Dear WatermelonBlock community,

After the latest community update, we promised to give more frequent updates on development. We would like to update the community on development by introducing the new biweekly development updates. These updates will be short and brief to give you insights on the progress, choices, possible delays and milestones regarding development.

Development update 01 — July 2nd, 2019

Community feedback

After gathering the community feedback from the beta users, we noticed that a popular piece of feedback was to have the sentiment score integrated on both BTC and USD chart view. Hereby we inform you that we have successfully completed the integration.

Problem-solving

As there was still a lot of old data that caused some display issues, tokens/coins which shouldn’t be displayed were being displayed on the application. Many tokens/coins were included when they shouldn’t have been. It just means we have reduced the number of coins being watched from over 1000 to a few hundred. This will result in the more accurate and complete analysis being performed. We have been executing a lot of cleanups to get the correct data which we could use. All these issues are fixed and are no longer being displayed.

IBM

We have also successfully redeployed the project into the IBM environment, more specifically onto IBM power9 AC922 servers. We have also migrated the database and reconfigured the pipeline. The project was previously deployed in an AWS environment that was quickly identified as unsuitable. We now process our data with GPU’s not CPU’s for much faster output and both increased training and retraining of sentiment model data.

Thank you.

We are happy to say that front-end development is going rapidly and is resulting in positive reactions, as it is nearly finished. We are on track for the application launch on the 15th of July. We are awaiting the update on the AI side. IBM has provided WMB with access to their AI specialist Dr. Adam Makarucha for the creation of our algorithms, which we will inform you about in the next Development update, this would likely be next week. We are always open to receiving feedback on our updates and content.

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