Winter is finally here! During the last month of 2018, the Essentia team continues their efforts at creating a project that will help bring the Web 3.0. to the general public! The mobile applications, desktop application, our own blockchain — check out how far along the development has come so far!

Let’s go!

Development

Mobile

As was initially planned, last month we released Essentia Mobile — an all-in-one crypto manager that will allow you to gather all your digital life in one place. The Android version is available for download here.

We are constantly working on adding new features to the app, along with fixing bugs and implementing our community’s suggestions. You can always follow the app’s development by checking our weekly reports! (published every Monday)

To date, the following features are available:

Essentia Superwallet: allows users to securely send and receive funds

Support for more than 700 tokens and coins

Fast & secure login process

Easy & effortless backup

Multiple account management

As for the iOS version, we have sent the application for review by Apple! Soon, iPhone users will be able to try out Essentia as well!

While you wait, you can check out the series of GIFs dedicated to the mobile app functionality that have been posted on our social media outlets (or you can check this article here).

Desktop

The release date of Essentia Desktop is quickly approaching and our dev teams are working around the clock to make sure the first version will be as stable and as efficient as possible.

These last few weeks, we have implemented the following features:

Reorientation the Superwallet for the modular system

Updated wallet structure

Addition of a community voting mechanism

Addition of the possibility to comment on and rate dApps

Integration of dAppStore API

Improvement of requests to third-party services

Updated Logout feature

…along with other minor bug fixes.

Especially high on the priority list was security — we want to eliminate any possible threat to our users. That’s why we have decided to secure the code by implementing tests for every function.

The release date announcement will be made very soon — follow us on social media to stay in the know!

GitHub

Recently, we also started to release sections of Essentia’s code to the general public. However, considering today’s situation of the blockchain space, we came to the decision to keep sections of our code private — especially for the Android app.

Not so long ago, we released the API wrapper written in Python that allows you to communicate with the Essentia bridges RESTful APIs. This particular section of code is available for the desktop and iOS versions (bridges API, network core) and includes Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin wallets.

Check out the reasoning behind our decision and learn what parts of the code we plan to release in our recent post.

Keep your eye on Essentia’s official GitHub as well!

Community

Team

Essentia’s Tech Team Lead — Nikolay Hryshchenkov — is now active on Medium! We recommend you subscribe to his blog in order to learn more about blockchain development and Essentia as well. In his most recent post, for example, he delves into atomic swaps and his vision of their implementation.

Stay tuned for more technical articles!

Events

As you probably know, the holiday period is the quietest period of the year, when it comes to events and conferences in the blockchain and crypto industry. As soon as the holiday parties are over, we recommend that you check out our Roadshow from time to time! This way, you will always know where to find us next!

What’s next?

Next month promises to be jam-packed! Here’s a little overview of what’s on our agenda:

Desktop

Exchanges. We are already working on integrating one of the most widely used exchanges — IDEX — to the desktop version. This will be an important milestone since, when it’s done, you won’t need to switch between numerous services to manage your assets. Everything can be done within Essentia!

Decentralized Storages. We are also planning on integrating such storages as Storj and IPFS in order to give you an opportunity to store your personal files and data securely in a decentralized way.

Atomic Swap. As the Essentia mainnet release is getting closer each day, atomic swap starts looming on the horizon as well. To make sure the process goes without a hitch, we are going to make it possible to switch your ESS tokens to ESS coins within the Essentia Desktop program. More information on the swap will be announced shortly.

Mobile

Currencies. We are constantly widening the array of currencies available/supported in our Superwallet. Next month, we plan to add Litecoin and BitcoinCash.

Exchange. We are already starting to work on the built-in exchange that will become another core feature to be added to the wallet.

Other. It goes without saying that we are constantly improving the UI of the app (and implementing community feedback).

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