The first half of February saw the Academy dApp go live on elastOS, Kiran Pachhai teach the community how to easily create a simple dApp, and the W3C approve the Elastos DID for official registration.

Let’s recap.

Technical Dynamics

elastOS (Trinity)

– Provided technical support for the Red Packet dApp developed by the community team

– The main development work of the Blockchain Explorer dApp that uses Trinity local UI and Web API is completed. This is different compared to a regular website version that was installed before

DID

– Supported asynchronous APIs, which can provide friendlier development support

– Refactored Java DID SDK’s Exceptions to provide more reasonable and complete error information

– Continued the development of Swift and Native SDK

– Elastos DID specification has been approved for W3C registration

Hive

-Discussed the technical architecture and implementation of Hive and a wide range of storage services with the North American technical team

Mainchain

– Added maximum capacity limit for unspent tx cache

– Fixed the problem of handling high throughput caused by a single IP malicious connection

– Wrote tools for statistics of transactions and inputs in blocks

DID Sidechain

– The DID blockchain browser has been upgraded according to the Elastos DID specification, and now has functions such as viewing DID document according to DID

ETH Sidechain

– Solved the problem of BAD Block

– Added SPV module for version 1.9.0 and achieve synchronization with main chain data

Elastos Wallet

– Refactored coinbase transaction storage

– Optimized startup speed

Elastos DID v0.1.3 Node Upgrade

This version of the DID node supports the latest version of Elastos’ W3C-compliant DID specification. It is recommended that DPOS supernodes complete this node upgrade as soon as possible.

Automatic node upgrade documentation reference can be viewed at the GitHub link below: https://github.com/elastos/Elastos.ELA.MiscTools/blob/master/docs/did/elastos_supernode_update_elastos-did-v0.1.3.md

For Manual node upgrade, please follow the directions below:

1. Download the v0.1.3 DID node program at: https://download.elastos.org/elastos-did/elastos-did-v0.1.3/

2. Replace the node program

3. Start the node

Tuum Team Update

• Monitored elastOS v1.0.1 update and tested capabilities with Academy Companion dApp development

• Initiated growth strategy for elastOS users and reached 5,000+ installs milestone

• Finalized v1.0.0 Academy Companion dApp design implementation

• Officially launched the Academy Companion dApp for elastOS

• Elastos Academy under maintenance with update to include Chinese translation and branding to complement newly released Academy Companion dApp

• Updated Privacy Policies and Terms for Nucleus Console, Academy dApp, and Tuum website

• Bi-weekly email sent to developers with Elastos technical update video, Nucleus Console sprint details, and sneak peek of Academy Companion dApp

• Continued architecture discussion for Hive++

• Nucleus Console: New client library added (golang), support iteration with testnet and private net, support upload of any kind of file on Upload and Sign API

• Nucleus Console now supports elastOS DID login

• Added elastOS dApp dashboard to Nucleus Console that displays stats for all the applications that are deployed to elastOS dApp store

• Guide to develop a simple dApp for elastOS (video below)

Cyber Republic

The CR Interim Council reconvened for their weekly meeting on Wednesday, February 5th to discuss four Suggestions https://blog.cyberrepublic.org/2020/02/12/cr-interim-council-conference-call-february-5-2020/

The democratically elected Inaugural CRC Elections run through March 31st. Elected candidates will lead and shape the global community and the future of the new internet Elastos is building. Thinking of running? Read here: https://blog.cyberrepublic.org/2019/12/20/cyber-republic-council-elections-commence/

Community News

– elastOS v1.0.1 update available now

Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.elastos.trinity.runtime&hl=en_US

– Academy dApp available now!

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