Pocket Network News - July 2019
Updates, News and Sneak Peeks
Developer Updates
The Pocket Core MVP 1.7 release is out! Here are some of the additions.
1. Modifications to the chains.json files for smoother experience.
2. Addition of a changelog.
3. DAppNode package is live! Their team is doing great things for the sustainable decentralization movement. You can learn more about DAppNode here.
Big thanks to Ethereum unicorn and Giveth founder Griff Green for making the connection!
Side Note: If you haven’t checked out Giveth’s latest endeavor in collaboration with Blockscience, The Commons Stack, it’s worth the time.
4. Aion AVM Integration is live for Android developers!
5. REST API support added to Pocket Swift and Pocket JS SDK’s with Android on the way.
6. Walkthrough videos for “Connecting to Ethereum” and “Connecting to Aion” added to the developer portal.
7. Example DApp “Pocket Chat” added for Ethereum and Aion for you to follow along with the videos.
Economics & Governance Updates
1. (Sneak Peek) In working with Aragon on the Pocket DAO charter and implementation plan, the Aragon Team and partners have decided to develop two custom apps to add to their Governance Suite.
One for Approvals and one for Fees, called “Tollgate”.
More context will be given with the release of the latest charter, but we see this as the highest compliment possible to earn as an organization striving towards more DGov models. Big thanks to Jack Laing, founder of OrgTech Review, for leading this effort.
2. The Economic models for Pocket’s Relay Network are nearing finalization, and we are excited to start to share more content on the subject as we move towards Main net and our goal of sustainable decentralization.
News
Unlike June, where the team was almost exclusively heads down, this month we have a lot to share, along with quite a few sneak peeks, in the “behind the scenes” section.
We are very excited to promote these more once they become final.
1. Pocket Network was approved by the Tezos Foundation to be included in the very first cohort of their Ecosystem Grant Program. Pocket was 1 of 4 projects selected!
Here is a blog post outlining how Pocket will contribute to the Tezos ecosystem.
2. Pocket and Figment Network have partnered to submit a proposal to become a P-Rep(Validator Node) in the ICON network, and even got a shout out from the founder of ICON himself.
Here is a blog post outlining our plans to contribute to the ICON ecosystem.
3. Pocket is now covering the space of decentralized infrastructure solutions through community-centric content we call “DIS”. Here are two recent DIS posts.
A Place for Cloud-Agnostic Solutions with Brendan Lee from Nodesmith.
Future Proofing Node infrastructure with Dmitry Shklovsky from Quiknode.
If you have an idea for content centered around decentralized infrastructure solutions(DIS), and would like to collaborate with us, feel free to email DIS@pokt.network.
Behind the Scenes
1. Pocket Main Net development is coming along nicely and more news on this will be announced soon.
2. (Sneak Peek) The pull request has been submitted and under review for an integration with Metamask, The most popular web3 browser in the world!
3. (Sneak Peek) The pull request has been submitted and under review for an integration with Nifty Wallet, the wallet developed by the POA network team. Pocket is aiming to support POA and xDAI as soon as possible!
4. (Sneak Peek) Pocket Network will be integrating with MyEtherWallet! Another one of the most popular wallets in the world. Pocket will first create integrations for ETH, ETC, and POA. Our goal is to support as many chains as possible and this is just the start. i.e our tagline “Connect any App, to any Blockchain, on any Device”.
5. (Sneak Peek) The pull request has been submitted and under review for an integration with Pokketo wallet. Another amazing xDAI wallet who was also the first to be awarded a grant from the ZK fund by POA Network.
6. (Sneak Peek) Pocket is partnering with Lighstreams Network to ensure full node decentralization and seamless connectivity for their apps. They already have launched their Main net and are ready to ramp things up.
We are very excited about this promising chain, developed by an extremely competent team and with very well thought out value propositions and equally interesting “radical governance“ mechanisms.
Big thanks to Scott from Portis for making the connection!
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