QuarkChain Weekly Project Progress Report：May 14th-May 20th

Welcome to the fourth QuarkChain weekly report (published May 22, 2018). To keep the community updated, we summarize our latest progress and activities of the QuarkChain project here.

 I.   Marketing and Community

1）Telegram and Twitter

At the time of this article released, QuarkChain has reached out over 15,000 followers on Twitter, and over 86,000 QuarkChain enthusiasts have joined our English Telegram community.  So far, we have already maintained Chinese, Korean, Russian, France, Indian based Telegram communities that has nearly 100,000 QuarkChain supporters in total.

by：@zyzzie

2）Weekly Q&A

This weekend, we held our fourth weekly Q&A session in our Chinese-English Telegram channels and WeChat group. This weekly Q&A session held one hour ahead of the scheduled time due to the time conflict with a scheduled meeting with the fans. Community members and the team members had pleasant interactions. 

Here is the highlight Q&A we presented:   

QuarkChain Fan: Why does QuarkChain team has the ability and be capable of working on Sharding Developing?

QuarkChain: I want to point out a common misunderstanding here. First, Sharding is not a new technology. Google and Facebook have used sharding in building decentralized networks/systems for a decent amount of years. Also, Sharding is just a general name for the type of database partitioning based on this concept; there are thousands of different technological approaches based on Sharding concept out there. Google and Facebook all have its way to participated Sharding, and it’s hard to judge which one is the best. One thing we can confirm is that all companies interested in Sharding are doing their best to work on this through the different lens and it is unclear for us to say which one would be our most ideal approach at this stage till we reach our set-up goals. And no doubt that our team is working on this with full speed. Speaking of Google and Facebook are the pioneers of Sharding, our team’s core developing engineers all have Google/Facebook working background, and their previous working experience was emphasizing on utilizing Sharding for handling database scalability to develop distributed systems. There might be some worries that our engineers are lack of expertise on some aspects of blockchain. However, they are definitely the experts in Sharding and Scalability, and if we said we are the rookies on this, no one would claim they have more experience than us on developing the distributed system. Thus, we do have confidence that we are capable for working on this job.

3）Meetings with the fans  

EST May 14th -17th: QuarkChain Team joined CONSENSUS 2018 at NYC with the leading industry startups, investors, financial institutions, enterprise tech leaders to discuss and share leading technologies, edge concepts, innovation projects, etc. QuarkChain had exchanged information and ideas about BlockChain’s future technology developments and innovations with multiple POs (Pchain, Aion, Bodhi, etc.) and individual (Charlie Lee, founder of LTC). It is a pleasure to join with pioneers of BlockChain at this event, and QuarkChain team wants to utilize CONSENSUS 2018 to pass the enthusiasm and edge innovations from us to global BlockChain enthusiasts and contribute our shares to implement flourish of BlockChain.

UTC/GMT May 16th: QuarkChain CBO Ting Du had been invited to London Tech Week，Du made his inspiring statement upon “BlockChain’s future implementations and tips for future startup entrepreneurs” and gained great feedbacks from audiences during the event. 

ETC May 16th-17th: QuarkChain teamed up with Eden Chain, Iotex, ITC, Loopring to hold up two community members meetings at NYC. QuarkChain CMO Anthurine presented our industry-leading innovation concept to the public. QuarkChain is a high-security level decentralized low-level BlockChain solution with high-throughput and extensible capabilities. Within its unique system design concept and leading technical innovations, QuarkChain can quickly reach out to VISA level TPS capability. And this marked the first time that we attracted a significant amount of POs to hold our fans are meeting in NYC.

PTC May 19th: QuarkChain team made a success offline event at Google upon topic “Approaching scalability through different lens” with Celer Network and Primas together. 

PTC May 20th: QuarkChain has been invited by ACE (Association of Chinese Entrepreneurs) at Stanford University. QuarkChain founder, and CEO, Qi Zhou had given a marvelous presentation with an eye-catching test-network demo and gained the second round of QuarkChain-Rush among Stanford based QuarkChain enthusiasts. 

4）Media Report

Well-known technology blogger “Silicon-Valley Detective” used QuarkChain as an example, discussed the importance of scalabilityLink: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/9ESt7sPk9ezEVAX2y_xGeA

Top-ranked Chinese Technology Media 36Kr’s BlockChain media co-publisher “Planet Daily Daily” highlighted QuarkChain.Link: https://36kr.com/p/5133724.html

Famous Chinese individual technology journalist “ChenCaiGen” published an article to explain the edge technologies utilized by QuarkChain and its industry-leading advantages to its competitors Link: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/NvdltaGuq9xpOaONfH_gsQ

Wechat media account “BiBi News” had an interview with QuarkChain founder/CEO Qi Zhou.Link: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/OXhEDJtBUC7zk_bMDmQehw

 II.   Development Progress 

 In the past week, the team worked on the wallet and explorer mostly. A list of JSON RPCs is added to support the frontend including getting balance, create a transaction, send signed transaction, lookup block, transaction, address, etc. The one hundred selected volunteers will be the first users of the wallet and explorer at the end of this month.

We also conducted load test with multiple clusters through which a few subtle bugs are causing data inconsistency are identified and fixed. Our goal is to provide a stable cluster network for the volunteers to play with.

Thanks for reading the fourth QuarkChain project weekly report. QuarkChain Team appreciates the community’s continuous support and will keep you posted.