Welcome to the Ubiq report for July 2019.

Development work continues this month, with the next releases of Sparrow and Gubiq being worked on. A new RPI node upgrade tool is also being coded to support our community with the continuing network upgrades.

We also posted a new Ubiq research article, detailing the business case of the platform and showing some examples of what can be built.

Development Updates

Sparrow Update progress

We have made more progress toward the next Sparrow update, with a lot of RPC back-end scalability work being done in order to make Ubiq a more stable platform to build upon.

There has also been work in coding a version of ETH Gas Station, which will allow users to more accurately predict the Gas required to transact on the Ubiq network.

ETH Gas Station

Community Updates

New French Community Channel

Wow, une nouvelle chaîne communautaire française!

Due to a large number of French community users joining our discord channel, we opened a dedicated channel. #Ubiq-French can now be viewed in the world section along with the pre-existing China, Russia and Korea channels.

Discord bot flood protection

We have noticed an increase in Discord spam/bot activity and to protect the community we have recently implemented an automatic moderator notification for when a large number of users join discord in a short period of time.

TARS in action reporting spam bots

We would like to thank the community for reporting these bots and assisting us with keeping the community safe.

RPI Update (Now with buttons!)

There has been a lot of community interest in running Single Board Computer (SBC) nodes, such as the Raspberry Pi.

Matt has been doing a fantastic job with his SBC setup guides. However, Luke Williams has been working hard on a user interface to make setting up and managing a node as easy as possible.

The new Ubiq node setup page

This feature will make running a node accessible for any user, no matter how tech savvy they may or may not be.

Advertising / Marketing Updates

New Ubiq Research Post

We posted the following article in our Ubiq research series in July, with a recap of the business case in which Ubiq aims to fulfill.

The article is a recommended read for budding entrepreneurs, business people, developers and crypto enthusiasts who want to get a grip of some basic use cases a Smart Contract platform like Ubiq can be utilized for.

Ubiq featured in catalog of Cryptocurrencies

Ubiq was recently featured in the 2019 Standard Catalog of Cryptocurrencies in both the index and on the front page.

If anyone is interested in picking up a copy of this book, you can buy it on Amazon.

Exchange Updates

CatalX Exchange

Recently, Canadian exchange CatalX annouced support for both Ubiq and Ubiq token Geocoin.

CatalX is a partner of Bittrex and shares their order books. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the team there and the community for requesting us to be listed.

Beaxy Update

New U.S. exchange Beaxy has been making progress with their exchange listings, recently announcing their intention to continue to list coins from round 2 and 3 (Ubiq is in round 3).

Currently there is no fixed date set, but they have notified the Ubiq team of their intention to list soon.

Token Updates

GeoCoin