May has drawn to a close, and we are a month away from the full release of Lovelace and the public test network.

To recap, April ended on an exciting note, with the second-ever Bluzelle hackathon taking place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Lovelace beta was unleashed at the hackathon, and has been available to the public over the course of the month of May, in the form of a private testnet that developers can deploy locally.

Lovelace Release

May has been another productive month for the Bluzelle team as we push hard toward the full Lovelace public test network release by the end of June. Some of the key things to look for with the full Lovelace release include the following:

Auto-bootstrapping for nodes joining the swarm. Non-Bluzelle nodes (ie: run by the public) can also join with a reduced role in consensus, while Bluzelle-run nodes have full-on consensus voting rights.

Ethereum Solidity smart contract support. A bonus for the public is we will indeed have full read AND write support, vs the previous plan of only providing read support.

Solidity smart contract support. A for the public is we will indeed have full support, vs the previous plan of only providing read support. NEO C# and Python smart contract support. Another bonus here for the public is we will also have full read AND write support, vs the previous plan of only providing read support.

C# and Python smart contract support. Another here for the public is we will also have full support, vs the previous plan of only providing read support. A public-facing test network on the Internet, open to the public to develop against or add nodes to.

Python support. Python scripts whether in a web server or standalone will be able to access the Bluzelle network with full CRUD (read and write) support.

Video Demo — How To Set Up With Bluzelle

Bluzelle has very actively been working with our company partners and collaborators to accelerate adoption of Bluzelle into other blockchains and decentralized applications. We have produced a HOWTO video demo (found below) that explains how a developer can have their own private Bluzelle Lovelace testnet swarm environment running with a “Hello World” example running, in approximately ten minutes. Members of the public are encouraged to follow this HOWTO to get started quickly.

HOW TO get started with Bluzelle DB quickly

We have planned out a series of webinars and AMAs throughout June to walk through the demo and help the public to understand more about our release. Please stay tune for our official announcements via all channels stated at the bottom.

Open Source Community

As mentioned in the April update, Bluzelle strongly encourages members of the public to participate in development efforts. The core daemon is licensed under AGPv3 and encourages a strong community model. Most of our libraries use highly permissive licenses, and therefore encourage application development. Our development strategy includes and welcomes members of the open source communities to contribute their own applications, drivers, integrations, bug fixes, and comments. Pull requests are welcomed on our Github repositories. Certain special requests made outwardly by the Bluzelle team are rewarded with bounties. Major accomplishments initiated by the public are also rewarded with bounties, as determined by the Bluzelle team.

Bernoulli Release

As a separate track from Lovelace release, the team has also kicked started the development for the Bernoulli release slated for the end of 2018. (You may check out the roadmap in our whitepaper to learn more about this release.)

We are working on a proof of concept in place for a practical byzantine-fault tolerant consensus algorithm. The Bluzelle team is excited about incorporating this consensus algorithm into the Bluzelle daemon to provide the robustness needed for a decentralized and trustless database network.

In our next update, we will provide more details of the launch of Lovelace together with some exciting news and events. We will also introduce the plan for our next phase.

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