It’s time for The Unofficial Weekly Stratis Retrospect #51.

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Stratis Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Release

On December 19, 2018, Stratis announced the release of their Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). By leveraging the Stratis C# Full Node, a Stratis DLT solution enables enterprises to deploy performant, private and optimised blockchain solutions within their environment. You can read the full announcement here.

Chris Trew, CEO and Founder of Stratis Group Ltd stated:

This is a great achievement for Stratis, enabling Stratis Technologies to be flexible and meet the needs of organizations in both the private and public sectors that require a bespoke private solution.

The announcement also reveals that Stratis already is working with customers to deploy DLT.

Stratis Partners with MediConnect

Last week Stratis announced their partnership with Mediconnect which is a company behind blockchain solutions aimed at the pharmaceutical industry.

MediConnect will utilize the Stratis Technology Stack to build a suite of offerings set to meet the needs of pharmacies, resolving issues such as prescription drug abuse, drug provenance, payment loyalty schemes ,and gateway solutions.

Dexter Blackstock, Director of MediConnect, stated:

Stratis was a natural selection for us. We have already established relationships within the medical industry and government to understand the real problems within the space. This has enabled us to design such a solution, leveraging Stratis’ solutions in a familiar programming language.

You can read about the full partnership details here. Cointelegraph released an article about it as well which you can read here.

Chris Trew, CEO and Founder of Stratis Group Ltd stated in Discord:

The most important thing with a project of this type is that they can sell these services into this industry. They will launch with a pilot including around 12 pharmacies, two of the large online players and also physical pharmacies. This will mean thousands of orders per day will be going through the system from day one. Secondly, regulatory acceptance and government backing. They are already speaking with the regulators and the correct people in the government. It has been identified at the highest levels of the U.K. government that a solution to this problem must be found.

Stratis Now Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

On December 20, 2018, Stratis announced through an article from Cointelegraph that the production release of the Stratis C# Full Node is available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. You can read the article from Cointelegraph here.

Stratis Academy Update Release

Stratis Academy has now been updated with an extensive update on the existing Stratis Full Node documentation. Stratis starts with a useful document that breaks down the output of the Full Node. You can find the Stratis Academy here.

You can read Stratis their announcement here.

Stratis ICO Platform Update

Stratis have continued to add features to the Stratis ICO Platform to ensure companies or individuals who utilize the platform remain compliant. The Stratis ICO Platform remains available via the Azure Marketplace, leveraging all the advantages that are associated with Microsoft Azure such as availability and scalability.

One of the exciting things that caught my eye is:

Stratis will continue to further develop the Stratis ICO Platform to meet the needs of the market. These newly added features make the Stratis ICO Platform geared to cater for Security Token Offerings (STO’s).

I have been looking into STOs for quite a while, and to me, they are the future of crowdfunding, so it’s fascinating to see Stratis is going after that aspect as well.

You can read the full release here.

Smart Contracts 27 December

What a week, Stratis announced release after release but it’s not finished yet. On 27 December Stratis will release turing complete smart contracts in C# utilising the Microsoft .NET framework and the first Stratis smart contract enabled sidechain.

This is a release that is long awaited by the crypto community and will make a change for a lot of C# Developers out there. With all the core products of Stratis out, 2019 is the year to build on top of Stratis. I am looking forward to all the creations of all the fantastic developers out there.

Thank You

I want to end this weekly with a big massive thank you. Thank you team Stratis and thank you community of Stratis, it has been a hell of a ride this year, but we made it all together. 2019 is ours for the taking.

In particular I would like to thank the developers of Stratis, these guys have been killing it in 2018 such an ambitious roadmap for Q4 of 2018. To every single one of you, thanks!

Dan Gershony CTO of Stratis:

Building solid foundations take time, and that’s exactly what we did, now Stratis can focus on the applications of the token on sidechains using the C# language. The real fun is only just beginning.

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

Khilone

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