MARKETING AND BUSINESS UPDATES

Weekly updates are back!

Weekly updates went on hiatus over the Christmas holidays and returned for the week of January 7 to 11 only to disappear again. This was merely a function of the team focusing entirely on the 5.3.0 and subsequent 5.3.1 releases. Now that those are out, you can expect to see project updates every week from Lux once again. You will also see, from reading what may be our most robust update ever below, that the lack of updates does not reflect a lack of progress and development in Luxcore.

Luxcore v5.3.1 released

Hot on the heels of the mandatory v5.3.0 release, Luxcore has released a maintenance wallet version to address some bugs and UI issues. Although not a mandatory update, v5.3.1 is highly recommended. Get it today! See the Development Updates below to find out what has been improved in v5.3.1.

Lux now trading on CoinExchange.io

In the wake of Cryptopia's (hopefully temporary) disappearance form the market, Luxcore has sought out additional exchange listing opportunities. One such opportunity we managed to find was on CoinExchange.io, where they have listed both LUX-BTC and LUX-ETH pairs.

LUX now trading with both BTC and ETH on CoinExchange.io

More on Cryptotopia and Lux trading alternatives

The LUX Seeker penned a very helpful Medium story discussing what we know so far about the Cryptopia hack and CoinBene as a good alternative. We note that in addition to the exchanges mentioned in The LUX Seeker's article, Lux is also currently being traded on CryptoBridge and TradeOgre, albeit with lower 24h volumes. Read The LUX Seeker's article here.

Lux featured in part 4 of BlockchainSEO's 'Ultimate Guide to Small Market Cap Cryptocurrencies'

In part four of its series on small market cap altcoins, Southeast Asia blockchain and legal SEO consulting firm @BlockChainSEO featured Luxcore, touting its enterprise-ready architecture & cherry-picked solutions, security & privacy, and highly scalable ecosystem. Click here to read more.

BlockchainSEO also profiles Lux web wallet

In addition to the altcoin roundup, BlockchainSEO interviewed Luxcore developer Sebastian Berger (Cheaterflums | Sebi on Discord) about Luxcore's web-wallet-as-a-service. The story details the web wallet's extremely high degree of decentralization, complete control for users and static staking rewards system. It also contains lots of useful links for helping people get started. It's well worth the read here.

Luxcore at TNABC 2019 in Miami

Luxcore Head of Marketing attended The North American Bitcoin Conference in Miami, January 16 to 18. There, he spread the word of Lux and connected with many industry notables from organizations such as Bitcoinist.com, the Atlanta Bitcoin Embassy, Barbados Stock Exchange and CryptoCurrencyWire. Click here to read his account of TNABC 2019.

Luxcore.io internationalization continues with Korean version

A Korean version of the Luxcore website has been released at https://www.luxcore.io/ko. This follows our German release, providing the Luxcore website in three languages now. If you are a translator and are interested in earning a bounty for website translation, please contact Arsonic via Discord.

Update on Luxcore Innovations episode on FOX Business

The Innovations TV episode featuring Luxcore was supposed to air on FOX Business on Saturday, January 26 at 5:00 pm EST. However, due to a scheduling conflict, it did not. It will be rescheduled and we will provide details once they are available.

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DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

Decentralized File Storage System on PMN network:

Finished:

• GetBestProposals API
• Handshake interaction
• "Replica" function
• Some tests for DFS
• RPCcommand to announce file via DFS
• "Send file" feature
• Make ProposalAgent thread safe
• Add DFS Ping-Pong command
• Change StorageController init order
• Fix AnnounceFileOrder RPC call
• Fix MSG_STORAGE_ORDER_ANNOUNCE
• Add propotype DFS RPC commands
• CancelOrder and DfsLocalStorage RPC call
• DfsSetFolder and DfsSetTempFolder RPC commands
• Fix filename in order entity
• Fix max gap
• Fix hashes

In progress:

• More RPC tests
• Hash info
• Save connect if connections are few
• Refactor mutex locks
• Fix crash if node can't be found
• Refactor decryption keys
• Send decryption keys in handshake message
• Change fileURI and add filename to replica keeper
• Add DecryptReplica
• Add Decrypt RPC call
• Add some RPC call help messages
• Fix replica size
• Fix close received file and decrypt replica function
• Refactor types for some properties
• Refactor MerkleFileBuilder module
• Rename MerkleFileBuilder to merkler and add tests for it
• Change ConstructMerklePath and add tests for it
• Send/receive merkle root in DfsSendFile message
• Fix StorageController init
• Fix StorageController memory allocate
• Add DFS logs to lux flag
• Refactor StorageController properties

QT wallet and Core development:

• PoS exploit issue was already fixed in 5.3.0; vector now closed and exploit fully resolved
• Release wallet version 5.3.1; this is an improvement version, not mandatory to update if current wallet is 5.3.0
• Main features/improvement in 5.3.1:

• Fix crash issue for luxd and lux-qt
• Improve luxd/lux-qt speed on heavy wallet
• Reduce CPU usage on staking
• Fix balance calculations for importprivkey
• Fix bug related to UTXO unlock code
• Pruning UX changes
• Remove the trading tab

LuxGate development:

Luxgate QT:

• Simple UI from CryptoBridge was integrated into Luxgate QT and tested using dummy data
• However, the GUI is being adjusted for better "look and feel"
• History of Orders and OrderBook are ready for testing

Luxgate core:

• The code has been integrated with the latest Luxcore blockchain code
• However, it has not tested stable yet; we are stablizing and improving it
• New/updated info related to Luxgate Core:

• Finish making it so that atomic swaps do not use ZMQ protocol in Bitcoin connector
• Use signrawtransactionwithwallet RPC call to support newer Bitcoin versions
• Fix and stabilize the refunding scenario in an atomic swap
• Log received messages in p2p exchange that cause misbehavior during atomic swap processing
• Add RPC call gettradeorder for retrieving trade order by ID
• Add RPC call getlocalorder for retrieving order from local order book by ID
• Reimplement createorder RPC call to take trade pair, order type (buy or sell), amount of base coins to trade, price in quote coin

WebWallet development:

• Re-structure internal architecture to improve the loading speed, staking mechanism
• The staking feature is working much better than before, with reduced server load
• Upgrade to Luxcore 5.3.1 system-wide
• Fix some minor bugs/errors
• Fix import/export issue

Mobile App:

• Android wallet app has been updated to Beta-0.2.5
• iOS wallet app has been updated to Beta-0.0.2