It is the end of July and the public has now had a full month of access using the Lovelace public testnet, which came out at the end of June, 2018.

To recap, the Bluzelle team was successful in deploying our public testnet to the public on time and with the promised features. Developers have already been testing and putting the network to use in various projects. Several events including hackathons, meetups, and the like have given Lovelace the opportunity to demonstrate the power of Bluzelle’s swarming database.

In particular, in July, the Bluzelle team provided technical live demos of Lovelace in action at various exciting events throughout the world including:

SG Innovate, Singapore, July 2nd

Bitcoin Wednesday, Amsterdam, July 4th

Beijing, July 9th

Hangzhou, July 10th

Shanghai, July 11th

Hack.Summit() Virtual Hackathon, July 9–11

Portal Networks Hackathon, Seoul, July 14–15

dAppCon, Berlin, July 19–20

Blockchain + Data Science Meetup, Vancouver, July 26

The demos included roadmap plans as well as live demos of Bluzelle Lovelace running in the context of node.js, Python, direct web sockets, NEO C#, Ethereum, and more. Also demoed was the Bluzelle network visualization and CRUD client. A big focus of these events was demonstration and introduction of the Bluzelle data economy, a layer of products and services that bring the database to larger markets and vastly improve token velocity.

The end of June product update was very deep and rich with details about the Lovelace release and included details on how to use Lovelace in all the supported environments at the time. We recommend that developers seeking details about Lovelace and the specifics for these environments refer back to that product update.

Bernoulli Release

The Bluzelle team is hard at work with development of the Bernoulli release of the Bluzelle database. Please refer to our upcoming updated roadmap (ETA: August 12th) to find the finer details about Bernoulli. In particular, look for product updates and features that are highly centred around the Bluzelle Data Economy.

In short, here are some of the goals for Bernoulli:

A PBFT implementation of consensus to replace Lovelace’s RAFT. This will enable truly trustless computing resources to join the network. It adds the necessary robustness for a decentralized network to scale as intended.

Decentralization of the discovery of Bluzelle swarm nodes, via an Ethereum smart contract. This smart contract acts like an entry point for DB consumers to connect to the Bluzelle DB without having prior or cached knowledge of the whereabouts of Bluzelle nodes.

A RESTful HTTP API to make direct requests to the swarm via curl, etc.

A GUI CRUD client. It will have interfaces both on the web browser as well as native (MacOS, Windows, Linux, etc) versions to run on your desktop, and will allow you to directly work with your Bluzelle DB data whether that data is a simple scalar or a full-on JSON document.

The Bluzelle emulator will be released to the public, ready for developers to emulate the swarm and build software directly against the emulator, without the need to launch a testnet swarm.

Data publishing toolkit, to enable data syndicators to upload large amounts of data to Bluzelle for the purposes of distribution and eventual syndication revenue from data marketplaces.

Data marketplace API, to enable data marketplaces to be built on top of the Bluzelle database, for distribution and eventual collection of syndication revenue for sharing such data.

In general, Bluzelle is also going to be widening its efforts to target non-blockchain developers more directly. There is a large need for the Bluzelle database in non-blockchain, traditional projects such as web apps, mobile apps, and enterprise apps. Bluzelle will push hard to demonstrate the database to developers in these markets as well by demoing and speaking about Bluzelle at meetups, hackathons, and the like. We will also be building partnerships with other decentralized technologies to provide a stack on which non-blockchain developers can base their software.

Open Source Community

As a gentle reminder, Bluzelle always encourages the public to regularly participate in development efforts. We use the AGPv3 license for the core daemon, and this ensures and encourages strong community involvement. Our libraries use highly permissive licenses, that makes 3rd party development easy and painless. Our development strategy welcomes members of the open source communities to contribute their own applications, drivers, integrations, bug fixes, and comments. Pull requests are encouraged on our Github repositories and in some cases, accepted ones might also come with token bounties, subject to Bluzelle team discretion.

Important Note: If you have not already done so, note that Bluzelle has transitioned from Slack to Gitter. Please sign onto Gitter and join the “Bluzelle” community to participate. We will be slowly phasing out Slack so it is important to make this transition right away.