If this is your first time visiting our monthly updates, welcome! For some general background on Witnet and our technology, please read this 3 minute primer, take a look at our whitepaper, or check out our project’s “must-reads” digest.

Every month we update you on our work towards the milestones set in our project roadmap. We are getting very close to the launch of our testnet in Q1 2019 and we have a lot to share in terms of technical progress, growth of the team and more.

🔧 Product

Witnet-rust

Over the past month we have completed two sprints focusing on Peer Discovery, Gossiping and Inventory Management. Our list of accomplishments has gotten longer as we increase our velocity, so we decided this past month to share snackable Tweetstorms for each sprint, summarizing what we completed.

Please let us know what you think of this format! Is it useful? Could we change it to be better or more informative?

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Open Source Contributors:

Are you interested in contributing to the development of Witnet-rust? We would be thrilled to have you! Visit our new contributing guide and development guide for more info!

We are also extremely interested and receptive to anyone curious about building a separate implementation of the Witnet-rust. Have a favorite language you’d like to try to build Witnet with? Let us know and we’ll be happy to support you!

💜 Team

This past month we introduced you to Luis, our new Backend Engineer. Luis has experience as an engineer working in fields such as automation and robotics. We’re super excited to have him in the team.

The Witnet Foundation still has open positions, so if you are aware of the impact a decentralized oracle network will have on the crypto landscape and want to get involved, be sure to check them out!

🎨 Content

We have previously talked about why oracles are essential for feeding real world data into smart contracts. This month, we have explored why it is essential that this oracles are trustless.

Why Smart Contracts Shouldn’t Trust the Messenger

Blockchains are deterministic by design, which means delivering data into smart contracts is the reason why smart…medium.com

The post is now also part of our Witnet Must-Reads Digest, where you can find a compilation of all our posts in order to fully understand our Decentralized Oracle Network.

That’s a quick update on what we’ve been working on over the last few weeks! Please let us know what you think of the recent developments by sharing your thoughts with the team in our Discord chat or on Reddit.

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