Dear Shifters! Unfortunately, there was no essential news for you almost a month now.
In our previous reports, we told you about Phoenix 0.8.1 testnet release. This major breakthrough has totally fixed the root of the issue that was preventing the network from reaching consensus on cluster size. This proves Phoenix has an outstanding p2p library with an innovative feature that is rare in crypto. On top of that, Phoenix has demonstrated the strength of statelessness. While the network had moved into a bad “state”, usually a significant problem for distributed systems, it quickly healed itself as more storage nodes updated to 0.8.1.
As for marketing and social encounters, the team is still fully focused on development. As Shift vice-president Werner Heisenberg mentioned: “The concept of conferences is something for the future”. The community of shifters continues to grow slowly. Social media dynamics shows that it remains virtually unchanged.
Shifters, more to follow! The team is going to release Phoenix 0.8.2 that fixes two minor and separate issues, as well as a new patch of Shift Core, v7.1.0t.
Development
GitHub metrics:
The table above illustrates the low development activity.
Last commits on public GitHub were made on June 23th, 2019 in shift-explorer repository (this repository contains the code for the explorer of the Shift blockchain).
A lot of the information is private at present. Shift has also private GitHub repositories.
Developer activity (from Coinlib.io):
On July 20th Phoenix 0.8.1 has totally fixed the root of the issue that was preventing the network from reaching consensus on cluster size.
This proves Phoenix has an outstanding p2p library with an innovative feature that is rare in crypto: ensurance that cache data is synchronized over a p2p network without a consensus algorithm. On top of that, Phoenix has demonstrated the strength of statelessness. While the network had moved into a bad “state”, usually a major problem for distributed systems, it quickly healed itself as more storage nodes updated to 0.8.1.
To set a perfect stage for the demo launch, the team is going to release Phoenix 0.8.2 that fixes two minor and separate issues, as well as a new patch of Shift Core, v7.1.0t.
The Shift “Lock n’ Load” Demo is live
With your help the team will monitor the release to ensure maximum stability before then moving ahead with spreading word more widely. Please limit your total locked tokens to 10 SHIFT for now, as this will allow us to observe how the network responds to an evenly distributed use of storage capacity. Within that limit, feel free to experiment and enjoy!
From Official Discord channel:
Ralf S (Shift President and Lead Developer):
Hi everyone,
Some have recently noted that we have become less regular in our communication with the community. There are reasons for this. We are currently very busy on tasks that despite holding a lot of promise, we’re simply not currently in a position to discuss openly. The time we’re devoting to them though, has resulted in us not being as able to quickly respond to things that we can be upfront about, which may unfortunately give the impression that we’re not as active as we might be. This is absolutely not the case.
What we can do is assure you that a new site being externally developed by a professional company is now in a state close to completion and that we’re working on a daily basis to provide cluster functionality that will serve the interests of the partner we have mentioned previously.
Social encounters
From Official Telegram Group:
“The concept of conferences is something for the future”.
Werner Heisenberg (Vice-president and Operations manager)
Finance
A reward program from the Shift Team
The Shift Team is instigating a reward program for those that set up a storage node and join the Phoenix testnet cluster. This will come in the form of 15 SHIFT (≈5 $) distributed to qualifying participants every month.
In total, 9,000 SHIFT (≈ 3000 $) will be available for distribution during the first 3 months of the Shift v7.0t roll out.
Information from Coinmarketcap.com:
Partnerships and team members
From Official Discord channel:
Werner Heisenberg (Vice-president and Operations manager):
Roadmap
From Official Discord channel:
Werner Heisenberg (Vice-president and Operations manager):
“The next development milestone will focus on a Proof-of-Spacetime algorithm that is used to verify whether storage providers are hosting the content they should be hosting. Based on those results storage providers will be rewarded (at the blockchain level) for their services.”
The Project Roadmap
Development:
100% completed:
- Proof of Concept: New Shift Website
- Introductory White Paper (First of Four)
- Storage Cluster Optimization
- Hydra Decentralized CMS: Pre-Alpha Release
- Shift Core 6.7.1t
- Shift Core 6.7.2t
- Shift Core 6.7.3t: Block Reward Division
- Shift Core 6.8.0t
- Shift Core 6.8.1t: dApp Ready
- Decentralized Blockchain Explorer
- Shift Core 6.7.1: Emergency Patch
- Shift Core 6.8.2t
- Shift Core 6.8.2
- Fully Stable Sidechain
Hydra Decentralized CMS: Alpha Release — Q2, 83% completed.
Phoenix — Q4, 90% completed. Priority.
Blockchain Integration with Phoenix — Q4, 83% completed. Priority.
Nano Wallet Update v2.0.0 — Q4, 33% completed. Priority.
Atomic Swaps — TBD, 0% completed. New.
New Shift Core: New Consensus Algorithm — TBD, 37% completed.
Phoenix Websocket Communication — TBD, 0% completed.
Decentralized Cluster Consensus — TBD, 5% completed.
Improved Shift Chain — TBD, 33% completed.
New Shift Website — TBD, 50% completed.
Public awareness:
100% completed:
- Animation Series: Blockchain
- Collaboration: Coins and Steel
- Screencast: Phantom dApp Quickstart Guide
Shift Project Progress Report — Q4, 80% completed. New.
Partnership: To Be Revealed — Q4, 0% completed. New.
Phoenix Pilot Program — Q4, 0% completed. New.
Screencast: Decentralized Storage Solution — Q4, 0% completed. New.
Applying for New Exchange Listings — TBD, 0% completed. New.
Introductory Business White Paper — TBD, 90% completed.
Financial White Paper — TBD, 0% completed.
Rumors
From Official Discord channel:
Telegram:
Use the Shift Bot, which provides real-time insight into the blockchain events of the Shift Project.
Other:
Social media metrics
Social media activity:
Social media dynamics:
Shift community grows slowly, social media dynamics shows that it remains virtually unchanged. There is a slight fluctuation in the number of subscribers of Shift social media channels these weeks.
Official Discord channel — Discussion on voting, roadmap, and bounties.
Telegram — Discussion about updates, voting, marketing, and coding.
See also unofficial Shift Telegram News Channel.
Facebook (since March 2016) — Announcements, 10–30 likes, 1–2 shares.
Twitter (since February 2016) — Average number of retweets is 25–50 for one post (tweet about new decentralized website got 351 retweets, December 31st, 2017).
Reddit — The longest thread in 2018 is about 1 million stolen Shift from the team’s dev fund (it has 29 comments).
Bitcointalk.org: since August 17th, 2015. Discussion on FAQs, latest news, videos, exchanges etc.
See also unofficial Shift forum: Delegate proposals mostly.
There are also Tools for Analyze Delegates:
- Analyzer tool ( develop by snatic delegate)
- Dutchpool (created by dutchpool team)
- Dpostool (created by delegate Vekexasia)
The graph above shows the dynamics of changes in the number of Shift Reddit subscribers, Twitter followers, and Facebook likes. The information is taken from Coingecko.com.
