It’s time for The Unofficial Weekly Stratis Retrospect #52.

For anyone wanting to read my previous blogs, you can find them all here.

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In this edition, I will look back at the previous two weeks instead of the previous week alone as I didn’t write a weekly last week. I also would like to take this chance to wish everyone a happy new year and to thank you for reading my articles.

Stratis Smart Contract and Sidechain Production Release

On 27 December 2018 Stratis completed a massive milestone, they released their Stratis Smart Contract and Sidechains Production Release. You can read about the release here.

This combination of two of their technologies forms an ideal pairing and marks the production release of both sidechains and smart contracts. As part of this release, Stratis has launched the Cirrus sidechain that supports smart contracts. The sidechain is secured using a Proof-of-Authority (PoA) consensus algorithm, which requires a federation to be in place.

Later on, an updated instance of Stratis Core will be released. This new version will enable users to seamlessly deploy smart contracts from the Stratis Core UI. A preview of this can be found below.

CEO Chris Trew stated the following about the release:

I believe Stratis is the first project to deliver Turing complete smart contracts that are not executed by a patched together version of the Ethereum VM! Our smart contracts a very different to everything that exists today.

Head Developer of the Smart Contracts team Jordan Andrews stated the following about the release:

Also, Stratis haven’t just hacked the EVM onto our chain. So far as I’m aware, no other coins have taken such a radical and unique approach to contract execution. I harp on about this all the time but, yeah, the way contracts are executed is completely new.

Community member ‘iPabloXs’ made an infographic that explains Stratis their Smart Contracts:

Community member ‘Rango’ made an infographic that explains Stratis Smart Contracts and Sidechains:

A lot of media coverage came out after the Smart Contracts and Sidechains release, here is an overview:

2,000 $STRAT Giveaway

To celebrate the huge milestones Stratis accomplished in 2018 team members and community members decided to do a big giveaway. The rules were simple retweet the tweet below and follow Stratisplatform on Twitter.

With over 1,400 retweets the giveaway was a great success. Thanks to these people for making it possible:

Chris Trew (1,000 $STRAT)

Dan Gershony (500 $STRAT)

Jeremy Bokobza (100 $STRAT)

Acetmesis (100 $STRAT)

Pharaoh (100 $STRAT)

Bennybig (100 $STRAT)

Khilone (100 $STRAT)

CTO Dan Gershony

Stratis CTO Dan Gerhony shared some words in Discord.

Article Investinblockchain.com

Investinblockchain.com wrote the article “Top 5 Potential Moonshots (Opinion)” which you can read over here. Stratis is one of their top 5 picks.

Article Cointelegraph.com

Cointelegraph.com wrote the article “Top Crypto Performers Overview: Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, NEO, IOTA, Binance Coin, Stratis” which you can read over here.

Stratis Lottery

The Stratis.Guru Lottery is live, have a look over here. Thanks to Clint.Network 🐍 🌈‏ @clint_network for making it.

Information by the Community

I have stated it many times, but the Stratis community is more than amazing. They keep surprising me and Galmoli ⚡‏ @Galmoli_dev was the latest person who surprised me.

On Twitter, he shared what he is building for the Stratis community.

Galmoli also announced the release of his community Stratis news app. Thanks a lot of this great application!

Community Price Prediction Lottery

The community organized a price prediction lottery. A big thank you to community member Rango for organizing and hosting this, to Chris Trew for sponsoring 1,000 $STRAT and congratulations to all the winners.

Happy New Year

On behalf of team Stratis, the community and myself I wish all of you a Happy New Year! I am certain 2019 will be an epic year for Stratis regarding adoption, awareness, new clients, lots of developers building on our platform and a fantastic community to do it with.

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

Khilone

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