Bytom Weekly News

Bystack BP Recruitment

Bystack mainnet will be launched on July 20th. Candidates need to build nodes and switch to mainnet. If you don’t see your aiming candidates, please wait patiently.

Project Development

1. On July 15th, Bytom director of tech&operation Martin attended the “Blockstack and Web 3.0 era” offline activity. Martin said that Bytom adopts one mainchain with multiple sidechains architecture which can improve the scalability and ensure security.
2. On July 18th, Bytom tech&operation manager Charlie had living streaming with Cobo wallet. He introduced the Bystack BP status, technical architecture of Bystack and the latest development. Bystack focuses on BaaS service rather than underlying protocol and Bytom is exploring cooperation with more enterprises instead of only technology.
3. On July 19th, we invited the champion of Bytom Dev Competition 2018 — Bytomswap and had an AMA on Reddit. For details: https://www.reddit.com/r/BytomBlockchain/comments/ce6nx6/bytom_bytomswap_ama/
4. How Bytom’s BBFT Enable Faster Consensus — A Comparison between BBFT and FBFT/HotStuff: https://news.8btc.com/how-bytoms-bbft-enable-faster-consensus-a-comparison-between-bbft-and-fbfthotstuff
5. How to vote for Bystack: https://www.bystack.com/en/rules/

Dev Report

vapor

1. Vapor testnet test;
2. Fixed bugs in the consensus process;
3. Functional test of vapor network and fixed the message transmission errors occurred during the test;
4. Explorer: updated BP, addresses, cross-chain and search-related interfaces;
5. Explorer: deployed test machine, test which combines front-end and back-end;
6. Added store, account store and wallet store tests;

blockcenter

1. Connected with the mobile terminal to fix existing bugs;
2. Added updater and block, test for rolling back the block integration, and have completed 50%;

Federation

1. Increased the binding and flexible configuration of mainchain and sidechain network parameters;
2. Cross-chain transaction test;
3. Added nodes to obtain the federation address;

Vapor Dashboard:

1. Wallet removed the function of restoring mnemonic;
2. Fixed the page that still jumps out of the initial account;
3. Added Block Production function;
4. Updated and created multi-signature account;
5. Fixed the problem of selecting space account for default account;
6. Hidden estimate fee when the fee is 0;
7. Added copy function in account address, node public key, and other places;
8. Optimized the information display on the account page.

bystack

1. Updated the voting page;

blockmeta

Optimization for Vapor explorer details and fixed the bug;

gostack

1. Improved data sync for cross-chain transaction ;
2. Completed the cross-chain transaction list API;