Two weeks ago, Bluzelle co-founder and CTO, Neeraj, gave a technology update. Based on the those developments I’m giving a more product-oriented update which speaks to what the product will be able to do. We’ll regularly be putting out code on our Github over the next couple of months with the major usable release coming at the end of June. We are naming this release, Lovelace.

What Can Developers Do With Lovelace?

Ethereum and NEO dApp developers will be able to perform database reads in any of their dApps via smart contract libraries from the testnet. Non-dApp developers can use the testnet database to create, read, update, and delete key-value pairs over a single-swarm. Non-dApp developers will be able to use the websockets-API,which is a standard Internet protocol that supports all major languages and platforms.

We’ll be including libraries for Javascript, Solidity and NEO Python. This means developers on those platforms will be able to start using our database right away. Other blockchain platforms will be to use the websockets API to create libraries for developers on their own platform.

Major Features for Lovelace

Single-swarm NoSQL key-value pair RAFT consensus storage facility

Minimum required stake of BLZ ERC-20 tokens on the Ethereum blockchain for joining nodes

Basic Ethereum Solidity and NEO Python dApp READ-only Bluzelle db support

Single swarm testnet.

CRUD websockets-based API available for low level library developers.

Higher level libraries available in JS for node.js and web app developers for CRUD.

In summary this version will be usable for dApps to manage their data with the features listed above. Features will be continuously added as per the roadmap in our whitepaper.

We have begun on-boarding more dApps to get them ready to use Lovelace. If you are building a dApp and want to be part of the early group of Lovelace users, join our Bluzelle Swarm Slack group and Nitin (Director of Developer Relations) can on-board you. If there are dApps or blockchain platforms you are excited about, let us know so we can reach out to them.

New Team Members

Building a decentralized infrastructure technology requires a lot of talent. We began recruiting before the ICO knowing we’d need them right away. We’re happy to present five of our newest members:

Andrew Mastracci — Director Product Development

Andrew Mastracci co-founded Pertino Networks in 2011 to change how businesses deploy enterprise-class networks. Pertino built a distributed routing and switching fabric on public cloud infrastructure and provided a simplified management system for network configuration and policy. During his tenure, Pertino raised over $35M from top-tier VCs, securing funding from Angel through a B-round of investment. Pertino earned many accolades and awards including “25 Enterprise Startups to Bet Your Career On” from Business Insider and “Ten Startups That Turn Complexity into Simplicity” from Tech Crunch. Cradlepoint successfully acquired Pertino in December of 2015. Andrew has two patents in the networking and security space with another six pending.

Edward Bruck — Senior C++ Developer

Edward is a Senior Software developer with over 18 years of experience developing solutions within the complex, and literally multilayered, ecosystem of networking. He comes to us from Pertino Networks (acquired by Cradlepoint) where he was employee #1, and had led the development of their Cloud VPN product. He’s also worked at Packeteer & Blue Coat System (Symantec) — pioneers in WAN optimization & traffic detection (DPI) market.

Isabel Scroggin — C++ Developer

Isabel is a recent graduate, holding a Master’s of Computer Science from Purdue as well as a Bachelor’s of Computer Science and a Bachelor’s of Mechanical Engineering from Rose-Hulman. In her studies, she has developed a wide breadth of knowledge and a deeper focus on algorithms, data structures, and parallel/distributed systems. Her professional experience includes ground support for NASA’s Jason-3 satellite and two summers at Amazon: one working on vehicle routing and one digesting massive volumes of latency data to draw human insights about the performance of Amazon.com. As a graduate student, her research was on developing performant concurrent authenticated data structures.

Monty Thibault — Javascript Developer

Monty is a software developer with years of self-taught experience. Monty went on to pursue Mathematics and Computer Science at McGill University. Though early in his career, he maintains interests in mathematics, software development, and entrepreneurship, in addition to being an avid classical musician.

John Lam — Javascript Developer

John is a web developer with a background in Cognitive Science from SFU. Inspired by the exciting space of blockchain and decentralization, he is aggressively learning about blockchain/Solidity through self-learning, tutorials and workshops. After joining a small startup as a Ruby developer he proved his resourcefulness by implementing their CI/CM solution on his own.

You’ll be able to find them on the Bluzelle Swarm Slack channel. Feel free to ask them questions about projects they have worked, why they joined Bluzelle and technology in general.