It’s time for The Unofficial Weekly Stratis Retrospect #50.

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Stratis Full Node Production Release

12 December 2018 is the day Stratis reached an important milestone. After two years of hard work, Stratis released the production release of the Stratis C# Full Node on Mainnet. A major event, on behalf of the community congratulations to the team.

The Stratis Full Node uses the Microsoft .NET Core platform and is a C# port of Bitcoin Core. While StratisX nodes were limited to the Stratis blockchain network, the Stratis Full Node is capable of functioning as a peer on either the Stratis or Bitcoin network.

The Stratis Full Node replaces StratisX as the engine powering the Stratis blockchain network. Stratis Smart Contracts in C# and Sidechains have been built on top of this new technology.

The production release of the Stratis Full Node is immediately available from the official GitHub repository or can be seamlessly deployed to Azure via the Azure Marketplace.

You can read the full announcement from Stratis here.

Stratis Full Node Explained

Full nodes don’t get the press they used to: what’s a cryptocurrency without full nodes anyway? Once a pump-worthy buzzword and still the basic building block of a cryptocurrency network, the full node has been relegated to the box marked “unexciting blockchain components” in lieu of more headline-grabbing innovations. Trust the Stratis team to deliver full node software that could reestablish the full node to its rightful position within the cryptocurrency menagerie, front and centre.

Is the intro community member ‘Acetmesis’ wrote in his article “Not just a node: Stratis’ C# Full Node is live, and it was worth the wait.” You can read his article here.

In this article, you learn about Full Nodes, and in specific the Stratis C# Full Node. It captures the journey of the Stratis C# Full Node since its inception in 2016 till the production release in 2018.

There’s no full node like it anywhere else in crypto.

Stratis Core Production Release

On 12 December 2018 Stratis released their Stratis Core production release. This production release of Stratis Core runs with the latest version of the Stratis Full Node as the backend, which means this release is the most stable and secure so far.

Stratis Core is immediately available for download and installation from the wallets page. Also, a guide has been put together to aid existing users of StratisX in migrating to Stratis Core. This guide can be viewed here.

After two years $STRAT holders now have the chance to work with the first wallet that has the Stratis Full Node as the backend. The Stratis wallet looks clean and fresh.

You can read the full announcement about Stratis Core here.

Stratis Cold Staking

The Stratis Full Node production release came with another fantastic feature, cold staking. Cold staking will be activated when 95% of stakers have adopted this release, meaning they have to upgrade to the Stratis C# Nodes.

Stratis developed a solution for cold staking without having to do a hard fork as other projects have done in the past. With Stratis’s solution, your $STRAT can be held offline, while you are still able to earn $STRAT through staking.

I wrote an article explaining what cold staking is and how the Stratis solution works, you can read this article here.

Stratis Video

Last week Stratis released their video “Stratis Spotlight: 2018 Q4 Releases and the C# Full Node.” In this video CEO Chris Trew and CTO Dan Gershony talk about the upcoming production releases of the Stratis Platform. I want to thank community member ‘Acetmesis’ for making this video possible.

Media Coverage

Last week Stratis releases were picked up by the media, here is an overview of some of the articles:

Stratis releases were also sent over to Delta and Blockfolio, the Full Node release even managed to break the Blockfolio Signal service.

That’s it for now. All the best to everyone!

Khilone

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