Nervos Network — Community Update November 2018

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Nervos Network

3 min readNov 30, 2018

Nervos CKB now open source!

Hello! It has been more than 300 days and nights (with many iterations and sprints) since the first line of code written in January, we are proud to announce that Nervos CKB now open source! Check it on our Github!

Here comes the highlights of November:

Development

Nervos CKB 0.1.0 (Github) — Modules such as consensus, cell model, CKB-VM and P2P network protocol have all been implemented.
The CKB-VM is a RISC-V based virtual machine for executing smart contracts on Nervos CKB, here is the introduction of CKB-VM by Nervos developer Xiao Xuejie.
CKB is still in the rapid developing process, the API, programming model, and some other designs might be changed in the future, and we would love to hear your feedbacks — reach out to us on Github, CKB Dev telegram or the Nervos Talk forum.
As Nervos CKB is a Layer 1 designed for Layer 2 solutions, we are excited to announce the partnership with Celer Network — we will work together on the integration of Celer’s generalized state channel functionality with CKB.

Marketing & Community

Jan’s article about Blockchain and Common Knowledge.
Nervos researcher Ren Zhang spoke on the Master Workshop Layer 1 Solutions in Amsterdam, here is Ren’s talk on “Evaluating the PoW consensus protocols’ security” (started from 1:14:20)
The Future of Layer 2 meetup in Prague was a blast, we had an interesting discussion with 15 developers and researchers from leading Layer 2 projects including L4, Celer, Connext, Raiden, PISA, Loom, Liquidity and more. Here are links to the event recap and video.
Every week, Nervos hosts the Blockchain Developer Meetup in Hangzhou, it is an educational meetup series for Chinese developers interested in blockchain, click to check the meetup video recaps on MimbleWimble, stable coin, security token and Rust, and find more on our Chinese youtube channel.
Fork it — the first Chinese blockchain-focused podcast for developers and presented by founders of Nervos. Here is Episode 1: Let’s talk about FORK :) (in Chinese)