Qtum Community & Development Updates — Week of November 6th to 13th

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6 min readNov 13, 2017

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Qtum Tokyo Meetup, November 10th at the Signature Roppongi Academy Hills.

The Qtum team was thrilled to see such a large turnout in Tokyo. We streamed the event live on Facebook, click here for the video:

Pictures of the Qtum Tokyo Meetup

Our event was MC’d by Jason Fang, a Qtum angel backer, who previously worked as a partner at Fenbushi Capital.

Patrick kicked off the event, discussing the development plans for Qtum. He presented plans to build an x86 virtual machine, which should increase the efficiency of our smart contract abilities. The release date is set for 2018, and will allow mainstream developers not accustomed to Solidity to deploy smart contracts. It should also help the testing and security screening process, as there will be more people capable of analyzing the code. In turn, we should see even more Decentralized Applications attracted to our blockchain.

Qtum CEO, Patrick Dai, presenting Qtum in Tokyo

The crowd then heard more about our future development plans from Qtum core developer, Wenbin Zhong, who went over some of the finer details.

Qtum core develop, Wenbin Zhong, explaining the Decentralized Governance Protocol

The crowd heard from our MC, Jason Fang, about some economic strengths of the Qtum project. He stated: “I have always been neutral toward investing in blockchain projects. But personally, I am very optimistic about Qtum for its fair incentive mechanism and healthy ecosystem”

Jason Fang, Qtum Angel Backer and MC of the meetup

There were four guests that accompanied us at the meetup, all of whom are founders of their respective Decentralized Applications. The crowd heard from: Ink, Bodhi, Medibloc, and CFun.

Bodhi, CFun, Ink, and Medibloc present the crowd in Tokyo

Update Qtum Development Roadmap

Qtum’s Updated Roadmap

Qtum Delivers

This roadmap was released on November 11th, and goes over the development plans for the Qtum project. The schedule internally is aggressive. Because we have so many developers, we have a lot of projects being developed at the same time.

It’s difficult for us to promise exact dates, so what we have done is list what we can expect to release before 2018.

For the larger items, like the x86 virtual machine, Lightning Networks (and atomic swaps), Qtum Enterprise Alliance, and Spacechain satellite launch, you can expect these to happen in 2018. The SDK Toolkit is being worked on currently, and it’s not confirmed whether this will happen this year or next.

Please note that Qloha was replaced with the Soma wallet. With the new terms and services announced by Tencent on September 7th, and the opportunities to expand the scope of Qloha, we decided to change platforms to Soma from Wechat.

We have already released the Android and Apple wallets. The Electrum wallet is in pre-beta, and available now on our Github.

The Qbao wallet is available on the Google store:

As an example of developer resources, we recently released a tutorial for developing a Decentralized Application on Qtum.:

We have submitted our code to Ledger for addition to their wallet hardware service. They are extremely busy, and this is now out of our control. We believe it could happen in 2018, so we will provide updates on this as we receive further information.

Qtum DAPP updates

Medibloc

The Medibloc pre-sale just launched, they accept Qtum only, and you will receive a discount during this round. Please visit their website:

Vevue

Vevue’s crowdsale is ongoing, starting at Qtum block 35,000, for more information about this project, please see their blog:

Bodhi Crowdsale and Airdrop

Bodhi’s crowdsale will commence on November 20th. There will also be an airdrop of BOT tokens to Qtum token holders. For more information, please see their blog post here:

Qbao

Qbao was invited to the official Bitthai.net launch event. Also in attendance was Natalie Shun from the Qtum project. Please see their blog posting here:

Nathan Sun from Qbao Presenting
Natalie from Qtum Presenting

Ink

Ink’s presale just concluded, with 800,000 Qtum raised. Their official crowdsale started on November 11th. For more information, please see their blog posting:

New Exchanges

Qtum was recently listed on a few exchanges:

JB395’s Qtum Main Network Results:

This is an incredible amount of research done by community member JB395, and goes into intense detail about the Qtum Ignition network.

Thank You!

If you would like to speak with the Qtum team directly, please visit one of our official community channels:

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