Nebulas Monthly Report — August 2020

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4 min readSep 8, 2020

August technical developments, online activities, governance review and monthly data statistics. Includes the progress of the DeFi Technology Roadmap, community project results and more.

Technical Details

Nebulas Foundation Unveils Second-Half DeFi Technology Roadmap!

DeFi products include:

  • Link.nextDAO — Cross-chain assets: Supports Ethereum assets.
  • Swap.nextDAO — Decentralized instant trading: Provides automatic market making and liquidity, allowing for free creation of trading pairs.
  • Market.nextDAO — decentralized lending: Lend assets while having them remain in the hands of the owner; decentralized pools of funds to avoid security risks associated with smart contract assets.
  • DeFi APP — NAS nano Pro: Upgrade app to support the DeFi ecosystem.
  • PoD: on-chain governance update

Roadmap release: https://medium.com/nebulasio/nebulas-development-roadmap-for-the-second-half-of-2020-4e91f09accfe

Mainnet Network and Data

PoD consensus mechanism:

  • node penalty alert update
  • node voting information update

Nebulas Network API Update:

  • NAS Distribution Data Update
  • Add Online trigger Report
  • Event Query API

Learn more about the new API tools at: https://wiki.nebulas.io/en/latest/go-nebulas/data-center/api.html

Products Development Status

Swap.nextDAO decentralized trading research and development:

This month’s development includes:

  • Decentralized exchange with Uniswap features.
  • Provides fast token swaps.
  • The invention provides a flash-forward transfer function, which allows the user to send the exchanged token directly to the specified address within the same TX after the token is traded.
  • Automatic market-making models that allow users to deposit money to provide liquidity.

Currencies such as NAS, nUSD, NAX are supported:

  • contract writing
  • front-end implementation

Follow-up plan implementation:

  • Allows users to create transaction pairs freely and add new tokens.
  • Swap’s data panel and back end.

Link.nextDAO cross-linked asset research and development:

This month’s development includes:

  • Asset Cross-Chain Solution, Introducing assets like USDT into Nebulas ecosystem
  • Nebulas Stable Coin Solution

Currently, only the conversion between USDT and nUSDT is supported. Specifically:

  • Contract writing
  • Back-end data preparation such as pricing
  • Link related API updates
  • Establishment of Service Related to Taifang
  • Front-end implementation
  • Interface UI design

Cloud Chrome plug-in NASExt upgrade:

  • Support for DeFi project authorization

The subsequent plan is matched with the nextDAO related DeFi project for the necessary availability upgrades and interface UI adjustments.

Additional product updates

Web Wallet:

  • Supports offline NAX node voting

Neb.js support:

  • Mobile calls Defi product updates
  • Publishing automation

Nebulas Explorer Browser Data Update:

  • NAX Total Market Value Update
  • NAS Distribution Chart Data Update
  • New Chinese, Community Project, by only4sim; NP276:https://go.nebulas.io/project/276
  • Events display optimization

Go.nebulas Update:

  • Adjust API data docking according to data center
  • Front-end framework upgrade
  • Optimization platform loading speed
  • Update administrator permissions function
  • Fix the login registration bug

Nebulas Telegram bot to go online (community project):

Developed by Everstake, NP299: https://go.nebulas.io/project/299, robot address: https://t.me/nebulasbot

After technical committee testing, community testing, and governance node voting, it is officially online and features include:

  • Add address
  • Add more than one cloud main network address
  • Custom address alias
  • Query address balance and equivalent USD, support NAS and NAX
  • NAX node voting
  • Monitoring
  • The Telegram alert push can be sent automatically when the address transaction transfers, votes, and other behaviors are on the chain

Documents and information

nebulas.io:

  • New Russian translation; community Project by Ruslan_Gataullin, NP290: https://go.nebulas.io/project/290
  • General Information Update: Technical Committee Member List, Roadmap Information, News, Multilingual NAX White Paper

New NAX White Paper Version:

  • New Russian translation; community Project by Ruslan_Gataullin, NP:https://go.nebulas.io/project/290

API data center English and Chinese documents are all online:

At present, the cloud data center provides the following query API interface:

  • Data on the blockchain, such as block information, trading, token, etc.
  • NAS and NAX related data such as price, distribution history, etc.
  • Mainnet network data statistics
  • Node-related statistics, such as node voting, node income (forthcoming)

Online activities and governance

7.28–8.2 End of 4th Primary Network PoD Governance Vote

8.13 Chinese Node Meeting: DeFi Layout Roadmap Launch

8.27 ~ 8.31 End of 5th Primary Network PoD Governance Vote

Monthly data

node platform node.nebulas

  • Average annualized rate of return: 58.63%
  • Total distributed NAS Incentive: 1,098,849.14 NAS
  • Total Nodes: 70
  • Total NAX delegated: 589,951,478 NAX (total NAX: 42.44%)

Community collaboration platform Go.nebulas

  • 268 projects
  • 292 proposals
  • August awards to communities: 18,737.9 NAS
  • Total awards to communities since launch: 221,754.99 NAS

Decentralized Pledge dStaking

  • Generated NAX: 1,383,363,951.08 NAX
  • NAS dStaking Pledge: 28,292,596.66 NAS (46.58% of NAS)

This data was calculated on September 7th, 2020.

Learn more about Nebulas:

Official website: Nebulas.io
Node Platform:
node.nebulas.io
Smart asset platform nextDAO:
nextDAO.io
Github:
github.com/nebulasio/go-nebulas
New Telegram(EN):
t.me/nebulasen
Telegram Node Operating Group:
t.me/nasnode
Community Forum:
community.nebulas.io
Twitter:
@nebulasio
Instagram:
nebulasio
Facebook:
@nebulasproject

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