QuarkChain Monthly Project Progress Report: January, 2020
Welcome to the 49th QuarkChain Monthly Report for January. Starting this month, we will change the bi-weekly report to the monthly report including development progress, monthly news, and events. We will post the report at the end of each month. In the future, QuarkChain will strive to do better. Let’s see what happened in the past month!

Highlights:

QuarkChain Foundation Grants Programs is ongoing

QuarkChain published annual work summary and video

Added Java SDK for QuarkChain JSONRPC together with corresponding tutorials, and will be open-sourced soon

Development Progress

# Major Updates

1.1 Added

Supported VM operations on balance query for non-default native tokens

Added Java SDK for QuarkChain JSONRPC together with corresponding tutorials, and will be open-sourced soon

Added nightly CI check for goquarkchain

Started the foundation grant program for UI implementation for multi-native token management

1.2 Updated

Improved multi-cloud platform support for QuarkChain infrastructure

Improved JSONRPC stress testing framework in Go to identify performance bottlenecks

Developer Events

QuarkChain Foundation Grants Program

At QuarkChain, we believe in the power of our community and regard it as an essential factor to help the network grow and thrive. Therefore we are looking for engineering and product help in several areas. For now, at this very first round, we will explicitly list certain tasks and projects. Developers and engineers who finish tasks will receive huge rewards.

For more details: https://community.quarkchain.io/t/quarkchain-foundation-grants-programs/103

Articles Summary

3.1 QuarkChain Annual Video: From 2019 to 2020

In the process of moving forward from 2019 to 2020, the theme of this year’s annual video is the globalized and 24/7 working model in QuarkChain. In 2020, we will continue to work hard and implement more blockchain technology.

Click for video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0FdY8ZntgY&t=6s

3.2 QuarkChain Annual Work Summary

2020 is a year of challenges and opportunities. We summarized our work last year. In the new year, we will continue to work hard to build a flourishing QuarkChain ecosystem.

For full article summary: https://medium.com/@quarkchainio/quarkchain-2019-achievement-summary-7dc232c4c544

3.3 The Next Generation of Open Sourced Financial Infrastructure Driven by API Bank, Open Bank, and DeBank

Ting Du, CBO of QuarkChain, introduced what iAPI Bank, Open Bank, and DeBank are. He envisioned a combination of financial and data technology. By creating a new decentralized financial market, the society would enjoy tremendous benefits, similar to what it enjoyed from the birth of the Internet.

3.4 Face-to-face Interview Issue 2

Quarker is an exclusive face-to-face interview programme produced by QuarkChain. The current issue introduced QuarkChain BD director Xi Xie. She shared with us the reason why she joined QuarkChain and the future development of the blockchain industry. She helps QuarkChain to build ecosystem ，to coordinate various projects like Dapp, public chain tool development, IoT related public chain, encryption, cloud computing and so on.

For full interview: https://medium.com/quarkchain-official/quarkchain-bd-director-xi-xie-watching-a-science-fiction-film-called-blockchain-d388e2623458

Events

4.1 12/30 Online AMA with QuarkChain CMO

On December 31, 2019, Anthurine, CMO of QuarkChain, made a speech entitled “If 2019 Was the Waterloo of Blockchain, Then How Can Pubic Chain Rise Again In 2020?” . She summarized the development of the public chain industry in 2019 and previewed the industry trends in 2020.

Click for the full summary: https://medium.com/@quarkchainio/if-2019-was-the-waterloo-of-blockchain-then-how-can-pubic-chain-rise-again-in-2020-ad8db0db6c1b

4.2 1/21 Korea Blockchain Community Meetup

The QuarkChain Korean team participated in the Korean Blockchain Community Meetup held at Huobi Blockchain House on the 21st. The meeting was co-hosted by Maker Dao and Pay Protocol. About 100 industry professionals gathered to talk about the Korean industry and the market over the past year and the outlook for 2020.

Upcoming Events

Stanford Blockchain Conference

Stanford Blockchain Conference is a leading technical conference on blockchain technology bringing together academics and practitioners. This conference will be held from Feb 19 to Feb 21, QuarkChain CEO Dr. Zhou and our Head of Engineering will explore methods of security engineering and risk management in blockchain systems with guests.

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