During the last month, the Essentia team continues its efforts at creating a project that will help bring the Web 3.0. to the general public! The mobile applications, desktop application, our own blockchain — check out how far along the development has come so far!

Blockchain

As you may know, we are now actively working on releasing the mainnet chain. While doing some of the most significant finishing touches, such as improving the Masternodes deploy flow, we are constantly fixing bugs and errors to increase the efficiency of the Essentia blockchain. Also, let us take a moment to express our gratitude to you for checking, testing and actively sending your feedback during the last couple of months! We really appreciate all of you helping us grow and get closer to our goal of driving adoption towards Web 3.0 around the globe.

Apart from that, this month we started researching the SegWit functionality, and how to implement it to the Essentia blockchain. Resulting from it, we were also changing the block structure according to the technology (in the test mode currently). The segregated witness is yet another feature that will allow the Essentia chain to become even more scalable and flexible to high transaction loads.

As we are adding new features or improving the existing ones, we are running tests non-stop to ensure the blockchain comes out as bug-free and usable as it can possibly be.

Desktop

Just a reminder, we are planning on making the masternode deploy easy and swift allowing you to do it directly from the Essentia desktop application. In order to make it possible, during the last month a range of features has been implemented, including:

Launching balancers to the atomic swap.

Adding the new atomic swap modules into the desktop.

Implementing a new flow of the token swap in the desktop.

Testing of the atomic swap servers using high load.

Finally, creating a new build of the Essentia wallet with the integrated swap on the main servers and mainnet.

Apart from the above mentioned technological implementation, we have also updated Desktop version design according to the new functionality.

This month we were also largely focused on the security side of the project. For instance, we updated the safety of the wallet interaction with the Ethereum network, as well as made some significant smart contract audits.

Mobile

During the last month, we were mostly making some UI/UX and efficiency improvements, such as updating the transaction history view, or automatic removal of the keystore file after the deleting of your account.

Also, we were updating the token list in the app (as you remember, there are currently available more than 750 tokens and coins). We also started the integration of Monero to the Essentia wallet, which is yet another highly suggested currency by our community.

Community

Are you new to the Essentia? Have some questions about the products, functionalities, and goals? Make sure to check out the detailed overview of the project where we answer all the most common questions we receive from the new members of our enthusiastic community.

What’s next?

There are so many milestones we plan on hitting during the next month — it’s hard to single out only a few!

Blockchain. We are determined to keep on fine-tuning the Essentia blockchain to get it ready for the upcoming release. As it was mentioned above, we are also conducting extensive research on the Segregated Witness implementation and will continue working in that direction as well, while testing the new feature backward and forward.

Desktop. As the mainnet approaches, we will continue adapting the desktop application for the token swap. We are currently working on making sure that the process goes as easy and as fast as possible.

Mobile. We have already started working on one of the very significant features to be added to the mobile application. This being distributed access. The implementation of this functionality will allow us to increase not only the security — which is always our top priority — but also the usability of the app. Also, we will continue working on expanding the list of currencies available in our wallet.

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