Welcome to the 4th Bi-weekly Updates of COVA. In this bi-weekly update, we will recap what we’ve done starting from Oct 30th to Nov 15th. Also, we want to tell you guys COVA has been chosen to participate in the voting round of token listing on @HuobiGroup Platform. If you are an HT holder, you can vote for us here. https://bit.ly/2Fu7Cc9

Technical

TEE

Finished a layer similar to TLS that enables COVA network to integrate remote attestation

Working on various workarounds for making some of the SGX incompatible python libraries to work with CovaVM

COVA Network

Moving to in-memory database (pydblite) for all network computation

Wrote a get/post request using SimpleHTTP library (due to SGX compatibility/simplicity) and migrated all the network calls away from Flask

Centrifuge/Smart Policy

Finished implementing the filehash policy

Finished writing a general framework for putting hooks inside the compiled bytecode

Blockchain

Finished and deployed our ERC-20 compliant token on ganache (truffle) testnet

Moved all previously node.js code for blockchain drivers to python to provide added security guarantees for our tendermint based blockchain by running everything from inside SGX

Press

COVA Welcomes Harvard Professors to Its Board of Directors

COVA (Covalent.ai) announced two new members to the advisory board — Professor Stratos Idreos and Professor Elie Ofek, leading experts in distributed big data exploration systems and technology product strategies, respectively, at Harvard University. You can read the whole story on Yahoo Finance.

Marketing

Huobi Voting

COVA is excited to announce that we’ve been chosen to participate in the voting round of token listing on @HuobiGroup Platform. If you are an HT holder, you can vote for us here. https://bit.ly/2Fu7Cc9 More info incoming. Stay tuned!

Volume 3 Updates

Volume 2 Update

Volume 1 Update