PROXIMAX MARCH 2019 UPDATEThe month of March has been extremely productive for the entire technology team. Most of the activities are a continuation of existing development work with some significant highlights for the core platform, infrastructure, and our applications.
Core DevelopmentThis month we performed further research and design on how the storage life cycle will work.
Storage Drive Life CycleOne new concept is the drive life cycle, which will allow participants to contribute to the network with either a dynamic or a fixed drive storage. We had to consider multiple business use-cases to establish a reliable, secure and economically fair process for our decentralised market place.
When someone wants to join the network as a participant, he/she will need to install the required software and commence the storage drive life cycle. This life cycle is essentially a process for onboarding a node, which includes validation checks, and the set-up of an initial default reputation score.
Users/consumers can then announce a “Drive Contract” to initiate an upload to an acceptor node. A market selection process occurs to select the replicators that will agree to providing a file replication service.
From a user’s perspective, there will be several operations that can be initiated which will be used to assist with file uploads.
Prepare Drive Process
- PrepareDrive() - Initiated by a consumer to establish the set of node-replicators that agree to handling drive storage.
- Upload - Upload of file to the decentralised drive.
- Delete() – Deletion of file using the given hash.
- Modify() – Modification of file, which is essentially a combination of Delete() and Upload().
- Directory() - Initiated by a node participant that wants to join a Drive Contract and store files.
The above functions are quite self-explanatory. Basically the operations can be called upon to initiate storage drive operations. A more detailed deep dive explanation of the storage drive life cycle will be available in the technical whitepaper update.
Cross Verification ProtocolThe new design also includes cross-verification protocol for replicators. In our ecosystem, the replicators also play the part of verifiers, but replicators cannot verify their own replications. For this, we designed the verification scheme to ensure that participants are adequately validated, file replication is intact and secure, and verifiers challenge replicators accordingly.
With the cross-verification protocol, files are split into several replicators. Split data parts are then encoded with a secret key plus metadata for verification. These are then sent to the replicators. With the data parts stored in the replicators, replicators will then verify each other. This mechanism enables further validation to check the number of copies produced and decrease the chances of cheating or gaming.
Cross Verification Protocol
We will have more information on this once we have finalised our technical whitepaper update.
PoCA/Free MarketWe came up with a new version of the market selection process that we are calling Free Market. This is essentially an improvement to PoCA Market. It is a simpler and more evenly distributed decentralised market selection process for storage nodes. An in-depth explanation of this new market selection concept will be included in the upcoming technical whitepaper update.
More Tech Papers are Coming SoonThe more we dive into development, the more opportunity there is to publish research documentation. Our team is now preparing a few papers that will be made available soon.
- Updated High-Level Technical Whitepaper
- Includes drive storage, storage streaming, and live streaming
- Updated token economy model
- Staking/vesting
Application DevelopmentProgressing equally well is the development of our applications and engineering projects. We released a few applications in March as well as upgraded some of our existing ones.
Beta Testing for ProximaX File It!, ProximaX Notes and ProximaX VaultWe have launched the initial beta builds for File It!, Notes and Vault which use the ProximaX Sirius test network.
At the time of writing, the following are the current release versions:
- ProximaX File It! 2.0.1-beta.7
- ProximaX Notes 2.0.1-beta.4
- ProximaX Vault 2.0.1-beta.4
Download link: https://suite-app.proximax.io/s/WtNa7QQ2DsGPQKe Password: ProximaX@1The team would appreciate any feedback via the below Trello board links:
- Notes:
https://tinyurl.com/y6sdog8z- Vault:
https://tinyurl.com/y4pk4v5o- File It!:
https://tinyurl.com/y4xd49c7Office Suite + Collabora is LiveWe have been working on a partnership with Collabora and it has paid off. In March, we announced our combined partnership. We believe that their technology alongside our platform will bring a better and more secure end-to-end office productivity suite.
Proof of Concept Solution: Identity SystemWe have also launched and showcased the ProximaX Identity system that was built in collaboration with 482.solutions. This system was heavily showcased during ProximaX’s participation at BlockchainUA in Ukraine and IoT Asia 2019 in Singapore.
What is ProximaX Identity?ProximaX identity is a national identity system that uses the ProximaX Sirius platform as a data store. The blockchain stores the identifiers and the storage layer stores the extended national identity data.
ProximaX Basic Identity Proces
We have built a proof of concept/working solution. Layered into several components, the solution has both software and hardware which can be extended via a Software Development Kit.
Coming Soon - a NIS1 WalletWe redesigned and rebuilt the ProximaX Wallet from scratch and we are now almost ready for launch. Our development focused on security, performance, simplicity, and intuitiveness. The new wallet will have a plain design and an easy-to-use scrollable wallet card pane for simple navigation. The new PIN registration and verification enhances security.
Random PIN Shuffle to add more securitySummaryBelow is a summary of the progress made in March:
- Research and development of the drive functionality.
- Token economy for storage drive and live streaming.
- Introduction of Free Market.
- Introduction of cross-verification technique.
- Further additions to the public plaform's knowledge base.
- Beta Testing for ProximaX File It!, ProximaX Vault and ProximaX Notes.
- Proof of concept for Identity Workflow Engine.
- New NIS1 ProximaX Wallet.
For more updates and more information about our ongoing development, check out our blog:
https://blog.proximax.io/en
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ProximaX Technology Update - 16 July 2019Our technology team has been focusing on defining the token economics framework and stabilising the blockchain server code as well as the software development kits. In addition, we've coordinated with Hacken (
https://hacken.io) to perform the necessary steps to audit the code implementation of our blockchain server code. It is a crucial to ensure the correctness, robustness, and security of the ProximaX Sirius platform.
Other updates include the development of the storage cli (command line interface), completion of cross-block verification implementation, supercontracts design refinement and development, review and further improvements to the technical whitepaper including the token economy and main network release preparation activities.
ProximaX Appoints Hacken as a Cyber Security AuditorAlthough blockchain technology offers inherently secure properties, the blockchain environment is still susceptible to various technology risks. Continued independent and unbiased third party assurance is vital for creating a stable and robust architecture for the ProximaX Sirius platform and ProximaX apps. This includes auditing our code and controls to test for security, availability, processing integrity, privacy and confidentiality.
ProximaX has appointed Hacken as one of its security auditors. Hacken’s audit will form part of a multilevel approach to testing and verifying the integrity of the ProximaX Sirius platform and ProximaX mobile wallets prior to main network launch.
Alvin Reyes, CTO of ProximaX explained:
“The most critical part of our technology is the quality of our design and implementation. By working with independent and unbiased security auditors such as Hacken, our code will be thoroughly investigated from top to bottom, starting with the correctness of the architecture, manual code analysis on the most critical parts of the platform, security testing using various enterprise-grade penetration testing tools, and quality assurance of our implementation.
ProximaX Sirius Blockchain SDKs are now open!We are delighted to announce that the ProximaX tech team has opened some of the stable builds of the blockchain SDKs (Software Development Kits). Head over to the wiki page of each SDK to get started!
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Appoints ProximaX for Its Blockchain ServicesProximaX appointed by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of Malaysia to blockchain NIOSH’s certification process.
NIOSH was established as a company limited by guarantee on 24th June 1992 by the Ministry of Human Resources, Malaysia. NIOSH’s function is to provide training, consultation services, disseminate information, and conduct research in the field of occupational safety and health. NIOSH’s vision is to be a leading centre of excellence in occupational safety and health in Malaysia, with a mission to provide practical solutions in the field of occupational safety and health.
Earlier this year, ProximaX proposed to NOISH the use of blockchain technology to manage the issuance, notarisation, and verification of their certificates by adding a security layer that hashes and easily inserts the certification data onto the blockchain. In addition, ProximaX also recommended having a blockchain explorer for tracking and tracing all blockchain transactions to ensure traceability and integrity.
ProximaX partners with Artemiz Innovations for National Security Surveillance from Satellites, powered by BlockchainArtemiz Innovations Sdn Bhd (“Artemiz”), a revolutionary Malaysian space technology company owning locally developed patented IP for the integration of drones, earth imaging satellites and other land-based sensors to provide Real Time Actionable Insights directly to end users, has partnered with ProximaX, a blockchain powered next-generation Integrated Distributed Ledger Technology (“IaDLT”) development platform.
Artemiz’s satellite surveillance solution comprises of multiple micro satellites that will be launched into space to provide round-the-clock, real time, one-meter resolution geospatial imagery and videos that can overlook an entire nation. The crucial feature of this solution is that it is able to output an integrated display of a National Security Surveillance Picture ("NSSP") as captured by the micro satellites to detect and pre-inform on potential vulnerabilities.
Artemiz and ProximaX are working together on a strategic national security project to provide real time geospatial surveillance from a constellation of satellites. Artemiz Innovations is the project owner and operator of the satellites and ProximaX is providing its solutions to secure the geospatial satellite imagery data. Here, the ProximaX Sirius platform will be provisioned within Artemiz’s satellite surveillance systems to enable data sharding, encryption, and decentralised file storage. The result of leveraging on the superiority of both companies’ technologies is a powerful solution that will complement a nation’s existing defence system.
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