Dev Update

The work is complete on the daemon for version 0.2.5.13 (the daemon version with ANS), and as mentioned in Discord, it has been pushed to the master branch on the eccoin GitHub.

The standard protocol is to upgrade the financial nodes first, so we are currently waiting for all of our exchanges to perform their upgrade prior to pushing the update within Sapphire and Lynx to all of the other ECC users out there. Once the daemon gets pushed out to everyone, that is considered the first step for the majority of us to get an ANS username and everyone will need to upgrade Sapphire at that point.

For Sapphire, Nick (@zuc0001) and Dylan (@dolaned) are continuing to re-write & optimize the entire code base for Sapphire. Both of them have posted videos on Twitch earlier this week of them working on this live. You can view Nick’s video here.

Expect Sapphire to have some slight changes to the user interface, and with an optimized code base it should be much more efficient for everyone. The dev team anticipates the new Sapphire to be ready before the end of the year.

To quote Dylan —

“…the work Nick has done on sapphire is going to blow your minds when its done.”

All of Nick’s GitHub commits can be found here in case anyone is curious to take a look at what he has been working on in regards to Sapphire.

Also, those of you interested in reading the latest GitHub commits may have noticed one in the eccoin dev branch for version 1.0.0.0 — entitled “remove all services”. No, this doesn’t mean that the next version won’t have any services. In version 1.0.0.0 the devs will be building the new base layer for network services and ANS coding will be re-implemented on top of that. The routing protocol and everything we do in 1.0.0.0 will make everything work smoother and more efficiently.