Development Updates

Testnet Beta Release (mid December)

In preparation for the Wanchain 1.0 mainnet release in January 2018, we will be releasing our Beta Testnet on December 15th.

For the Beta release, we integrated all the issues reported from the Alpha Testnet release in early November and validated the scalability of the platform. The Beta platform will also deliver the Wallet and Explorer applications.

Unlike the Alpha Testnet release, we are opening up the Beta platform to all community members. We will continue to keep our bounty program for the Beta release as well, with more weightage given to those who issue valid pull requests.

More Beta details will be available in our December 11th update. Please standby for that.

Please note that we will announce the exact Wanchain 1.0 release date in the coming weeks.

Blockchain Interoperability Alliance

Wanchain, Icon and Aion held a joint presentation at the Consensus: Invest 2017 conference in New York on November 28th, 2017, where we announced the establishment of the Blockchain Interoperability Alliance. The announcement generated a spike in interest from across the blockchain community, partners and prospects.

“This alliance will foster the creation of robust ecosystem to solve the challenges around blockchain interoperability, which in turn will help organizations build interesting asset management cross-chain products on our platforms”, — Dustin Byington, the President of Wanchain.

Dustin Byington Speaking at Consensus Invest New York

More details on the announcement can be read at:

https://www.coindesk.com/new-alliance-sets-out-to-boost-blockchain-interoperability/.

You can also watch the recorded livestream from Consensus Invest here:

https://youtu.be/gstC4r9hbxY

Team Updates

We commenced the expansion of Wanchain’s Business Center, based out of Austin, Texas. We hired our Director of Product and are in the process of building out marketing and application engineering teams.

Blockshow Asia

Jack Lu (Founder of Wanchain) attended the Blockshow Asia Conference in Singapore (29–30 November). Click here to see more details about the event: https://blockshowasia.com/.

Jack at Blockshow Asia, Singapore (29–30 November)

Jack Lu and two crypto fans (Blockshow Asia).

Dec 3 Ethereum Community Meetup (Asia-Pacific region) — Shenzhen, China

Jack and Vitalik at Ethereum Community Meetup — Shenzen, China

Community Updates

As we approach the launch of Wanchain 1.0, we have started focusing tremendously on community expansion. In order to help us with this expansion, 12 new community managers have joined to help spread awareness of Wanchain in their respective regions.

Every successful project relies heavily on a motivated and strong community. There are also important cultural values that projects must consider when entering a new market.

We have hired local and virtual community managers to help tackle these market barriers. They will play an important role in supporting the community through various communication channels.

The first local and virtual community managers to join the project come from the Netherlands, England, India, South Korea, Poland, Hong Kong, USA, China, Brazil and South Africa. They will play a key role in:

Rapidly responding to online community queries.

Maintaining a constant and professional online presence.

Representing Wanchain at events and conferences.

Creating and managing local meetup groups.

Scheduling Q&A sessions with virtual and local communities.

Organizing competitions.

We have broken down a few of the previously named tools we will be using to interact with our community:

Schwag — We will issue t-shirts, webcam protectors, phone stands and pens to community members that attend our events and conferences. Please note, the schwag will also be available at the local meetup groups.

Hackathons — We will run a series of hackathons in 2018.

Bounties — We will ask different people from the community to help with translations, technical documentation, user guides, platform support, videos about Wanchain, bug bounties, suggestions and pull requests.

AMAs and livestreams — We noticed that the Wanchain community enjoyed the comments from the President of Wanchain: Dustin Byington after Consensus Invest New York: Click to view video — and as such, will be hosting a series of AMAs and livestreams with a number of our team members in the coming months.

Online and offline support — Our community managers will be responsible for providing everyone with rapid and clear answers to community queries. If questions need to be escalated, we will handle them in a timely manner. Some of the community managers will be able to answer questions that are not in English through direct message. The online support will be available for technical and non-technical queries.

Discord Ranks — We will issue digital ranks to the community members that have been with us on Discord from the start. These ranks will be kept forever.

Thank you for your continued support

About Wanchain

Wanchain connects and exchanges value between different blockchain ledgers in a distributed manner. It uses the latest cryptographic theories to build a non-proprietary cross-chain protocol and a distributed ledger that records both cross-chain and intra-chain transactions. Any blockchain network, whether a public, private or consortium chain, can integrate with Wanchain to establish connections between different ledgers and perform low cost inter-ledger asset transfers. The Wanchain ledger supports not only smart contracts, but also token exchange privacy protection.

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