Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - Gravity Protocol

Pages: 1 [2] 3
16
Gravity / Wallet Registration Tutorial
« on: June 24, 2018, 04:47:53 pm »
Wallet Registration Tutorial

We’re going to review the registration process for the Gravity Protocol Blockchain.
See video instruction here.
  • In order to do so, open the link on your computer.
  • Next, select the button “Create wallet”.
  • Now you’ll need to create a password for your wallet, and select the “Submit” button.
  • In the next step, the site asks us to move our mouse, in order to generate a unique brainkey.
  • Once you have that unique brainkey please save it.
  • Now, double check that you definitely saved your brainkey.
  • Then, among the words listed, find words 2, 4, 8 and 12 (in order) in our brainkey.
  • Select “Confirm”.
  • Next you will see three tick marks.
  • Select the first mark. Then, we need to confirm that we understand the fact that our wallet, as well as, private keys and tokens that are stored in our wallet, are only saved on our machine and that there are no other copies saved to the servers.
  • By selecting the second mark, we give our agreement to send anonymous data to improve the platform.
  • The third mark prompts you to make a backup copy.
  • As you can see, it’s not required to make a backup copy but it is better to do so just in case.
  • All that’s left to do is select the button “Get started”.
  • As you can see, the backup copy is downloaded immediately.
  • Now you’re able to use any of the available wallet functions.


17
Gravity / Creating an Issue on Github
« on: June 24, 2018, 04:44:35 pm »
Creating an Issue on Github

All the work with the code, along with suggestions should be presented on the Gravity testnet GitHub in the form of issues. This post will help you to create and submit an issue on Github.

You can find video instructions here.
  • In order to do that, we first need to find an account for the products where we have special offers.
  • Next, we need to select a specific repository.
  • Now, moving to the issue tab, we’ll select “New Issue”.
  • In the title of this issue we will briefly describe the idea of our proposal or the mistake we’d like to report to the team.
  • Next, In the space below, we will talk about our proposal in greater detail.
  • If you wish to do so, you may use the formatting tools provided. For example, you can make the text size larger.
  • We can also click on the “Preview” button- to see how it will be displayed.
  • When you’re finished, select “Submit new issue”.
  • If you’d like to edit the title, press “Edit” button provided.
  • And if you need to edit the text, press the “Pencil” button.
  • If you make a mistake and send your issue to the wrong repository, do not worry! You are able to close your issue at any time.
  • To do so, press the “Close Issue” button.
  • Likewise, if you accidentally close your issue, you can reopen it as well.
  • Do do that, just select the “Reopen issue” button.


18
Gravity / Electronic Document Circulation: Gravity Extended Contract
« on: June 24, 2018, 04:35:15 pm »
Electronic Document Circulation: Gravity Extended Contract

One of our most important missions for broader business adoption is to develop a full solution that includes technical, legal and financial infrastructure and enables users to create and sign legally binding documentation within the blockchain. In order to achieve this, there must be transparency as well as the ability to track down the contract at any stage from the signing of an agreement to the transaction stage. For that, we’re going to implement a full solution based on Gravity blockchain using something called Extended Gravity Solutions Contracts.

While large organizations have teams of legal professionals, small and medium-sized Enterprises lack such resources, so they require a framework that addresses all of the standard business processes that are part of standard operations as well as the ability to conduct agreements with other counterparties.

More information on the problems of legal significance, Ricardian contracts, digital signture and Extended Gravity Solutions Contracts see in the full article on Medium.


19
Gravity / Gravity Testnet Report 25.05.2018–08.06.2018
« on: June 24, 2018, 03:07:08 pm »
Introduction

Dear testnet participants and crypto enthusiasts! We are beginning to release our first report on testing and from now on, these updates will appear biweekly. First two weeks of testing have been quite eventful, and we want to share the particulars of those events with you.

Statistics for 25.05.2018–08.06.2018

Number of accounts: 2464
Number of signed blocks: 1 358 500
Number of transactions: 2464

Number of active witnesses: 23
Number of reserve witnesses: 25
Number of active committee members: 11
Number of reserve committee members: 29

Network Activity Index

Network Activity Index is calculated in the testnet once a week and its amount affects the size and availability of emission. Emission is released only if the Activity Index in the last week was bigger than in any other previous week. This emission is distributed among all the accounts in the network according to their Gravity Index.

In the first week of testing Network Activity Index was 161 469, and as a result 13 418 831,13383 ZGV was created.

In the second week of testing Network Activity Index was 148 808. It was lower than it was last week, and as a result, there was no emission in the blockchain that week.

Acknowledgement

We are grateful to our friends, who actively participate in testing (they are listed in order of witness creation): kennybll (Kenneth Benneth), virtual-crusader (Keegan Francis), dominator008, dganic, blervin, iamredbar (Brendan Jensen), roelandp.

Special thanks are also due to Kenneth Benneth and Keegan Francis, who were, in fact taking care of novices during first two days of the testnet. Kenneth wrote the first guide on how to become a witness before official instructions were released, and Keegan posted his version of the python-bitshares library for Gravity. In addition to that they both created the first bots in the Gravity testnet.

Technical updates

Last week we found a significant bug in emission calculations. The update was successful, and the emission was calculated correctly, but the emission didn’t sync to the network, i.e. it was calculated only on one machine. Other nodes had to do the resync to obtain the emission values.

  • Over a two-week period we have optimized the Gravity Explorer and reduced the time of opening the page fourfold, now it’s 0.7 seconds.
  • The internal structure of the Gravity Wallet was reorganized to reduce the loading time and increase sustainability. We also added a new function. The wallet now automatically connects to a new node in case the node that it’s connected to stops working.
  • Gravity Governance was updated, modal dialog boxes and information on events and functions were added.
  • All the products now have mobile web-versions, which were tested on Iphone 5, Iphone X, and also Android smartphones and tablets.
  • We fixed a lot of small bugs in design and blockchain data output.
  • We published initial documentation for those who wish to join the Gravity testnet.

Media Publications about the Gravity Protocol

cryptovibes.com
Gravity Protocol Testnet Goes Live Today — Run Nodes, Capture the Network and Make Profit

cryptoninjas.net
Testnet Goes Live For Gravity — a graphene based blockchain protocol

coinspeaker.com
Turn the Radio On — You are on the Air!

cryptorecorder.com
3 reasons why you should watch out for Gravity Protocol

businessnewsasia.com
Blockchain R&D Firm, Gravity Solutions, Introduces a Protocol for Small and Medium Enterprises, and Launches Public Testnet

hkitblog.com
分散式賬本解決方案 區塊鏈的嶄新應用

etnet.com.hk
區塊鏈研發公司Gravity Solutions為中小企制訂協議和推出公用測試網

Plans for the next period

There are currently 4 botnet in Gravity blockchain. We’ve noticed they are not very active. So in the near future we are planning to launch the The Battle of the Bots to increase the amount of bots and their activity. Now we’re working on the guidelines and technical part of the game. We remind you that having your bot in the Gravity testnet will give you a chance to win one of the major prizes.


20
Gravity / Testnet Environment For Attack Modelling: The Methodology
« on: June 24, 2018, 02:13:46 pm »
Testnet Environment For Attack Modelling: The Methodology

This article will cover the methodology we will be using to explore the possibilities and limits of the Gravity emission model. The main idea of this research is to explore the flexibility of the model, as well as its strengths and weaknesses. The tools that we’ve created for modelling user behavior and further statistics analysis are available in our GitHub repo. This will be the first in the series of articles on the subject.

See the full article on Medium.


21
Gravity / Gravity Testnet Instructions Set
« on: June 24, 2018, 01:54:39 pm »
On May 25, 2018, public Gravity testnet was launched. Many thanks to all the participants!

For those, who has not yet decided to join in, we issue a set of instructions on the testnet participation. The Gravity Team takes a serious view on information support of the project. If you have any questions which are not presented in the instructions, please leave them in the comments.

Instructions in the Set
  • Creating an Issue on Github
  • Wallet Registration Tutorial
  • Install Gravity Node for Public Testnet
  • Install Gravity Node for Public Testnet with Docker
  • Turn a node into a witness node
  • Comittee Memember Registration Tutorial
  • How to update Gravity Protocol node
  • How to resync Gravity Protocol node


Follow us

22
How the Gravity Protocol Team Implements a Security Development Lifecycle

Ensuring the security of a blockchain network

Recent security incidents with the DAO, Ethereum Krypton 51% attack, and “epic” vulnerabilities discovered in EOS by Chinese security researchers at Qihoo 360 (luckily fixed) once again tell us that security concerns are paramount for open blockchain networks supported by communities.
 First of all, we need to understand — “What is security?” The CIA security triad model, composed of three areas; (1) Confidentiality, (2) Integrity and (3) Availability will be referenced throughout this paper.

According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST):

Confidentiality refers to “The property that sensitive information is not disclosed to unauthorized individuals, entities, or processes”;
Integrity is defined as the “guarding against improper information modification or destruction, and includes ensuring information non-repudiation and authenticity”.
Availability references the concept of “ensuring timely and reliable access to and use of information”
What does it take to ensure security in your software system? It means that your engineering team has a certain level of maturity and implements rigorous Secure Software Development Lifecycle (S-SDLC).

The S-SDLC process ensures that security assurance activities such as code review, architecture analysis, and attack modelling, are an integral part of the development effort. The main advantages of pursuing a Secure SDLC approach with regards to an open blockchain are:

  • Increased quality and security of software as security is a continuous concern.
  • Awareness of security considerations by stakeholders and the community.
  • Early detection of flaws and vulnerabilities in the system.
  • Overall reduction of intrinsic business risks for the community.

Since Gravity Protocol is an open blockchain offering solutions for small and medium businesses, secure software is our highest priority. See how we implement similar to SDL development process here on our blog.


23
Gravity / Re: Gravity Articles Announcements
« on: June 24, 2018, 01:31:32 pm »
Gravity IPFS: Off-chain Data Storage

One of the main problems concerning scalability of the blockchain is the limited size of it’s blocks. This essentially makes it impossible to store more complex data than transaction history, registry entries, and hashes in a block. Therefore, the majority of public blockchains have not yet surpassed the “transactional” stage of development.

Gravity strives to become not only a blockchain of transactions/for transactions, but, above all else, a distributed protocol for managing the sum of all possible data, and the use of distributed data stores such as IPFS is inevitable in this task.

IPFS organizes distributed data storage on users’ computers. This is the same concept BitSwap Ledgers implemented in IPFS, a scalable register where the distribution of content blocks is similar to the distribution in the Kademlia DHT. These registries deal only with peer-to-peer relationships without regard to latency, bandwidth, or network availability, making IPFS a versatile and extensible decentralized file system.

Thus, after IPFs integration, it becomes possible store only the hash data on-chain. The data itself will be stored off-chain, in IPFS.

The ability to store just the hash data on-chain, significantly decreases the size of data to be stored, which slows down the speed of chain bloat, thus decreasing the resources required for blockchain nodes, as well as the time it takes to resync and replay, which is a huge problem on existing blockchains that try to store unnecessary data on their chains.

More information on how IPFS works and how it is implemented into Gravity Protocol see here.


24
Gravity / Gravity Articles Announcements
« on: June 24, 2018, 01:31:02 pm »
Hi everyone!
Every week we publish an article related to GravityProtocol, its features, use cases, testnet reports and so on. Short announcements of these articles you can find here in this thread.
Don't hesitate to comment the articles!


25
Gravity / Re: Break Our Net! Gravity Launches Public Testnet
« on: May 29, 2018, 07:31:35 am »
Certainly, however, I am preping for a 3 week vacation. Let's discuss after that :-D

Sounds good! We will be waiting for your return.

26
Gravity / Re: Break Our Net! Gravity Launches Public Testnet
« on: May 28, 2018, 07:54:04 am »
Especially the economics look interesting. Looking forward to see how this unfolds!

Hello! Thank you for your interest. Would you consider joining our testnet? Also, if you have an interest for cooperation, we will be glad to.

27
General Discussion / Gravity Launches Public Testnet
« on: May 25, 2018, 06:20:54 pm »
Break Our Net!

Are you a Graphene Developer? A developer? Tech enthusiast?
Join our testnet!


With this testnet launch we have two main goals:

To test the assumptions used in our DPoI (Delegated Proof of Importance) economic model, as well as attract interest from developer community and distribute some of our initial stake to people that are interested in our ideas, and capable of meaningful participation in our ecosystem. Some of the things to do are not that complicated, and might be a good first step even if you’ve never been a graphene witness, or contributed to an open source project.

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=26502.0

28
Gravity / Break Our Net! Gravity Launches Public Testnet
« on: May 25, 2018, 06:16:09 pm »
Are you a Graphene Developer? A developer? Tech enthusiast?
Join our testnet!


With this testnet launch we have two main goals:
To test the assumptions used in our DPoI (Delegated Proof of Importance) economic model, as well as attract interest from developer community and distribute some of our initial stake to people that are interested in our ideas, and capable of meaningful participation in our ecosystem. Some of the things to do are not that complicated, and might be a good first step even if you’ve never been a graphene witness, or contributed to an open source project.

As we continue to go through the testnet we’ll be releasing guidlines about things like what we consider to be a perfect bug report, and the like. It is impossible to solve some problems just by throwing technology at them, remember? Fostering a good culture is also important!

Anyway, without further ado, here are the things that will get you rewards on our testnet:
Most basic thing that you can do is to get an account in our wallet, and for this basic level we aren’t giving any reward, but it is required to proceed further.

  • Just launching a node will earn you 1,000 ZGV
  • Reporting issues on our github with found vulnerabilities, interface improvement suggestions, etc can earn you 1,000 to 10,000 ZGV
  • Protocol improvment suggestions can earn you between 10,000 and 50,000 ZGV
  • Rewards for reporting issues with the economic model, Gravity Index and dynamic emission will earn you between 50,000 and 100,000 ZGV

And finally, to make things exciting here is the superprize:

Grand Gravity Grail for taking over the network by being able to assign 2/3+1 witnesses

500,000 ZGV

How to participate

To participate, you need to do the following:

  • Register an account on the testnet portal for participants
  • Join the Telegram group

For the first step you require a BitShares account and a github account.
Bitshares account is required, because the rewards will be paid out in GRAVITY.WORK token on Bitshares network, that you would be able to exchange 1:1 for real ZGV tokens after the main net launch.

If you need any help with problems that you encounter, or something is unclear in the guides that we provide, please do not hesistate to ask questions in our Telegram group.


Come to our testnet and break our toys!

Follow Us

Website: http://gravity.io
BitsharesTalk: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?board=122.0
Telegram channel: https://t.me/gravityprotocol
Telegram dev chat: https://t.me/gravity_protocol
Blog: https://steemit.com/@gravity-protocol
Blog: https://medium.com/@gravityprotocol
Twitter: https://twitter.com/protocolgravity
Discord: https://discord.gg/bcavmUg
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/gravity-foundation/

29
General Discussion / Decentralization Needs YOU!
« on: May 19, 2018, 01:44:21 pm »
Are you a Tech Writer? In Tech Support? Developer?

We really appreciate the amount of feedback that we’ve received from the community in the comments section of our article posts as well as our other comms channels.

In order to bring you the best tech, we are expanding our team, and are looking for talented Technical Writers, Technical Support Engineers, and Developers, but not necessarily in that order.

Please visit our subforum for vacancies: https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?board=122.0

To that end, we are offering participation in our decentralized team, competitive salaries and possible token options.
Our goal is to apply cutting-edge blockchain technologies to build powerful, simple solutions for the Sharing Economy.


We include representatives from diverse cultures and backgrounds in our growing team, making this an exciting and culturally enriching place to work. We encourage you to check our team and life at Gravity Protocol!

30
Gravity / Vacancy: Twitter Account Manager
« on: May 19, 2018, 01:39:56 pm »
We are offering participation in our decentralized team, competitive salaries and possible token options.
Our goal is to apply cutting-edge blockchain technologies to build powerful, simple solutions for the Sharing Economy.


Twitter Account Manager

We need a specialist in Twitter, competent in Gravity and blockchain.

Key activities for this role will be as follows:

· Establishing good relationships with major blockchain influencers
· Relevant crossposting and commenting with opinion leaders
· Post announcements of our articles
· Other daily Twitter engagement as daily twets & targets

What we're hoping to see from you:

· A portfolio of technical or scientific publications on Medium, Steemit or your own blog
· Enthusiasm toward blockchain in general and Graphene in particular
· Fast-learning
· Disciplined and proactive

Nice to have:

· Native, American/English speaker

Telegram contact: t.me/Jahspear
E-mail: jahspear@gravityprotocol.org

Pages: 1 [2] 3