Nervos Network — Community Update #9 March 2019

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Nervos Network

3 min readApr 2, 2019

Hi! Sherry put up a Nervos bi-weekly report (in Chinese) as we have more community activities. You can contribute to our community update going forward on github :)

Here are the latest updates at Nervos:

Highlights

We released cryptoeconomic design of the Nervos Common Knowledge Base: our native token CKB is designed to represent the right to occupy the state storage over time. Check out this twitter thread for a quick summary, the RFC and Kevin’s video walkthrough for a deep dive.

Discussions around Nervos CKB Token-economics

“Highly recommend this work for everybody as an example of new type of “economic thinking” in our space, which is still heavily dominated by “IT mentality” by Svet
“Probably the most interesting economic model for public chain” by LostEraser
Since we released the tokeneconomic RFC, over 70 topics were created and more than 700 replies under the cryptoeconomics section. Join on-going discussion on Nervos forum:
“What if I can offer better rate than Nervos DAO and rent space for profit?” by recoba8814
Is Nervos token economic model an upgrade of Bitcoin’s token-economic model? by toby19881005 (in Chinese)
“In the CKB rental market, will miners have more leverage than normal holders?” by stwith (in Chinese)
“CKB economic paper for dummies” by Mango (in Chinese)

Development

We released Nervos CKB v0.7.0, for more details make sure to check Ian Yang’s bi-weekly Nervos CKB Development Update.
We updated our development roadmap and expect to launch testnet in Q2 and mainnet in Q4, the dates are pushed back from our previous roadmap as research took more time than we expected.
Nervos RFCs contain proposals, standards, and documentation. We appreciate any kind of input — you can email us at ckb-dev@nervos.org, reach out to us on Github, CKB Dev telegram or the Nervos Forum.

Team

We are 28 strong! Chris Ragobeer and Tannr Allard joined us and will work towards developer adoption as we get close to testnet launch.

Community

In Forkit #5, we had a comprehensive interview with Pan Chao, researcher from MakerDAO about DeFi.
All About Circuits introduced CKB VM.
Jan presented “Nervos CKB: A layer 1 blockchain” and elaborated on why we need and how to build a new scalable and sustainable public blockchain at a New York meetup. Here is the video recap. Thanks to Distributed Global for hosting us!
Daniel’s AMA with Korean community (click to see the recap). Thanks to Ryan Kim from LandingBlock!
Xuejie Xiao spoke at the RISC-V workshop in Taiwan. We had two meetups in Taipei and were impressed by the vibrant crypto community (tons of questions during the meetups). Check the recap by kryptohenry. (in Chinese)
Rustcon Asia is coming soon! Thanks to Aimee for making it happen, we look forward to get together with Rust community in Beijing soon!
I will be discussing “marketing to devs” with Robbie Bent (Truebit/Ethereum Foundation) and Steven McKie (Amentum/Handshake) on April 11th at Starfish. Welcome to join us!