April (I)

Welcome, dear Nxters and other followers!

The cryptocurrency world had another turbulent week, token values are down and many countries are considering bans and lawsuits and the EU prepares to implement GDPR (more on this below). Yet it was not all bad news as the US and UK governments continue to look for ways to productively embrace blockchain technologies and the wonderful Nxter community continues to produce great aides to help people begin using our scalable 3.0 blockchain solutions.

Last week saw the release of great video demos for using the Ardor client, Lior Yaffe and the Jelurida team responded to community criticism, an Ardor blockchain 2FA mobile app is being developed, Japanese language Ardor guides were released, a Bitswift give-away using a contract on the Ardor blockchain to pick the lucky winner took place, and much more.

We welcome back our old readers and warmly welcome our new ones. We want our readers to stay up-to-date with the blockchain evolution as it happens and become experts in the Nxt / Ardor / Ignis blockchain ecosystem. So lean back and learn about all of last week’s progress.

COMMUNITY

MEETUPS

BUSINESSES ON ARDOR

DEVELOPMENT

IN THE MEDIA

PRICE EVOLUTION

This week’s newsletter is put together by jose, apenzl, James, and rubenbc.

COMMUNITY

Lior Yaffe Talking Community

Last week Lior Yaffe, co-founder of Jelurida, answered questions. The team members responded, bluntly, about the perceived lack of marketing efforts. Jelurida does not hype their products enough and the value is too low – the team members do not care about the products as much as the community… and more. Lior and others strongly responded to these silly claims.

Lior

Folks, would you come down? the whole market is down now regardless of which token is listed in which exchange. You want me to start listing all our activities since Jan 1st? Each of the team members put 12 hours a day 6 days a week. Some of the activities are not public but many are public. We are building a long term operation and the transition from open source community to a functional business especially in the public blockchain industry is complex. We have huge technological advantage, with the parent/child chain architecture and this brings us very interesting business opportunists. We are building the whole operation from scratch, many of the businesses which approach us are not sure themselves what exactly they want to achieve and how much they are willing to spend. We need to educate them about what is possible now, what can be developed and what is out of the question. Closing commercial deals is much more difficult than posting on Twitter (which we regularly do now). We now regularly appear in conventions, we have a PR company that helps us push positive articles, we push email updates, we hired a company to do translations, we prepared the Starla videos, I just came back from the first ever developer workshop, we hired an office in Lugano, we have Swiss employees, marketing manager, several sales people. We are hiring more and expanding. The corporate culture of Jelurida is not to hype and over promise and not to go for extravagant marketing initiatives. I assume you know that already, it’s not gonna change.

veronica

I would like to add that I am very confident that the work we are doing is going to lead us to a solid and sustainable organization. Business processes are the key of efficiency in all departments. And we have bottle-necks, like every single startup at this stage. And we put efforts to solve them.

Peter2615

Nobody in this community is asking for hyping, over-promising, or extravagant marketing. If that’s how you see or translate the questions and needs from this community imo you’re understanding it wrong. Fact, in my opinion, is that after a couple of months and millions of ICO money, there’s not a lot of improvement showing (!) post ICO. On the contrary, CMC ranking (and that’s why most people are invested) has gone down. Disappointment is totally understandable when every shitcoin without proper product manages to get both price and attention up, while Jelurida fails at this. You should understand that the community does not necessarily care about Jelurida the Software Company. It’s a means to an end, either promoting a more decentralised libertarian world, or just getting ROI on invested money, or getting cool tech to use for projects. Again, pls stop saying the community demands hype and empty promises. Imo that’s not a fair argument.

nxt6666

Marketing ability is a very important index for a company to succeed.

Skylar – CryptoDemetrius

And engaging with the community in a productive way. Apple needed their major fans to make it what it is. This ship doesn’t sail without wind.

Lior

We are working with several exchanges to list our tokens and if an exchange comes with reasonable terms we will pay some listing fee to cover their listing costs and provide them with some tokens for promotion. You are right that we are not chasing and bribing exchanges to list us (which seems to be common practice these days). Would you like to see us paying 6 digits € amounts for exchange listing? Don’t we have better things to do with our precious funds? Typical scenario is that we agree with an exchange on terms and promotion, sometimes even sign a contract, then they disappear for a couple of months not even answering our emails, finally getting back to us claiming that the token is listed, it takes 10 minutes to figure out that most basic functions doesn’t work, then they disappear again, we have a couple of these in the pipeline. One good thing I can say about Bittrex is that they made sure everything was 100% operational before they announced support for Ardor and Ignis.

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Getting Started PDF

A big shout-out to the new community member, CryptoDemetrius, for compiling a comprehensive list of links for those who want to learn and use Ardor and explore the growing community of child chains like Ignis.

This is an outstanding work. Thanks to @CryptoDemetrius for taking the time to compile this. To all those riding or interested to ride on the blockchain train to the future, this is just all the information you need. #Ardor #Blockchainforall #Blockchainfuture https://t.co/m72ncBKr4f — Ardor Platform (@ArdorPlatform) March 27, 2018

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Youtube Demos by CryptoDemetrius

On top of the PDF of links, CryptoDemetrius also released some excellent video demos about using the Ardor client and interacting with Ignis, the most feature-rich child chain of Ardor. Learn how to set up an account, learn about important terminology, and much more. These videos are a great way to enter into the Nxt / Ardor ecosystems and can easily get a blockchain novice using blockchain technologies!

Update + New Series Announcement (Ardor and Ignis demos!)

Blockchain Ardor: Demo of Web Wallet Account Creation and Features Overview

0:00 – Introduction 0:30 – Web Client Website and Security 1:03 – Creating a New Account 2:10 – Using an NXT Account to Access Ardor and Ignis 2:33 – Logging In 2:51 – Navigating between Child Chains in the Web Wallet 3:33 – Send a Transaction 3:47 – Checking my Receiving Address 4:01 – Checking Transaction Histories 4:27 – Contact Book 4:38 – Built-in Coin Exchange 5:44 – Summary

Blockchain Ardor: Demo of Full Wallet Download, Light Client, New Account, and Forging

0:00 – Introduction 0:12 – Why Use the Ardor Client? 1:00 – Downloading the Ardor Client 3:41 – Light Client 4:22 – Test Net 5:04 – Log in or Create a New Account 6:43 – Using NXT to Access Ardor and Ignis 6:55 – Forging

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Japanese Ardor Guides

Japanese language guides were released last week. They explain how to set up a Nxt wallet and how to install the Ardor client on a Mac. Thanks to our great Japanese community members for making these guides!

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Exchanges

A simple and easy to digest list of the latest relevant changes to exchanges:

http://bit.ly/Ignis-Ardor-Exchange-Progress

Readers like you can actively vote to get Nxt / Ardor / Ignis listed on more crypto exchanges.

Bithumb

Let your voice be heard:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdzAZF-CnfquN4MomAOzoWb_GZEUl9PZmtLQi18Cfg4sZPJXg/viewform

https://twitter.com/BithumbOfficial/status/974560572451598336

Dontoshi

You can vote for NXT/ARDR/IGNIS:

https://dontoshi.featureupvote.com/suggestions/6975/nxtdecentralizing-the-future

https://dontoshi.featureupvote.com/suggestions/6945/ardor-platform-ardr

https://dontoshi.featureupvote.com/suggestions/7053/ignis-coin

CoinPulse

You can vote for NXT/ARDR/IGNIS there:

https://request.coinpulse.io/suggestions/7170/nxt-coin-decentralizing-the-future

https://request.coinpulse.io/suggestions/7171/ardor-platform-ardr

https://request.coinpulse.io/suggestions/7172/ignis-coin

Lescovex

ARDR will be listed here, thanks to our community BUT:

We can also ask them to list NXT and IGNIS – by upvoting daily:

https://lescovex.featureupvote.com/suggestions/5716/nxt-the-blockchain-application-platform

https://lescovex.featureupvote.com/suggestions/5772/ignis-coin

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MEETUPS

Enlightening Minds with the Blockchain on Friday, April 13th

Blockchain for Business in Baytown, TX presents their first Meetup, which will be held on April 13th, from

They wrote:

We started this group to meet other Blockchain enthusiasts and put together ideas, solutions, and ways to boost the blockchain sector. All skill levels are welcome. We are looking forward to meeting everybody.

Meet up at Starbucks, 4557 Garth Rd, Baytown, TX 77521, EE. UU.

• What we’ll do:

Introduction to blockchain technology and how it applies to business. Both businesses and software developers will find a place in this emerging field. We hope to facilitate the future applications from both points of view. • What to bring:

Bring your Laptop or Android Tablets and we will download and explore a functional blockchain. Downloading the latest version of the Ardor platform is highly helpful: https://www.jelurida.com • Important to know:

We are all here to grow and learn. So share your insights.

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BUSINESSES ON ARDOR

Janus – Status Update

Last week the Janus team announced that the KREDS token has been added to some new exchanges.

Follow Janus on Telegram and Twitter



Do you want more info about Kreds? Visit: https://www.kredsblockchain.com/

Janus asset ID on the ARDOR platform: 4348103880042995903

Here is how to Claim your Kreds Balance if you are a Janus Holder.

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Nxters! Community member, Patoshi, is developing an Ardor two-factor authentication (2FA) app for Android devices and is now looking for feedback and testers. You can help him and his project to take off by downloading the Ardor Armory app, create an Ardor account with it, fund the account and start testing its features. This app lets you conduct transactions on any Ardor GUI wallet without the worry of exposing your secret Ardor passphrase, as all transactions are signed locally inside the mobile app using trusted nodes.

Features:

▪ Blockchain based 2FA (Ardor Account Controls) notification in app

▪ Sign transactions on your phone vs typing in your Ardor passphrase on the desktop.

▪ Broadcast “signed” transactions via trusted nodes or use your own custom one.

▪ Identicon implementation. Unique visual representations of your address used for visual verification.

▪ Pin Protection

New to offline Ardor Transaction Signing? Learn more.

Download this app

In #Ardor all child chain transactions will be pruned after they are stored deep enough in the blockchain (24 hours) only their hash remains. Parent chain transactions mostly store balances of block validators, less problematic from privacy perspective. — Lior Yaffe (@lioryaffe) March 27, 2018 There is no UTXO in Ardor, we use accounts to track state. Nodes only save the latest state of each account and the last 24 hours of transactions. So less of a privacy issue, since message transactions will disappear (but account properties will be maintained by each node) — Lior Yaffe (@lioryaffe) March 27, 2018 End of reminder. Additional information about Ardor and child chain pruning can be found in Jelurida’s whitepaper.

Discussion – Is it Possible to Create an Ardor Child Chain that has Child Chains?

The Nxtforum fostered an interesting discussion: can Ardor clones be synchronized with Ardor? This effectively allows for a child chain to have its own fully functioning child chains. Talk about recursive! The discussion is below and possibly contains insight into what the future of Ardor and Nxt could be.

The discussion:

igmaca – Technically is it possible to create an Ardor child chain that has its own child chains ?? that is, create an Ardor clone whose main chain is synchronized with ardor coin. or something similar. Why does Jelurida not offer ardor clones synchronized with ardor? Petko in slack – “In Ardor the forgers validate all child chain transactions before extending the blockchain with the newly generated block. Honest forgers will not build on top of [an] invalid blockchain. This is what secures the network. A new node joining the network processes the ARDR chain, then downloads the snapshot for some block like a day ago (which is buried below enough blocks, but not too old) and processes the child chain transactions from that block until now. This is how the node knows the child-chain balance of some account. (Snapshots are still not released, but that’s the plan).

So if the child-chain balances are used to forge another parent chain (in the ArdorClone network), how will a new node joining the network process the ArdorClone parent chain (whose balances are synchronized with an Ardor child chain)? It must process the ARDR chain, and also all transactions in the Ardor child chain. So it must process two parent chains instead of only one in the case of a normal Ardor clone, not “synchronized” with an Ardor child chain. OR we could think for some other way for the ArdorClone stakeholders to vote for the best ArdorClone parent chain at some moment in time, which voting to not require processing the history of the ArdorClone child chain in Ardor. Hm it’s not a bad idea. Maybe for Nxt 3.0 🙂

Join the discussion here

Nxter.org – NXT/ARDOR: A SKY OF CLOUDS



This guest piece by WatchTower speaks optimistically about the future of Nxt and Ardor. His passion is as inspiring as his blockchain use cases are interesting and insightful.

Nxter.org – ARDOR: A TOUR THROUGH UTOPIA (II)

A continuation of a previous article, this guest piece by WatchTower highlights the voting system functionality of Ardor with great detail. A good read to learn about the nuances of creating polls and voting on the Ardor blockchain.

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Lior Yaffe in Medium – We Need Standardization

Ever the paragon of wisdom, Lior Yaffe wrote about the importance of the blockchain community coming together and self-regulating itself by introducing standards. Standardization might cause your eyes to glaze over, but it is a non-trivial thing that leads to significant cost savings and greater rates of adoption. The blockchain community has no standard way to run a crypto exchange or anything else, leading to vast inefficiencies that cause great frustration to end users – look no further than how long it took for exchanges to enable ARDR / IGNIS trading despite announcing support weeks and months in advance.

Lior wrote:

At the moment, an accountant for a blockchain company has to have a degree in computer science. We need better tools to manage crypto accounting, which are certified by governments so that not every yearly report is a unique project. I’m hereby calling crypto exchange managers and blockchain developers to sit together and start working on industry standardization since blockchain will never get mainstream without it.

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Bitcoinist – How Can You Integrate Smart Contracts In Your Business Operations?

This article explains how the Nxt and Ardor blockchains help businesses implement and deploy smart transactions into their business operations. The unique benefits of using these Jelurida technologies are explained and elaborated below.

They wrote:

Nxt Developed from the ground up to provide businesses and independent developers with a comprehensive framework to develop open source software, NXT stands as a testament to the potential to incorporate blockchain technology for businesses worldwide. The service has multiple “levels” depending on client needs, ranging from an open source public chain for hobbyists and smaller developers to licensed chains that can be customized in according to specific privacy and security metrics. The introduction, open source, version is perfect for companies that feel that blockchain technology can improve their efficiency but do not want to invest too much in testing. You can easily go from a small beta to working with a private bespoke version with ease, thanks to the nature of the platform and Jelurida’s team of expert programmers. Ardor While the Nxt Blockchain Platform is designed for integral-usage, the Ardor Blockchain Platform is meant to be utilized by a diverse array of employees, managers, contractors, and ancillary third-party individuals that routinely interact during business hours. It is designed to specifically address issues commonly found in traditional blockchain implementations. For instance, “child chain transactions.” These are the smaller transactions that crop up in smart contract implement. Jelurida Jelurida is a blockchain development company focused on providing businesses throughout the world the opportunity to embrace blockchain technology without compromise. From being able to control what is kept in the blockchain to determining the limits of its integration in the company, Jelurida makes it easy to integrate the latest in digital communication and accountability technology without wasting time or resources. Jelurida’s goal is to provide businesses access to technology in a manner that leaves IT professionals secure in the knowledge that the software will be maintained and improved over the long term. Thanks to the open source nature of the Nxt blockchain, even if the company completely changes direction a vibrant community will step in to make certain that installations worldwide can still operate effectively and safely.

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Steemit – Korean Post about Ardor, Nxt, and Jelurida

Korea is one of the biggest markets for ARDR trading. This Korean-language post informs about the unique selling points and advantages of the Ardor and Nxt blockchains, both of which are actively developed and supported by Jelurida.



Ardor 심볼 : ARDR

발행날짜 : 2016. 07.

총 발행량 : 약 9억9천9백만개

목표(특징) : 거래 및 기술 솔루션

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