Persona update, January 2019

As we are getting ready to launch our fully working testnet, this month was about fine tuning: tests, API calls, documentation.

API

On the entity side we’ve worked on: get services’s attributeTypes request, get services by status/provider, list services, add these into the automation coverage/documentation.

On the individual’s attributes API verifications on the testnet (create/update/validation ). Enable validation of attributes with types that have more than 1 value per user ( for example : phone_number, email, etc. ) — API support, tests, documentation.

We’ve added some missing tests for checks made before creating a validation request : there is no other request in pending approval or completed. Fix other scenarios around validation and identity use ( found by Codruta ) — being able to create requests after old ones were rejected/declined/canceled/ended, create a separate automation business report document ( containing all the business scenarios covered by automation, without any duplicates). There are 287 tests scenarios we’ve running against the current testnet version.

Added support for creating new validation & Identity requests after previous requests were rejected/canceled/declined or ended.

We started to look into the desktop wallet issue with the Ledger, a issues raised by the community(after the upgrade to the last firmware version)

Documentation

The documentation is now almost complete (97%) and now we are working on migrating it to GitHub, since it was written in Jira Confluence, our internal documentation framework.

Chat

Once someone is claiming its identity in Persona, it needs to contact the closest “notaries” to get verified and validated. We needed some form of communication between the two parties so they can establish the details of the face to face meeting. So we’ve developed a chat feature in order to make this communication possible. This messaging application scope is to be used inside Persona and also we have been developed it in such a way that will allow us to make it available outside of Persona. This is the first application developed on top of Persona.

New colleagues

We are continuously looking to add new members to our team. Right now we are searching for a developer to work with the exchanges and to develop third-party add-ons on top of Persona. In the same time, we are looking for someone to cover the communication side(community management, blog posts and social media).

Partnerships & Exchanges

There are very few cases where the business logic does not require to establish first the identity of a customer, so the need for identity is in high demand.We started to reach out to various projects and we’ve run demos for them and we are in different stages with these partners.

We’ve integrated Persona into BISQ.network a decentralized exchange and with the next Bisq update, Persona should be available.

We’ve continued to provide support to LAToken, the next exchange Persona is going to be listed. Actually we were supposed to be listed on LAToken on Tuesday, 22nd January, but due to some issues with the deposits, the listing had to be postponed and the according to the latest updates we’ve received from LAToken, Friday 25th January, they were waiting for QA sign-off. Once the listing on LAToken is done, we will resume our efforts to get Persona listed on CoinMarket.

We’ve also got in contact with another exchanges, but due to the Chinese New Year they are not in the office(at least they are not listing any project) until February 12nd, so until then, we have no update on the listing process.

Website

We’ve realized that the current website is not good enough. It might be good for “crypto connoisseurs” but it’s not ready for the masses, for those people that have nothing to do with blockchain technology, but they are one of the hundreds of millions of people with personal data exposed in the recent hacks. So, we are in the process of re-vamping our website, so we can explain why and what are the benefits to have your identity claimed and controlled with the help of Persona.