Ruff Chain Bi-Weekly | 22 Jan-11 Feb

3 min readFeb 12, 2019

First of all, I wish you a happy New Year.

In the past two-week working days and one week of Spring Festival holiday, Ruffchain still hasn’t stopped working. In the internal test of the test network, we have invited the first batch of seed users to carry out the internal test of the test network. What is worth celebrating is that no major bugs have appeared yet.

In terms of business trends, we have reached cooperation intention with a number of customers, including logistics, equipment financial leasing and environmental monitoring. The following is the complete bi-weekly report of the current issue:

· Development Progress

Ruff Chain (Shepherd):

CLI:

-Add input value check

-Add createkey

-Add verbose and debug mode

-Fix empty response bug

Online TestNet preview version:

Setup information:

6 miners(BP), 2 peers

-Consensus: DPos-BFT

-Produce new block every 10s

· Business Trends

-Ruff NB-IoT smart gateway, officially entered into China union through qualification certification. In the future, it will be widely used in smart traffic detectors.

-the AI+IoT module jointly developed by Ruff and Jia Nan Yun Zhi will send samples to customers before the spring, and it is expected to serve customers related to the application of smart door lock in the future. It is reported that AI chip is the only one in the industry with less than 3 usd, which provides favorable support for the large-scale popularization of AI local edge computing.

· Hot Events

1. RuffChain officially started the test network internal test

On January 30, 2019, Beijing time, RuffChain officially opened the internal test application of the test network. On January 31, the first batch of seed users obtained the account and key through the application, and started the internal test of the first phase of the test network. It is reported that the content of this release includes the RuffChain Testnet Preview version test network and Shepherd CLI tools for developers to use.

According to the developers’ internal test results, no major bugs have been found in the test network, and the test process is smooth and stable. In the future, we will adjust and fix all kinds of small problems in the test process, so as to make adequate preparations for the launch of the main chain in the future.