Swarm City Dev Update Feb 5, 2018Swarm City Dev is hard at work on bringing Boardwalk V2 from idea to fruition. As mentioned in past updates, to get there Dev needed to rebuild everything from scratch. Even functionalities included in the Terminal release; for example sending SWT, the shortcode, and creating a profile, are being overhauled. Also, one of the main challenges revealed with the release of Boardwalk V1 was how the app managed interactions with Ethereum. It became clear this required some rethinking as well.
Boardwalk V1 acted as a direct conduit to the Ethereum blockchain, and what Dev found was this was a cumbersome setup. The frank assessment is the Ethereum platform is so new that tools for managing interactions between a more humanistic front end app and the Ethereum machine do not yet exist. How this manifested to the end user was slow response times, and even dropped or stuck transactions. To solve these issues, Dev created a buffer layer to exist between the V2 front end and the blockchain. This layer is the Swarm CIty API.
https://press.swarm.city/swarm-city-dev-update-feb-5-2018-792e2133056
