April has been a busy month for the Insolar team, one packed with award nominations and participation in various blockchain-focused organizations.

Members of the Insolar research team, Drs. Henry Kim & Marek Laskowski, were nominated for an award which recognized their research to leverage blockchain technology to push the boundaries of new business models. The Don Tapscott Blockchain Research Institute’s inaugural Enterprise Research Awards ceremony took place on April 24 in Toronto.

Meanwhile, Insolar was also classed as one of the top 100 green energy innovators by the Startup Energy Transition, which partners with the German Energy Agency (dena) to celebrate and promote green-tech innovation worldwide. Insolar’s transactive energy system (TES) was singled out as an innovative concept that advances the use of green energy by seamlessly connecting grid operators and owners of distributed energy resources to conduct energy transactions for a smarter, more sustainable, and resilient grid.

Along with the other companies included in the top 100, Insolar was invited to the awards event. The event featured new age cutting-edge technology, including smart cities, flying cars, and strategies to combat climate change. Insolar had the opportunity to discuss its innovation with several relevant companies. The attendees that we spoke with recognized how important TES is as an innovation for a world faced with ever increasing energy demand.

In April, Insolar was also welcomed into the Blockchain in Transport Alliance, joining the ranks of some of the biggest players in logistics and IT. The alliance brings together the most influential leaders in transportation, finance, and technology with the aim of building the first set of transportation industry-specific blockchain standards and promoting what it terms as the most transformative technology since the internet.

1. Community

Announcements

Insolar has been named amongst the top 100 firms by the Start Up Energy Transition (SET), an international initiative which supports innovation in transitioning to greener energy. SET brings together the most outstanding international startups in the field of energy with key stakeholders in the sector, such as Shell, E.ON, EDF, Volkswagen, The European Space Agency, the government offices of several countries, and key research institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Insolar Accepted into Blockchain Alliance

Insolar has been accepted into the Blockchain in Transport Alliance (BiTA), an organization which aims to drive standards and enable blockchain adoption. BiTA members are entities from the spheres of transportation, logistics, supply chain, freight, technology, and blockchain. Insolar is proud to be welcomed to an alliance that boasts some of the world’s most recognized organizations. Other members include shipping industry giants such as Daimler, FedEx, UPS and Panalpina, in addition to other leading global tech firms that provide systems and IT for supply chains, such as Microsoft, SAP and Google.

Insolar Accepted into Berkeley Blockchain Accelerator

Insolar has been accepted into the Berkeley blockchain ecosystem as part of the university’s Blockchain Xcelerator program. The program brings together renowned academics and industry professionals to bring about further dialogue and advance blockchain knowledge. Speakers featured in the program include representatives from blue chip companies such as Oracle, Deloitte, and Ripple.

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2. Engineering

The App Logic team created the first adapters for ledger and messagebus components: adapters are called from handlers and provide access to internal component logic. The team’s work also resulted in Pulses now being able to take place in the conveyor while the network reaches consensus.

Moreover, the team redesigned the concept of conveyor component in favor of a faster and easier solution, and completed work on asynchronous message delivery between components to allow a decrease in network traffic between different nodes.

The Business Services team prepared smart contract architecture for ERC20 migrated token storage to prevent blocking and allow massive token migration simultaneously. The team worked hard to make Insolar Blockchain Platform compatible with Ethereum keys to support the user-friendly migration.

The Ledger team separated entry points to maintain project integrity and greatly reduces code entropy, and moved the artefact manager client to the virtual node entrypoint to segregate component responsibility. Simplified data replication now takes place, which greatly improves system support.

The Network team improved network stability, with nodes now seeking bigger parts of the network during their lifecycle to prevent and recover from brain-split scenarios. Snapshot storage has also been added to store the history of all network changes: when nodes join or leave the network, or change their states.

Moreover, the team conducted refactoring of the consensus internal state to make consensus logic more transparent and facilitate further consensus improvements.

Host network and transport has been redesigned. Code complexity has been reduced and stream transport now works in full-duplex mode.

3. Team

Lyubov Pestereva joined Insolar as a Project Manager

Lyubov is a project manager with technical skills and experience working in both startups and enterprise. She previously took part in the development projects of different areas — from RTB platforms to mobile apps and low-code platform. Lyubov is passionate about IT and programming and loves improve development processes by close teamwork.

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