Hydrogen Monthly Roundup: July 2018

Welcome to our first official Monthly Roundup (and my first Medium post!). Each month, I’ll highlight some important announcements, products news, and dev updates.

Announcements:

• We introduced FINDI — Financial Industry Decentralization Initiative, a non-partisan consortium to facilitate a more open, transparent, and decentralized global financial system powered by public blockchains.
• The Hydro team recently did an AMA with Chinese-based cryptocurrency platform Coinex— check out the recap here.

Product News:

• The Atom team released Proton Version 1.1.0. As a reminder, the Proton API has complex business logic and computations that developers can use to power their products and applications. Check out the full release notes.
• After months of planning, wireframes, and coding, the Hydro team released the Hydro app on the iOS App Store and Google Play Store.

Dev Updates:

• Noah, Reinaldo, and Andy have been hard at work building the front end on V2 of the Hydro app.
• Noah has managed to build out an open sourced web3-webpacked library for those creating front-end for Ethereum dApps. We’ll be using this to build all of the front-ends going forward (Hydro wallet, Snowflake dashboard, etc.).
• Andy continues his work on the MyCrypto fork with client Raindrop and is close to submitting a PR
• Shane and the Atom team have been working on a new framework for Nucleus that will control access to data on two levels:

1. Endpoints that a user can call and data that users are authorized to view
2. Actions that a user can take on specific underlying accounts to which they are associated

• Also on the Atom side, the team intends to add a slew of features in the next Proton update such as expanding the actuarial library, creating an enhanced goals framework, adding more languages to the developer documentation, and improving simulation performance.