 2.1.2019–2.17.2019
EOS Periodical — Edition #6
Welcome to the 6th edition of the EOS Periodical! We are HKEOS, a prominent block producer on the EOS blockchain and DApp incubator originated from Hong Kong. The purpose of our digest is to bring you a summary of the most impactful news and controversial topics in the EOS community. Don’t miss out on the network updates by subscribing to our newsletters below! Read on to find out what you missed in the EOS community.
EOS Hot Topics
1. Cooperative Voting Infrastructure Bounties
EOS42 recently started an initiative to build important EOS Infrastructure, in coordination with other leading EOS proxies, such as The Starkness, Chintai, and many more. The initiative is based over a bounty program, where voters can decide which projects they want to see released, by flexing their voting power.
Block producers who complete the development of the projects decided by the community, will receive votes with expected deliverables from partner proxies for up to one year.
The first two chosen bounties are for the (1) development of an open source full history solution or (2) a mechanism for testing standby production.
2. Why 15% Token Participation is Irrelevant
Recently, EOS New York published an article explaining their thoughts about the 15% arbitrary threshold for Referendum Proposals.
Under the current referendum rule, a referendum needs a minimum of 15% vote participation of all issued tokens to pass. In their article, EOS New York highlighted two main issues with this 15% threshold:
1. 15% threshold doesn’t matter: EOS token holders can shift their votes towards standby BPs that support the proposal. In this case the top 21 BPs would change and the referendum would pass even if the 15% threshold is not met.
2. A vote for “No” may actually be a vote for “Yes” — No’ voters are not incentivized to vote, as a ‘no’ vote could contribute to the success of a proposal rather than impeding it.
3. Rewriting The Regproducer Contract
The EOS42 team recently shared a new regproducer contract proposal. Regproducer is best understood as a contract that helps BPs achieve common goals by working together. The intent of regproducer action is to register an account as a block producer candidate, the EOS account needs to approve the regproducer agreement prior to becoming a BP. This accountability ensures network performance that can reliably host dApps, and protect EOS users by objectively conserving an immutable EOS blockchain. In their article, the team addresses some of the issues with the current agreement and try to propose a new solution.
4. Over 2,000 EOS Users Regained Access To Their Account
Recently EOS Authority and EOS Argentina successfully brought back over 2,000 people into the ecosystem by unlocking their EOS tokens with through their unregistered tokens process. They will soon release a further update to the process. Read the full tweet here.
5. Brendan Blumer Latest Message on Telegram — “Great Things Take Time”
“Geat things take time; parallel teams need to be built to deliver new products without sacrificing the progress of existing business units, and that means hiring new people which comes with time limitations that can’t always be shortcut with capital.
The truth is, the EOS community’s justified excitement has led to unrealistic expectations to simultaneously deliver protocol upgrades, introduce revolutionary new mainstream consumer applications, and take responsibility for optimal decentralized governance.
As we continue to grow, I as CEO, will not foster short-sighted hype designed to solely satisfy unsustainable expectations. Further and most importantly, I am not supportive of rushing unpolished products out the door for purely commercial reasons.
It would be easy for me to just go quiet until we release our next product, but communicating consistently with hundreds of thousands of people, while juggling the responsibility of corporate execution is an enormous task that can sometimes feel like trying to satisfy an impossible set of constraints.
Remember, money doesn’t immediately solve all problems, and healthy growth of culture and Human Resources takes time and patience, but in the end it will increase the chances that B1 develops in a way that the community is rewarded, and proud of.
I’ve come accept that regardless of my determination and work ethic, I will not satisfy everyone, but whether you support me or not, you have my commitment that I’ll continue to test the boundaries of myself and the B1 team to deliver as much positive change and restoration of freedoms as possible; Dan too.”
6. BrockPierce1 Proxy Youtube Show
Brock Pierce recently started a new show on his Youtube Channel, BP1 PROXY SHOW. The topics for the first episode are:
- Proxy: what does it mean? why are they doing it? and how we can get involved?
- Encouraging token holders to vote and how to vote safely.
- Discussing the decision-making process of the BP1 proxy and what’s going on in the official BrockPierce1 Telegram group.
Watch the full episode here.
7. A Constitutional Replacement Is Now Live
A new referendum proposal ‘Should EOS adopt the EOS User Agreement (EUA) in place of the interim Constitution?’ is now live to be voted on.
Result if enacted:
“The EOS User Agreement will act as the foundational document of the EOS blockchain and will establish the expectations of EOS governance amongst all user types. The EUA will serve as a written reflection of the method of governance that the EOS Mainnet already employs, delegated-proof-of-stake. The interim Constitution will be removed as a governing document in its entirety.”
Read more and vote on Bloks.io!
DApp Ecology
1. MEET.ONE Sidechain Launch & AirDrop
The MEET.ONE sidechain will soon be launched. The launch will start with an AirGrab for all existing EOS accounts, these accounts will each receive an AirGrab ratio of 2:1 for MEETONE tokens.
On February 19th, the MEET.ONE team will snapshot the EOS Mainnet accounts, while the sidechain will launch on February 26th be officially activated the next day. Finally, from February 27th to March 6th MEET.ONE users can claim their token at a ratio of 2 EOS : 1 MEETONE. Read more here.
2. New Everipedia User Interface
The Everipedia team recently gave users a sneak peak of the new user interface they’re building with new incentives for consistent users/editors as well as interactive/rich media features. Although all of the designs are still a work in progress, the final versions should be completed by Q2 of 2019.
New updates include:
- Homepage: on the new homepage, one will be able to view featured articles based on personal preference, trending articles, recently created and edited articles and other popular pages.
- An editor leaderboard will be highlighting Everipedia’s top contributors daily, weekly, monthly and of all time.
- Recent Activity feed: a new feed that aims to incentivize people to read through the proposed edits and vote.
- New article design page.
- Interactive & Rich Media Features: users will be able to easily add custom photos, GIFs, videos and other types of media into articles, such as YouTube videos, Tweets, Facebook posts, Instagram photos, and similar elements directly into the article.
Additionally, Everipedia has recently passed the smart contract security audit of the JohnWick Lab, which further demonstrates the security and integrity of the contract.
3. Scatter wants to port games to EOS
The Scatter team is searching for games to port to the EOS platform and license their rights. They are looking for mainly three groups of developers:
- Developers who released on Steam and didn’t see the sales they had hoped
- Developers who would like to expand their audience
- Developers who only created a prototype
The deal with Scatter would include licensing the distribution rights, game code, and/or rights to all digital assets like graphics, sounds, and music.
Read more here.
4. New EOSIO Development Tool Released: infeos
The Infinite X Labs team recently released a new tool for EOSIO chains, to make EOSIO dApps easier to develop: infeos. Infeos is a javascript & npm based framework for development, building, testing and deploying of EOSIO based dApps. Some of its distinct features include:
- Supports networks like EOS, Telos and Worbli
- Full control over your environment configurations and deployment setup
- Run a local node with one command
- Unit tests your EOSIO smart contracts using javascript
- Optimized dApp project structure
Read more here.
5. LiquidApps Launches Bug Bounty Program
The LiquidApps team announced their new bug bounty program to help upgrade the DAPP Network’s products and services. Bounty hunters can earn a portion of up to 10,000,000 DAPP tokens available for this bounty (up to 1% of the total token supply).
The initial scope of assessment will include two contracts:
- Micro Auctions Smart Contract
- DAPP Token/ DAPP Services Smart Contract
6. dApp Spotlight: Chestnut
Block.one recently interviewed the finalist project at the Cape Town Grand Finale, Chestnut. Chestnut is a permission-based smart account, which allows users to set their own rules around transactions, with an aim to prevent careless mistakes and to protect accounts from malicious attacks. Read the full interview here.
In addition to Chestnut, some of the finalist projects presented at the EOS Hackathons are continuing their development such as NouGit. Phillip Hamnett from EOS42 recently shared on twitter a detailed list of these projects.
Resources
EOS Guides & Tutorials
- Why Developers Should Build on EOS
- Top 5 Things About EOS Before Developing on EOS
- How to Deploy and Run a Smart Contract on EOS
- How to Create a demo dApp on EOS | Block.one
- Smart Contract Test Driven Development on EOS | Azarusio
- EOS History API with Date Ranges | EOSTribe
- Installing EOS (Part 1) — Setting up Ubuntu on Virtual Box
- Installing EOS (Part 2) — Installing EOSIO
- Deferred Transactions on EOS
- Introduction To the Sisters of EOS | Helixx Labs
- Searchability on the Blockchain | dfuse
- Answers to Every Question You Have About the EOS Referendum Contract
- REX Overview | Attic Lab
- How MEOW’s Anti Spam Filters Keep You Safe | altShiftDev
Vote for HKEOS
HKEOS is a tech-focused block producer originating from Hong Kong. Pre-mainnet launch, HKEOS started the secure Ghostbusters testnet and launch scripts, and helped pioneer a redundant infrastructure model for launch. Since then, we have contributed to the community by creating the fastest EOS block explorer bloks.io, building the worker proposal contract and platform, and writing a test suite program (EOS Test Cave) for EOSIO contracts. We are also one of the first dApp incubators and have partnered with strong teams including Uncloak, L2, and Lumeos.
