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Development

Development Activity

Check the activities with the following links for the main repos:

Note: This only includes a portion of the activity from the Burst Apps Team

Account Activation Service launched

Newly created Burst accounts are considered insecure until the owner executes a transaction. Doing so, a public key is being assigned to the account and though securing the account. To execute a transaction the owner needs at least some minimum balance to pay the fee for his first transaction. This was handled through the faucet system, where users could get some burst automatically. Unfortunately, this faucet used to be abused by certain individuals.

BAT member ohager created a way to assign a (matching) public key to an account without the need of an outgoing transaction. This is considered as account activation. The account activation can be done manually using the web application, or using the web service to activate accounts programmatically.



Phoenix supporting Account Activation

The new account activation was also integrated in Phoenix and will be released very soon with Version 1.0.0-beta.12

Automatic Account Activation is integrated in #Phoenix $Burst wallet. Upcoming release will have this feature built-in.@BurstAppsTeam at work pic.twitter.com/enxHsNtSy2 — ohager (@ohager5) November 15, 2019

Deeplink specification (CIP22) implemented in BRS

The recently presented specification for deep links (CIP22) was implemented in BRS Version 3 by BAT member ohager. The API was extended by two new endpoints (namely: generateDeeplink and generateDeeplinkQRCode) that allows consistent deep link generation as URL or QR Code. With deep links it’s possible to make applications interoperate better, e.g. sending messages from within one application using another.



Today was a pretty productive day. I closed some issues on #Phoenix $Burst wallet and opened only today several PRs on github, fixing a bunch of things. Additionally, I worked on the Deeplink stuff for BRS (CIP22) — first contact with Kotlin (wut?). @BurstAppsTeam at work! pic.twitter.com/6rRI7ztMLs — ohager (@ohager5) November 16, 2019

New Version of Mobile Wallet for Android released



Phoenix $BURST Wallet 1.0.4 is out for Google and (soon) Apple!



In this release:



👊 Swipe to send

👊 Copy Address (finally)

👊 General UI Improvements pic.twitter.com/OTXZk0fZlZ — blankey1337 (@blankey1337) November 17, 2019

New Version of BurstJS (0.4.3) released

The new version improved developer experience using interfaces instead of long argument lists. The API settings are simplified also, and the Http module (based on axios) supports additional configuration, making the it more versatile



New spoiler from the upcoming Burst-DEX

Community Contributions

Yelling corp supported MMA fight





Attila Vegh – the winner of the biggest Czecho-Slovakian MMA fight in history – “Fight of the century” in the Octagon organization, is a big fan of $BURST 🙂

Full fight here: https://t.co/ZaUATrL59R pic.twitter.com/rp03QAxQxw — yellingcorp (@yellingcorp) November 11, 2019

Marketing

BMF Weekly Funds Report

The BMF owns 5 accounts with the following balances:

All bounties can be found on the BMF trello.

120,000 BURST were paid for the IOS Apps roll-out.

The BMF50 Pool and the BMF100 Pool generated a bi-weekly income around 1,600 BURST.

BMF 0-100 Pool to help sustain marketing and development

BMF has announced a new 0-100 pool with a 1% fee, which will be dedicated to BMF-related activities like hackathons, bounties, advertisements, etc. We encourage miners to mine some extra space against this pool, as this is going to a good cause and helps keep things running like this very Burst Bi-weekly Report.

BMF has announced a new 0-100 pool with a 1% fee, which will be dedicated to BMF-related activities like hackathons, bounties, advertisements, etc. We encourage miners to mine some extra space against this pool, as this is going to a good cause and helps keep things running like this very Burst Bi-weekly Report. NDS-A now paid by script – every 10 hours

The BMF (BURST Marketing Fund) is paying now the NDS-Award (Networtk-Distribution-Strengthen) every 10 hours to the node operators with valid BURST- addresses, newest BRS version (current BRS 2.4.2) and was seen with the payment of the reward. The NDS-A will be paid from the BMF NDS-A Distributor account.The crawler from https://explorer.burstcoin.network/ is used to identify the valid nodes for the NDS-A.The interval is setup as a subscription from the BMF account with 110 BURST every 10 hours. The payment is fully automated in that way that everyone can send BURST to BMF NDS-A Distributor to distribute the BURST to the node operators. This script was provided by BAT developer Zoh! To participate in the NDS-A, you only need to operate a full-node with the current BRS version 2.4.2 and set your P2P.myPlatform to your BURST account. In your BRS config file set “P2P.shareMyAddress = yes”.Your node is connectable tcp/8123 “P2P.Port = 8123” Download the Qbundle 2.5.3 here and read the manual for the installation.

Tweets of the week

https://twitter.com/SkipperBurst/status/1196075914011893763

🚨 TestNet Operators: BRS 3.0.0-alpha2 has been released, please update today! Here's what you get:



JDK13 Support

SQLite Support

Deep Link (CIP-22) Support

Fix HTTP Rewrite

Better block pre-verification

Fix brs.Burst.main entry point missing

Much more!



➡️https://t.co/iUfj4YnxAa — Burst Apps Team (@BurstAppsTeam) November 17, 2019

Inspired by @ohager5 I submitted PR #267 for BRS 3.0.0

Another new API created, integration into BRS and funded by BMF!



Now accounts can be activated directly from the BRS wallet.@BurstAppsTeam @burstflash @marketing_burst @Burst_ES #Burst pic.twitter.com/z3gaJHSY02 — Zoh (@Zoh63392187) November 17, 2019

APIs are awesome, but without proper documentation not much worth. How about a self-describing API with @OpenApiSpec and/or @SwaggerApi ? Check out $Burst Account Activator API here:https://t.co/ygsAOBGxQP pic.twitter.com/EqNK2qWk4k — ohager (@ohager5) November 17, 2019

For all who are interested in a smart contract platform with proof of capacity and a beautiful community 🚀#burst $burst @BurstAppsTeam https://t.co/QdY3nLBYWH — Danny (@ameisen_bear) November 15, 2019

Exchange Coverage

The Burst Apps Team has agreed to support new and existing exchanges wishing to list BURST. Exchanges may contact exchanges@burst-coin.org for technical support.

Disclaimer:

The author does not endorse and does not take responsibility for any project mentioned in the Weekly Burst Report. All content is for informational purpose only and is not financial advice