It’s time for The Unofficial Weekly Stratis Retrospect #61.

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First Stratis Monthly Development Update

From now on the Stratis team will provide an overview of the development and testing progress at Stratis. They will provide this in the form of a Stratis Monthly Blog released in the first week of the month. Last week they released the Stratis Monthly #1 which you can read here.

The Stratis Monthly #1 contains:

Full Node Development

Sidechain Development

Smart Contracts Development

Testing

Cirrus Sidechain Masternodes Applications

James DeGale Sponsorship

Stratis Brand Awareness

Cold Staking Activated on Testnet

Last week the first block was staked using Cold Staking on the Stratis Platform Testnet. You can find the details of the first block here. Next step is to activate Cold Staking on Mainnet. You can follow progress here. 22% of the blocks already mined, have signaled to activate cold staking.

If you want to learn more about what Cold Staking is and what Stratis their solution is you can do so here.

Microsoft Azure

Stratis has multiple solutions on the Azure Marketplace, recently Microsoft tweeted about the Stratis ICO Platform on Azure and last week they tweeted about Stratis yet again. This time they wrote a tweet to their 650,000 followers about the Stratis Blockchain Platform in .Net with the Stratis Platform Full Node.

Chris Trew, CEO of Stratis, added that the Stratis Platform also brings Bitcoin in .Net to Azure.

Dan Gershony, CTO of Stratis, also left a comment about the solution on Microsoft Azure.

Upcoming Network Upgrade

After over a year in development, thousands of development hours among dozens of contributors, and tireless work and planning, I am very excited about what the next few months hold for our Stratis blockchain node software. Long awaited since the start of our journey in the early 2017, we are releasing stable versions of our node to make a huge technical leap forward. We will finally be switching over to a blockchain network running entirely on C# in dotnet core.

Is something Dan Gershony, CTO of Stratis, writes in his article ‘The upcoming network upgrade.’ You can read his article here. In his article, he talks about the upcoming network upgrade for Stratis which will eventually mean that Stratis will run a blockchain network completely on C# in dotnet core.

I am very proud of what the development team here at Stratis have been doing over the past two years and their hard work and dedication can be seen in the powerful software we have in the C# Full Node. Software development is an ongoing process of improvement and innovation. Every once in a while, this results in a significant upgrade such as we will see over the coming months. This upgrade gives Stratis a formidable foundation and I am excited to see what will be built on top of it.

Stratis $ 1,000 in $STRAT Giveaway

Stratis is giving away $ 1,000 in $STRAT. If you want to enter the giveaway here is what you have to do:

Go to -> https://stratisplatform.com/strat-giveaway-01/

Click on: Click here to enter

Enter in one of the 10 ways

London Blockchain Expo

Stratis is exhibiting at the London Blockchain Expo on 25th-26th April at Olympia London. Stratis is a Platinum Sponsor at this event and can be found at booth #461. On behalf of Stratis, Rowan de Haas Smart Contract Developer at Stratis, will speak and so will Paul Farrington.

You can register yourself for an expo ticket here, see you there!

Interview Jordan Andrews

Last week I had the privilege to interview Jordan Andrews who is the Smart Contracts Lead at Stratis Platform.

I hope I can steer Stratis to a place where most new protocols are building on top of and connecting to Stratis.

You can find the interview here.

Stratis #4 in Blockchain Top 100

Every week Rise Global makes a Blockchain Top 100 list ranked by their social media influence score. Last week Stratis made it to #4.

AMA Highlights

Last week Cryptocopia released the highlights video of the hour long AMA session with the CEO of Stratis, Chris Trew. In this video, you can find all the highlights of the AMA in 18 minutes.

Community member ‘Chrispop’ wrote a summary with exciting insights of the Stratis AMA which you can read here.

Content is Spreading through Publish0x

More and more people decided to write articles about Stratis, a lot of those articles are coming from Publish0x. Publish0x is a new blogging platform where you can earn crypto by writing blogs. The platform is currently in beta and is build by one of the people that has been in the Stratis community since the start.

Community members ‘Chrispop’, ‘Bogdanel’ and ‘Zomertje’ wrote the following articles:

Thanks for writing those articles and I hope to see more from you and others as well.

Discord 4,000 Members

We reached 4,000 Members on our Discord last week. Stratis has one of the most active and collaborating communities in the #Crypto space with lots of people that have been around since 2016. We like to grow our community organically and try to involve everyone as much as possible.

If you would like to be part of the Stratis Community you can join Discord here.

GLUON

GLUON is the first verified project on the Stratis Platform who will use the Stratis ICO Platform and will build on top of the Stratis Platform. This week, GLUON released new information about their project:

We are pleased to announce the launch of our latest enterprise product, Petromo. We have been in development of this product for some time now and have recently launched IoT hardware, iOS and Android applications for connecting petroleum stations into the Gluon Platform. When we started Gluon, our goal was to connect multiple markets together, this moves us a step closer to this vision.

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

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