Decred's proposal system, Politeia, goes into production. Politeia allows Decred users and stakeholders to propose, discuss, collaborate on, and fund new projects, initiatives, and consensus changes.
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Decentralized exchange ("DEX") is a concept that has received increasing attention in the cryptocurrency and blockchain domain. Decred is proposing an alternative to existing decentralized exchanges.
It is finally time for the 2018 Decred roadmap to be released. 2017 has been quite an eventful year for both Decred and the entire cryptocurrency domain, with exchange rates surging and a substantial increase in interest from the conventional finance sector. Decred has continued with its approach of generating deliverables before hyping them...
The 8th February 2018 will mark two years since the Decred mainnet launched. Over the last 12 months the project has continued to make monumental progress towards developing the first truly decentralized cryptocurrency that is open, scalable, private, self-funded and autonomous.
Rather than settling for governance infrastructure that is just good enough to get the job done, we opted to create what we consider to be the ideal infrastructure for self-governance of a cryptocurrency. We call our system for storing governance data Politeia, which is based on the ancient Greek term, meaning ?a system of government?.
This development dispatch covers work completed since the Decred v1.0.7 release on August 18th, 2017.
As many of you know, yesterday marked the first cross-chain atomic swap between Decred and Litecoin. This is an important step in a direction that allows users to conduct trustless, cross-chain, over-the-counter (?OTC?) trades without a third party.
Over the past several months, we have seen Decred contractors grow from a group of 10 to a group of over 25 individuals.
As part of our ongoing effort to ?decentralize all the things?, we have developed secure communications software that we are open sourcing today, called zkc.
Over the next few releases, Decred will enable Proof-of-Stake (?PoS?) miners to vote on proposed consensus changes. This voting will allow Decred users to exercise sovereignty over whether or not to accept hard fork changes, in addition to making other important decisions.