According to the news published on November 2, 2017, Bytom has released Bigbang 0.1.3 version. This version allowed and enabled multi-party trading model, as well as adding docker model that facilitates developers’ testing so as to fully realized the asset release and transfer. Detailed coding has been posted to Github, https://github.com/bytom/bytom.

Compared with the initial published version of Bigbang, this new released version realizes the function of asset release and transfer, and can perform transaction such as multi-party asset release and transfer with other users, as well as integrating previous complicated business logic into a single script and can be operated by simple commands, without the need to understand the detailed underlying implementation method. This will promote the users to transist from the geek community to the generic public, and greatly improve the usability and experience of the system, which will be more user-friendly.

Since the original Bigbang version released on September 29th, there is already 4 upgraded version due to the rapid development progress. In the same timeframe, developers and Github community technology enthusiasts have been working closely together, to fix bugs associated with synchronization incompletion after a node reboot, seqwit transactions block not able to pass through virtual machine, unsuccessful remote signing transactions, at the same time optimize the command-line tools (bytomcli) and bytom core interaction rpc interface and other technical issues.

Bytom development team leader Lang Yu mentioned that Bytom will weekly merge from dev branch into a master version, so that users can keep abreast of developments of Bytom chain, at the same time as planned to release a major version monthly

In the meantime, Bytom has attacted more and more developers. In October 2017, two new blockchain developers were newly added to the development team, respectively responsible for the Byvom (Bytom Virtual Machine) Development and intelligent contract compiler optimization. The two developers previously worked for well-known blockchain company, and are very familiar with blockchain development technology associated with Ethereum, fabric and others, and optimistic about the future of Bytom

In addition, in terms of community development, bytom community has attracted more and more attention from overseas. The number of users from mainstream social media such as Twitter and Facebook grew rapidly. Active users in information groups such as Slack and Telegram continued to increase, spanning of more than 20 countries and regions. Overseas volunteers actively participated in the promotion and construction of the Bytom community, and actively proposed various operational and technical constructive comments and suggestions on official website optimization, link network error reporting and UPNP network error.

For the next step, Lang Yu mentioned in November, Bytom will release a test version of its verifiable function to enable asset registration and transfer functions. This means that users can join the test version through the client interface, and also join using the smart contract features.

Comparing other public chain project that improved on Bitcoin or Ethereum foundations, Bytom is a new type of public chain that is developed independently Bitcoin or Ethereum. In October 2017 this year, Bytom successfully passed the United States “Howey” test, and Bytom will pioneer the industry in terms of innovation and compliance.