Public code is better code: IOV-core and Alphanet will be open to all on Github

Some new project milestones are being updated into our roadmap. For many reasons, two in particular have us especially excited:

1) Our public alphanet is ready to launch before the end of this month.

2) We just published our first public code release of IOV-core (see it on GitHub, and we’ve also published details about this release in a post for technical audiences which you can check out here):

• The toolset we’ve released not only proves that we’re building to the technical requirements of our stated business objectives, but also establishes us as the industry frontrunner in tackling these challenges.
• We have a base toolset that lets people contribute their own connectors, because it was designed with that purpose in mind: we could re-implement the transaction signing and querying for another chain such as Lisk into IOV-core, for example, and this is unique in the industry. What’s common in crypto is for each project to have its own customized components that will specifically require a certain library to be re-implemented. We’re now already offering a generalized key management and connector solution, by contrast.
• Now that we’ve released this code, people can also create their own wallets, and can atomic swap with our network from their own network. The novelty and ambitiousness of what we’re doing will inspire people in the broader development community to start writing their own tools, utilities, and applications. This is a really important process, which builds its own momentum: as more example code and implementations come into being, people can then learn more together, from now into the future. This is how IOV’s adoption starts at the grassroots level, by offering groundbreaking and valuable tools for people to try and learn with right away.
• Our new dev support channel for building this technical community is therefore launching next week: as one of the projects with the highest quality tech, we’re aiming to build one of the highest quality technical communities in the entire industry.

Our approach for solving the interoperability problem — to provide a universal wallet built on a universal protocol for backwards-and-forwards compatibility with other chains — is guaranteed to succeed in our perspective because we understand how open source movements work and how technological adoption works at the mass scale, such as the web’s DNS: you do something groundbreaking, that solves major problems, and then you let everyone win by getting on board.

This network effect will grow even more when the public alphanet launches this month, and people in the community who want to solve these problems start playing with the network and in that way become directly engaged with our vision, and how we’re realizing it.

These product development strides and public releases are especially generating excitement at this time in our community of early supporters who are now engaged in Round 1 of our token sale. We’re grateful for their appreciation of the technology we’re developing to achieve the adoption solution that we’ve all been waiting for in this industry. The groundwork now being laid by that development, to build a technical community of substance and dedication, can arouse more inspiration than having a superb white paper or even winning Runner Up in the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield competition. It’s the inspiration of doing what we say, and saying what we do. This is who we are.

In the next week, watch for more updates and details about our upcoming alphanet launch!

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