Hello and welcome here again! æternity is doing great as always: more than a year has passed since the first live incarnation of the æternity blockchain — Roma Release — and now all the progress can be transparently seen. “It should not be difficult to build a blockchain application on aeternity,” the ædevelopers believe. Well, they work hard towards making excellent dev experience come true! Recently, dev team was focused on gathering all of the developer tools into one to form one powerful bundle, called the Development Suite, that aims to bring the ultimate experience for developers by having all of the tools and services in one place.

Moreover, they created an example tokensale app to showcase how easy it is to create a token sale/contribution campaign on top of aeternity blockchain with this standard by merely using a small wrapper contract that defines the price and the rules of the token sale. The Base æpp team worked on released v0.18.0 in production and v0.18.1 in the public beta programs (Testflight and Android Public Beta). The ForeverAENS 6, a small showcase prototype project, which is built in Elixir within one day of SDK’s hackathon, was introduced. This application automates all the activities needed to “hold” a name in æternity blockchain. Furthermore, the StateChannels biweekly development update depicted a significant amount of progress. Firstly, the state password has been replaced by an auto-generated id, that removes complexity from the WebSocket protocol while increasing the stability of the reconnection process. Secondly, the noise connection setup will retry upon failure a few times to cope with intermittent network issues that enhance the testing setup where intermittent such problems led to failed test runs. In addition, several bugs and errors were fixed.

The AirGap/PapersDev team worked on AirGap Wallet, Vault, and Coin Library, adding Multi-Page QR support, proceeding serializer improvements, and preparing everything for the release.

æternity puts an effort not only on development but also on the community æxpansion and social side. Yanislav Malakhov discussed a decentralized future on æternity as part of Genesis DevCon. He also shared the æternity story, how he built a company that is solving problems in interoperability and scalability in the blockchain. Besides, the æternity meetup in Sophia was a huge success. The topics of presentations included: node garbage collection, miner consensus signaling, types of forks, and blockchain security. By the way, several interviews and articles were published. Don’t miss the interview with Pablo Coirolo, where he shares some crucial insights on æternity and gives some of his views on the Blockchain/Crypto industry. You should also check the great interview with æternityCF’s grantee Karol Skočik, who describes his work on the account state data garbage collection and how it increases the æternity blockchain’s overall efficiency.

The community keeps increasing: there is a slight growth in the number of subscribers in social networks. December is going to be an extremely fruitful month for æternity! Stay tuned!