3rd Cycle / Start of 4th + New Updates

10 Aug 2020

This week marks the 33rd week, or the drawing of a close on our last 10 week development cycle. With that comes new priorities, and focuses and our public forward guidance on what we expect the next 10 week cycle.

  • Staking Protocol
    • RelaySwap
      • Relay Swap acts as a “harness” onto uniswap, where we divide liquidity amongst two different pools. A pool, by using bots, trades the liquidity it has available to it.
      • Liquidity Pools are alot like liquidity mining, except for:
        • Adversarial Reporting
      • Adversarial or Proof of Violation
        • This is how “honest reporting”, i.e. trading the benchmark price or the main price feed, can be transmitted decentralized without using a direct price feed connection.
        • Trading bots, similiar to Snthetix or MakerDAO trading, that is to say add and remove liquidity to affect change on Uniswap to be more reflective of the chosen bnechmark rate.
        • This provides for various benefits:
          1. Volume increases
          1. Liquidity increases
          1. Price is more reflective of the off-chain markets (ceteris paribus, ergo cheaper)
          1. Staking rewards can be completely self-managing (i.e. this is like earning transaction fees)
          1. You wouldn’t have as much at risk versus doing it yourself
          1. We can use this price feed system to bring new contracts such as freight container pricing possibly on-chain, without the need for oracles, as the prices for these instruments do not change sub milisecond (e.g. S&P E-MINIS)
  • X12EDIProtocol
    • A Reference Implementation integrating the 4010 transaction standard has been made public, see it here: github/freight-trust/x12
    • A commerical license, for which we have applied for back in April, should be granted by early September
    • X12.org was hacked for a ransomware attack and their website is just now working again
  • Baseline Demo
    • A Baseline Demo is forthcoming with this new dev-kit for X12
    • Expect Demo hopefully no later than labor day weekend (we would like end of August but we do not make the shcedule!)
  • GitHub Weekly Digest and Newsletters
    • We will be bringing online a newsletter again, but through a different domain, freighttrust.io - this is strictly because we can not risk the .com domain e-mail going to spam, plus we have had issues with Mailchimp and crypt-related content in the past.
  • Bilaxy and CMC - We have gotten a response for CMC, we are fixing an API along with fixing the telegram bot for supply, expect mid-next Week for listing.