This is the start of what will be weekly to bi-weekly updates on the development progress of the Winding Tree platform. This post will be a bit longer than most as we want to get you up to speed on what has been happening over the last few weeks.

9/17 to 9/23

We are currently focusing on making the explorer easier to use and a much smoother experience for the providers and suppliers. We are also making productive headway on implementing availability into the platform.

9/10 to 9/16

We found a resolution for the publish/subscription service design and began to work on the repository for the Updates API. We also were able to add full price calculations in the Winding Tree Explorer as a reference for rate plans for the Hotel API.

9/3 to 9/9

We started working on our new decentralized publish/subscription service. This is a really important piece to the Winding Tree platform that allows for quick and efficient changes of a providers data, like updating availability and changing prices for a hotel room. This is a crucial element to the success of the platform, the architecture was discussed in the Winding Tree mailing list.

We released the beta version of our hotel explorer, you can see it in the playground and demo environments. This application will demonstrate what can be built on top of the current Winding Tree platform.

We were able to greatly improve the speed of our API interface by adding a local swarm node to the server to set up the ability for providers to store data. Loading times are significantly faster.

The first version of the Winding Tree UI was released. These are the official styles of Winding Tree, we are using it in our crypto-booking and explorer.

The team attended ETHBerlin where we took part in building a crowd-controlled Pong built on top of Swarm pull requests. This concept is a game changer for the Winding Tree platform and helps with the updating of content on the platform quickly.

8/27 to 9/2

We created two development environments, a playground for testing with a test dataset for hotels so anyone can start hacking right away. We also have a demo environment with more stability for longer-term projects.

Thank you for your support and patience! If you have any questions, join our Telegram, technical discussion should go to our Google Group. If you want to contribute, a good place to start is GitHub or our upcoming hackathon!