Bytom Weekly News(Nov 23th,2018)

Dear Bytom supporters, here’s the fresh Bytom weekly report, this week (Nov19-Nov23th) we had many progresses on Project Development 、Technical Community 、 and Dev Competition：

Projetc Development

1. 2018 Bytom Global DevCon was Successfully Held, the US Team(BytomSwap) Won the First Prize of 200,000 BTM. Automatically Agriculture Insurance and Bluechain won the second prize.HOS platform for house lease，vehicle data trading system and BlockPower（Blockchain Contract）shared the third prize. We also awarded special prizes to btmscan.com，Chrome wallet and another author of Bytom-related technology.

1. Junction 2018 Digital Nation Hackathon officially open in Helsinki, Finland, on Friday, November 23. The hackathon blockchain competition area was launched by Bytom, digital Renaissance Foundation,8BTC, NEO Foundation and PCHAIN Foundation.Junction is the largest hackathon in Europe and more than 600 world top colleges including Harvard University, Cambridge University, MIT has been in the event! “ Distributed Identity Registration System” will be the theme of the event which Bytom provides.
2. Nov 24th, Bytom Chief Architect Zhu Yiqi will share the theme of “Distributed Storage” in Tsinghua University. Decentralized Storage will integrate the best function of Blockchain technology to meet the real requirement for plenty of data and distribute data to multiple network nodes just like the distributed ledger of Blockchain.
3. November 26, Bytom will host a hackathon in Canada. Contestants will develop a new type of personal finance philosophy based on Bytom. The user’s spending should not be an additional charge, we will be at the event to show developers how to develop applications on Bytom, at the same time, Bytom team will also be remote for the competitors to provide technical support to give the contestants on the development of guidance.

Technical Community

Bytom Wallet V1.0.7

• Supported bip44 multi-account hierarchy for deterministic wallets.
• The Equity contract arguments supported string, integer and boolean as input types.
• Added node network performance monitor for list-peers API.
• Wallet supports recovery from the mnemonic.
• Added web socket push notification mechanism for new blocks and new transactions.
• API get-block added asset definition for transaction’s issue action.
• Node support using SOCKS5 connect to Bytom network through a proxy server
• Modified equity compiler to support define/assign/if-else statement, and added the equity compiler tool.
• Fixed wrong balance display after deleting the account.
• Added update account alias API.
• Supported Mac using brew to install Bytom.