Community Update #9
Hello, NuCypher community! The pace of our next few community updates is going to be higher than usual. Development is picking up and we’ll be hitting lots of milestones in the coming weeks, along with several exciting announcements. We’re also gearing up for a big developer roadshow, kicking off with Berlin for Blockchain Week in early September. We hope to meet many of you along the way!
Top News
NuCyper’s Mission & Values
As both NuCypher’s core team and community have grown, we’ve found that our mission and values have become increasingly important…
Staking Economics
We’re very pleased to share our initial proposal for the NuCypher network’s staking economics along with a call for community feedback…
Introducing goUmbral
After pyUmbral’s great reception, we garnered a lot of inbound interest in Go (and other) implementations of Umbral…
Developer Updates
What we’ve accomplished.
- Released goUmbral
- Improved goUmbral’s OpenSSL error API
- Completed Cryptography Arithmetic Layer
- Removed cryptography.io wheels now that the newest version has been released
- Improved the pyUmbral Curve API
- Improved serialization interfaces in pyUmbral
- Made security improvements to pyUmbral to detect invalid KFrags
What’s coming up next?
- Lots of documentation and guides to improve the developer on-boarding experience
- NuCypher CLI to setup and run node and demos
- Staking prototype with CLI control
Upcoming Events
IACR CRYPTO 2018
August 17–23
Santa Barbara, California, USA
ZK0X02
September 5
Berlin, Germany
Dezentral
September 6
Berlin, Germany
ETH Security Unconference
September 6
Berlin, Germany
ETH Berlin
September 6–9
Berlin, Germany
Decentralized Stack Dev Meetup
September 10
Berlin, Germany
Blockworld
September 12–14
San Jose, California, USA
Global Blockchain Conference
September 25–27
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cryptonite World Tour
September 26–27
San Francisco, California, USA
