Community Updates

Patrick Dai, co-founder of the Qtum Project

Forbes 30 Under 30

Patrick, Qtum’s co-founder, was recently selected to be on Forbes China’s selective 30 under 30 list. Patrick received the award for his notable work in consumer technology. The honor was given to those “who are challenging conventions and making an impact on the world.” Patrick is definitely challenging the traditional ways of thinking, and we our proud he is a part of our team.

Qtum Presentation at Houston’s Bitcoin Meetup

Houston Bitcoin Meetup

Brett presented Qtum to members of Houston’s Bitcoin Meetup, this past week. Brett highlighted Qtum’s Account Abstraction Layer (AAL), our Decentralized Governance Protocol (DGP), and our EVM integration on the UTXO model. Two people in the audience were interested in starting their own blockchain-based project, and they asked questions about how Qtum got its foundational support.

Xiaolong Speaking at Inkchain Event

Inkchain Event in Xi’an

This past week, Xiaolong “Stephen” Xu, Qtum core developer, spoke on a panel discussion at an Inkchain event in Xi’an. The discussion was framed around intellectual property and copyright infringement and how blockchain technology could help revolutionize the industry. Xiaolong noted that with blockchain technology, tracking payments for IP and verifying rights could be significantly improved.

Baiqiang Dong — Developer at Qtum

In Other News…

Congrats to our team member and developer, Baiqiang Dong, for becoming a World Record holder in cubing! Baiqiang got the record for 3x3x3 fewest moves this past weekend at the China Championship in Xi’an.

Qtum Roadmap

Development Updates

Changes made through this past week to the core wallet:

Bugs fixed:

[Consensus/DGP] Various bug fixes to the DGP implementation

Work completed:

[EVM/RPC] Added getTransactionReciept RPC call which is similar to Ethereum's implementation

RPC call which is similar to Ethereum's implementation [Tests/DGP] Added proposal expiration tests to DGP

[Tests] Run Qtum QA tests by default when using pull-tester.py

[Tests] Continuing to fix test bugs that were broken when adding standard transaction rules and version number enforcement

In-progress work and soon to be fixed bugs: