The Insolar team hit the ground running in May with several new hires to bolster the team in preparation for the MainNet launch later this year. As summer fast approaches, work on the platform is heating up. The addition of several quality assurance engineers stands testament to how Insolar is preparing to release a well tested platform.

May saw the company successfully graduate from the UC Berkeley accelerator program and be ranked amongst top blockchain projects once again. This time Insolar was rated amongst the top 20 blockchain projects globally, showing promise as a business-focussed, enterprise ready platform.

1. Community

Announcements

Insolar was recently assessed by leading blockchain ratings agency TokenInsight as a stable project with great potential. Insolar was rated as BB, with only sixteen other blockchain projects achieving a better rating. As such, Insolar was placed above blockchain platforms which include the likes of IOTA, Storj and POA Network, amongst many others.

On May 16, 2019, Insolar Co-founder Peter Fedchenkov participated in a conference organized by the Young President Organization (YPO) as a keynote speaker and panel member. The YPO is a global platform for senior executives to engage with one another and is made up of managers from a variety of industries and types of businesses, which employ more than 22 million people across the world and generate 9 trillion USD per year between them.

Back in March of this year, Insolar was accepted into the University of California, Berkeley Blockchain Xcelerator Program. The accelerator program is funded by a unique VC fund focused on investing in UC Berkeley’s blockchain ecosystem and was created to bring the best minds in blockchain together with innovative companies creating solutions using DLT. In May, Insolar graduated from the program organized by the number one public university in the world.

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Development update. April 30 — May 14, 2019

Development update. May 14–28, 2019

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Learn how Insolar networks are able to stay synchronized via the use of so-called Pulsars working on the Pulsar Protocol. Read about how Insolar has come up with a secure, unpredictable methodology to allocate functions across the network, without slowing operations.

Interoperability has become a big question for the blockchain arena. There are several competing platforms that haven’t been designed with compatibility with conventional systems in mind are therefore currently unable to share data with existing IT systems. Learn how Insolar plans to overcome this.

2. Engineering

The App Logic team altered message delivery to implement an asynchronous delivery mechanism for the first type of messages in order to decrease network traffic between nodes. Moreover, the team worked hard to ensure that all required types of messages use the conveyor mechanism that handles all Pulse-dependent logic while processing messages.

The Business Services team created pages for the Insolar WebWallet and upgraded the ECR20 to Insolar native token migration procedure. Moreover, the migration daemon was integrated with Etherscan to provide additional proof that ERC20 tokens have been burnt. The team also worked on data consistency between Heavy and Light Material Nodes.

The Ledger team worked hard throughout May to implement Heavy Genesis so as to avoid copying before the network starts, and introduces integrity transactions so that Light Material Node database writes don’t suffer interference from Pulsars. They also created a versioned index so that the object index is stored for each Pulse individually.

The Network team continued its work on improving network system stability by fixing various bugs. Furthermore, the team also improved network stability and readability during integration tests. This means that the tests now check network consistency much deeper than before.

3. Team

Pavel Moskovkin joined Insolar as a QA Engineer

Working in quality assurance for 6+ years, developing automation mostly on Java. Graduated from Moscow Aviation Institute with an engineering degree in Informatics and Control in Technological Systems.

Alexey Timofeyev joined Insolar as a DevOps Engineer

17+ years’ experience in DevOps with a solid background in highload systems, distributed networks, and automation. Graduate from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University with a degree in Power Plant Engineering (Internal Combustion Engines).

Maria Benavides Martines joined Insolar as a QA Engineer

Extensive experience in testing web and desktop applications that spans 12+ years, created various test documentation. Graduated from Saint-Petersburg University.

Sofia Yemelianova joined Insolar as an Analyst/Senior Technical Writer

Technical writer with coding skills and extensive experience in cloud computing, databases for heavy workloads, and ERP systems. Developed documentation for wide audiences with different levels of technical skills: end-users, system administrators, developers, and everyone involved in the software development cycle.

Irina Agarkova joined Insolar as a Graphic Designer

Web designer with experience in UX as well as creating illustrations and graphic promotional materials. Likes to solve interesting and diverse challenges and seeks creative solutions on the one hand, and to preserve a high level of usability for customers on the other. Previously a Creative Designer at TASS News Agency.

Vladimir Stepanov joined Insolar as a Solution Architect

Enterprise IT architect with 10+ years of experience. Previously Head of the CIB (Corporate Investment Business) Application Architecture at Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank. Took active part in developing IT solutions for the risk management infrastructure, a number of automation projects for the global markets, trade finance, structured finance and private banking. Master of Science, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.

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