The first version of the white paper for Valence Blockchain Applications is now ready to view. Valence is proposed by Craig MacGregor and Alex Vazquez, contributors to NavCoin Core and the NavTech private payment platform. This is a working document and further technical specifications will be published over the coming months as prototyping the platform gets underway.

Valence provides a spectrum of blockchain application solutions offering businesses simple ways to dip their toes into blockchain with minimal risk or complexity. Valence is built from the ground up on ‘selective blockchain architecture’ to be powerful, scalable, and efficient.

Valence’s essence is simplification. Valence makes it easier for business to identify use-cases, decomplexifies the development of new applications, and makes the blockchain significantly easier for end-users. What’s more it will be open source, so anyone can build on top of it and enjoy the same benefits.

Version 1.0 of the white paper focuses on the technical aspects of Valence. It will be followed by a series of higher level articles explaining of this exciting leap in blockchain technology in everyday terms.

Later in 2018 Encrypt S will release other Valence papers covering the overall strategy for the development of the Valence project, its benefits for business, more technical specs, and details of tokens and fees etc.

There’s a lot more coming down the line from the Valence team and Encrypt S, so make sure to keep up on with everything that’s happening on our website, Facebook, and Twitter.

https://valenceplatform.org/valence-white-paper-making-data-smarter

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NavCoin Core Manifestos, Cold Staking Testing



This week the core team have started creating NavCoin Core manifesto documents, and we see a fantastic example of how members without coding skills can contribute to the project.

https://medium.com/@NAVCoin/navcoin-core-manifestos-cold-staking-testing-87d26e3bb81a

Community News: NavCoin Community Hub Launched, Alex visits Auckland.



Last week was all go for Nav community developers as they crammed five days work into four before taking Friday off for the Easter holiday. Alex was in New Zealand on a flying visit and caught up with some of the locals who were keen to get the benefit of his wisdom and experience on all things blockchain. The new NavCoin community hub at navcore.org has been launched and the navcoin.org website reorganised.

https://medium.com/@NAVCoin/navcoin-community-hub-launched-alex-visits-auckland-5b694d0279df

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Development Update, New NavCoin Contributors and Community Meetups



This week again there has been steady development progress across the main layer two applications which the NavCoin Core team are building on top of the NavCoin protocol.

https://medium.com/nav-coin/development-update-new-navcoin-contributors-and-community-meetups-b55673e0ebe

Development Update, Website Restructure Underway & Community News



The NavCore team and NavCoin community continue to make development progress on the roadmapped features. The NavCoin website is set for a refresh as well as additional informative content in support of existing projects.

https://medium.com/nav-coin/development-update-website-restructure-underway-community-news-4d0a6c37058a

The sha256 hashes are correct from my testing. It's more than likely virustotal is reporting something as a false positive. Bitcointalk is not a support channel, please join our discord to talk to devs or senior community members who can help you with technical support:

https://discord.gg/y4Vu9jw

or search our knowledge base:

https://info.navcoin.org

NavTech page, NavPi update, and London Meetup



This week the NavCore team has launched a new page on the website which provides some top level information about NavTech. A community event is on the horizon for London NavCoin enthusiasts. And we get you up to date on all the development projects happening in the community. There’s a light update to the NavPi and some scam prevention tips for the community.

https://medium.com/nav-coin/navtech-page-navpi-update-and-london-meetup-8677336df01a

NavCore Project Progress, Nav Community & Marketing Update



There has been a lot of solid progress made this week as the new team members start contributing to the main projects they will be working on. We will keep you updated on each project’s progress as milestones are achieved. Don’t forget it’s all open source so you can follow along on the NavCoin GitHub and even get involved!

https://medium.com/nav-coin/navcore-project-progress-nav-community-marketing-update-847d0844e0e2

Knowledge Base Launched, NavPi Ready, Another New Team Member



In this weeks report  -  we have a new batch of NavPi’s, a more new Engineers joining the team, and our new NavCoin Knowledge Base is now live.

https://medium.com/nav-coin/in-this-weeks-report-we-have-a-new-batch-of-navpis-a-more-new-engineers-joining-the-team-and-579c4afcc3e3

Knowledge Base to Replace Support Forum, New Team Member Hired



This week we’ve closed the support forum in favour of a knowledge base system, hired the latest addition to the engineering team and we continue to work as hard as ever to publish the content series of explainers about Valence and NavCoin’s new roadmap.

https://navcoin.org/news/knowledge-base-replacing-support-forum-new-team-member-hired/

Roadmap Follow Up, NavTech Upgrade and Team Expansion Plans



Another exciting week at NavCoin HQ as we prepare to release more information on our 2018 roadmap, upgrade the NavTech Subchain and plan our team expansion.

https://navcoin.org/news/roadmap-follow-up-navtech-upgrade-and-team-expansion-plans/

Nav Pay Beta Launched



It’s been an eventful week for both the Nav Coin Team and Community with some big achievements made on our major projects. During this week’s AMA on Discord the team announced the Nav Pay Beta will start today and revealed some exciting information about the upcoming Anonymous DApp platform dubbed “Nav Chain”.

https://navcoin.org/news/navpay-beta-launched/

Bittrex Wallet in Maintenance, What You Can Do to Help



A public service announcement from the Nav Coin team; The Bittrex Nav Coin wallet is currently in maintenance mode, meaning users can still trade but aren’t able to use the deposit and withdraw features. Don’t panic! This temporary maintenance mode will be resolved very soon with a bit of help from the community. Many users are still using old versions of Nav Coin (version 4.0.4 and previous) which is causing Bittrex to experience some intermittent network issues. The solution? Update to the newest 4.0.6 wallet here.

https://navcoin.org/downloads

If you’re using a Nav Pi to stake, we understand that the updating process can be complicated and time consuming for you. To streamline this process we’ll be releasing a Nav Pi auto-updater tool in the next couple of days; be sure to keep an eye out for the weekly update with more information on our new and simple auto-update features. If you can’t wait and want to manually update your Nav Pi you can follow the tutorial by NavTechServers:

https://youtu.be/I4cf9trOYYk

Regardless if you’re a Nav Pi user or not, to make for a timely solution we strongly urge users to update to the latest Nav Coin wallet as soon as possible. You’ll not only allow Bittrex to mobilize the Nav Wallet but you’ll also be able to participate in the Nav Coin Community Fund vote and garner from the latest Nav Tech features. #winning!

We’d like to reassure you that we are working hard to onboard the community with the newest wallet version and that Bittrex will resume withdrawal and deposit functions once majority users are up to date. In the meantime, if you’re looking to deposit and withdraw Nav Coin you can use alternative exchange platforms such as Poloniex, Alcurex, Cryptopia or LiteBit.

https://navcoin.org/downloads

Nav Coin Community Fund



We have had some interesting suggestions from the community on how to support Nav Coin’s development and marketing efforts and the NavPi batch 3 have started shipping with free track & trace upgrade.

https://navcoin.org/news/nav-coin-community-fund/