Welcome to Streamr’s core dev team update for September 2019. If you have been following our project long enough, you might know we are reaching our second year anniversary!

Looking back at where we started and the progress we have made so far, it has definitely been a remarkable journey. In large part, the credit for this goes to you, our community. You’ve continued to trust and support us and that has allowed us to maintain our focus and consistently deliver the steps (and more) outlined in our roadmap.

As Gavin Wood mentioned during a fireside chat at Web3 Summit last month, delivering products is really hard. We are happy to announce that our next Network milestone, Corea, will be hitting mainnet very soon!

Corea milestone, the biggest Streamr Network upgrade to date, represents a pivotal point for Streamr project. Not only because it’s a big step forward toward a decentralized Network. But also because it has allowed our team to refine our internal process on design criteria selection (focus & trade-off), testing, monitoring and performance optimisation that will be all vital for our next Milestones down the road. A lot of effort also went into the validation process: stress testing, scalability testing, performance testing, and ensuring functional backwards-compatibility with the previous-generation Network, Monk.

All the planned Streamr Network milestones are intended to be drop-in replacements for the previous generation

This will help us minimise risks of incompatibility or disruptions with current platforms that are being built on top of our Network, whether they are internal projects (Core app, Marketplace) or external ones from our community members like Swash, myDiem and many other developers pushing data through our Network.