Community Updates

There is less than two weeks left in the Qtum Global Online Hackathon! If you haven’t already, you can still signup. Developers are invited to build their teams of up to five participants now, and demos are due September 16, 2018. Milestone prizes are closen each Friday at 11:59 pm PT, and open for the next week that following day.

Resources for the Hackathon:

Webinar #1: https://youtu.be/IoueeaXTP-k

https://youtu.be/IoueeaXTP-k Webinar #2: https://youtu.be/PbkmtCJl1b0

https://youtu.be/PbkmtCJl1b0 Qtum Quick Start Guide: https://youtu.be/hZw7YZxCk50

Development Updates

Qtum Core

Analyzed estimatefee & estimatesmartfee for abnormally high fee estimates;

& for abnormally high fee estimates; Merging Bitcoin v0.17 code to Qtum;

Qtum x86 Virtual Machine

Add checkpointing to DeltaDBWrapper ;

; Finished majority of new modern AAL for DeltaDB;

Updated x86VM task list: https://github.com/qtumproject/qtum/labels/x86

Enterprise version — QtumX

Designed a new consensus algorithm;

Designed a cross-chain exchange module;

Designing a data storage module;

Writing the overall white paper for enterprise version;

Qtum Electrum

Bug fix: imported wallet unable to spent p2pk UTXO;

CoinChooserOldestFirst for common users;

for common users; Disabled connecting select on first launch;

Log more exceptions;

Improved Chinese translation;

Qtum Explorer — qtum.info

Bug fix: Data error caused by replace-by-fee and double-spend;

Optimize the UI adaption on mobile phone;

Qtum Website

Built the framework for a new design of the Qtum official website;

Updated the contact form on qtum.org;

New mobile wallet

Added multi-version package process;

Independent config file;

Debugged the performance issue when creating wallet;

Documentation update

New doc for QtumX consensus: https://docs.qtum.site/zh/SCAR-Consensus/

New doc for QtumX cross-chain module: https://docs.qtum.site/zh/Canal-Cross-Chain/

Research & cooperation