Etherparty is a blockchain technology company that develops smart contract applications powered by the FUEL token. We are currently developing a platform that allows users to create smart contracts on any compatible blockchain without having any programming knowledge. The Etherparty beta is currently live. If you would like to participate, please visit our website to sign up. This post is part of our ongoing developer update series.

Happy New Year from everyone at Etherparty! 2017 was an exciting year in the crypto space where a week seemed like a year. So much was done, but there’s still a lot left to do.

Product Update

What We’ve Done

We closed this past year with a lot of progress on our app, and we thought it’d be great to share a bit more specifics with the community.

The current proof-of-concept beta is built with full-stack Javascript. This worked well for creating a minimum viable product to let users see what direction we’re headed, and based on the feedback we’ve received, it accomplished what we wanted it to do.

For our mainnet launch, we decided to evaluate different server-side languages that would allow us to have a more robust and easy codebase to work on as our team grows.

After reaching a consensus, we began building the back-end from the ground up with a distributed systems approach in Golang, and are happy to have recently approached feature parity with our live beta.

To this end, we are proud to announce a new team member in Marcus Heese. Marcus is a DevOps engineer and security expert with 13+ years of experience who will be assisting us with creating and maintaining a scalable cloud-based deployment for our main net launch while the rest of the team continues work on additional features to make the platform as robust as possible.

What We’re Doing

The team is focused on the UI/UX of the app now to ensure the experience is seamless for all potential users, including those with no prior blockchain knowledge. We’ve taken in numerous rounds of user feedback from our beta, and with this in hand, feel confident we can deliver an even smoother user experience.

New Office

A growing team needs a larger space! Over the holidays we moved in to a new, larger office that will allow our team to grow as our needs do.

Bitcoin Integration

We’ve talked about our partnership with open-source smart contract platform RSK in the past. First off, we would like to congratulate them on their successful mainnet beta release — this is a huge milestone and a long time coming.

Coinciding with their release, Rootstock contracts are now deployable on the Etherparty testnet beta. This implementation marks Etherparty’s first stemming from the company’s recently announced collaborative partnerships.

Publicly Available Beta

We’d like to thank all of our beta users who provided us with invaluable feedback while it remained private. This feedback is just what we needed to make the necessary tweaks before making our beta public.

The beta is now open to everyone so head over to our website, register, and give it a test ride — no invite needed!

If you have any questions or comments, we’d love to hear them. Send a message to support@etherparty.com.

Disclaimer:

No wording contained herein should be construed as solicitation for investment or financial advice in any regard. Etherparty has no control over secondary uses and therefore cannot accept any responsibility for FUEL tokens utilized for investment, speculative, or for secondary market purposes. Statements in this blog relating to the Company’s future plans and objectives are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are based on numerous assumptions and are subject to all of the risks and uncertainties inherent in the Company’s business, including risks inherent in development.