August was a big month at IOV. Our roadmap is receiving updates as usual with new milestones, but these two have our early Round 1 supporters giddy with excitement.
Our public alphanet will launch in August 2018!
We believe that closed or permissioned chains do not serve the community well in the long term.
We confirm our commitment to running an open source blockchain protocol that is not only compatible with major pre-existing blockchains by default but also allows for expansion toward the future of cryptocurrencies by inviting a wider audience for detailed technical review:
We have now opened up our core library IOV-Core (see it on GitHub!).
IOV-Core is our flagship library that allows for developers to build highly interactive and easy-to-use wallets that work across multiple blockchains automatically. It provides generic adaptors and connectors for fundamental functionality such as key and address retrieval, transaction signing, and transaction querying. While others have integrated these features in a superficial way, we have attacked the problem at the protocol level. In so doing we enable a different set of technical options for developers compared to earlier approaches that were integrated without corresponding protocol design in advance. We’ve been careful to spend our development time on ensuring that our cryptographic primitives match exactly the ones used in standards, hardware wallets, and the highest value blockchains today. That way we provide other developers the opportunity to focus on their target market business needs and interface design because we have already taken care of the cryptographic core with a convenient facade interface.
Congratulations are in order to the team and supporters who have worked together to make this possible. We believe that the generic blockchain-agnostic (or universal) design of our BCP and core library, including BNS and atomic swap, will give crypto developers better experiences building and deploying crypto applications. While we are not the first to offer any of these individual features, we believe our offering is the first to put all of them together into an orthogonal and clean API with static types, network protocol, and JSON extensibility. We think this design simplicity and focus on the backend rather than frontend make us the most attractive option for developers to get started quickly in building multi-cryptocurrency, customer-facing apps.
We are launching a dev channel next week to collect feedback and support our growing developer community more efficiently as they experiment with the IOV-Core library.
We are happy to give to the community today and hope to see you there!
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