Welcome to the Metaverse Weekly Report of March 12th! Read about our development progress from this weekly report brought to you by the Metaverse team. If you have any questions or feedback, please let us know through Twitter @mvs_org.

Top Commits Last Week

Metaverse Full-Node Wallet

Digital identity

Main logic debugging of digital identity completed

Added several commands including digital identity send (didsend) and digital identity asset send (didsendasset)

Finalized the function of mutual transfer of digital assets between did and addresses

Initiated white-box testing for did

Digital asset

Optimised on-chain verification of the additional issuance of digital assets

Added asset merge command (mergeasset)

Mining

Optimized miner::get transaction and reduced unnecessary loops

Optimized addnode command; users manually add and delete p2p notes

Light Wallet (MyETPWallet）

Analyzed how to keep consistency of demands of exporting private key for full-node wallet and light wallet

Blockchain explorer

Optimized the blockchain explorer so that the display language and default language are consistent

Added API and asset list pages to blockchain explorer

Github issue

Our dev team debugged issue#217 and resolved the issue of repetitive transactions in the transaction pool

N.B.: On March 15th, Metaverse mainnet was under a large-scale, organized attack and we had to retreat to a hard fork to protect the mainnet. We have released a separate report for you to learn about the whole incident and how this was resolved.

News Last Week

Metaverse founder Eric Gu Interviews with Bloomberg and Forbes

Last week, Eric Gu, the founder of Metaverse was approached and interviewed by two top international media outlets Bloomberg and Forbes China for his insights in the industry.

The interview with Bloomberg took place in Metaverse Shanghai office on the afternoon of March 14th. During the 1.5-hour long interview, Eric Gu talked extensively on how he believes blockchain technology will fundamentally change the economy and Metaverse’s role in this change.

“What Metaverse is trying to do is to build an ecosystem where we can help to digitize identity and assets including standard, non-standard assets and assets native to blockchain such as cryptokitties, and facilitate the trading of such assets.” Eric Gu said to Bloomberg.

Metaverse founder Eric Gu in an interview with Bloomberg

The interview with Forbes China was an hour long interview online where Eric Gu where he elaborated why Metaverse is disrupting the traditional economy and Metaverse projects like ZenGold and ZenDao.

Speaking of assets on the blockchain, Eric Gu told Forbes China, “In the future, there will be more and more assets native on the blockchain such as cryptokitties and there will be a big demand for trading such assets.”

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