These digests summarize the progress that we’ve made over the last month. If you’re new to Paradigm, you can read our introduction article here. For a more technical look at the protocol, take a look at our documentation portal, and technical introduction article.

Highlights this month:

A new team member

Documentation and developer portal updates

Protocol updates

New year, new face:

To start off this new year, we’re excited to welcome a new face to the team. Gustavo Chaín has been brought on as a core protocol engineer who will be focusing on developing a GoLang implementation of the OrderStream network based off of the current TypeScript implementation of ParadigmCore. Previously, Gustavo worked in the infrastructure team at Heetch, and has also developed, coordinated and lead distributed open source projects. Myself and the rest of the Paradigm team warmly welcome Gustavo.

Documentation and developer portal updates:

Last community update I teased our upcoming developer and documentation portals. Whilst the developer portal is still receiving its final touches, I’m pleased to announce that our alpha documentation portal is now live — which you can access at https://docs.paradigm.market. As it is an alpha, expect the portal to evolve over the coming weeks and months. If you’re eagerly holding out for our more extensive developer portal, you won’t have to wait too much longer as we’re planning to release it closer to mid-February.

Development updates:

January has been a busy month of development for the team. Here’s a quick overview of the team’s achievements in January. We’ve open-sourced the core contract component of the protocol, which serves the critical roles of managing the OrderStream validator set via a modified token-curated registry (TCR), implementing write access control to the network via a fee-less lock/unlock mechanism and more. You can take a look at these alpha contracts in the ParadigmContracts repository.

There have also been numerous updates to ParadigmCore that ultimately pave the way for dynamic validator set changes, purely based on the state of the Paradigm contract system. These updates serve as a major step towards the decentralization, and ultimately the deployment of the OrderStream network.

Finally, there have been minor updates to our 0x Standard Relayer REST API (SRA) which is currently hosting Radar Relay’s order book. These updates demonstrate the network’s ability to inter-operate with existing relayers, as well as the increasing stability of our network client implementation.

For a more in-depth write-up of these updates, see the January development update.

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