Last week the Qtum Foundation announced a partnership with Baofeng, China’s answer to Netflix. Baofeng’s Bokocloud division will help the company deploy up to 50,000 nodes. Adding these nodes to the system will help stabilize the Qtum blockchain, thus making the network more reliable. This strategic cooperation will make Baofeng Bokocloud the world’s first BCN (blockchain consensus network) service.
In other news, the Foundation also partnered 360 Finance, a division of Qihoo 360, to establish China’s first blockchain research center. The foundation hopes that through this effort, blockchain technology can be commercialized and be deployed into several of Qihoo 360’s many products.
The joint partnership between the Qtum Foundation, 360 Finance and the BTN Foundation will see us collaborating on the development of decentralized ledger technologies, the next generation of smart-contracts virtual machines, smart contracts security and formal verification, new consensus models, blockchain software security, blockchain and internet security, decentralized storage and computing technology.
Development Updates
Core Releases:
Mainnet v0.14.13: Mandatory update to fix a bug with callcontract, and add some other minor features
Qtum Electrum v0.17.5: Fix a security issue in the RPC interface (introduced by upstream code)
Work Completed:
[Core/RPC] Fixed a bug with callcontract that could cause a node to fail to synchronize the blockchain
[Electrum] Fixed the security issue in the RPC interface introduced by upstream code
[APIs/QtumJS] Implement EventEmitter interface for contract logs
[APIs/Solar] Add error checking to Solar to gracefully fail when solc is not installed
[Core/Tests] Add more unit tests to core wallet
[Core/Tests] Ran several manual tests along the path that callcontract uses to search for any further bugs that could cause a node to fail to synchronize
Work In-Progress:
[Core/GUI] Working on a complete revamp of the theme and layout for the Qtum Core wallet
[Core] Working on upgrading the wallet source code to include improvements in Bitcoin Core 0.15
[Documentation] Working on crowdsale tutorial for Qtum
[Misc] Redesigning official Qtum logo and icons for use in all products
[Documentation] Working on a complete book covering developing with Qtum
[x86/opcodes] Completing more i386 level opcodes in the x86 VM
[Mobile] Implementing passphrase confirmation screen
[Mobile] Making more transaction details viewable in the mobile wallets
[Mobile] Working on Android Wear prototype wallet
[x86/database] Designing x86 database, including consensus-critical verification methods
