Since December 2016 the Swarm City Dev Team has been busy building the infrastructure of our burg. Swarm City has almost infinite potential to change the way humans interact and transact, but before the promise of trustless, decentralized, P2P commerce can take place within its borders, (and yes, rideshare too!) the framework must be constructed. And that’s what the Dev Team is coding, line by line.

Terminal, the gateway to the city, was released in February 2017, and since then @kikipluche, @kingflurkel, @sponnet, and @faffy_dee, (with an assist from @bkawk) have been contributing to Boardwalk, the second release. Here is the current state of the project:

Dev Team Sprints

The Dev Team has organized work on Boardwalk into 4 sprints. Each sprint has an overall objective with development tasks needed to achieve that objective. Moving forward, at the end of each sprint, the Dev Team will have a product for the testers to test.

In Sprint 1 the Dev team focused on code cleanup and restructuring Terminal. This has greatly improved slow load times. The Devs also added the ability to view SWT balances referenced in USD, as well as the ability to upload a Swarm City wallet backup json file.

In the next few days the newest version of Terminal will be tested by the community. Once the testers have a chance to play with it a bit, the update will be live on https://swarm.city for everyone to use.

The Devs are currently in Sprint 2, and expect to wrap it up sometime next week. The Sprint 2 objective is to allow the tester group to:

Post a request. Make an offer on a request.

Connect With The Dev Team

The Swarm City Dev Team is always on the lookout for other developers who want to get involved. If you have Polymer or Solidity experience feel free to reach out to #devhive on the Swarm City Slack. You can get a peek at the project by reviewing Github, here, or if you’d like to be involved in testing new releases, please join #testersignup on Slack and read the pinned post for instructions.

More to come next week. Cheers!