Technology news

1. Complete the P2P message process, and encode data into message body according to rlp, which realizes reading and writing of messages and message events;

2. Perform safely reading and writing tests for multiple message channels, concurrent close tests for multiple message channels, and message end-of-boundary boundary tests;

3. Make the process of P2P RLPX data encryption more clear, and adopt forward security and DH key exchange encryption method;

4. Perform handshake protocol flow test and reading and writing test of encrypted data frames;

5. Optimize the white paper and publish Chinese and English versions;

6. Distributed consensus is a classic technical problem, and a large number of research results (including Paxos, Byzantine algorithms, etc.) have been achieved in academia and industry. The core of the problem is how to solve the consistent execution result of a change in a distributed network. It is recognized by many parties involved, and this information is determined and cannot be overturned. Consensus issues will be a research hotspot with great academic value for a long time. The core indicators will include fault-tolerant node proportions, decision convergence speed, recovery after errors, and dynamic characteristics. PoW and other probability-based algorithms theoretically allow less than half of uncooperative nodes, while deterministic algorithms such as PBFT allow no more than one-third of uncooperative nodes.

Community news

1. On July 4th, LotoBlock’s official telegram community held a LotoBlock-theme emoticons contest, which received positive responses from members of the group and received dozens of community submissions in less than a week. The number of members of the telegram group is increased by 6,661 this week, and the total number exceeds 33,000.

Part of emoticons

2. This week, a total of 16 LotoBlock tweets were posted on the official Twitter platform, which was recognized and approved by netizens and users, and received 433 likes, 322 retweets and 170 comments. In the meanwhile, our official account got 3,817 followers.

3. This week, LotoBlock posted 20 articles on the official reddit platform, receiving 680 likes. At the same time, 5,900 people had subscribed to the official reddit service.

Team news

1. Qi, Bruce Zhang, Justin Wu, Chanos and Devin became the core team member. Members are introduced as follows：

Qi

Qi as a technical leader, who has continuous experience in startup companies, have created products for tens of millions of users, participated in core system research and development in world-renowned Internet companies, and have rich experience in big data, distributed, high-performance computing.

Dr.Bruce Zhang

Junior Class of University of Science and Technology of China,

Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, 2008–2012

Pennsylvania State University, Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics,2012–2017

Large-scale development projects that have been involved:

Bruce attended the joint development of PennSim and ParPennSim high-performance simulation software of oil reservoir with China Petroleum Exploration and Development Research Institute and Guangzhou Supercomputer Center. In 2015, ParPennSim successfully operated on the world’s fastest computer, Tianhe-2, verifying its stability, efficiency and parallel scalability.

Major academic conferences attended:

The ePost report was presented at the 5th Petroleum Engineering Association Reservoir Characterization and Simulation Conference held in Abu Dhabi in September 2015.

The report titled: On Robust and Efficient Parallel Reservoir Simulation on Tianhe-2.

A 20-minute report on the Global Multi-Grid and Multi-Scale Computing Methodology Conference held in Germany in December 2016.

The report titled: A Unified Approach to the Construction of Coarse Spaces and Convergence Analysis in AMG.

A 20-minute report at the 24th Global Regional Decomposition Algorithms Conference in Norway in February 2017.

The report titled: A Unified Approach to the Design and Analysis of AMG.

Dr.Justin Wu

Graduated from Tsinghua University both bachelor and Ph.D .

His main research fields are numerical optimization, multi-party safety calculations and consensus protocol.

He has worked in world-renowned Internet companies and engaged in distributed storage systems, business intelligence analysis, accurate advertising and other work.

He also participated in algorithm optimization of Tiangong-1 project.

Chanos

Institute of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.

Graduated from Central South University.

The main research direction is Internet 3D printing and big data analysis.

Chanos is experienced in 3D modeling, finite element analysis and high performance computing.

Devin

A member of the early team of a world-renowned Internet company, once served as the head of the company in Shanghai, and then opened up overseas markets, as the director of operations in Singapore, head of Kazakhstan, senior manager of Asia-Pacific operations strategy. Devin with extensive operational experience at home and abroad, is familiar with online and offline operations, in the meanwhile, has extensive experience in user growth, user data analysis, and multinational team management.

2. Jian Guo became advisor：

Jian Guo

Graduated from Nanyang Technological University, Ph.D.

Currently working an assistant professor at Nanyang Technological University.

Designed the PHOTON lightweight hash function which became the ISO standard in 2016. In 2014, Jian solved the Russian hash function standard alternative plan, thus won the only first prize in the safety analysis competition organized by the Russian government. Member of the Steering Committee of the International Cryptography Association Asia Annual Meeting Member of the Singapore Security and Privacy Standards Committee.

Lotoblock Foundation

The foundation is responsible for the operation, marketing and publicity of the project to guarantee the vitality of Lotoblock. The foundation shall organize at least one meeting each year to discuss the future of Lotoblock with community members.

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