6/8/2016 by Jeremy
– Ruben De Vries 2.5 weeks ago we announced our plans to work towards the launch of the EVM running on Counterparty. Today I'm writing an update on the progress that has been made so far and an attempt to outline the roadmap/timeline for the rest of the work. Test Coverage For a while now all
6/6/2016 by Jeremy
Ecosystem News On June 1st, Storj attended Decentralized and Encrypted in Berlin, Germany. The Blueyard Capital event was self-described as “The mission to upgrade the internet & an open conversation with Edward Snowden”. Storj’s Shawn Wilkinson gave a presentation titled “A decentralized vision of object storage”. A video of the presentation will be made available
5/23/2016 by Jeremy
Ecosystem News Spells of Genesis is a popular Android and iOS game that makes use of Counterparty to create in-game assets. Spells of Genesis posted a project roadmap that outlines the steps needed to complete the game by the estimated full release in September 2016. Project lead, Shaban Shaame, posted a project update on Youtube
5/18/2016 by Jeremy
The 2016 Counterparty Foundation has been busy the past couple of weeks. We have several changes to announce that came out of our first meeting: The first Counterparty Community Meeting will be held on June 1st. These community meetings will be held once per month on the first Wednesday of the month. The meeting will
5/10/2016 by Robby Dermody
Background and Progress In late 2014, Counterparty added support for executing Ethereum smart contracts on testnet by porting the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) to our codebase. At this time, Ethereum was in a pre-alpha state, with its first major release, Frontier, not even having been announced. With the release of both Frontier, followed by Homestead
5/9/2016 by Jeremy
Ecosystem News Following recent downtime, Shapeshift has restored service for XCP in addition to several other cryptocurrencies. IndieSquare has launched a new product called “IndieBoard” to extend the capabilities of the IndieSquare app to a web client. Check out the new web dashboard. As of April 10th, the GetGems project has reached 120k registered
5/2/2016 by Robby Dermody
On April 4th 2016, 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 111,171.40 votes were
4/16/2016 by Robby Dermody
With the upcoming elections of the next board of the Counterparty Foundation, we feel it’s an opportune time to look at our progress so far as well as to lay out some thoughts on how the project could grow and improve further. Indeed, the Counterparty project has come a long way since its January 2014
4/4/2016 by Robby Dermody
On April 19th last year, the Counterparty community elected three 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 Devon Weller, Robert Ross and Chris Derose. With the term of one year now coming to an end,
3/6/2016 by Robby Dermody
Earlier today the Counterparty network experienced an outage due to a protocol-level bug. Upon being alerted to the problem due to a combination of machine level alerts and Slack chat messages, our development team got to work debugging and fixing the issue. As a result, earlier we pushed a required new version of counterparty-lib (9.54.0)