Dear Dragonchain followers! There is a lot of news we want to share with you. Over the period of the last two weeks, the team was working their fingers to the bone and a plenty of material worth your attention appeared. They published the essential information on Dragon Factor — Dragonchain’s decentralized identity solution for privacy that allows users to own and control their data. Dragonchain Software Engineer Noah Gribbin walks us through the new Dragonchain Console with a brief description of some recent updates on Console pertinent to both old and new Dragonchain users such as: Open Source, registering an account, assigning TIME, and creating and editing a smart contracts.
As for the social side, Episodes 5 and 6 of Dragonchain brand new weekly Super Happy Dragon Lucky show are already out. Dragonchain’s Academy President, Sieng Van Tran sat down with Professor David Lee of Singapore University to discuss why Singapore is a node for the global blockchain ecosystem and where he sees it as a jurisdiction with a clearer regulatory framework than most. Joe Roets and Danny Luedke talked about the differences between decentralized identity and federated identity. Learn how Dragon Factor is able to give you control over your personally identifiable information (PII) and how you share it with the world in our report below.
And last but not least, the latest development updates are now available; Interchain management overhaul, changing of the indexing system, chain creation optimization, lowering resource requirements, and open-source of library smart contracts. The community continues to grow. Registration for Dragonchain Academy’s first developer course and certification is still open. As the team opened up their new office in 1880 Singapore, the Asia community members gave them a warm welcome. Keep track of updates by Paradigm. Time is too valuable to waste!
Development
GitHub metrics:
Also, there are private repositories (~100 private repositories on commercial GitHub).
“Dragonchain, Inc. began in 2017 and has been developing the enterprise and scalable platform on multiple private and proprietary repositories.
We’ve stated from the beginning that we intend to make the open source codebase network compatible with the commercial platform. We expect to do that sometime in 2019, and will involve an update to the open source codebase.”Dragonchain CEO Joe Roets in Official Telegram group
Developer activity (from Coinlib.io):
A Snapshot of Current Dragon Net Statistics:
5 Things You Should Know About Dragon Factor
Learn the essential information on Dragonchain’s decentralized identity solution. Dragon Factor is a decentralized identity solution for privacy that allows users to own and control their data.
Console Update Demo and Explanation
A demo explained by Software Engineer Noah Gribbin walks us through the new Dragonchain Console and a brief description of some recent updates on Console pertinent to both old and new Dragonchain users such as: Open Source, registering an account, assigning TIME, and creating and editing a smart contracts.
Smart Contracts
Smart contracts provide security superior to traditional contract law and reduce transaction costs associated with contracting. In the context of blockchain, smart contracts are simply scripts that change the state of your chain. They use conditional logic.
Social encounters
Dragonchain Console demo, Updates in Asia & more
Episode 5 of Dragonchain brand new weekly Super Happy Dragon Lucky show.
Flemish news, banana index, Q&A, & more
Episode 6 of Dragonchain brand new weekly Super Happy Dragon Lucky show.
Check out LIVE AMA With Dragonchain Founder & CEO Joe Roets reddit thread.
Decentralized Identity Solutions To Control Your Data
Joe Roets and Danny Luedke talk briefly about the differences between decentralized identity and federated identity. Learn how Dragon Factor is able to give you control over your personally identifiable information (PII) and how you share it with the world.
Welcome to Asia Dragonchain
As the team opened up their new office in 1880 Singapore, their friends in the Asia community gave them a warm welcome to the blockchain space in the east.
Upcoming events:
August 30th: How to Level Up the Gaming Industry with Blockchain, Seattle.
Dragonchain Academy
Interview with Singapore University of Social Sciences, Professor David Lee
Dragonchain’s Academy President, Sieng Van Tran sat down with Professor David Lee of Singapore University to discuss why Singapore is a node for the global blockchain ecosystem and where he sees it as a jurisdiction with a clearer regulatory framework than most.
Interview with Vietnam Silicon Valley, Accelerator Program Director Huy Pham
The team chats with Accelerator Program Director, Huy Pham of Vietnam Silicon Valley (VSV); their Academy partner on what VSV is, the technology scene in Vietnam and the projects they’re looking for.
Sieng Van Tran @sieng on Twitter:
Dragonchain Academy’s first developer course and certification released at the end of the February: Learn how to write and deploy smart contracts on the Dragonchain platform. Sign up to Daragonchain Academy mailing list to get first access to this course.
Finance
Token holders and the number of transactions dynamics (from Etherscan.io):
There is a slight decrease in the number of token holders these weeks.
Information from Coinmarketcap.com:
A Snapshot of Current Dragon Net Statistics:
Roadmap
The first installment of the Dragonchain 2019 Roadmap:
Q2
- Time Products — Marketplace listing
- Marketplace — vendor enrollment features
- DragonDen — launch
- Patent — licensing standardization
- Commercial Platform — expanded dashboard features
- Privacy Products — Launch
- Dragon Factor — expanded features
- Commercial Platform — multi-cloud capabilities
Q2 Roadmap Goals
Time Products — Marketplace listing
Captured Time Lending Contracts (CTLC) payments have now been further developed to payout rewards automatically at midnight GMT, after the end of your contract.
Marketplace — vendor enrollment features
This quarter the marketplace turned out to be less of a priority due to developing business opportunities. And on top of that, the team had their recent switch to Kubernetes to further enhance their blockchain platform for developers and customers building on Dragonchain.
Dragon Den — launch
Dragon Den further expanded the beta and had major updates in both the frontend and backend. The blue paper for Dragon Den has also been updated with new information. Development of their crypto aware social platform is ongoing and expected to be spun off and launched this year.
A Lair ownership process is expected to roll out soon to beta participants, which will allow users to propose and own Lairs in various subject areas.
Patent — licensing standardization
Dragonchain loyalty on blockchain systems patent was granted and will be included in the process of further standardizing their licenses. They are in legal review for patent licensing which is expected to be integrated into the Tokenized Micro-license itself.
Commercial Platform — expanded dashboard features
Extended account services have been released. Work on the console is ongoing and will undergo a full transformation within 8 weeks.
Privacy Products and Dragon Factor — expanded features
Dragonchain showcased the Dragon Factor Consent Demo at an invite-only event on June 13th in Napa, CA. The team now has integration of biometric factors. In addition, they have partnerships lined up for further adoption of Dragon Factor.
Commercial Platform — multi-cloud capabilities
Together with their on-premises solution, the team is able to deliver Dragonchain to multiple clouds and data centers. Check out Dean’s demo about Blockchain as a Service at scale for Enterprises.
Partnerships and team members
Rumors
Dragonchain Rebrand
On August 1st, the team revealed a corporate rebrand.
#DragonchainRebrand Giveaway
What’s better than a Tesla worth of TRON ($TRX)?
10 winners will receive an exclusive rebrand merchandise package.
1 winner will be featured on the Super Happy Dragon Lucky talk show and will also receive a set of all Jojo t-shirts.
1 winner will get an NDAAMA (Ask Me Anything) session with Joe. Joe will answer any questions you have in private.
1 winner will get a 10-minute Q&A with Joe on camera.
SHIRTCOIN
All Good Things Come to an End
In branding and in life, nothing is constant but change. Throughout July, the team released limited edition (mostly Jojo) merch leading up to the rebrand.
Feeling creative? Envision your own Jojo and send it to the team. If the team likes what they see, they’ll consider it for an official merch design.
Dragonchain Limited Edition Merchandise:
Twitter:
Discussions on Reddit:
Does Dragonchain have a future?
Telegram:
“Don’t pay attention to rumors. There’s too many in this industry guys. Pay attention to our fundamentals. Pay attention to what we are doing. What we have public that’s public. What we don’t have public is because of legal NDAs.”
Jonel (admin)
Social media metrics
Social media activity:
Social media dynamics:
Dragonchain community continues to grow. Despite the fact of growth in other social media, there is a slight decrease in the number of subscribers of Dragonchain Telegram channels these weeks.
Facebook — Announcements, publications with 25–50 likes, 5–10 shares.
Twitter — The average number of retweets is 50–100 for one post.
Other media:
- Dragonchain Academy Twitter — since November 26th, 2018.
- Dragonchain Academy Medium — since January 10th, 2019.
- Dragon Factor Twitter — since November 26th, 2018.
Bitcointalk.org: since August 17th, 2017. Discussion on the latest news, price, etc.
Dragonchain also has Kakao talk for koreans.
The graph above shows the dynamics of changes in the number of Dragonchain Facebook likes, Reddit subscribers and Twitter followers. The information is taken from Coingecko.com.
