WAVES Weekly No. 17

Development Update

We  are fully prepared technically for full nodes launch in the coming  days, and are discussing the release with our partners, so that they are  also ready. The last few days have been a busy time, with different  conferences and a hackathon. Although we are aware that our community is  keen to see full nodes launched, we took the decision to delay it from  the weekend in order to give the process our full attention – since this  is something that should only be done once! Like you, we look forward  to using a fully decentralised, stable and secure network in the coming  days. Updates will be posted on Slack to begin with.

Conferences and Events

Digital  October, where Waves has its new offices, is providing plenty of  opportunities and there have been several major events for Waves this  week. 8 November was the Blockchain School, at which Sasha delivered the  Crowdfunding on the Blockchain seminar. Two days later was the Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Russia, where he gave the seminar Blockchain tokens in business and finance. You can see Sasha in discussion in this (Russian language) video,  taken whilst recording material for a radio interview, in which he  talks about the use cases for blockchain at the current time. 

The other event is hackathon http://hack4people.ru/ that took place at Digital October over the weekend, November 11-13. Waves team presented decentralized 2FA prototype during the hackathon, the source code is available already on GitHub.

CATs

You may have noticed a series of articles and posts about CATs.  These are Custom Application Tokens, Waves’ name for appcoins. Based on  observation and experience, we believe that these simple tokens are a  major use case for blockchain, and very likely the first frontier for  mainstream crypto adoption. Waves will be working hard to make it easy  for anyone to create, transfer and trade their own CATs, which have  applications from fiat gateways and loyalty to crowdfunding, music  downloads and digital sales.

Waves Weekly Crypto Roundup

We have another edition of our WWCR film, with Grace Watson. Guests this week include Steven Grove (@sigwo), founder of the Darcrus project, and Sergey Sergienko from the ChronoBank initiative – both of which will be launching tokens on the Waves network.

Press and Articles

We’re Entering an Age of Cat Money

Why CATs are the Immediate Future of Crypto Adoption

App Tokens Revolution. CATs are Coming!

Withdraw your WAVES from Bittrex

Enhancing Scalability with Improved Authenticated Dynamic Dictionaries