Nervos Bi-weekly Report #13： Nervos & Huobi: The New Era of Public Blockchain

Sherry · July 4, 2019, 2:09pm

Hi everyone,

On June 29, the mining competition came to the end with great success. Who has won the huge prizes? Please check here.

We are excited to announce a breaking news that Nervos and Huobi will build the financial public blockchain together. We had looked forward to this collaboration for a while. Let us expect what it will bring to us!

If you would like to know more recent developments about Nervos, please check further details below

Development

New RFC: RFC #0020, the consensus protocol.
CKB v0.15.03 has released.
CKB VM
- #67 Replace custom power_of_2 function with std
- #68 Replace uses of rounddown / roundup with round_page_down / round_page_up

For more technical development details: Nervos CKB Development Update.

Community

The Mining Competition Area
- At the end of June, the mining competition round one has ended. Here is the results of the competition.
Consensus Theme Area
- The July’s theme of Crypto Wednesday is Consensus (In Chinese). We will discuss various techniques and consensus protocols with blockchain fans.
- In June, Ren Zhang (researcher at Nervos) proposed CKB Consensus Protocol (NC-MAX). Thereupon, our community member posted two articles related NC-MAX in Nervos Talk: “Satoshi Nakamoto Consensus 1 (In Chinese)” and “Satoshi Nakamoto Consensus 2 (In Chinese)”.
Community Article Recommendations
- Peter: Cell Mechanism of CKB in Simple Explanation (In Chinese)
- Cipher: Advantages of Application in Nervos CKB (In Chinese)
- Xian Zhi: Discuss Nervos from the perspective of Layer 2(In Chinese)
Crypto Wednesday No. 24
- Aleksander Kuzmonovic, Co-Founder and architect of bloxRoute, proposed some solutions regarding the blockchain network expansion (In Chinese).
  
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Meetup Area
- Nervos in San Francisco
  - on Jun 27, Jane shared the topic “ Nervos Common Knowledge Base: General Purpose, Store of Value, Multi-Asset” in a blockchain session held by Wanxiang Blockchain Labs, PlatON and HashKey Group.
- Nervos in Shanghai
  - On June 21, Ryan presented why PoW is a must to Layer 1 in a blockchain session held by Hobbit, Jrr Crypto, QBao Network.
    
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  - On Jun 30, Daniel introduced Nervos and participated in an interchain technology panel in Chainge salon.
    
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- Nervos in Chengdu
  - On June 29, Duanchao Wu discussed the future of PoW smart contract Platform in the Chengdu blockchain session.
    
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- Nervos in Taiwan
  - On June 30, Henry shared the topic “ The Future of PoW Smart Contract Platform” in Staking Or Mining.
    
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Nervos Fans

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Twitter：2304

Random interesting stuff

On June 19, Reng Zhang (Researcher at Nervos) proposed consensus protocol (NC-MAX). We are currently looking for volunteer translators to translate it into various kinds of language versions. We also prepare the rewards (In Chinese)!
We are actively looking for Nervos core community contributors. If you are interested in, please fill out the Nervos Core Community Contributor Application Form to let us know more about yourself and what support you require from the Nervos team.

Upcoming events

On July 6 (Taiwan), Nervos Taipei Meetup, Nervos Henry and Williams will introduce Nervos layer 1 and teach how to mine the blocks on a personal laptop.
On July 17 (San Francisco), Rust in Blockchain Meetup, Xuejie Xiao and Brian will give a speech about Rust.
On July 17 (Hangzhou), Crypto Wednesday No. 26, QuarkChain and Nervos will discuss the consensus design of blockchain layer.

Join our community

Forum:https://talk.nervos.org
Telegram:https://t.me/nervosnetwork
Twitter:https://twitter.com/nervosnetwork
Reddit:https://www.reddit.com/r/NervosNetwork
GitHub:https://github.com/nervosnetwork

Thanks to Lilian ’s translation.