The Lord of XYO Winterfell (Sacramento) at San Francisco Blockchain Week. Mining kit news. Bridges and Archivists doing Bound Witness!

Welcome to another lightning-round version of Updates From the Dev Cave. Here’s a quick list of what’s done, what’s in the cooker, and who is speaking where:

Kevin Weiler @TruffleCon

Kevin Weiler, XYO Sacramento’s Lead Blockchain Engineer, will speak at TruffleCon. The topic? DevOps for decentralized Apps. Read the announcement.

Graham McBain @SFBlockchainWeek

XYO Sacramento’s Graham McBain will speak at San Francisco Blockchain Week — as a special guest. The topic? Radical Markets. Get more info.

DevAMA featuring Erik Saberski

XYO Data Scientist Erik Saberski will sit in the hot seat at our next DevAMA. It’s on Wednesday, Sept. 19 — don’t miss it!

Rasheed Bustamam Interview

Learn all about XYO Sacramento’s Senior Front-End Developer, Rasheed Bustamam — and his dope-looking beard — in our XYO Insider video interview.

Social media just for Devs!

We’ve launched Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts just for Devs! Follow away and let us know what you think!

TECH UPDATES

Bound Witness

We officially have Bridges and Archivists doing Bound Witness. Carter and Ryan have been sending fully functional location data from an Android device (Raspberry Pi) to a Node JS powered Archivist. The data storage protocol will be an implementation detail our community will be able to use when setting up their archivist, but right now we’re developing a NoSQL configuration for our internal testing.

Bridge App

The Bridge App is under development and should be ready shortly.

Bridges and Sentinels

The XY Find It app is getting retrofitted with our Core XYO SDK and new BLE functionality to allow all devices with the XY Find It app installed to become Bridges and Sentinels on our network.

XY4+ Firmware

The updated Firmware for our XY 4+ is nearly complete. Our community will be happy to know that the XY4 will be able to be updated with the Core XYO SDK over the air — meaning XY4+ owners can turn their XY4+ into a sentinel without having to buy any new hardware.

Mining Kits

We are starting full assembly and production of mining kits next week. Vendors have been locked down for the majority of parts and purchases have been done. We are bringing in a team of highly skilled assembly workers for our US headquarters to crank out more than 500 mining kits per week.

Diviners

Our team is cranking away on the most complicated node on the network, the Diviners. Using a clever implementation of IPFS and Ethereum smart contracts, our Diviners will be keeping query prices low while maintaining a fully distributed/decentralized data storage and consensus protocol.

iOS device support

Our iOS engineers are taking all of the amazing work done by our Android developers and getting iOS devices caught up to speed as soon as possible. We expect iOS to be just a few months behind Android as the network is launched.

That’s it for now, Devs! See you in two weeks!

Jenn Perez

Senior Content Writer

XYO Network