Welcome to the second Triton Tuesday!
It has been two weeks since we officially launched the main net and we are already past block 6000 in the chain! We’ve had nearly 15,000 transactions take place on the blockchain, and our Discord community is up to 349 members! It’s been an exciting week, and we have lots of updates for this announcement.
Naming Convention
You may have seen some of the hints we’ve been dropping on Twitter about the direction we are going with our project naming convention. Triton is a moon of the planet Neptune. Actually, it is the largest of many and also one of only four moons in the solar system known to have an atmosphere. We fell in love with this theme for Triton, and will be using other Neptune-related names for some of the projects we will be working on within Triton.
Project Neptune
What better way to break in the new naming convention? Project Neptune is now the name for the streaming donation platform currently in development. Krakn is working on it daily and making a ton of progress. The front-end dashboard is already functional, while the back-end is still a work in progress. This will be our first major project release, which we are projecting to drop in Q2 2018.
New Difficulty Algorithm
Krakn has been testing implementation of a better difficulty algorithm on the test net to deter spikes in difficulty from hash-rental attacks. We are planning on updating the wallet with the new difficulty algorithm, which everyone will have to switch over to by a certain block number. This block number will be announced soon to ensure everyone has plenty of time to switch over.
Exchanges
“When exchange?” is one of the most common questions we get. Everyone wants Triton to be on an exchange, and we do too! However, we want to to be closer to releasing Project Neptune before we get on an exchange, so that there is a product to our name. We will be on an exchange in Q2 2018!
ASICs
News recently came out about an ASIC miner configured to efficiently mine CryptoNote protocol cryptocurrencies, which were previous resistant to ASIC miners. The Triton Team does not want ASICs to destroy Triton’s small miner community, which seems to be a sentiment many CryptoNote teams share. We are looking into all of our options to make sure Triton can not be mined with ASICs.
Triton Faucet
A Triton Faucet was launched! You can get FREE daily Triton payouts! http://tritonfaucet.com/
Woo-Commerce Plugin
Krakn edited the woo-commerce plugin for Triton use. This will be released after we are on an exchange.
Website Revamp
Jastar13 has worked super hard and is still currently working on the revamp of the website (https://tritonproject.org/). Keep it up Jastar13!
Whitepaper Draft
Brad has been working on a first draft of the white paper and should be released in Q2 2018.
Bounties
We completed multiple community bounties and even have one currently ongoing on Twitter. Are you a graphic artist, or even just a good meme creator? Go here for more information: https://twitter.com/triton_io
The team has talked about MANY more features, but we can’t reveal them before we decide on which direction we want to go. Plus, we have to have something for next week, right?
Thank you so much to the entire Triton community. You are the reason for Triton’s success.