The Insolar team has started 2019 with a bang! Our team has managed to successfully launch the testnet, with transaction speeds exceeding 10,000 per second. Moreover, our founders have been travelling the globe to tell the world about what we are doing, whilst several ratings assessing the Insolar blockchain platform as the one to watch.

Our development team has quickly grown to become one of the largest and most impressive teams in the industry, but we haven’t stopped there. We have added new members to our team to strengthen in all areas, building on top of our status as the world leader in blockchain-related development activity (according to Cryptomiso & CoinCodeCap).

In the first month of 2019, Insolar’s founders have been participating in international conferences and meetups, spreading the word about Insolar’s capabilities and creating partnerships. Events included a presentation of the project by our founder Peter Fedchenkov at South Korea’s Chain Plus and our CEO giving an interview to The Next Web.

In terms of technological development, the testnet has proved a success with a network of 20 nodes reaching an impressive 10,229 transactions per second. Our solution is scalable so this is by no means a ceiling. Whilst the testnet is currently private, you can participate as an observer via our Block Explorer. We will invite external participants to deploy their own nodes within the network in the coming time.

We hope our community had a great end to 2018 and are just as enthusiastic as we are about making 2019 a hallmark year!

1. Community

Reports

Building on our accolade as the most active blockchain development team (corroborated by Cryptomiso & CoinCodeCap), Insolar has also been rated by DP Rating, one of the leading tech project ratings agencies. DP Rating assessed Insolar as Bb and forecasted the project to become one of the top 100 by market cap. Read the full report here.

Announcements

Participate in the Testnet as an Observer

Insolar launched its lightning-fast Private Testnet on January 22, 2019.

Top Tech News

Development Update Jan 7–12, 2019

Development Update Jan 14–20, 2019

Development Update Jan 21–26, 2019

Top Articles

Insolar Consensus Algorithms

Consensus mechanisms define how blockchain networks work, we use several to achieve previously unseen transaction speeds.

2. Engineering

On January 30, the Insolar platform technical paper was published. The paper details all the technical intricacies of the platform, authored by our Head Architect, Kirill Ivkushkin. You can read the document here.

The Ledger team has been improving performance and debugging cross-jet communications.

The Network and App Logic teams have been working on pulse message delivery an equality across nodes, in addition to adding a Pulsewatcher utility for real-time monitoring of pulse and network status.

3. Team

Ilya Markin joins the development team as a Senior Software Engineer

Ilya graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University graduate with a degree in Information Security. He is a software engineer who has worked with RTB where he participated in creating a DMP system and advertising with big data, highload, fault tolerance. He is also experienced in the development of low-code platforms and was a curator on big data courses, tutoring 40 students.

Artem Serebrov joined the Insolar team as Chief Product Officer

Artem started his career as a system administrator, but later switched to product management. Artem focuses on the enterprise segment and has released many products related to change management, security, audit, and advanced security areas. After eight years working in Kaspersky Lab and responsible for the Enterprise Portfolio, Artem joins Insolar to propel the platform and provide the best products for all companies that are ready for new and cutting edge solutions.

Tsovak Sahakyan joins the team as a Senior QA Engineer

Tsovak was inspired by movies about hackers as a child and so began his interest in cyber-security. After graduating from the Nuclear Power Engineering Department of the National Nuclear Research University “MEPhI” with a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Tsovak began working with UNIX systems, DevOps practices and test automation.

Sergey Yazev joins the team as a Frontend Developer

Before coming to Insolar, Sergey worked on various projects in B2B and B2C. For the last 4 years he has mainly been involved in ecommerce projects, including: Ulmart, Severstal Market, Posuda Center and Komus. On these projects he has worked in various capacities, such as developer, team leader and manager

Jamil Lazarev joins the team as Lead Designer

Jamil’s experience spans over 10 years and he comes to Insolar having previously worked as Art Director at Rambler&Co. Jamil is engaged in UX & UI design, frontend development, team management, leadership & development, with a deep understanding of all aspects of creating digital products.

Anna Lipina joins the team as a Support Manager

Anna holds a master’s degree in Technology-oriented Management from the Technical University of Braunschweig. Before joining Insolar, Anna worked in a financial consulting company and was mainly responsible for customer relations management, including close collaboration with operational and marketing teams.

Eugene Blikh joined the dev team as a Senior Developer

Eugene graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University, with a degree in Applied Mathematics and Informatics. He previously worked as a software engineer in Tarantool as an app engine engineer in core team, and later in customer development department. Eugene is also a teacher in summer schools and additional university CS courses.

Anna Titova joined Insolar as an Office Manager

Anna graduated from the Moscow State Regional Humanitarian Institute as a linguist and translator. Having begun her career as a personal assistant in a law firm, Anna later went on to be an office manager in fintech company BANKEX.

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