It’s time for The Unofficial Weekly Stratis Retrospect #59.

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Stratis Sidechain Masternodes

On February 21, 2019, Stratis published their announcement about the Stratis Sidechain Masternodes. The latest addition to Stratis Masternodes allows holders of the Stratis Token to operate as two different types of nodes on the Cirrus sidechain. This in turn will result in operators obtaining fees for both transactions and smart contracts that execute on the chain.

Cirrus Chain Federated Masternode: A Cirrus Chain Federated Masternode can produce blocks on the Cirrus chain, earning transactional fees and GAS costs for smart contracts executed on the chain. There is a 10,000 STRAT collateral requirement in place to be eligible to become a Cirrus Chain Federated member.

A Cirrus Chain Federated Masternode can produce blocks on the Cirrus chain, earning transactional fees and GAS costs for smart contracts executed on the chain. There is a 10,000 STRAT collateral requirement in place to be eligible to become a Cirrus Chain Federated member. Cirrus Chain Multi-Sig Masternode: Similar to a Cirrus Chain Federated Masternode, a Multi-Sig Masternode can also produce blocks on the Cirrus Chain. In addition, these Masternodes form the multi-signature address that secures the chain. There is a 50,000 STRAT collateral requirement in place to be eligible to become a Cirrus Chain Multi-Sig MasterNode.

You can read the full announcement here.

Chris Trew, the CEO of Stratis, published additional information on Discord about the nodes:

At the initial launch, the goal is to have 19 multisig nodes and 82 block producing POA nodes

Stratis will scale this up in the future once there is sufficient transaction volume and smart contracts being executed, it can scale to an unlimited number in theory

Dynamic federated members will be rolled out in a later update

In the early stages Stratis needs to ensure that people will keep their nodes up and running, so for the 50K nodes Stratis will select people that have been long term supporters first

There will be no staking incentive for the 50k nodes. This provides additional security as every node has a significant value stored on the sidechain, which provides a financial incentive to act in accordance with the system

Some of the specification and responsibilities of the 50k multisig nodes can be found here if anyone is interested

Media outlets picked up on the story and published articles about it:

Microsoft Azure and Stratis ICO Platform

Microsoft Azure tweeted about Stratis and their ICO Platform last week to their 655,000 followers.

Lots of media outlets took notice and wrote articles about it:

Stratis Sponsors Fight of James DeGale

On 23 February, 2019, James DeGale world title match was sponsored by Stratis. James fought a great fight but lost on points to his opponent. The Stratis brand was prominent and was seen by millions of viewers around the world.

Update on Breeze

The Breeze Production Release and Breeze Privacy Protocol for $STRAT are planned for Q1 of 2019.

Reddit Questions Thread

On Reddit, the thread “State of the Stratis Blockchain — Question and Answers — Heavy Tipping Inside” came to surface. In this thread, community members could ask their burning questions and in return, they were tipped heavily. Community leaders Acetmesis, Pharaoh and myself stepped in and answered a lot of the questions people have about Stratis.

A lot of valuable information can be found in the Reddit thread here.

Stratis AMA with CEO & Founder Chris Trew

On 28 February, 2019, Chris Trew the CEO of Stratis will join Cryptocopia in their live video AMA. They will have an hour long chat and people can ask Chris their questions. If you have questions, please join the Cryptocopia Discord here.

The video AMA will be on YouTube and you can tune in on 28 February, 2019 6 PM — 7 PM EST. The AMA will be recorded so you can take a look later if you aren’t able to make it.

To get people excited and bring some exposure to the AMA Stratis will giveaway 100 $STRAT to 10 randomly selected Stratis supporters.

Stratis and NBitcoin

Stratis Platform support is now available on NBitcoin. This means the $STRAT token can now easily integrate the various projects that are part of NBitcoin mainly BTCPay, qbit, NBExplorer and more of the good stuff Nicolas Dorier is producing.

Stratis Projects

The Stratis Projects website made by Crimejoker is updated. The website is now mobile-friendly. Have a look at all the Stratis Projects here.

Regular Developer Updates by Stratis

A while ago we saw developer updates from the Smart Contracts team by Jordan and the Full Node team by Francois. Stratis decided to take another approach and Chris mentioned the following on Discord about it:

Stratis Smart Contracts

Over 2,000 people downloaded the Stratis.SmartContracts V1.1.0 via Nuget and the V.1.2.0 has been updated six hours ago.

MediConnect

MediConnect is a verified ICO on the Stratis Platform who currently utilizes the Stratis ICO Platform for their presale. Last week, MediConnect released new information about their project:

That’s it for now. All the best to everyone!

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