Counterparty News
Counterparty-lib 9.58.0 released!
February 3, 2020
This release includes 2 new major features: P2SH encoding – Allows arbitrary size messages using 2 transactions to encode data inside P2SH scriptSigs. Multi-Peer-Multi-Asset (MPMA) Sends – Allows sending multiple assets to multiple addresses with different quantities and a memo on a single message, usually used in conjunction with P2SH. Upgrade Timing Update should be
Counterparty-lib 9.57.0 released!
October 24, 2019
This release includes Dispensers and Sweeps (Protocol level, single message) support, a bitcoin version bump up to 0.18.1, and other improvements. Upgrade Timing Update should be done ASAP as the rules are already active. Bootstrap download or a full reparse is required as there’s already some dispensers active in mainnet and old nodes won’t pick
Announcing the names of the 2019 Counterparty Foundation Community Directors
July 15, 2019
On July 1st 2019, we announced the start of the Counterparty Foundation blockchain-based election for five Community Director seats, that will officially represent the Counterparty project, help shape its direction and ensure an active and transparent leadership. During the two-week voting period, a total of 107,389 votes were given to seven community director candidates via
Counterparty Newsletter 06-12-2019
June 12, 2019
It’s been a buzzing couple of weeks all round in the Counterparty space. Check out a snippet of what’s been happening in the past month via the updates below.
Counterparty Newsletter 05-01-2019
May 1, 2019
It’s been a buzzing couple of weeks all round in the Counterparty space. Check out a snippet of what’s been happening in the past month via the updates below.
Counterparty Newsletter 04-01-2019
April 1, 2019
It’s been a quiet month all round for the Counterparty community. Nevertheless, check out the updates below.
Counterparty Newsletter 05/02/2019
March 5, 2019
This month’s update is full of exciting updates, as projects within the Counterparty ecosystem continue to take progressive steps forwards within the community.
counterparty-lib 9.56.1 released!
February 14, 2019
Today counterparty releases version 9.56.1 which includes a hotfix for an uncaught exception which would cause a Counterparty server to stop operating normally. All users are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible. Upgrade Procedure For those running a federated node with no front-end: fednode update counterparty counterparty-testnet then fednode rebuild counterparty counterparty-testnet For standalone
Counterparty Newsletter 01/07/2019
January 7, 2019
Happy New Year to the Counterparty Community! As it is with the holidays, it has been quiet on most fronts from projects within the ecosystem but nevertheless, let’s continue with this month’s updates: Ecosystem Updates: Mandel Duck paired with HashHub Tokyo to release the beta version of SaruTobi Lightning for android. As mentioned last month,
Counterparty-lib 9.56.0 released!
December 28, 2018
This release includes SegWit support on testnet (effective immediately) and on mainnet (effective from an activation block). This release also includes an update to use the latest version of Bitcoin Core 0.16.3, replaces the addrindex patch dependency with indexd, and includes additional changes and improvements listed in CIP19. Warning Update should be done with at
Counterparty Newsletter 12/14/2018
December 14, 2018
It’s been a quiet month in the Counterparty ecosystem but nevertheless, there are some interesting updates leading into the new year. Check them out below: Ecosystem Updates: IndieSquare is working towards a new project with the intention of allowing instant and cheap counterparty tokens sends, that will be optimized for gaming use
Counterparty Newsletter 11/07/2018
November 7, 2018
This month’s Counterparty newsletter update is full of development and gaming addition updates among several ecosystem projects, check them out below: Ecosystem Updates IndieSquare has hired Counterparty protocol developers to help with development and research into token scaling solutions such as lightning network and/or side chains, to help improve and work toward the ever-progressing state
Counterparty Newsletter 10/09/2018
October 9, 2018
It has been a quiet month in the Counterparty sphere but nevertheless, substantial. Check out the updates below: Ecosystem News: IndieSquare was among other blockchain adopters, Everdreamsoft at this year’s Tokyo Game Show this past month. There, the team demonstrated their new web standard API onboard with present developers; alongside their new SDK (Software Developer
Counterparty Newsletter 09/05/2018
September 5, 2018
Ecosystem Updates: It’s been a progressive month as CIP development continues with help from developers in the Counterparty community. Alongside some other interesting updates from projects in the community, check out this month’s update below! Spells of Genesis released a new legendary Earth Card this past week. Users can now access the card from the
Counterparty Newsletter 08/01/18
August 1, 2018
Ecosystem Updates: Although it has been another quiet month for the community, a few projects are making strides towards some exciting changes in the months ahead as new projects get their start and others are set to begin as we end the summer. Spells of Genesis recently celebrated 2134 blockchainizations of their in-game cards on
Counterparty Newsletter 07/02/18
July 2, 2018
Ecosystem Updates It’s been a quiet month in the Counterparty community this past month but a couple of significant and exciting updates from some projects in the space have finally been announced! Check them out below! Spells of Genesis followed up their recent monthly June campaign by announcing their July Wizardry campaign. With this month’s
Counterparty Newsletter 06/04/2018
June 4, 2018
Ecosystem Updates A number of projects in the Counterparty community have been nominated for Cryptobit Game’s first ever ‘Cryptobit Awards’. Projects such as Bitcorn Crops, Mafia Wars, Age of Chains and Age of Rust, can be voted for among various categories here if you’d like to show your support for any of these projects in
Counterparty Newsletter 05/02/2018
May 2, 2018
Introduction May’s Counterparty Newsletter features a few brief but exciting updates from the Counterparty community. Check them out below! Ecosystem Updates Spells of Genesis has had a busy month with quite a few exciting new updates alongside their regular monthly campaigns. Firstly though, their ‘May’s Dawn’ campaign, allowed users who had completed the first star
Counterparty Newsletter 04/03/2018
April 3, 2018
April’s Counterparty Newsletter includes some exciting developments and updates from projects in the community, check them out below! Ecosystem Updates Spells of Genesis brings a few updates to players this month alongside its regular monthly campaign. Following ‘Fair February’, the month of March introduced players to ‘the Ire of March’ – available to users who
Counterparty Newsletter March 1st
March 1, 2018
Counterparty’s March update holds some exciting news for web-client users of the protocol, alongside some new developments from projects in the community! Ecosystem Updates: Spells of Genesis released the beginning of a new series of campaigns this past month. Joining their seasonal leaderboard campaigns, February expanded the Askian universe for Spells of Genesis players with
Counterparty Newsletter 02/ 01 / 2018
February 1, 2018
February’s newsletter begins by announcing that Counterparty recently surpassed 71,000 registered assets. With this exciting news, let’s move forward with this month’s updates. Ecosystem Updates: Sarutobi Island follows previous updates provided in the last few Counterparty newsletters with some more details regarding SaruTobi’s next chapter. Now that Chapter 2 has been released – available
Counterparty Newsletter 01/10/2018
January 10, 2018
We welcome the new year and the first newsletter of 2018 with a few important updates from Counterparty and projects in the community. Ecosystem Updates: Sarutobi Island expands on updates provided last month as lead developer and community member Christian Moss, released a demo video featuring Bondy. Bondy; a representative of Japanese charity Kizuna, is
Counterparty Community Hangout 12/2/17
December 9, 2017
Last Saturday, Counterparty hosted a community hangout on Discord. Long overdue, the hangout was the first of many regularly scheduled voice-meetings to come wherein projects are welcome to discuss their own project updates, as well as join the community in an open discussion about developments to the Counterparty protocol and ecosystem. The hangout proved
Counterparty Newsletter 12 / 01 / 2017
December 1, 2017
We begin the last newsletter of 2017 with several updates from projects in the Counterparty community. Regardless of the swaying back and forth of forks, improvements to the Counterparty protocol continue, and the innovative community continues to grow. We look forward to 2018 and continued growth and success for Counterparty. Updates from existing projects developed
counterparty-lib 9.55.4 released!
October 31, 2017
Today counterparty releases version 9.55.4 which includes a hotfix for an uncaught exception which could cause a Counterparty server to stop operating normally. There is no mandatory upgrade block for this release. However, all users are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible. Upgrade Procedure For those running a federated node with no front-end: fednode
Counterparty Newsletter 10/30/17
October 30, 2017
Continuing on from last month, Counterparty continues to move forward with some exciting updates from the community. Implemented from our funded CIPs – the Counterparty Protocol has also seen some vast improvements this month – fulfilled by donations from the Counterparty community using our bounty program. Ecosystem Updates Counterwallet an optimized web wallet
counterparty-lib 9.55.3 released!
September 30, 2017
NOTE: If you run a Counterparty node, please update your software as per these instructions within the next 2 weeks, prior to the block 489956 hard fork! Today we released version 9.55.3 of counterparty-lib, which notably includes a reduction in the cost of all Counterparty transactions, cheaper sends with memo support, easier exchange integration, and
Counterparty Update 9/20/17
September 20, 2017
New Hires Counterparty is excited to announce two new hires in recent weeks Firstly, Counterparty would like to welcome Rebekah Moss as community outreach manager for 6 months. Rebekah will work to drive engagement across, and offer support to, the Counterparty community. Secondly, Counterparty has retained Devon Weller as a core developer for 6 months,
Counterparty Update 6/23/17
June 23, 2017
Ecosystem Updates The Counterparty ecosystem has seen a lot of progress the past month. There has been a massive influx of new projects and updates of existing ones. Here’s a brief overview: XChain.io is nearing full release and will be replacing Blockscan as our primary block explorer. IndieSquare is also working on their ‘Token Explorer‘,
Counterparty development update
May 18, 2017
Due to several important new changes, we’re releasing a development update independently this week. Transaction fee improvements When composing a new Counterparty transaction, counterparty-lib must select which Bitcoin unspent outputs (UTXOs) to use as inputs for the transaction in order to pay the miners’ fees. We released a hotfix earlier this week to the current 9.52.2
Announcing the names of the 2017 Counterparty Foundation Community Directors
May 3, 2017
On April 3rd 2017, the Counterparty Foundation announced the start of its blockchain-based election for four Community Director seats, that will together with the Founding Director, Robby Dermody, officially represent the Counterparty project, help shape its direction and ensure an active and transparent leadership. During the two-week voting period, a total of 68,134.4311 votes were
counterparty-lib 9.55.2 released!
April 25, 2017
NOTE: If you run a Counterparty node, please UPDATE your software as soon as possible with these instructions, prior to the block 467417 hard fork! Today we released version 9.55.2 of counterparty-lib, which adds the much anticipated “subassets” feature, as well as an update to use bitcoin-0.13.2. In short, subassets allow for owners of a specific named
Announcing the Start of the 2017 Counterparty Foundation Community Seats Election
April 3, 2017
On May 1st last year, the Counterparty community elected four Counterparty Foundation community directors to help shape the direction of the Counterparty project and grow the community around it. Candidates with most votes from the community were Matt Young, Jeremy Johnson (J-Dog), Koji Higashi and Trevor Altpeter. With the term of one year now coming
Counterparty: On scalability and the future
March 27, 2017
Since its inception, Counterparty has functioned as a “metalayer” on Bitcoin, enabling functionality that Bitcoin could not perform on its own. Until recently, Counterparty and Bitcoin technology worked well together to provide this valuable functionality quickly, simply and at a low cost to a growing user base. The recent strife in the Bitcoin space —