Nervos Network — Community Update December 2018

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Nervos Network

3 min readDec 31, 2018

Wish you have a great year of 2019!

Happy New Year! It has been five months since our first community update, thanks for sticking around! Here are the latest updates from Nervos:

Development

We received a lot of feedback on GitHub since we open-sourced CKB at end of Nov. Nervos CKB v0.2.0 was released, check out Nervos CKB Development Update from core developer @Ian Yang for more details.
Here is a comprehensive doc about Nervos CKB, which is still in the rapid developing process, we would love to hear your feedbacks — you can email us at ckb-dev@nervos.org, reach out to us on Github, CKB Dev telegram or the Nervos Talk forum.
CKB uses RISC-V to build our VM, Zaki Manian questioned that a RISC-V VM can be a better choice than WASM. CKB VM lite paper explained our design logic. What do you think? Join the discussion on twitter and reddit.

Jan Xie’s article about First-class Asset, introducing a crypto asset design pattern enables user-defined crypto assets to be “First-class Citizens” on the blockchain.
Update from Ren Zhang: The consensus paper outline is finished. As we plan to simulate several consensus protocols to evaluate the security and performance of our design, the research team has discussed the detailed technical approach for the simulation with the development team. We expect to finish the writing and the simulation in January.
Update from Kevin Wang: our economic design is currently under review. We’re working on more rigorous modeling and study to establish various parameters.

Neutrino AMA with Daniel : Build a layered infrastructure for the crypto economy (in Chinese)
Fork it — the first Chinese blockchain-focused podcast for developers and presented by founders of Nervos. Here is Episode 2: Let’s talk about The DAO (in Chinese)
Patrick McCorry shared “Scaling Cryptocurrencies via State Channels” in Nervos developer meetup in Hangzhou
Rust Dev Sharing with wayslog and TheWaWaR on topics of「Tokio and Rust Application in Server-side Programming」and「Error Handling」
A big thanks to 3,000+ participants of our meetups in 2018! We had 29 meetups in 11 cities (San Francisco, Prague, Berlin, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Xi’an, Chengdu, Suzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong) since Aug this year (including 15 weekly developer meetups in Hangzhou). Thanks to our guest speakers from Cryptape, Spark Pool, Celer Network, Alpha Wallet, PeckShield, Ambr, Amber AI, imToken, Origo Network, BlockVita, Bilibili, TEEX, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Rust Community…. Reach out to us in the channels below if you have something to share with the community, we’d love to see more of you in 2019:)