While summer has come to a close Insolar’s work continues on with the much anticipated MainNet launch right on the horizon. August 2019 saw Insolar retain top spot as most active blockchain development team as the hard work continues before the Insolar Blockchain Platform MainNet release. To that end, the team continues to expand with three new additions.

1. Community

Announcements

Insolar retains number one for dev activity

Insolar retains number one spot on coincodecap.com for blockchain development activity worldwide. Over the past year, Insolar developers have completed 20290 commits to the company’s GitHub repository, making us by far the most active blockchain development company.

Podcast with tech blogger, Neil Hughes

Insolar Head of Public Relations, Lesley Czuma, gives an exclusive interview with The Tech Blog Writer, Neil Hughes. Listen to the podcast to find out how blockchain supports supply chain & energy use cases.

Demo video — Supply chain of data in action

See how a rapidly-developed Insolar blockchain-based solution can bring greater transparency and efficiency to supply chains in this demo we made for a client. The video demonstrates a rapidly developed blockchain Proof-of-Concept which shows how participants in a supply chain can share data about the delivery status of an order that is normally siloed. The solution provides a common portal which unlocks the same set of data for supplier, logistic operator, and the client. Each company works with the same information: a single, golden copy of data.

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Development update. July 22 — August 3, 2019

Development update. August 5 — August 17, 2019

Top Articles

Blockchain the Easy Way

Don’t we all just love when things are made easy for us. We look for the easy wins in life; the gratification with little effort. The same goes for technology: it should be created with ease of use in mind, no matter how complex the underlying hardware and software is under the hood. Insolar is creating its blockchain platform with this as a foundation. Read the article to learn more.

The Story of Insolar — The Founders on Entrepreneurship

“All of us, no matter what our chosen role, build the future and our company,” remarked Insolar CEO, Andrey Zhulin. This is true, and the more one talks with our founders, one can understand how their own visionary nature and aspirations from being children have pushed the boundaries to innovate at Insolar. The common denominator is the Spirit of Entrepreneurship: you take responsibility to build your own life. In this case, Insolar is about creating blockchain technology that is optimally suited to serve enterprise and make people’s lives easier. Read on to learn about where Insolar’s founders find their inspiration.

Continuation our part two of a brief introduction to some of Insolar’s main architectural features. In part 1, Vladimir explained how Insolar assigns roles to nodes and uses hot and cold storage for efficiency when processing and storing data. We also looked at how the platform introduces special smart contracts which allow for networks with different levels of permissioned access to communicate with one another and non-Insolar (even non-DLT) networks. In part two, our solutions architect delves a little deeper into what is a typical transaction within Insolar, how does it travel between nodes of Insolar Blockchain Platform, and what setup we consider practical for the usage of the platform.

2. Engineering highlights

The App Logic team has been perfecting communication between fast cache and storage nodes to keep all Light Material Nodes in sync. Heavy Material Nodes now wait for a message from the next assigned Light Material Node about receiving hot data records. After receiving the message, all data changes from the previous cycle (Pulse) are marked as valid.

Work on Abandon requests testing was started to help node owners to protect stored data against loss in case of server breakdown. Test coverage has also been improved and the Pulse finalization mechanism has been fully implemented. This mechanism marks all data changes from the previous cycle (Pulse) as valid.

The Business Services team created an Observer node prototype with new integration protocol support added to Observer nodes. This has enriched data for MainNet services since raw data from the platform is now structured and presented as easy-to-search data in Observer nodes.

The Ledger team has optimized the heavy replication process to remove system bottlenecks. and they have improved integration test coverage, improving system stability and simplifying code modifications. Moreover, system tracing has been improved and multiple bug fixes and optimizations have been carried out. An observer API has also been introduced to allow to explore ledger data to see user balances and transactions.

The ledger team has also been working on WebWallet application core functionality, developing it according to design. Token transfer functionality and deposit creation has been moved to Saga transaction usage.

The Smart Contracts team have updated contracts for Insolar MainNet, with a newly designed structure. The team also carried out multiple stability and fully implemented saga transactions. Moreover, most of the communication between Logic Runner and Ledger has now been moved to the new asynchronous messaging system.

The Network team has implemented a new consensus and merged it into the master. This consensus helps the network reach a complete state. A node knows about others and validates their states or can help to evict suspected nodes. They also updated the network bootstrap to the new consensus algorithm. Nodes connect to discovery nodes which announce that the new nodes wish to become part of the network. When consensus is achieved, the new nodes become part of the network. Furthermore the engineers also carried out various bug tests and completed fixes related to consensus and bootstrap. As a result, many critical issues have now been resolved.

3. Team

Ekaterina Matveeva joined Insolar as a Personal Assistant

Ekaterina is an administrative and business support specialist with over ten years’ experience. During the course of her career she has worked with the leading investment companies such as Sberbank CIB (former Troika Dialog) and LLC Aton. Ekaterina has been responsible for MD/CEO administrative and business support. She holds a degree in international business and economic security from the Institute of business and law and is also a qualified financial market specialist.

Elena Dildina joined Insolar as a Recruiter

Elena graduated from the Moscow Region State University with a degree in psychology and has experience in HR spanning seven years. For two years Elena worked at Yandex as an IT recruiter. At Insolar, she is engaged in the search for senior level developers.

Fedor Shulgin joined Insolar as an Analyst

Fedor graduated from dual BSc degree at ICEF which is a joint London School of Economics and HSE program. In the last two years he gained experience at PwC Strategy consulting and Novartis Business Planning department. Fedor participated in different strategic and operations projects from the energy sector to banking and IT. He has experience in creating financial models, participating in client interviews and providing actionable insights from gathered information.

Do you think big and have what it takes to be part of our team? You can see all of our openings here.

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