Having had the time to reflect on our performance after Blockshow and the launch of iExec V2 and having since seen the Marketplace and XtremWeb-HEP and cloud infrastructure live in action on Ethereum Main Net for the first time ever. We will take this opportunity to bring you up to speed with what’s going on with our team, partnerships and business development.

To follow the progress of the more technical developments of iExec, please refer to our ‘Dev Letter’ series.

The First Public Workers on the iExec network

We were happy with the outcomes of our iExec ‘Workerdrops’, it was amazing to hundreds of individual machines connected from multiple countries and joining forces on the iExec network for the first time ever. However, there was still a lot to be learned from the tests. Our latest Dev Letter explains how it helped us further test, validate and scale the iExec network on Ethereum’s Main Net. We also included answers to some of your most frequently asked technical questions during the event. Definitely worth a read if you plan on contributing as a worker on iExec in the future.

Partnership Development

Intel

A working project coming together through the Ethereum Enterprise alliance, click here for a refresher of the partnership details. iExec was recently visited by Sanjay Bakshi, our working group partner from California. Together we spent a week working on our next steps for the decentralized applications ready to integrate Intel® SGX. We’ve set ourselves the target of a proof of concept fin-tech Dapp to be presented alongside Intel at Devcon4.

Watch back our previous presentation from Consensus back in May 2018:

Ubisoft

iExec continue to meet regularly with Ubisoft and explore how iExec’s blockchain tech could be of used in the gaming industry. Ubisoft’s blockchain initiative manager, recently gave an interview with EthNews on this topic.

“We are proud to collaborate hand-in-hand with amazing partners such as B2Expand, iExec, Azarus, or EverdreamSoft, within our Startup Program at Station F, and share with them Ubisoft’s expertise in video games and knowledge of players, beyond blockchain.” — Nicolas Pouard

RSK

RSK have recently released their ‘Bamboo’ version. Their focus will be on attracting developers to build decentralised applications that can be run on on top of Bitcoin’s blockchain. This expands the potential applications for which computation can be powered from the iExec marketplace. Learn more about the advantages of this partnership for iExec here.

Other Developments

Richard Moore, who won second place in the Underhanded Solidity Coding Contest, will be visiting the iExec team in Lyon part of his prize. The aim of this sponsored entry was to give back and contribute to the Ethereum ecosystem. We’re looking forward to meeting and further exploring Solidity coding best practices. You can check out Richard’s submission, jokingly named ‘Merdetoken’ (MDT), here.