We like to keep our updates meaningful. Please be patient if we don’t report frequently in our blog as we prefer to focus on production and supply information as we reach tangible milestones (please refer to out Vlogs for more frequent insights). We’ve been working hard on many ends, some of are just not spectacular and include dragging administrative steps for legal and operational structures, setting up our German Nerd Temple, transitioning team members from former employment proceedings, hiring new research and task specific talent, etc.
Nimiq is a Browser-based Blockchain and peer-to-peer network where Browsers are first-class citizens. As detailed in our Technical Overview, Nimiq Network works using underlying Backbone Nodes which act as entry point and signaling server for Browser Nodes to establish browser-to-browser WebRTC connections.
In a nutshell, Nimiq introduces two client types:
A quick look at the client types used by Nimiq Network give us a glimpse of complexity to come regarding data abstraction. As simplicity preachers we decompose a problem in smaller bits and then attack those bits, making the answer easier to achieve.
Nimiq Network works with both client types and shouldn’t have to care about the client type for most operations. Work that involves both Browser clients and Backbone clients should use an abstraction layer. Along comes JungleDB to the rescue.
JungleDB is a Wrapper around IndexedDB in browsers and levelDB in NodeJS unifying their interface. JungleDB also adds additional features to this interaction:
To learn more about JungleDB check our Vlog: Pascal’s Jungle DB
JungleDB is fully Open Source, we’ve built and shared:
As we approach our first update of the Testnet, we are combining a series of improvements, this includes JungleDB. Another main feature for the next Testnet version is a new difficulty adjustment:
In parallel two major efforts are under way. We have been working on location with San Francisco based Y Media Labs on defining the User Interface experience for Nimiq and are very excited about the progress. This week we have started with the implementation of our fresh designs. We are in line with our goal of creating an interface that is intuitive, simple and beautiful and will share sneak previews in time.
In addition we are implementing “proofs of proofs of work” to compress the blockchain to sublinear space complexity such that light clients can truly sync in seconds without any trust checkpoints. We are excited to hardfork our Testnet to the enhanced “Lightchain Protocol” as soon as possible.
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