Nervos Network Community Update #11 May 2019

Happy June! May was a busy month, with New York Blockchain Week and the launch of our CKB testnet, Rylai, back to back. Moving into June, we will continue hosting meetups and events around the world as we roll out new versions of the testnet.

We are hosting a Common Knowledge Bites Happy Hour this Friday in Palo Alto, please RSVP here. Hope to see some of you there:)

Here are some highlights of the past month as well as a preview of what’s to come:

Highlights

• the Nervos testnet Rylai is live and mining in motion!
• Meet Rylai and get started on the Rylai testnet here.

Development

• We have released v0.13.0 rylai-v2!
  For more details make sure to check Ian Yang’s bi-weekly Nervos CKB Development Update#11.
• The Rylai testnet will be rolled out in phases, the current version focused on consensus, peer-to-peer networking and CKB-VM. The first phase also includes a basic smart contract programming model and developers can try to build and run CKB scripts.
• There are several experiments building on CKB now, including implementing the “Lightning Network’s Bidirectional Payment Channels on CKB”, check out this github repo by Yaning.

Community

• On May 18, the same day Nervos Testnet went live, we celebrated the launch of Rylai with the community and supporters in Beijing. If you want to know why we call it Rylai and what you can do on Rylai, please read this article Real Testnet, for a better world! (in Chinese)

• Kevin represented Nervos at the Token Summit on the panel “Experiments in Cryptoeconomics” and discussed how to capture the value generated by the ecosystem and allow the system to run for a long time, here is the recap.
• Nervos, SKALE, Celer, Matic, Alacris, Loom, Adriged, Matter Labs, and Connext held a large-scale meetup the Future of Layer 2 NYC Edition, here is the video recording. it was the third layer 2 meetup after the future of Layer 2 SF and the future of Layer 2 Prague.

• At the 8BTC’s technical open day in Hangzhou, Daniel shared the speech What is the underlying infrastructure of the next generation blockchain?

• Ren’s meetup at SF Blockchain Center on “What PoS cannot achieve”.
• Haichao presented in UTXO, Account vs Cell Model hosted by ABC Blockchain Community.
• May 27 & 28, during the Building Ecosystem for A New Data Economy meetup and our first Nervos meetup in Seoul supported by Huobi Korea, our community manager Ryan introduced Nervos to the Korean community.
• May 28, on the Ethcon Korea, Henry presented State Rent & tokeneconomic model design of Nervos.
• Crypto Wednesday #21: Ajian (Ethfans content director) brought a sharing of Governance. Professor Yong Chang and Chao Pan (Head of China at MakerDAO) also came to the roundtable discussion.
• Crypto Wednesday #22 : Haichao gave a demo on How to mine CKB on Rylai testnet.
• Fork it #8: “Let’s talk about Cross-Chain Interoperability” by Daniel and Cipher, they discussed about Cosmos, Polkadot, ChainX, IRIS Network and Hashlock. The Forkit podcast is also available on Ximalaya and NetEaseMusic.

Recent Coverage

• Nervos Blockchain Network Releases Rylai Testnet as Part of Its Common Knowledge Base writed by bitcoin exchange guide.
• Instead Of Solving The ‘Blockchain Trilemma’, Focus On Building A Vibrant Cryptoeconomy by Kevin O’Brien.
• Henry &Ryan shared two speeches about Nervos CKB‘s economic model design and Data Economy to Korean partners, and here is a recap of the event by Itdaily.kr. (in Korean)

Upcoming events

• Crypto Wednesday series, Hangzhou
• June 7th, Palo Alto, Common Knowledge Bites Happy Hour
• June 8, F2Pool 6th Aniversary x Nervos Party (with F2Pool, the largest Bitcoin mining pool in China), Bangkok
• June 9th, Nervos Dev meetup, Bangkok
• June25–26, Bitcoin 2019,SF
• July 3–5, Bitcoin Wednesday 6-Year Anniversary Edition , Amsterdam (Ren will be a speaker)
• July 4–5 , Asia Blockchain Summit, Taipei

Past events in May

• May 6th, PoW Explained meetup, Miami
• May 13, Blockchain Deep Tech Fireside Chat, NYC
• May 14, Risc-v China tour, Hangzhou
• May 15, Examining Crypto-economics Meetup, NYC
• May 16, the Future of Layer 2 NYC Edition, NYC
• May 16, Token Summit, NYC
• May 19–23, Eurocrypt 2019, Germany
• May 21, What PoS cannot achieve, SF
• May 20–22, 40th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
• May 24, UTXO, Account vs Cell Model, Palo Alto
• May 27–28, ETHCon, Seoul

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