Good evening everyone 👋

It’s been another busy week, hence this update landing a little later than usual.

The team kicked off two exciting partnerships this week, both blockchain and both mutually beneficial. Details will be shared in due course.

I have Adam with me to provide you with a development update.

Adam:

Evening all!

Another late update, and this week we have another release for you.

We have just released Index v1.7.3 and Explorer v1.6.4. This introduces a wallets index for the first time, allowing the browsing of active wallets in the XE Blockchain. The heavy lifting for this is in Index, which monitors blocks and queries the blockchain for balances. The hooks have also been put in place to allow us to add a balance field to transactions in the explorer in future.

Take a look: https://xe.network/wallets

This week saw Bridge v2.2.0 released, which implemented Ethereum EIP-1559 transactions. So far we’ve seen a big improvement in transaction processing speed.

The new Edge CLI has been in the works this week, with the first CLI transaction being sent on the testnet earlier today. The new version of the command line interface tool will allow full wallet management, along with onboarding and stake management, later this year.

While we’re talking about testnet, just a reminder that we’ll be making testnet public later this year. You’ll be able to create a wallet, get some XE from a faucet, and even onboard testnet devices, if you wish to. Super exciting.

The design for the mobile wallet app is looking great, and has started to be implemented into the beta. We’ll have a preview of the design for you next week, and let me tell you, it’s looking amazing.

This week we released one of our open source libraries, @edge/log. Logging, along with monitoring and alerting, are key to both development and operations, and this library, though small, is essential to achieving that. If you’re interested in learning more about how it works, take as look at the repository: