Welcome to the Ubiq report for June 2019.

This month has been fairly slow in terms of news, as larger projects are in the works which will take some time to complete.

Gubiq has now been stably running on version 2.3. for a little over a month now and our development team are working hard on the next major hard-fork release, as well as an update for Sparrow and Ubiq Dex.

We are excited for the next few months of progress on the platform

Development Updates

Ubiq 0x Decentralized Exchange codename “XocelDex”

Recently the 0x team created a launch kit for Crypto communities that wish to streamline the process of creating a decentralized exchange. Xocel is currently working on this and will probably require a legal entity to be created.

Once this is set up the community will have access to a Dex for us to trade Ubiq against any of the tokens running on the platform.

We will keep everyone updated on the exciting progress towards this.

Gubiq Hard-Fork upgrade

Currently in development, the next release of Gubiq will include the Byzantium, Constantinople and St. Petersburg updates, with the usual optimizations for the Ubiq codebase.

We have decided to release this as a single Hard-Fork upgrade to the network, as it reduces the coordination required and interruptions to the ecosystem.

This will be the 4th update to the Gubiq codebase this year and will be Ubiq’s biggest yet!

Sparrow update

It was recently announced that development work on Sparrow has begun, merging the latest code changes from MetaMask to Sparrow.

This is the biggest update that Sparrow has ever had, with a new user interface which means we must redo a bunch of the MetaMask to Sparrow porting as all of our changes are in the old UI. An additional benefit of this will be Trezor/Ledger support.

We also want to get the Sparrow update out there and ready for greater community testing, which will allow us to put out some further tests such as the Dex as this relies on Sparrow integration as it is a dApp.

Advertising / Marketing Updates

New Twitter/Discord Logo

Recently, Ubiq core developer Jyap paid for some design work on Fiverr for a new Twitter and Discord logo.

Our new Twitter and Discord Ubiq Logo

We think the new design looks really fresh and clean, feel free to leave us some feedback in Discord or to tweet about it on Twitter.

Grass Roots Marketing, Stickers and Art

In addition to the new sticker, there has been some community work on creating some new stickers and artwork in the #ubiq-marketing channel on Discord.

Below is a sample of some of the work produced so far: