After the 51% attack by the end of 2018, ETC community has begun to expand its territory more rapidly. By 2019 Mainland China, there were more ETC offline events hosted ever than before. Following the ETC Changsha summit in March, the Asian Pacific Community Manager Christian Xu along with ETC Cooperative Developer Relationship Manager, Yaz Khoury, both arrived Xiamen attended the Meetup event as the special guest.

The title of the event was “Discovering the Mystery of ETC”, and it was hosted by the Bixiaolong along with Okex, two famous crypto companies in China. There were roughly 150 people attended the event, and the tickets were sold out.

The Current ETC Ecosystem — Christian Xu

Christian Xu had kicked off the event by introducing the ETC’s ecosystem. He explained the details regarding one of the hottest topic discussed the most lately, the Atlantis Hard Fork. The Atlantis Fork will happen roughly this mid-September, at the same time, the block height will reach to 8,750, 000. After the fork, ETC’s block rate will become much more predictable. The dApps will also become easier to build, along with simplified execution of zkSNARKS and lowering the gas. The fork will significantly enhance the performance of the Ethereum Classic Blockchain.

Later, Christian briefly introduced the 11 startup projects currently being incubated in the ETC Labs. ETC Labs is located in San Francisco, providing a premium service and environment for the startup teams. The Star Projects in Cohort I include the Ethernode, BUTTON Wallet, STATWIG, OriginialMy and VREX Lab. The projects have gained a good reputation, and they are covering a wide range of industries; from AR gaming to a global tracking system. Although some of the projects have already had functional dApps, when the participants have been asked why they joined ETC Labs, their answers almost aligned. They all share the appreciation of ETC’s consistency of immutability, the idea of decentralization, and the backward compatibility has also been needed by the dApps.

The Cohort II has already begun, the second round of incubation projects will focus on infrastructure, blockchain agreements, and extended functionality of the Ethereum Classic.

“ETC: Wanted, Dev or Alive” — Yaz Khoury

If you have been in the ETC Community long enough, you must know Yaz Khoury. He has taken the role of Developer Relationship in the ETC Cooperative. Meanwhile, Yaz has been published numbers of articles on his Medium account regarding ETC’s technical analysis, and ETC related stories. Yaz has shared the same speech in the Xiamen’s meetup which he presented in Sydney ETCON last week, “ETC: Wanted, Dev Or Alive”.

At the beginning of the presentation, he has pointed out that there have been many developers contributing their effort to the ETC community. Most of them are relatively low-key and technology driven. Therefore, a lot of their work has done silently. The ETC Community often jokes that “do we even have any developer?” However, this year, with the joint efforts of the various organization in the community, the ETC community will carry out more product, service, online and offline event to promote ETC. There will be many more excellent developments will float above the surface to impress the community.

In sharing, Yaz highlighted the current state of Ethernode and its supporting software, Mantis client, Open-RPC, Goerli, and Kotti test networks. He said: “If ETH positions itself as a world-class computer, then ETC is a world-class vault.” ETC will ensure the smart contracts operating with a secure environment by having PoW.

Q&A

After the presentations, the host opened the Q&A session for the audiences. We have compiled some significant ones that were asked.

Question: Will there be a forked coin appear after the Atlantis Fork?

A: Technically speaking, there should be two chains after the fork. However, since this upgrade is a technical upgrade with the community consensus, and most of the nodes will be upgraded simultaneously. In theory, after the fork, there will be no forked coin generated.

Q: Does the ETC’s immutability mean that funds cannot be recovered after a hacker’s attack?

A: There is no absolute security in the world, but ETC has always been committed to creating the safest blockchain environment, under the PoW and ETC’s security has stood out among others. Even ETC’s immutability stands solid, our system is equipped with an alarm system, and the ETC’s computing power is constantly improving. We will put an end to the attacks before it even started. Even the hackers are making an attack, the cost of attacks will be far more expensive than the benefits.

Q: Did the ETC Community traced the fund from 51% attack last year? Is there any security improvement after this?

A: The fund from the 51% attack has been fully returned by the attacker. The incident has triggered many countermeasures by the ETC Community, and the core developers have already upgraded the monitoring and the alarm system. It can be said that this attack is like an exercise, but only make the ETC network more secure.

Q: We just mentioned that we have a huge team of developers working stealthily in ETC Community, but how come I have only seen 2,000 code updates in the ETC Official Github, but compare to ETH’s Github they have more than 10,000 code updates? Do we have code source elsewhere?

A: First of all, we must admit that the number of developers of ETH is still more than that of ETC’s. Naturally, there are more updates on Github. However, we have to emphasize that ETC teams are more tend to submit mature products on ETC Github, in another word, they wouldn’t submit their work unless it’s fully complete, which causing the updates on ETC’s Github is much lower than ETH’s.

­­­Q: As a dApp developer, if ETC doesn’t have a well build wallet to support, how does a dApp have its access?

A: There’s a project called Ethernode, incubated under the ETC Labs, its hardware does not only support a full-node that can be accessed by multiple networks, but it also allows dApps to have the direct access. However, if you are looking for a more non-technical, down-to-earth solutions, one of the wallets called Atoken. It’s a dApp wallet can be used by beginners, and it’s compatible with ETC.

ETC China Coming Event

The ETC community has received quite a number of requests from the ETC China Community and hoping there will be many more offline events. There will definitely have a series of events occur in China this year. There also will have more promotion in Chinese media. Many of the Chinese ETC Community members will have a greater chance to participate in more events.

The next stop of the offline event will be held in Chengdu by the end of May. It will be co-organized with well-known media in the local area. Don’t miss the offline event, and book your ticket to Chengdu China to join the party!