The RChain development team is going to have a busy 2018. Attempting to solve major problems plaguing public programmable blockchains today — high transaction fees, low transaction capacity, complexity of smart contract languages, and centralized points of integration between chains — is no small task.

Following the first annual members meeting (RChain is organized as a Cooperative), developers huddled for four days in Salt Lake City to crystallize initial release requirements, improve documentation coverage, and play with the Rholang programming language.

For those new to the project, the “secret sauce” behind RChain is concurrency calculus and type theory — topics the team is pretty familiar with. I hope to get around to writing a primer that should help bring people up to speed fairly soon. Stay tuned.

This is the first post in a series attempting to summarize the retreat sessions. All sessions were recorded and available on the RChain YouTube channel.