Vite Bi-weekly Report

August 16–31 2018

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Vite Labs

4 min readSep 2, 2018

Overall progress

In the second half of August, we released the preview version of block explorer and desktop wallet. The China and international teams continued to expand. Our community has grown to a decent scale, with activeness gradually increasing.

Team Building

The Beijing office, which recently moved to a new location with generous space, has recruited a new senior UI designer and a senior iOS engineer.
The Silicon Valley office has recruited Luke Kim, a new marketing consultant. He is fluent in English, Japanese and Korean. He has extensive market and business development experience.

System & Product Development

Go-vite

This version refactored the next version of the optimization scheme; designed a more efficient block synchronization scheme; completed the design and preliminary implementation of Vite virtual machine and compiler; improved the technical solution of the Vite consensus mechanism.

Vite desktop wallet

Vite Wallet Preview became available on August 23rd. This is the first full-node wallet that supports the following functions: generating account addresses based on the DAG ledger structure, checking account balances, sending Vite tokens, receiving Vite tokens, and obtaining test tokens, etc.

Vite block explorer

Vite official block explorer preview version was launched on August 23, with the domain name of https://vite.net. This version supports the search and display of Vite accounts, tokens, transactions, and snapshot blocks. Some statistical information will be implemented in the next version.

Vite web wallet

We have begun the development of the browser-based wallet. Functions will be similar to MEW (MyEtherWallet). It is expected to launch in October.

Vite mobile app

Completed the Vite iOS App product requirements review and officially entered the development phase; investigated engineering topics such as address generation, private key management, mnemonic creation; completed the application for the Apple Developer account. We plan to release the first version of iOS App in October, and the Android version will be available later.

Operations and Community Building

Project operations

In terms of operations, we opened up accounts on multiple media channels and began to publish information through multiple channels. We listed multi-language version of the white paper on the official website, including Chinese, English, Korean, French and Vietnamese.
The Vite technology blog (https://vite.blog) was created, which is mainly used to share articles written by the Vite engineering team. Currently, eight such articles have been published.

Product Director Tong Wang participated in the Node Family Phase III Growth Accelerating Bootcamp in Beijing on August 19th.

Node Family Phase III Growth Accelerating Bootcamp

Community building

The WeChat community consists of more than 7,000 people including 23 official groups and 32 community-member-run groups. The activities designed and operated by owners of the community-members-run groups have won wide support from the community. For instance, one such owner hosted a campaign and was able to get 500 new members to join in 36 hours.
Focus on the community is one of Vite’s core missions, and we value feedback from our community. We randomly selected 100 fans in the community to participate in our Vite survey, and fans from 31 countries around the world participated. The survey results show that the strong technical team and reliability of the founders are the two strongest advantages of Vite.
An overseas fan club has been established. Currently, there are more than 50 members from countries including India, Russia, the United Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, Ukraine and North America.

Activities

Founder Chunming (Charles) Liu officially joined the China Blockchain Application Research Center as a standing director. The China Blockchain Application Research Center was established in 2015 and is China’s first national blockchain industry alliance. Taking the opportunity of joining the China Blockchain Application Research Center, we will actively pay attention to the development of the blockchain industry both inside and outside of China, strive to accelerate the China blockchain technology in practical applications, promote technology exchange and sharing for public welfare, and contribute to the development of China’s blockchain industry.

The consulting committee China Blockchain Application Research Center

On August 23, Vite Business Development Manager Chris introduced Vite project to Plug and Play, a Silicon Valley leading accelerator.

On August 25th Silicon Valley office, Jeff represented Vite at the Node Capital hackathon at the University of California at Berkeley.

On August 28th, Chris represented Vite at the Mars Block Summit in Silicon Valley and exchanged ideas with well-known companies such as Business Insider, OKcoin, Block VC, Node Capital, and Huobi.