WAVES Weekly No. 5

Hello, Team!
We’d like to keep you updated on our current developments and provide a short summary of Waves community recent activity

Development Update
We started the custom token implementation, which will be tested and launched soon after the full nodes release with latest POS implementation. In parallel we’re working on selecting a proper matching engine and finishing the concept of trustless HFT-enabled exchange combining off-chain order with on-chain settlement at the same time. In view of recent hacks at major exchanges it becomes especially important to create a fast, secure and trustless asset exchange solution.

The full node release candidate is going through a successful testing and we welcome feedback from anyone who wants to help with the process of ensuring the Waves network remains secure and stable. As always it is the priority number one. Consequently, the next of major changes to the UI will be occuring in time. After the most essential functionality is ready we`ll move to LPOS and this is going to be an industry-grade system enabling launching a banking like platforms and many other concepts based on Waves.

Full Nodes on Testnet: Configuration
You can find information on how to configure your Waves node for testnet at https://github.com/wavesplatform/Waves/wiki/How-to-configure-Waves-node. If you need more information, you can ask for it on our Slack channel #testnet-maintainers. Bugs should be reported on our forum at https://wavestalk.org/technical-discussion/.

Website Update
New website https://wavesplatform.com/ was launched including new faces in the team directory. You can get there an overview of most important and incoming Waves platform features. Please report any errors.

Core Development Team
Yuri Petrov(@gagarin55) is a developer with more than 15 years of experience in the field and proficient in a number of programming languages. He has been involved in the development of bank applications and financial projects, and is known for having collaborated with Scorex project code numerous times.

Alexey Kiselev is a passionate programmer. Used to program an 8bit processors in the dawning age of computers. Graduated from the Moscow State Technical University at the end of 20th century, he worked as a software developer for different banks and payment system providers. Was a team leader and an owner of a small company, and a hobbyist long distance runner.

Sergey Ishchenko(@beregovoy68) is a Software Engineer specialized in Java with over 10 years of experience. His portfolio contains Finance and Banking projects related to Transaction Processing and Payments. His main responsibility on WAVES project is Lite Client development and Distributed Team Coordination. He is a big fan of agile methodologies which is why he implemented SCRUM into the Lite Client team.

Tobias Schwarz(@tosch) is currently finishing a Masters program in sociology at Berlin university. Experienced front-end developer, he was involved in the development of the lite wallet client for superNET, collaborating with superNET project leader JL777. Tobias was active in projects based on NXT cryptocurrency, having developed various plug-ins, and maintaining mynxt.info website.

Carlos M. Parada(@waves.eth) is a multifaceted designer who converges a variety of skills, from architectural drawing and visualization to 3D digital prototyping, website/app design under HTML/CSS/JS, UI/UX developer, etc. He has collaborated in the past with names such as Hilton Hotels Group or Kompas Gramedia. In the crypto scene he’s known for developing the front-end of the first superNET’s Lite Client versions as well as its initial branding, and now focus his time to collaborate in WAVES platform. He leads the Brand Management as well as carrying on the overall General Design.

Ivan Shcheglov after graduating from Moscow State Institute of Electronic Engineering, he moved to London in 2000 where he worked as an IT consultant for the number of leading investment banks including JP Morgan, Barclays, Deutsche Bank or Nomura focusing on the trading and market risk areas. He also holds master degrees in Business Analysis and Design from CASS in London and Mathematical Trading and Finance from CASS Business School London. His technical expertise in Java area is combined with the broad range of skills in finance and banking.

Business
We need to deliver fully working technology to promote it. Assets should be done right, approach is being verified by major cryptographer and we hope to have a scientific press describing Waves platform approach. Assets and full nodes are major milestones for the Waves platform and we need to present innovative, complete solution to the world and solid partners, who are following the progress at the same time, if we want to see Waves being used in real world applications.

You can always find the latest version of the client at https://wavesplatform.com and https://wavestalk.org.