I’m back, baby!

And so are the daily summaries. As I’ve already said, I am going to skip a week, as summarising a whole week is just too much work. 200 pages worth of (if my cursory skimming is correct) math and more math is just not viable to summarise, but I hope not too much is lost. Send me an email via the contact form if you feel something needs to be put in!

New client 0.7.3

First another reminder that a new client version has been released. Everyone needs to upgrade, as this is a critical update and the 0.6.x series is no longer supported. See my last post to get the details.

Asset Exchange testing started!

Yesterday an important new step in the development of Nxt has been taken with the start of testing the Nxt Asset Exchange. The Asset Exchange is a powerful feature of Nxt, that allows users to issue their own tokens, which are backed by Nxt. This is the start of the implementation of the “coloured coin” system. Developers can find the Asset Exchange API calls here.

Testing is still proceeding and will be done until the community is fully satisfied with the results. There is no definite date when it will end. As this is a critical feature of the Nxt ecosystem, the developers want to be sure everything works flawlessly when they release it. If you want to follow the testing you can do so from page 1659 and onwards of the Bitcointalk thread.

Here you can find a post by CfB explaining how the Asset Exchange works.

And in related news, here is an article by the CEO of Saxo Bank talking about the need for cryptocurrencies to be associated to things in the real world to survive. This link is exactly what the coloured coin system provides.

Asset Exchange clients

At the moment, there are two clients that can be used by the Testnet for the Asset Exchange, ClieNXT (v.0.0.5e) and Nxt Freerider. These clients can nót be used for your “live” accounts! Also be sure nót to use your day to day account on the Testnet, but please make a new one.

Asset Exchange discussion

You can find a special thread to discuss the implications of the Asset Exchange here.

Clients

Mistafreeze released a new installer for NRS 0.7.3

Community Addons

The source code for NxtDB has been published here.

Marketing

The first edition of the Nxt Newsletter has been published. If you want to help out, please contact apenzl.

Some members of our Marketing Team are attending the Berlin Bitcoin Conference today and tomorrow. They will make contacts within the crypto world to spread the word about Nxt and hopefully push us farther into the market.

Miscellanious