Hello, and welcome! Today in our crypto spotlight — æternity! The team, grantees, operational entities, as well as community members and other ædherents, continue to support the steady performance of the project. The team members’ stable work is transparently seen in their regular development updates. Karol Skocik reported that the second half of January was focused on finishing of Rust middleware takeover and figuring out how to translate it to Elixir, sitting on a future plugin-based architecture. Another deal in this period was intensive stability testing of garbage collector of account states, ensuring it can cope with the issue over several days, running non-stop.

Furthermore, Juraj Hlista shared improvements on gossip and peer pool, featuring periodic check of unverified or old peers, ping message check, and peer propagation. Python SDK 7.0.0 1 was launched with added support for source code validation and delegate signatures for contracts, and improved accessibility of transaction properties in TxObject. Check the development section not to miss January’s news!

Aeternity team puts a lot of effort into community and developer education. Thus, numerous meetups and workshops are regularly arranged. Manel Ruiz, Aeternity’s lead ambassador in Spain, embarked on a journey around Europe, spreading the ideas about the advances of the smart contract platform, explaining the features of Aeternity that make it a unique Blockchain where scalable smart contracts interact with real-world information via decentralized oracles. More events to come! Dacade.org is operating in order to provide users with a simple platform and incentive to increase the level of blockchain and dev literacy! In other words, Dacade.org is an educational platform that allows you to learn to code and be rewarded in tokens. A group of motivated individuals in Ekiti State, Nigeria tackled development 101 course on Dacade as a part of their durable workshop. Also, the first aeternity developer hangout in Jos for 2020 was a success. Attendants got to learn about Sophia language and how to grow their blockchain startups. æternity is ready to welcome community members from all over the world, support ideas, and provide precious knowledge about blockchain! No wonder that the number of subscribers in social networks remains growing; people are also active in Telegram Chat and on Aeternity Forum. Follow æternity progress and stay tuned!