Updated Tech Roadmap:

Core 2 Moved from 80% to 85%

Roadmap will be updated on our site within 24 hours.

Auditor search:

Received a few quotations for Scope of Work on security audit, and will update once firmed.

Press Release across Local Publications, TODAY and Luxuo

Over the past week, the Digix team caught up with local newspaper publication, TODAY, and they interviewed us on the core business, crypto-landscape here in Singapore and the origins of the business. We have came a long way since December 2014 and were definitely more than willing to help the local community know more about the space, provided some answers to the local audience who were only just getting started on learning about cryptocurrencies.

4 November: The Big Read: As Bitcoin roars on, more jump on the cryptocurrency bandwagon — but what’s the catch?

5 November: Singapore a hotbed for cryptocurrency startups

6 November: Shaun Djie: Crypto-pioneer on tokenised gold and the rise of crypto-affluents

Listing of DGD on a new exchange — Big.ONE

The long awaited listing on a new exchange for DGD has been eagerly anticipated and we are proud to announce the listing that will be available on https://big.one/ , a new crypto-crypto multi-token exchange launched by INBlockchain from 11 November 2017. As part of their launch promotion, they will be waiving off all exchange fees till the start of 2018.

Fintech Festival Week (13–18 November 2017)

November marks the series of Fintech related activities across the region from Hong Kong to Singapore and we have lined up a series of events for the crypto community here.

13 November (Monday): ConsenSys presents: 0rigin, Pryze, Veridium

14 November (Tuesday): Global Brain Blockchain Lab fireside chat

15 November (Wednesday): SUSS’s Inclusive Blockchain Conference featuring Vitalik Buterin

16 November (Thursday): Breadwallet Keynote

Speakers and guests to our events include notable industry folks such as Andrew Keys (ConsenSys), Joseph Lubin (ConsenSys), Bo Shen (Fenbushi VC), Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum Foundation), Takashi Sano (GBBL), Patrick Dai (Qtum), Diego Gutierrez (Rootstock), Vincent Zhou (FBG Capital) and many more..

RSVP away and do holler if you’re in town

Partners with Pundi X

Pundi X, the point of sale cryptocurrency payment terminal that we met with last week, is an exciting project that we believe will help propel the visibility of DGX and DGD across Indonesia as a form of payment medium. We officially support their project and their POS terminals will work with DGX when we go live.

Website Redesign in progress — Short Survey please

As part of the launch process of DGX 2.0, we have been actively working on re-designing the entire website of Digix. Please help contribute to our understanding by taking this extremely short survey (will not take more than 1 minute and it goes a long way)!

Notes from the CTO — Why is it taking so @!$*# long?

People have been asking us why we have been taking a long time to develop our gold token platform so I would like to share some key points that can help people understand the work involved in building a fully on chain solution.

We want to create a good user experience for our users.

Worldwide adoption of our gold tokens is crucial to our success. In order to achieve this our ÐApp needs to behave more or less like a standard web application that can be viewed from the browser without requiring users to install additional software or plugins. In order to accomplish this we had to take a different approach. We had to put ourselves in the shoes of a non-technical user and how this user would go about to access our products and services with only a web browser. This led to the development of our zero-client wallet/ÐApp platform called SPECTRUM which is designed to take advantage of shared Ethereum RPC nodes such as the ones provided by Infura. In order for our smart contracts to be zero-client friendly we needed to develop some common middleware support for item pagination (as provided by our solidity-collections library) so as to minimize the number of RPC requests to shared Ethereum resources.

2. We want our code to be future-proof.

We spent a significant amount of time architecting our platform so that we are able to securely update portions of our code to add new functionality. Since Ethereum contracts are immutable we had to think of a way to write our contracts in a modular way. The result of this was the creation of CACP/ICS which I had talked about at DEVCON2 last year which we have since made significant changes to since my presentation.

3. We want to leverage the time we spend developing this project for other future projects.

The completion of DigixCore 2.0 is only the start. We still have to work on the DigixDAO governance contracts in order to realize the vision we had shared during our DGD ICO. Being fully aware of this we invested a lot of time designing our contracts to use reusable libraries by identifying common patterns and use cases which led to the creation of common libraries such as our statemachine, solidity-collections, CACP access patterns, CDAP, and others. With these modules we can quickly develop new contracts moving forward.

4. We want to ensure that our smart contracts are as bug free as possible.

While software bugs are generally inevitable particularly in large projects we are taking a very cautious approach in our contract development. This means that we must ensure that we have 100% test coverage not only for the main contracts but also for the underlying libraries which we plan on getting audited by a 3rd party.