October has been no anomaly as far as the level of work undertaken by the Insolar team is concerned. This month saw us gearing up to MainNet launch, with the team working to the maximum to have everything ready for the launch of our public blockchain network. However, the decision to reschedule the release was taken in order to continue improvements on the already stable and secure network.

While the network meets all requirements and is secure and stable, we came to the conclusion that further testing, debugging and minor but varied improvements are required before the full public release of MainNet. The Insolar community will also benefit from the enhanced security of the network following the implementation of the feedback we received from Kaspersky Labs and other security experts. As such, we took the decision to reschedule the release until after the New Year.

In addition, we announced that we are to collaborate with two giants of IT — Oracle and Microsoft — along with several national innovation agencies. Our collaborations with these organizations create significant technical and market synergies for all parties, advancing the entire enterprise market and giving companies a streamlined way to access robust DLT solutions using Insolar’s innovative, cloud-based capabilities.

1. Community

Announcements

Insolar Announces Collaborations with Microsoft, Oracle, and Innosuisse

Insolar, the leading provider of blockchain solutions for enterprise, announces major platform collaborations with Microsoft, Oracle, and a group of national innovation agencies, including Innosuisse, UK Energy Innovation Centre, and the German Energy Agency, dena. These relationships fortify Insolar’s marquee position in driving blockchain innovation and real-world usage among enterprise firms.

Insolar MainNet Launch Rescheduled to January 2020

Following extensive testing conducted by both Insolar engineers and external experts, we have decided to reschedule the release of MainNet and the coin swap that is planned to take place at launch. While the network meets all requirements and is secure and stable, we came to the conclusion that further testing, debugging and minor but varied improvements are required before the full public release of MainNet. The Insolar community will also benefit from the enhanced security of the network following the implementation of the feedback we received from Kaspersky Labs and other security experts.

Top Tech News

Development update. September 30 — October 12, 2019

Top Articles

Time for Pragmatism in Blockchain Adoption

Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) are currently facing a hurdle in that business is so far unsure of how to implement and whether adoption is worthwhile. What if there were a more pragmatic approach to the implementation of DLT, one which did not require the overhaul of entire systems or deep integrations? To resolve this issue, Insolar has its come up with a pragmatic and phased, two-step implementation for blockchain.

Distributed ledger technologies such as blockchains are beginning to herald a new era for audibility and accountability through tamper-proof logging of data and recording those responsible for updating or changing data sets contained in ledgers. However, although blockchains track changes of an object state in a ledger, they do not guarantee that the reason the change was made will be logged.

2. Engineering highlights

The Business Services team has been busy building the BlockExplorer frontend and working on bug fixes for it. API services for new cases have been implemented and expanded.

WebWallet smart contracts have been updated with bugs fixed. Testing is ongoing

The Platform team has been busy fixing critical bugs regarding request deduplication and ordering, in addition to adding more stability and net split tests.

Moreover, this team has begun work on separating the network layer from the main Insolar daemon. This will increase the stability of time-critical consensus algorithms.

3. Team

Elena Petrova joined Insolar as Chief of Staff

Elena is a strong professional with focus on efficiency, people and culture. Her working experience includes helping clients with optimizing operations and efficient organization with McKinsey&Company; a couple of projects in executive recruitment for Microsoft; a wide range of people development projects from building a high potential pool of employees inside the organization to designing development programs for top-management teams in Odgers Berndtson and finally leading a large retail customer sales team as an industry manager with Google. Educated at Lomonosov MSU (Physics), NES (Economics) and Haas School of Business, Berkeley CA (MBA).

Eduard Deysling joined Insolar as a Front-end Developer

Eduard is a front end developer with over 7 years’ experience in developing high-load web applications. Passionate about programming and creating useful and easily maintainable software. Previously worked as a front end team leader in Raiffeisen Bank.

Igor Marnat joined Insolar as VP of Engineering

Igor previously worked as Head of Development of Remote Applications Server at Parallels for 2.5 years, before that being the Director of Engineering in Mirantis, running an OpenStack team for around 5 years. Igor has diplomas as a Master of Science (Mathematics and Computer Science, Academy of Federal Security Service), IT manager (Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation) and Master of Laws (Russian Academy of Justice).

Vladimir Udalov joined Insolar as Marketing & Sales Operations Director

Vladimir is a senior B2B marketing executive with 12 years experience in the high tech industry. He has a vast experience driving transformation for large corporations and high-tech startups, in addition to recruiting and leading world-class teams. Vladimir previously worked with Kaspersky, Veeam and HP.

Ivan Afanasiev joined Insolar as an Application Security Expert

Ivan is an application security expert with over 5 years of experience in information security and over 3 in application security. He has experience working in leading IT companies, whether they be vendors, customers or service providers. Ivan’s knowledge is wide in scope, encompassing security testing, both processes methodology and technical problem solving.

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