Dev Letter #12

In this last dev letter of 2017, we cover a couple of very important developments for iExec. First, a historic milestone has been reached: iExec has gone MainNet. Second, the release of the iExec Dapp Store was pretty exciting for everyone, as it gives a glimpse on the future of decentralized apps (dapps). Here’s a recap of what has been done recently!

More on this on our Medium.

Join us on our brand-new Telegram group to discuss the latest iExec developments: https://t.me/joinchat/FswFJw6AaL-kpQeWdBSwRA

The RLC/ETH pair is now tradable on the Gate.io exchange.

The platform is available in English and Chinese. gate.io/trade/RLC_ETH

SelfSell, the human capital investment startup on blockchain, pitching at the iExec office.

Thanks to you, we are now 10,000 on Twitter!

The iExec community is growing day by day and it's a pleasure for us to be able to interact with you everyday. Stay tuned, it's just the beginning of the decentralized cloud adventure!

https://twitter.com/iEx_ec

iExec just launched its Russian website! Check it out here: https://iex.ec/ru/   

Our main communication channel is Slack, you can join us and engage with our community on: https://slack.iex.ec

Right on time for Blockshow Asia, the Chinese version of the iExec website is now live!



https://iex.ec/zh-hans/

DAY 1 at Blockshow Asia

The team met with over 40 dapp project managers and startups, including Kyber Network, Achain, Qtum Foundation and Waves Platform. The conference was also the opportunity to engage with many cryptocurrency exchanges present in Singapore.

iExec is set to become the first app store for decentralized applications running on the blockchain. The following article sums up the recent partnerships we made to lay the first bricks of our vision.

http[Suspicious link removed]c-and-Decentralized-Apps/27-11-2017-132836/

iExec SDK Announcement Answers the Call for Power and Scalability on the Blockchain

In a bid to take Cloud Computing to the next level, a blockchain startup from Lyon, France, has announced the release of their Software development kit (SDK) which creates a service that provides blockchain applications with access to decentralised, affordable, transparent off-chain cloud computing.

https[Suspicious link removed]c-sdk-announcement-answers-the-call-for-power-and-scalability-on-the-blockchain/

iExec was at The Blockchain Summit in London, to stay in the loop of the latest trends, and meet major influencers and executives.

iExec was at Marketforce’s 3rd Biannual Conference in London on the 31st of October represented by Jean-Charles Cabelguen. The goal of the event was to stay up-to-date with blockchain’s most recent trends in finance.

At the opening, Noelle Acheson, Editorial Producer at Coindesk, recalls that last year’s talks about blockchain were limited to presenting the potential of the technology. Today, the debate on blockchain moved to practical solutions and deployment strategies. iExec is well aware of this shift, and the roadmap of the project is attuned to this need.

Afterwards, Vinay Gupta, Founder at hexayurt.capital, delivered the first talk with a sound-titled presentation: “Let’s Save the World and Make a Lot of Money”. He underlined the impact of combining legal work and blockchain to power innovation and deep change.

David Harris, from the London Stock exchange, echoed the opening of the summit. From his point of view, blockchain is moving fast from experimentation to enterprise-grade projects.

Evgeny Xata, CEO of Cybertrust, focused his talk on blockchain being the 6th wave of the economic development, right after microchips. From his projection, the expected value created from blockchain and artificial intelligence could be worth four times the value created by the microchip revolution.

During the conference, three main topics were discussed. For each one of them, six speakers shared either novel concepts or case studies.
- Digital Identity
- Transfer and Trading
- Smart Contracts

The last panel discussion and questions of the summit were managed by Nikola Tchouparov — CEO & Co-Founder at Moneyfold Ltd, Arnaud Le Hors — Technical Lead at Hyperledger, Mark Simpson — Innovation Engineering at Royal Bank of Scotland and Anthony Macey — ead of Blockchain R&D at Barclays.

In short, they all predicted that standardisation will come from projects backed by great vision, but also from regulatory initiatives originating from centralized structures. iExec is also following this path by being at the forefront of the ICO movement in France, all while meeting with regulators and media to develop best practices for crypto funding.

The rest of the day was perfect to spend time with crypto fans and large corporate companies involved in international development, industrial projects, standardization, and international marketing. A perfect timing for iExec to network and initiate future partnerships off-conference!

Can a decentralized cloud computing marketplace one day become a reality?

Journal du Net is one of the biggest players in the French tech media scene. 9 mln readers visit the website monthly, looking the latest trends and developments. JDN’s newsletter of the 27th of October featured an interesting article on a future marketplace of cloud resources.

The article raised the following question: can a cloud computing marketplace one day appear? While this vision can first be discarded as science-fiction, the truth is companies such as iExec are already taking the lead in making it a reality, by leveraging cutting-edge technologies such as blockchain.

Blockchain allows iExec to orchestrate and secure transactions on the Internet without the need for a trusted third party. The technology is paramount for the commercialization of underutilized or unused cloud resources, in a secure and transparent way. Against the current centralized cloud model, the adoption of the disruptive decentralized model is not an easy matter.

With iExec, the threshold of quality of execution will be held by comparing the results of different providers. If one’s results diverge from the others, its reputation will be diminished, therefore creating a strong incentive towards quality of delivery. In the long run, the marketplace will regulate itself to avoid redundancy of testing between providers with a high level of trust.

The last part of JDN’s article focused on the potential of compute becoming a new financial asset. Global companies with huge IT fleets that are not fully harnessed can put their hardware to work, for example during idle hours or holidays.

This model would also attract cloud providers themselves. With Spot, Amazon already offers a service allowing users to acquire its data centers’ unused resources (at a variable cost relative to supply and demand). Other cloud providers could lean towards the same solution too. This trend could lead to the creation of a whole new market for cloud resource, on which speculators could trade IT power.

https://iex.ec/news/towards-decentralized-marketplace-cloud-resource/

iExec will be part of this year's Ethereal Summit in SF.

You can live stream the event today on http://etherealsummit.com  at 9am PST!

iExec sera présente à la Devcon3, et son CEO donnera un keynote speech intitulé :

Allowing Scalable, Efficient and Virtualized Off-chain Execution for Arbitrary Applications

Ce sera l'occasion de présenter la V1 du produit qu'iExec construit, et de nouer de nouveaux partenariats avec des acteurs majeurs de la scène crypto.

cution-for-arbitrary-applications/]https[Suspicious link removed]cution-for-arbitrary-applications/

iExec Meets Docker in Silicon Valley

iExec’s co-founders, Gilles and Haiwu, met the Docker team in Silicon Valley. Docker has been run on iExec a few weeks ago.

iExec Dev. Letter #10 — October 23rd, 2017

On the menu:

• Logging in with Metamask
• Submitting jobs
• Paying in RLC
• Managing wallets
• A brand new website

https://medium.com/iex-ec/dev-letter-10-22d87ff615f6

We invite all of you to join us on our Slack, we'd love to hear your views and comments:

https://slack.iex.ec/