Cyber Republic Weekly Update 20
There are several developments for Cyber Republic and Elastos this week: The 12 CRC DPoS nodes are up and running and merged mining is officially open to the public with three of the top 10 BTC mining pools already merged mining ELA this week and mining difficulty increasing six times over in that short period (at the time of this writing). Crypto Insider conducted an engaging interview with Rong Chen about Elastos and the CR . The CR website has a sleek new look. Useful functions have been incorporated in the Suggestion process on the CR website such as autotranslation features has added Elastos to its Trello development page. Kiran Pachhai (KP) has come out with another Spotlight Series article, this time on DPoS Consensus and Block Finality. Kiran has also posted a video on the new Private net on YouTube. There is a new proposal that has been approved to develop a browser plug-in for Elastos wallet. And that’s not all. In this Weekly we have an article on a new Elastos Foundation team called, “The Developer Experience Team”, a unique reward system called the “Sword Method” proposed by Supernode Candidate Enter Elastos, a Suggestions Highlight for a project called “Arkane”, several more Supernode candidates, an interview with an exciting team called “AllianceBlock”, and updates from our family in the Philippines. Phew! Without further ado, let’s get into it.
There are several developments for Cyber Republic and Elastos this week: The 12 CRC DPoS nodes are up and running and merged mining is officially open to the public with three of the top 10 BTC mining pools already merged mining ELA this week and mining difficulty increasing six times over in that short period (at the time of this writing). Crypto Insider conducted an engaging interview with Rong Chen about Elastos and the CR . The CR website has a sleek new look. Useful functions have been incorporated in the Suggestion process on the CR website such as autotranslation features has added Elastos to its Trello development page. Kiran Pachhai (KP) has come out with another Spotlight Series article, this time on DPoS Consensus and Block Finality. Kiran has also posted a video on the new Private net on YouTube. There is a new proposal that has been approved to develop a browser plug-in for Elastos wallet. And that’s not all. In this Weekly we have an article on a new Elastos Foundation team called, “The Developer Experience Team”, a unique reward system called the “Sword Method” proposed by Supernode Candidate Enter Elastos, a Suggestions Highlight for a project called “Arkane”, several more Supernode candidates, an interview with an exciting team called “AllianceBlock”, and updates from our family in the Philippines. Phew! Without further ado, let’s get into it.
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CYBER REPUBLIC <strong>Weekly</strong> <strong>Update</strong>/Issue 19<br />
SUGGESTION HIGHLIGHT: Q&A with<br />
“Arkane”<br />
By Kenneth K<br />
We had a chance to sit down with Arkane, a new suggestion on the CR. As it is an “outside”<br />
project looking to integrate Elastos along with several other blockchain projects, we decided to<br />
ask some challenging questions about how Arkane supports the <strong>Cyber</strong> <strong>Republic</strong> and Elastos<br />
ecosystem, and who benefits most from the potential funding of Arkane.<br />
1. First off, could you introduce yourself and your project?<br />
I’m Tim Dierckxsens, co-founder of Arkane Network. We met Kevin Zheng and Rong Chen last<br />
year at their hotel in Ghent, and we found that there were a lot of areas where we could work<br />
together and move Blockchain forward.<br />
This is our way to lower the barrier of entry for businesses to leverage Elastos. The problem we<br />
see with blockchain is the same issue with the Internet in the 1990s. Because it’s abstract and<br />
difficult to understand, it takes a long time before it gains adoption. More services are needed<br />
to make blockchain useful and sensible for business to adopt the technology.Arkane tackles the<br />
complexity of implementing/integrating blockchain into businesses and simplifies the<br />
onboarding for their users.<br />
2. What is the project and, out of the gate, what would you like to clarify about the project?<br />
Many people think we are a wallet company, but this is not completely true. We offer wallets as<br />
a service to connect existing systems with blockchain technology. By using Arkane, a current<br />
business would not need to learn how to code blockchain, but can use the Arkane<br />
Documentation and API to develop a blockchain-based solution quite similarly to how they’d<br />
develop a traditional application today.<br />
3. What problem does this solve that something like nano ledger doesn't already solve? If the<br />
only purpose of Arkane is to make it easy to develop wallets for different blockchains, ledger<br />
is already doing this and it's a hardware wallet at that, which is totally secure.<br />
The problem isn’t creating hardware wallets for users to store their cryptocurrencies. Let’s take<br />
a game studio as an example. A game developer wants to develop a blockchain-based game<br />
where he can allow his users to play, earn rewards, and be the owner of their digital assets.<br />
Currently, games that use blockchain assume that the user has a wallet and a browser plugin to<br />
interact with the game already installed. This is not a user friendly solution to onboard new<br />
people who are not yet into crypto. Arkane is making the customer journey a pleasant<br />
experience and allows the business to focus on building the game for their gamers while we<br />
take on the complexity of communicating with the blockchain. By using Arkane, the blockchain<br />
becomes completely transparent for users.<br />
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