Welcome to our November monthly development update!

Hello again, I’m Amit Maor, CTO of Stox, and here’s our update on our November activities.

Ongoing work:

We are working on the LMSR automated markets-maker model. Our newest team members who were recruited in November are taking this project to the next level of production.

Stox Blockchain Private Node: For our new version we are preparing the interface between the Ethereum node and the application, via web3. We are deploying this interface on an Amazon AWS server.

Stox widget partnership launched exclusively with Cryptovest, which will enable Stox users access via Cryptovest to instantly check pricing, movement and buy and sell orders.

What we completed in November 2017:

Stox Alpha 2.0 is released as ‘Galton’

Our latest version, named in honour of mathematician and statistician, Sir Francis Galton. He was one of the pioneers in studying and identifying the ‘wisdom of the crowd’. This version includes the elite Stox Cup, where real STX usage is implemented. We will continuously release new features until the end of the year as part of our ‘Galton phase’. In addition, there are also some structural changes to streamline the user flow, technical and infrastructure improvements.

Sir Francis Galton ( 16 February 1822–17 January 1911)

Prediction Engine Smart Contracts

We published our first smart contracts v0.1 on the popular tech site Github. This allows users to do the following:

Create/manage predictions

Create/manage oracles

Place bids on different outcomes

Resolve event outcomes using oracles

Distribute earnings after the event is resolved.

If you’re interested in learning more about our smart contracts, you can check them out here.

New Stox Website Design Released

Stox.com underwent a major redesign as part of our launch toward the Galton release. The new design offers better UI/UX resources, with features such as:

Better access to our blog page and social channels

Exchanges list where STX coins are traded complete with charts of current trading activity

Updated section on our current and upcoming events, so you’ll know which blockchain, cryptocurrency or gaming functions our Team will be attending.

Launch of Bounty Programs

As stated in the last report and as the final quarter of the fiscal year draws to a close, we are excited to report we also launched 4 additional Bounty Program categories: Social Media, Video, Content and Bug Bounties in November. Everyone is welcome to participate in the Bounty Program of their choice! During November, we had excellent feedback on the Bounty Program, with over 250 participants and thousands of Bounty submissions.

Recruitment and New Team Members

Our recruitment efforts brought us three great new team members: One Data Scientist, Full Stack Team Leader and a Full Stack Team Developer. You can learn more about them here.