[ANN][CRW] CROWN (MN-PoS) | Platform | NFT framework | Governance | Masternodes

[CookyCook72]

My deep research led me to follow Crown because there are huge opportunities.

ETH2.0, EOS, XTZ Compare Crown CRW and its Blockchain Governance system. Besides NFT (in side chains), Smart Contracts, MN, SYSNodes, there is a nice feature because there are super reward blocks that are mined in the meantime each one is free to submit its proposals on the crowncentral at: https://crowncentral.net/proposals/generator to increment the proposal directly on the blockchain and dispatch it to all connected terminals or wallets.

Thus budgets, marketing, foundations, donations, budgets, files, documents, works, in short everything that is distributed fungible or non-fungible etc... are voted and decided by the community users who have the choice to vote 'yes' or 'no' abstention.

Each proposal is encoded in the blockchain with a Hashcode timestamp so it is not forged (POS) as well as a start date of execution "of the contract" and an end date of execution. It is called Block Start - Block end - Payment allocated from the superblock and the Remaning (month - days - years) etc... In this way there is a real decentralization in the governance of the blockchains that is included in the digital constitution of the protocols so no worries, no disputes, no attacks or usurpations. No need for forks in case of disagreement. The community (people) thus retains the right to decide.. In addition Crown CRW which is in mnPOS which consumes much less energy and even runs on a classic raspberrypi.

This system of governance is a catalyst of usefulness for example can be used as a certificate label to counter a fakenews for example, there are thousands of use cases, even to validate property links, collections, inheritances, acquisition, rental, insurance, medical, business, IoT, records, health, real estate etc... without extra cost or fallible intermediary.

Crown has dedicated itself to designing an open protocol that can support different programming languages as no training is required; developers can use the language of their choice, provided they can call crown-cli or make an RPC call via curl.

This project is technologically powerful and has been evolving since 2014. Crown is a nugget that can take off at any time because the supply side is limited and its scope is largely underestimated.

http://crwwallet.net/

[crowncoin_knight]

Crown non-development meeting minutes 06/02/2020
Keeping the community informed

Present: crowncoin-knight, pjcltd, walkjivefly

There was no development progress meeting yesterday. Instead a few contributors had a short discussion about NFT framework testing, strategy regarding the forthcoming “Emerald” release, and the marketing plan for it.

The level of NFT framework testing/experimentation appears to be very low with no testnet activity except from walkjivefly and defunctec. There has been no feedback from any other contributors in Discord or Gitlab. We can only hope the reasons are

* other community members, 3rd-party developers and experimenters are using sandbox environments instead, and
* Artem’s code is rock solid with none of them hitting any issues.

The marketing team lead by Crownfan and KalayaanCrypto have created a comprehensive marketing plan (see below) for the Emerald release. They require that the complete funding for this plan be secured upfront so that there is no chance of not being able to complete it. If funding is not secured then the campaign will not be launched. We are expecting a Medium article from Crownfan this weekend explaining the matter in greater detail.

Crown Platform has signed up as a sponsor of the Coinfest 2020 (see below) meeting in Manchester on the 3rd to 5th of April 2020. We will have a several person presence there for the full three days of the event and expect to be able to demonstrate the NFT framework through defunctec’s Crown Cards application and hopefully other 3rd-party use-cases.

We discussed the timing of the v0.14.0 “Emerald” mainnet release. We are keen to launch it around the start of March with the marketing campaign kicking off at the same time. However, there is an argument for delaying the launch of the marketing campaign, and even the Emerald release, until Coinfest. The decision will be made soon (probably within the next week) and will be influenced by the level and outcome of NFT framework testing and the success or otherwise of raising the funds for the marketing campaign.

[HastaLaVistaBaby]

@crowncoin_knight how should the fundraising process for the marketing plan be carried out? Under what conditions?

[crowncoin_knight]

@crowncoin_knight how should the fundraising process for the marketing plan be carried out? Under what conditions?

there will be a medium article available about the fundraising this weekend

[guilgamesh]

Sorry, but I'had mined somes crown since a long time ago..

But ever the same problem like wallet contains the address and private key, but not updating TxIndex cause they'are mining bonus transactions..

A long time ago, and I'v not enough just two U1 usb asic and an old antimner (first gen like S1)

And a script gridseed..



Ha HA HA!!!
A SHA stories....

And others algo...

[AyouthR]

Sorry, but I'had mined somes crown since a long time ago..

Now you know Crown has come a very very long way since 2014 🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮🔮

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Crown describes itself as a multi-channel scalable Blockchain solution provider leveraging environmentally friendly technology that has been evolving since October 08, 2014, the date of the Genesis Block of Crown.

Crown aims to provide a complete ecosystem including the ability to create blockchains, smart contract data, governance and scalable analysis for single- or multi-chain custom projects hosted directly within the Crown Platform's network. Crown Platform aims to provide scale benefits with low ecological impact because it is based on the MNPOS protocol, reducing operating costs and carbon footprint.

Crown Plateform offers specific research, development and production functionalities via NFTs. It aims to offer interoperability of concrete solutions and optimal security within its decentralized network. Users can create DApps, remote programs, various games and move towards a new form of non-fungible interactive chain marketing, laying the foundation for tracking and analyzing data in the global chain. Crown Platform aims to become the ideal multi-channel solution for real, daily, cheap and accessible use at any time.

This is now a time of great opportunity to harness the power of Crown to make the exploitation and use of your assets, any value of public data that is not fungible on an unchangeable Blockchain database at any time, accessible. Source from: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/crown/

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With the blockchain it is possible to collect unique digital assets, how does it work?

crypto-collectible
The blockchain technology has allowed the emergence of crypto currencies, these are digital assets carrying a value, they are identical, i.e. you cannot differentiate one Bitcoin from another, they all have the same characteristics. The blockchain has also made it possible to create unique digital assets to be collected, in English we speak of "collectible crypto".

The unique digital assets to be collected therefore have a certain value due to their rarity.
The blockchain secures the unique aspect of the asset, making it impossible to make a copy. The only way to obtain the collectible is to buy it from its owner or to exchange it for another collectible. This is, quite simply, the collector's item sector transposed into the digital world.


Is it possible to make money with these digital collectibles?
There are several types of collectible crypto, which have the characteristic of being rare, sometimes even legendary! They are often intimately linked to the game world.


Where do you store your collectibles?
You have to store them like crypto coins in a wallet. By using the blockchain technology and this standard, the tokens are indivisible and their uniqueness is guaranteed thanks to the blockchain.


Which games include collectibles on the blockchain?
The Ether Quest game is an RPG that allows you to lead unique soldiers to collect and train to win battles against other players. New soldiers are "released" through a mining process. A platform called "Mycryptons" allows you to collect cryptons that are representations of public figures from Donald Trump to Oprah Winfrey.  One of the most famous token collection platforms is Cryptokitties, it made the "buzz" at the end of 2017 when crypto currencies had a high valuation. A cryptokittie is a kind of kitten to collect. One of these items was bought for $120,000! This game was then taken up by the detractors of crypto-currencies who explained that the majority of the transactions made on Ethereum were only used to run a kitten collector's game...

Today, the sports sector is developing many use cases around these digital collectibles.
With the aim of building fan loyalty around unique digital figurines featuring their favourite players! Teams from Dortmund, Benfica, Real Madrid and Arsenal are the first to test this new market.

Crown CRW is in the place to tokenize all material and immaterial goods and digitize their ownership property on the blockchain engraved in forgery-proof stone!

To come with Crown's "smart contracts", it is possible to unlock the transfer of "ownership" in a temporized and decided way (in a block) at a precise date (at a specific and decided time) as for an inheritance for example .

***thanks to Guillaume for his precious help

What is a non-fungible token (NFT) or non-fungible token?
While much of the market trade is done through tokens or cryptomoney, their uses are not always relevant. Indeed, if we go beyond monetary transactions, for some specific cases of exchange of unique goods or digital collectibles, we face a problem, it is for these transactions that non-fungible tokens can be useful.

To understand this, we must first ask ourselves the question of fungibility. A copy (or specimen) of a good is said to be fungible if it is interchangeable with another of the same quality and quantity, without distinction between the two. To illustrate the concept, two Bitcoins can be interchanged, even if they do not necessarily have the same transaction history. However, they are not, in theory, completely fungible, because of the history established for each. The most classic example of a fungible good is therefore coins or banknotes, which are fungible as long as the institutions that issued them allow them to exist.

An example of extreme fungibility is that of anonymous crypto-currencies, which do not have unique characteristics such as a serial number, for example.

Thus, a non-fungible token can be summarized as a token with unique characteristics, and whose value may be different from another. But it still has common attributes among all goods of the same type. The greatest examples of non-fungible goods are collectibles, such as trading cards or stamps. Indeed, while each collectible stamp belongs to the large set of "stamps", it also has unique characteristics that allow other subsets to be established and valued differently from other stamps. Similarly, non-fungible tokens may share some of their attributes with other tokens, but it is the set of the latter that makes it unique.

But then how does non-fungibility fit into cryptomoney? If we look at the different cryptocurrency and tokens in the ecosystem, we find a lot of fungibility. The units of bitcoins and ethers are all fungible - in principle - and the same goes for stablecoins.


For example: NFTs in video games.
The video game industry - or rather the niche of video games that are meant to be decentralized - quickly understood the interest of these unique tokens. Indeed, these tokens can easily represent many objects that are currently traded in existing video games. And that doesn't necessarily represent in-game purchases against virtual and worthless currencies, but also in hard currency. Using NFTs for these various in-game items would give players real ownership over them.

Let's transpose this hypothesis to one of the video games of the moment: Fortnite. This free game finances its development through its in-game shop that allows players to buy various digital items for their characters against V-bucks, the game's virtual currency. The use of non-fungible in-app or in-game digital tokens could, according to some, allow to modify the dynamics of secondary markets in these digital worlds.

These avenues are being explored by Ubisoft in particular, even if we will have to wait for the time being to see the first practical applications in the daily lives of gamers.


* It should be remembered that in this case, the global market is expected to generate more than 165 billion euros in 2019.


Let's take the example of Gods Unchained, which is a virtual card game based on the NFT. Players therefore obtain real digital ownership of the cards they have bought, which they can freely use in the game, sell or trade as they wish.

or CryptoKitties CryptoKitties is the first video game using NFTs to have contributed to the democratization of this unique token system. It was at the end of 2017 during the general enthusiasm for cryptomoney that CryptoKitties received a great success from the community. The concept is quite simple since it consists in the deployment of NFTs representing cats and their unique characteristics through a "DNA" then coded in Solidity. These cats can breed with each other and thus give birth to new cats with unique characteristics.

The value of one of these cats depends on various factors mainly related to its rarity. The generation of that cat can be a factor, knowing that there are only 50,000 cats of generation 0, and that the generation of a cat depends on those of its parents. But there are also rarer types of cats, and characteristics that are more sought after than others. The value of a particular cat depends completely on supply and demand. Purchases are made in the form of auctions.

Note that, in physical collecting contexts, some contractors or artists are considering co-integrations linking real-life physical collectibles and their property rights modelled by such tokens. This is, for example, the case of Pascal Boyart, who tokenizes some of his frescoes and then puts them up for auction in a more or less fractional form.

What future for non-fungible tokens?
The concept of NFTs gave birth to "theory" a few years ago but now, in 2020, these last technologies are still very young. But the ecosystem is continuously developing. So we can expect developments in the coming months. First of all technical, could for example allow to bring new ways of interaction between fungible and non-fungible tokens, or even to constitute NFTs encapsulating other NFTs.

The Crown NFTs solution open up a field of unlimited possibilities by giving a real property of belonging to the latter. Applicable to all sectors, Banking, Real Estate, Health, Agricultural, Identity, Presidential Voting, Insurance, Communication, Energy, Art, Consumer Goods, IoT Internet of Things, Programming modules, Depth Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Video Games and other many domains.

Crown is positioned in these totally innovative ways. That's why I suggest you get on board, communicate about Crown and share, because a lot of positive things are going to happen with Crown CRW (Roadmap), just think about it

Crown is on a concrete step towards Web 3.0 and CRW to its own development code open to all.

Learn more and get on board

https://www.crownplatform.com/  --- https://crowncentral.net/ ---

Hello what are the technical specifications of Crown environment? Where can I find them?

On this road https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WE9ikiSieQvyiM0iSY7hJh1h6HXIdQZJFD9jkJPW6dc/edit crown-core

and CRW source code on https://gitlab.crownplatform.com/crown/crown-core

Other: https://medium.com/crownplatform

Speak with Team in live at https://discordapp.com/invite/rB3Kr86


Since 2014, Crown Platform has evolved to provide optimal security and specific features to move to a new form of interactive channel marketing, including the ability to create:

- Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) is a special type of cryptographic token that represents something unique; therefore, non-fungible tokens are not interchangeable.

- Applications (DApps ), control programs for the Internet of Things. Programming modules for in-depth learning and Artificial Intelligence.

- Decentralised interoperable Blockchains within the CRW network.

- News forms of marketing and web 3.0


CROWN website: https://www.crownplatform.com/

CROWN CENTRAL: https://crowncentral.net/
https://discordapp.com/invite/rB3Kr86
https://twitter.com/crownplatform
https://www.facebook.com/crownplatform
https://www.instagram.com/crownplatform/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCKAgkSSOI-fIqcAEHR1rXw
https://www.linkedin.com/company/crown-platform/
https://t.me/crownplatform

CROWN source code on https://gitlab.crownplatform.com/crown/crown-core

Speak with Team in live at https://discordapp.com/invite/rB3Kr86

CROWN BITCOINTALK https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=815487.0

CROWN MEDIUM https://medium.com/crownplatform

CROWN REDDIT https://www.reddit.com/r/Crown/

CROWN History: https://www.crownplatform.com/about/#history

Team & Contributors: https://www.crownplatform.com/about/#team

Explorer: https://chainz.cryptoid.info/crw/

CROWN NFT DOC - NFT Framework Simple assets registration on the blockchain. The NFT (non-fungible tokens) framework is a registry subsystem which enables the community to register physical or digital assets on the Crown blockchain.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WE9ikiSieQvyiM0iSY7hJh1h6HXIdQZJFD9jkJPW6dc

CROWN NFT Framework Paper: https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-platform-nft-framework-18d88f9db76


Crown Paper 1.0 - Governance
In this paper, the Crown team provides a brief background on the platform, introduces its governance concepts, and outlines how the project will interact with both the technology and the community. https://crownplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/CRW1.0-Governance.pdf

Crown Paper 1.1 - Identity In this paper, Crown defines its concept of identity and explores the key driver behind the platform’s development and success. https://crownplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/CRW1.1-Identity.pdf

Crown Paper 2.0 - Introduction & Features
In this paper, the Crown team introduces the core entities that will form the platform, and the design principles it will use alongside the development process.
https://crownplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/CRW2.0-Introduction-Features.pdf

Crown Paper 3.0 - Applications
In this paper, Crown’s team describes its vision of how applications will fit into the platform, and how the platform will allow those applications to operate as business entities. https://crownplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/CRW3.0-Applications.pdf

Crown Paper 4.0 - Combinations & Permutations
In this paper, the Crown team explains what makes the project unique, detailing some of the proposed use models for its platform. https://crownplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/CRW4.0-Combinations.pdf

Crown Paper 5.0 - Symbols, Skyhooks & Survival
In this paper, the Crown team discusses the power and significance of symbols, revealing the meaning behind its namesake headdress. https://crownplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/CRW5.0-Symbols.pdf

Crown Paper 6.0 - Sharing & Open Teams
In this paper, Crown contextualizes the relationship between economic, social and technological change, delving into how these connections influence blockchain technology and Crown’s future goals. https://crownplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/CRW6.0-Team.pdf

Crown Paper 7.0 - A Personal Story
In this paper, one of Crown’s team members describes why he became involved with the platform. https://crownplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/CRW7.0-Stories.pdf

Crown Paper 8.0 - Crown Atomic Features
In this paper, the Crown team discusses three development proposals for the community at large to consider and vote on. https://crownplatform.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/CRW8.0-Atomic.pdf

STYLING GUIDE
http://nextcloud.crownplatform.com/nextcloud/s/QapQ3eB2TFokCeQ


Contact: https://www.crownplatform.com/contact-us/



FILIP MAJOR FOUNDER OF CROWNCOIN (PRECURSOR TO CROWNPLATFORM)
https://cz.linkedin.com/in/filip-major-7937b868

JAN BRODY FOUNDER OF CROWNCOIN (PRECURSOR TO CROWNPLATFORM)
New account: https://medium.com/@janbrody

PAUL JENKINSON INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER
https://twitter.com/DevPJ

CROWN CENTRALE https://twitter.com/CrownPlatform

EDWARD MORRA CROWN SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR
https://twitter.com/EdwardMorra_CRW

CAL NAUGHTON JR CROWN Platform Business Development
https://twitter.com/NaughtonJnr

ARTEM BRAZHNIKOV CROWN TECH LEAD
https://www.linkedin.com/in/artembrazhnikov/
https://twitter.com/dev_artem

ASHOT KHACHATRYAN CROWN C++ DEVELOPER
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashkhachatryan/
https://twitter.com/ashkhachatryanh

Aitor Ibañez CROWN C++ JavaScript developer & frontend & smartContracts
https://twitter.com/aitoribanez_

CHRIS KIBBLE CROWN PR & MARKETING
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-kibble-test-manager/
https://twitter.com/Chr1s_K1

MATT BLACK CROWN webdeveloper
https://twitter.com/the_mattblack

OLYA SUHOVIRSKAYA CROWN SOCMA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/olya-suhovirskaya-1b363215b/

DAN JAMES CROWN STRATEGY ADVISOR
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amesdaniel/

DAVE MIDNIGHT CROWN engineer
https://twitter.com/crowntechltd

INIGO VAN DIJK WEB DEVELOPMENT
https://twitter.com/CrownInUa

And others CROWN contributors at: https://discordapp.com/invite/rB3Kr86

[ReD_Yaka_MoZ_]

CROWN CRW exploit MN with RaspiBlitz New Version 1.4 released

This release has 2 assets:

Source code (zip)
Source code (tar.gz)

https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz/releases/tag/v1.4

Beside many small improvements and changes, these are most important changes:

the full Tutorial how to build a RaspiBlitz in the README https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz/blob/master/README.md or follow the instructions to update to the latest version https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz/blob/master/README.md#updating-raspiblitz-to-new-version

Update: LND version 0.9.0-beta
Update: bitcoin-core version 19.0.1-beta
Update: litecoin version 0.17.1-beta
Update: RTL (Ride the Lightning) Web UI version 0.6.7-beta (redesign)
Update: Touchscreen UI (Node Info & Donate)
Update: Fee Report on LCD
Update: TORv2 -> TORv3
Update: New Torrent files
New: ElectRS (Electrum Server in Rust) details
New: BTCPayServer (Cryptocurrency Payment Processor) details
New: LNDmanage (Advanced Channel Management CLI) details
New: BTC-RPC-Explorer (Bitcoin Blockchain Explorer) details
New: Loop (Submarine Swaps Service) details
New: LNBits (Lightning wallet/accounts System) details
New: Fully Noded (iOS) details
New: TOR Support to connect mobile Apps
New: Migration Export/Import (e.g. HDD -> SSD) details
New: Start without LCD (switch to HDMI) details
New: Recovery Sheet (PDF) details
Experimental: BTRFS details
update: New Shopping Lists with RaspberryPi 4
Update: LND version 0.7.1-beta (fix for CVE-2019-12999)
Update: bitcoin-core version 0.18.1-beta
Update: RTL (Ride the Lightning) Web UI version 0.4.2 -beta
Update: Blockchain Index not needed anymore
Update: New Torrent files
New: Logo (see folder raspiblitz/logos)
New: Sync/Validate Blockchain as default for RP4
New: Switch on TOR during setup
New: Support Zap Mobile for Android
New: Repair Options in main menu
New: UPNP (AutoNAT) support in services menu
New: LCD rotate 180 degrees in services menu
Fix: TOR switch on/off
Fix: Zap iOS Mobile Wallet connect
Fix: Shango Mobile Wallet connect
Experimental: LCD Touchscreen Support
Experimental: UPS support (APC) details

[crowncoin_knight]

https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-development-meeting-minutes-17-02-2020-274f0388e916


Crown development meeting minutes 17/02/2020
Just the facts, ma’am

Present: artem, crowncoin-knight, pjcltd, walkjivefly

There was no development progress meeting last week. Artem is too busy during the day now so we have moved the meeting to Monday evenings.

Does the Emerald release absolutely have to be a hard fork release? If so, how will it be activated?
Artem thinks we should upgrade the protocol version for the new release and cut off old version nodes/wallets after a couple of weeks. Given the recent problems with testnet instability walkjivefly agreed. Theoretically Jade clients should ignore NFT transactions and be able to mint blocks containing them, but the presence of non v0.13.9.3 nodes on testnet is suspected to have contributed to its instability.

A very provisional timetable for the Emerald release is mainnet release around 2 March, protocol enforcing from two weeks later. This will mean the whole network is NFT capable two or three weeks before Coinfest UK (3–5 April) and we will be able to demonstrate NFT applications at the event. This is subject to

* Artem having time to review and fix the latest NFT protocol validation bugs and testnet remaining stable after he releases a new build to test a protocol version change and enforcing.
* No insurmountable obstacles from our exchange partners if presented with Emerald being a hard fork release.

The state of testing completeness
As reported previously there has been very little community participation in NFT framework testing. There have been some practical difficulties for anyone who would like to participate. We had to rewind the chain on 9/10 February to the 16 January snapshot to resolve some incompatibilities introduced by the enhancement requests in v0.13.9.3.

walkjivefly conducted some basic framework command validation last week and encountered a number of problems for which he opened new issues. These were intentional attempts to break things, not expected to occur under “normal” circumstances. Other testing that we’re aware of has amounted to little more than creating some protocols and tokens. There hasn’t been any application-level testing in the public testnet. If anyone has been conducting sandbox testing please let us know.

At the end of last week testnet fractured into at least three chains and proved difficult and time-consuming (ie: all weekend) to restore.
Review of open testnet issues. How/when will the remaining open issues be addressed? Which ones MUST be fixed before release, which ones can be deferred?

Artem will review the protocol and token validation issues. These are fundamental things which MUST be addressed. Testnet stability/locking issues will be monitored after Artem pushes a protocol version bump. To help with this pjcltd will add a bunch of additional testnet nodes on the servers he manages. In this way we should be able to extend testnet from around a dozen nodes to between about 30 and 40.
Some issues will be deferred until after the Emerald release. At that point we will probably completely re-initialise testnet and then see which are still extant.

Probability of getting the bitcore API completed in time for inclusion in the release?
Artem doesn’t have the bandwidth to do this, and definitely not before our target release date. He estimates there may be a month of full time work required. He has discussed this with defunctec and crowncoin-knight who will see if they can find an external developer to complete it. The chances of getting it done in time for the Chronovault use-case to be ready before Coinfest are slim but not entirely impossible.

State of readiness for the marketing campaign?
crowncoin-knight reported the marketing team have secured the funding required for the marketing plan. Materials are being prepared and should be ready for a March campaign launch, in parallel with the Emerald code release.

[crowncoin_knight]

https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-development-meeting-minutes-24-02-2020-e33b15daa44c


Crown development meeting minutes 24/02/2020
Just the facts, ma’am

Present: Alexander, artem, Crownfan, crowncoin-knight, pjcltd, walkjivefly

Artem spent the weekend working on the registration issues opened by walkjivefly. Since he couldn’t connect to testnet (for reasons unknown) he worked in his sandbox. He has reproduced some of the issues, identified the problems and will try to push a new build tonight.
He thinks the testnet instability problems are probably not related to the NFT framework.

Ashot was not present but sent a message via crowncoin-knight saying he would soon resume work on the codebase update.

* Testnet stability has improved since the last rewind and blocking of “unknown” nodes. Defunctec did some analysis which suggests the much increased superblock frequency in testnet could be a contributory factor to the instability, probably more so than the old version nodes which connect sometimes.

* walkjivefly asked if Artem could push a new build which reduces the testnet superblock frequency to the same as mainnet and refuses connections from old protocol nodes. If such a build proved more stable it would give us confidence that Emerald should not suffer the instability problems seen in testnet.

* He also asked if having chosen an activation block for disconnecting old nodes, mainnet could refuse NFT transactions before that block is reached in order to prevent any invalid transactions sneaking into the chain and perhaps causing issues later. Artem prefers to enable the NFT functionality with a spork because a skilled attacker could fake an NFT transaction without using the nftproto or nftoken RPCs.

* pjcltd has a pool of 20 additional virtual machines ready to start as soon as he’s given the build number to use. This will increase the size from about a dozen nodes to just over 30 and should help improve the stability for the remainder of the testing period.

* Alexander and pjcltd are working on including new testnet DNS seednodes in the next release which will further improve the testnet stability and ease of adding new nodes.

* We may create a completely new testnet (with a whole new datadir) for the codebase update.

walkjivefly asked how confident are we of being technically ready for a very provisional timetable of Emerald release on 2 March, NFT activation and protocol enforcing on 16 March. Artem wants to address all of the known NFT issues before release. Given our resource availability situation a more achievable plan is to aim for a 9 March release date and protocol enforcing on 23 March.

Crownfan explained the Emerald marketing campaign is in development and close to being ready. It will be deployed in stages with each one building on the previous. We need to be certain that the code is ready to go at the advertised block height/date before launching the campaign. Once launched much of the message will take on a life of it’s own due to organic/viral growth and cannot be altered or stopped. If the cutover doesn’t happen on the announced date the campaign will be much less effective or even wasted.

We have put out feelers to exchange partners about the update. We need to give them two weeks notice of the protocol enforcing cutover point and provide the repository link to the release candidate code in Gitlab.

After lengthy discussion of all the factors we have settled on a provisional timetable of Emerald mainnet release on or around 9 March, protocol enforcing and NFT functionality on 23 March. This gives us a bit over a week to resolve the necessary stability and NFT issues, two full weekends for people to upgrade their nodes, sufficient notice period for our exchange partners, and a short window for contributors to rollout the first NFT use-cases, including Crowncards, before Coinfest 2020 in Manchester on 3–5 April.

[ReD_Yaka_MoZ_]

The ecosystem has significantly changed in a year. Investors continue to pour in, success stories are numerous, new typologies of projects are developing (other than gaming), communities are constantly growing, the whole space is getting more mature...there is no doubt, we moved to the next level! It has been a big challenge to develop this report in order to reflect an ecosystem as vast and dynamic as the NFT one! The goal of this second edition of the NFT Yearly Report is to give everyone an overview of the trends, and to reflect in the most faithful way the incredible dynamic that is now driving the NFT and Blockchain Gaming industry

We are extremely proud and excited to announce the official release of our 2019 Annual Report on the non-fungible token ecosystem. The purpose of this report is to give everyone all the keys to understanding the dynamics and forces that govern the NFT ecosystem economy.

This article provides additional analysis to go further and highlight the trends observable in the report.

Do players regularly play blockchain games?
Between art, RPG and collectibles which sector is driving the growth of NFT?
How can we track the overall performance of a blockchain application? What are the metrics to monitor?
Which projects are the “whales” investing in?
What type of assets do players speculate on most?
What is the overall liquidity of the NFTs? And by project?
What has been the evolution of the NFT Market Cap since the creation of the standard in 2017?
What can we hope for in 2020? What are the market forecasts?
You will find the answers to all these questions (and many more) in the yearly report available here https://nonfungible.com/static/nft-report-2019.pdf


Observation #1 - 2019 has been a year of stabilization
The first observation in 2019 is that the overall figures for the year may appear to be below expectations, with a 4% drop in USD traded compared to 2018 and an increase of only 1% regarding active addresses through the year.

These results echo the first trends observed in the first half of 2019, and analyzed in our dedicated article .

Our analysis of these numbers is that the ecosystem continues to stabilize following the pre-sale craze that followed the ICO frenzy.

Projects continue to multiply (as made evident by the number of active Smart Contracts), the resulting UX are gradually being resolved, the ecosystem is currently in a phase of consolidation and stabilization. We believe that the industry continues to gain maturity in terms of user experience, good practices, and that it is preparing overall for the challenges that await it in the coming years for mass adoption.


Observation #2 - Leaders are heckled by newcomers
We found the major projects we knew in 2018 without much surprise, but most of them had to leave first place on the podium for a new entrant or a project that has been able to strengthen their position during the year.

CryptoKitties remains by far the leader in terms of transactions over the past year, but we can observe a gradual erosion of its volumes during 2019, going from nearly 300,000 transactions per month to just under 100,000.
Decentraland , which seemed unbeatable from a USD transferred volume standpoint, has given way to two new players who hit the markets in 2019: Gods Unchained and Ethereum Name Service.

My Crypto Heroes maintains its first place in terms of community size with more than 15,000 players over the year, but closely followed by CryptoKitties.


Observation #3 - Three (3) projects bring together 50% of the players
Between January and December 2019, CryptoKitties, 0xUniverse and MyCryptoHeroes 4 times represent more than 50% of the entire blockchain gaming community on Ethereum.

This is the reflection of an ecosystem that is still very polarized around historic players. Note, however, a gradual depolarization compared to the first half of 2018.

Observation #4 - The exhaustion of collectibles
Collectibles were more or less the first major use case of NFT with CryptoPunks and CryptoKitties followed by the hundreds of projects and initiatives which followed with more or less success.


The volumes by project type highlighted the collapse of collectibles in favor of other use cases.

Observation #5 - Art, TCG & RPG - The major trends for the upcoming years?
Conversely, the projects mixing Art and Blockchain have experienced a certain boom, seeing their statistics more than triple during the year. Although volumes remain small compared to other project typologies, this growth is one of the strongest identified over the year.

RPGs came in second place in terms of player volumes, while TCGs more than doubled their transaction volume and active addresses.

Observation #6 - Whales are (slowly) diversifying their portfolio

Most of the speculation has been going on Decentraland so far, but in 2019 we saw a gradual diversification of investment from historic pinball machines.

Among the projects that now attract pinball machines, we can count Somnium Space, Gods Unchained, CryptoVoxels but also Blockchain Cuties and CryptoSpaceCommander, for volumes often close to $100,000 per project.

Observation #7 - Champions of Engagement vs. Market Champions
Two main typologies emerged from the NFT IDs:

Engagement Champions Market Champions
The champions of engagement offer a user experience that is truly attractive to the greatest number, and have already attracted a large volume of players. Their focus is not on the value of assets and the game logic does not encourage speculation, but the use of assets.

Their map develops mainly in the upper left corner.
On the other hand, some projects have very active markets backed by high-value assets (over $100 on average). Having a dense market does not necessarily reflect a rich end-user experience or even a bright future as a game.

The map of these projects tends to expand towards the lower left corner, sometimes to the detriment of the rest of the map.

Observation #8 - Almost 90% of the NFTs have not circulated during the past year
Although NFT marketplaces are experiencing considerable growth and undoubtedly play a crucial role in the ecosystem, data collected in 2019 showed that just over 10% of the assets created circulated over the year. It is interesting to note that the rate is identical to that observed over the previous year.

So while the economic dimension of the NFT ecosystem provides an interesting glimpse into the financial health of the industry, it currently only relates to a small portion of its assets.


Observation #9 - NFTs represent a value creation of more than $200M
The Market Cap of the NFT ecosystem, all projects and all assets totaled $210M in 2019, with a Market Cap forecast of $315M.

This market capitalization was calculated by multiplying the volume of assets in each project by the average market value of those assets.

This market capitalization is interesting to study because it represents a gross value creation of more than $200M from scratch in less than two years.

Observation # 10 - New KPIs - reflections of a more mature ecosystem
This new edition of the report was an opportunity to publish brand new indicators that allow us to better understand the reality of the ecosystem as a whole but also project by project. Whether it is a snapshot over the year or a month-by-month or year-by-year evolution, we will gradually generalize the use of the indicators that seem most relevant to us, such as:

# Penetration rate
# Isolation rate
# Liquidity ratio
# Trends by project category
# NFT IDs, based on all previous metrics

Crown is at the forefront of this pioneering market that inhibits intermediary multi-media and allows addressing any kind of non-fungible asset deployed without a secure, tamper-proof, everywhere accessible ecosystem.

This technology is transposable for all types of goods, collection cards, art, inheritance, health data, insurance, logistics tracking, authentication, IoT routing, quantum time-stamped A.I....  🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀

more info at: https://www.crownplatform.com/

Maybe, it's time to get on the board

[crowncoin_knight]

https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-development-meeting-minutes-03-03-2020-71eaf6451a77

Crown development meeting minutes 03/03/2020
Just the facts, ma’am

Present: artem, ashot, crowncoin-knight, Crownfan, walkjivefly

Artem pushed fixes for the testnet NFT validation issues.

Ashot did not give his report because we took items out of order but said he would be able to help with the Emerald release cutover if necessary.

Testnet stability has been good for the last three days. We have 34 nodes and a few wallets all on the same chain. The NFT validation issues are resolved. Based on this we think it is safe to proceed with the v0.14.0 “Emerald” release. There was a misunderstanding last week about the mechanics of the protocol enforcing cutover and NFT activation. Artem will not be available on 23 March so the timetable changed slightly. The plan is:

* Release on or by 9 March
* Protocol enforcing and old node disconnection at 06:00 UTC on Tuesday 24 March
* NFT framework activation at 10:00 UTC on Tuesday 24 March.

The marketing team are ready to launch the campaign.

Community developer, Sirak, has completed the work on Crown Electrum and it is working perfectly with Trezor Model T. We expect it to also work with Trezor One when/if Trezor release a firmware update for it. They usually issues releases on the first Wednesday of the month so there is a possibility of it happening today. Crownfan asked ashot to assist with getting the Crown Electrum executables into the Github/Gitlab repos since Sirak doesn’t have the authority to do so. We will publish a Medium article when the “end-user” executables are ready for download. Until then, adventurous souls/experienced command line warriors can clone the Gitlab or Github repos and build the code for themselves.

[crowncoin_knight]

Crown is on Trezor! Electrum-Crown v1.2 release

CRW light wallet with Trezor support

Crowndev has released electrum-crown v1.2. This release includes support for the TREZOR hardware wallet. If you are a Trezor T user, you can update your firmware to v2.2.0 and start using the popular hardware device with Electrum-Crown.

What else can electrum-crown do?
Electrum-crown is a light wallet to send, receive and store CRW. It also allows users to import and export private keys and Coinomi passphrases.

What is a hardware wallet?
It is a special type of security device allowing users to store their cryptocurrency holdings.

What is Trezor?
Trezor is a leading cryptocurrency hardware wallet. It enables you to make secure payments and manage cryptocurrencies without exposing any sensitive information to a potentially compromised computer.

What is coming next for Electrum-Crown?
Crown contributors are eager to enable Masternode management through electrum-crown. This would allow to store the private keys in a hardware wallet, giving Crown users extra security for their funds. If you want to get engaged with this implementation, join the Crown community!

Download Electrum-Crown v1.2 for Linux and Windows:

https://www.crownplatform.com/wallet/

Visit the Trezor Wiki:

https://wiki.trezor.io

[AyouthR]

The tokenization of video games on CROWN (CRW) next crypto growth to skyrocket?

The blockchain can - and must - be used for purposes other than the transfer of currencies and values. It seems obvious that products such as video games and digital art can be tokenized and monetized, giving them the opportunity to circulate in a peer-to-peer community using blockchain technology. To this end, the CROWN blockchain community may launch its #NFT digital game and collectible creation platform.

A platform for game design and commercialization - why do it?
Digital collectibles, non-fungible or fungible goods and game ecosystems based on the blockchain are rapidly gaining ground as a potentially lucrative industry.

They offer individuals and businesses a way to effectively monetize online viral elements and branded products.  The industry has attracted big players such as Microsoft, Formula 1 and Atari, the developer of the iconic video games Tetris and Pac Man.

Non-fungible tokens for easy to use interfaces
Unlike many digital tokens and currencies, non-fungible tokens embody a new form of digital collection. They are called "non-fungible" because they are not interchangeable, because they carry unique information in the form of metadata, and because they vary in their level of rarity.

https://i.ibb.co/sV0wc1j/Crown-CRW-NFT-possibility-skyrocket-GO.jpg

These tokens provide users with a simplified interface for designing and marketing their games. Thus, they will not need to have prior mastery of code, engineering and blockchain infrastructure skills to create and market their games.

It is clear that technological developments such as NFTs and games are potential areas that can help propagate and broaden the appeal of the blockchain and its prospects for exploitation and use cases .

Creators of games and other products will also have the opportunity to use a crowdfunding model based on the blockchain hosted by CROWN's voting system (already deployed) to raise capital for their development needs in return for digital currencies or in-game assets to be used or exchanged. Clearly, this is a revolution in the making.
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I agree with your analysis and would add that tokenization of financial assets will lead Bitcoin and multiple crypto technologies like Crown from 200 billion to 200 trillion capitalization.

Thanks to cryptomoney thus makes "bankable" people who traditionally do not have access to the capital offered by banks.

Unlike banks :

# The universal value of cryptos: a Bitcoin / Crown will always be a Bitcoin / Crown anywhere in the world;
# Of the international reach of the blockchain: Your credit line will not be reset if you change banks and countries;
# Less transaction friction thanks to the blockchain: a transfer that is far faster than those made by banks using SWIFT;
# A more advantageous remuneration of deposits: an annual interest rate on deposits of up to 10%, 5 to 10 times more than those offered by most banks.

[crowncoin_knight]

https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-v0-14-emerald-released-f710c0206555

Crown v0.14 “Emerald” released
NFT Framework will activate on 24/03/2020

Today we are pleased to announce the release of Crown v0.14 “Emerald”. This is a major release and a mandatory upgrade. Crown Emerald includes the NFT Framework code. It is available for download here:

https://www.crownplatform.com/wallet/

ALL nodes and wallets MUST upgrade before 06:00 UTC on 24 March 2020 or they will be cut off from the network. Any node rewards earned, or transactions initiated by previous version clients after that time will NOT be valid on the v0.14 network.
Users have approximately two full weeks, including two weekends to upgrade their nodes and wallets before the cutoff time.
The cutoff will be enforced by a protocol version upgrade which means masternodes and systemnodes must be restarted after upgrading them and the controlling wallet.

Please report bugs through the Help, Guides and Support board at the Crown Forum or through Discord:

https://forum.crownplatform.com/index.php?board=5.0

https://discordapp.com/invite/WXhj2y3

How to upgrade
The next time your current (QT) wallet starts it should prompt you to download the update. The executables for Linux, Mac and Windows are available to download from Github.

Upgrade command for Linux wallets, masternodes and systemnodes:

sudo curl -s https://gitlab.crownplatform.com/crown/crown-core/raw/master/scripts/crown-server-install.sh | bash -s

The basic upgrade procedure is to shutdown your existing version, replace the executable with the new version, and restart. This is true for wallets, masternodes and systemnodes. The exact procedure depends on how you setup the wallet and/or node in the first place. If you use a managed hosting service for your node(s), it is possible they will upgrade them for you, but you will need to upgrade your wallet.
You are recommended to upgrade the controlling wallet before upgrading any nodes in order to minimise the node downtime. The protocol version is changed in this release so you must issue a start command from the upgraded controlling wallet for any masternode or systemnode after upgrading the node.

When a large number of nodes concurrently go offline and come online again it can cause network instability. If you are a node operator or individual with a large number of nodes we ask you to upgrade them sequentially if possible, or in small batches of no more than five at a time, to reduce the risk of destabilising the chain.

What’s new — Crown Core v0.14 “Emerald” features
NFT framework
Crown Core v0.14 “Emerald” is the mainnet release of the non-fungible token (NFT) framework. We have worked long and hard to deliver this unique implementation. Our thanks go to developer Artem for his persistence and dedication, and to the Crown community for continuing to prioritise development funding through very lean times.

There are no changes to the consensus rules, superblock interval or node rewards in this release. The NFT framework provides two new RPCs to register and query NFT protocols and tokens, turning the Crown blockchain into an assetchain.

The NFT framework will be activated at 10:00 UTC on 24 March 2020, shortly after all old version nodes have been disconnected from the network. Until that time the new RPCs are disabled and will report the NFT framework is not yet active.

The new RPCs are:
nftproto which registers and queries NFT protocols.
nftoken which registers and queries individual non-fungible tokens.

More documentation on the NFT Framework is available here:

https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-platform-nft-framework-18d88f9db76

https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-platform-nft-framework-part-2-f713fe6cd81c

The framework is nothing without community and 3rd-party developer participation and utilisation. The very first NFT use-case, Crowncards, is ready to roll out the moment the framework comes online.

https://crwcards.com


We described the idea in a recent Medium aticle and the originator, defunctec, has progressed to implementation. He has already taken orders which will be fulfilled as soon as the framework activates.

There are other use-cases in development which we hope will roll out in the days after the framework launch.

Other notable changes
A testnet version of the installation/update script, crown-server-install.sh which simplifies setting up a bare testnet wallet or node.
Some enhancements to the spendfrom.py script which simplify consolidating MN/SN rewards or other cases of multiple transactions sent to a single address.

sandbox.py environment creation and management script for testing independent of the public testnet.
Updated references to Crown Platform home URL wherever it is used in our Gitlab and Github repositories.
Updated mainnet seednodes.

Thank you for your continued support of the Crown Platform project.



https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-development-meeting-minutes-09-03-2020-c76bb5f8a8f0

Crown development meeting minutes 09/03/2020
Just the facts, ma’am

Present: ashot, crowncoin-knight, Crownfan, walkjivefly

Artem couldn’t make the meeting but hopefully everyone knows by now he made the final merge for Crown Core v0.14 “Emerald” on 9 March and the code was finally released. The NFT framework will activate at 10:00 UTC on 24 March.

Ashot has resumed work on the Bitcoin v0.17 codebase update. He expects to spend about 10 hours per week on the project and estimates it is about 70% complete. He is working on a sync issue and a couple of QT wallet problems. He thinks the basic codebase could be ready for testnet in about 3–4 weeks. Before that can happen though, the NFT framework must be merged in. The NFT framework code is structured in a largely standalone manner. He thinks he’ll need about a week of effort to merge it without calling on Artem for assistance.

Because of the way he has done the codebase integration Crown should, by default, get all of the new features Bitcoin introduced between versions 11 and 17. Some of the highlights include pruning, BIP65, HD wallets, multiple wallets, replace-by-fee transactions, segwit, Bech32 addresses, TOR support. It’s possible some of the new features will prove to be incompatible or otherwise difficult to include but at this point he’s expecting to include all of them.

NFT testnet will remain operational until the NFT framework activation in mainnet on 24 March for anyone who wants to test/experiment, but with a reduced node count. We’ll tear it down and replace it with a new testnet from the genesis block for the codebase testing.




https://medium.com/crownplatform/emerald-update-progress-report-693eba88daf3

Emerald update progress report
The first of two planned progress reports

Crown v0.14 “Emerald” was released four days ago and the community is making good progress upgrading nodes and wallets.

As of 13:12 UTC on 13 March 2020 the upgraded and total node counts are:

- Masternodes: 261 upgraded of 979 total
- Systemnodes: 505 upgraded of 1027 total

which is fractionally over 38% upgraded.

Remember that you must update your nodes and wallets before 06:00 on 24 March. The NFT framework is scheduled to activate four hours later at 10:00 on 24 March.

Updating nodes and wallets is a very simple task, one which you could do this weekend in less than ten minutes.

Linux users
For each linux node or wallet it’s a simple copy and paste of a one line command:
sudo curl -s https://gitlab.crownplatform.com/crown/crown-core/raw/master/scripts/crown-server-install.sh | bash -s
This will download the update/installation script and run it. The script will download the update, shutdown the wallet or node, unpack the update over the old version and restart the wallet or node.

Windows and Mac users
The process is a manual one but still very simple; you just have to replicate the actions of the linux upgrade script.
Download the Windows 64-bit or MacOS or MacOS DMG update.
Shutdown the wallet.
Open the downloaded update. This will unzip it into a directory in your downloads folder. Navigate to the Crown-v0.14.0.0-Emerald\bin folder.
Copy the executables over the old ones.
Restart the wallet.

In which order should I do things?
We recommend updating your wallet before updating any nodes. After updating any nodes you need to issue a new start command from the controlling wallet.




https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-development-meeting-minutes-16-03-2020-39d2ee9c3d9d


Crown development meeting minutes 16/03/2020
Just the facts, ma’am

Present: crowncoin-knight, pjcltd, walkjivefly

Artem couldn’t make the meeting.

Ashot couldn’t make the meeting but sent a report: he has identified the cause of the sync problem mentioned last week and is working on the fix.

NFT testnet is still running and will remain operational until the NFT activation in mainnet on 24 March, for anyone who wants to test/experiment, but with a reduced node count. We expect to tear it down and replace it with a new testnet from the genesis block for the codebase testing. Anyone wishing to test NFT applications outside of mainnet after the activation can use a sandbox environment.

The Emerald update is going well, over 48% of the network has upgraded. There have been a couple of reported sync problems but they’re not related to the actual update.

The sync problems (with new nodes) may have been due to DNS seeder issues. The infra team are investigating and will make sure the seednodes are up.





https://medium.com/crownplatform/emerald-update-progress-report-6de3f0060b00


Emerald update progress report
The second of two planned progress reports

Crown v0.14 “Emerald” was released eleven days ago. The community has made further good progress upgrading nodes and wallets since the first report last week.

As of 12:48 UTC on 20 March 2020 the upgraded and total node counts are:

Masternodes: 486 upgraded of 869 total
Systemnodes: 702 upgraded of 986 total

which is fractionally over 64% upgraded.

The figures for 13 March were:

Masternodes: 261 upgraded of 979 total
Systemnodes: 405 upgraded of 1027 total

That’s an extra 522 nodes updated and total node count reduction of 151 nodes. Thank you to the hosting operators and individual community members who have already upgraded.

We expect most of the “missing” nodes to come back online as v0.14 Emerald nodes. Until they do masternodes are earning a roughly 19% ROI and systemnodes a whopping 50% ROI (excluding server expenses).

Remember that you must update your nodes and wallets before 06:00 on Tuesday 24 March. Any node rewards earned, or transactions initiated by previous version clients after that time will NOT be valid on the v0.14 network.

The NFT framework is scheduled to activate at 10:00 on Tuesday 24 March.

Updating nodes and wallets is a very simple task, one which you could do this weekend in less than ten minutes.

Linux users
For each linux node or wallet it’s a simple copy and paste of a one line command:
sudo curl -s https://gitlab.crownplatform.com/crown/crown-core/raw/master/scripts/crown-server-install.sh | bash -s
This will download the update/installation script and run it. The script will download the update, shutdown the wallet or node, unpack the update over the old version and restart the wallet or node.

Windows and Mac users
The process is a manual one but still very simple; you just have to replicate the actions of the linux upgrade script.
Download the Windows 64-bit or MacOS or MacOS DMG update.
Shutdown the wallet.
Open the downloaded update. This will unzip it into a directory in your downloads folder. Navigate to the Crown-v0.14.0.0-Emerald\bin folder.
Copy the executables over the old ones.
Restart the wallet.

In which order should I do things?
We recommend updating your wallet before updating any nodes. After updating any nodes you need to issue a new start command from the controlling wallet.

Something to watch out for
Sometimes an updated node can appear stubborn about not wanting to restart properly. The status reported by your wallet may be different from what the node thinks about it’s own status. If you send a start-alias command from an updated, synced wallet to an updated, synced node, and that node does not report it’s status as “Masternode successfully started” then wait two hours and re-try the start-alias command.
This behaviour is not unique to Crown, but is common across all masternode coins. We are aware of three cases since the Emerald rollout started. All three were resolved as described above.





https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-development-meeting-minutes-23-03-2020-d537d88b8c39

Crown development meeting minutes 23/03/2020
Just the fact, ma’am

Present: ashot, Crownfan, crowncoin-knight, walkjivefly

Artem couldn’t make the meeting. With Emerald released and programmed to disconnect old nodes and activate the NFT framework tomorrow, he’s had no Crown work to do for the last couple of weeks. He’ll be on hand tomorrow in the event of any unforeseen problems. Hopefully at the next or following meeting he will present a design doc and time estimate for NFT trading functionality.

Ashot has been working on the sync issue with PoS blocks. He still has some UI, MN and SN items to address and estimates he is about 80% ready for testnet. He has also been working on modifying the FlipsideCrypto chainwalker so it can understand NFT transactions ahead of the framework activation tomorrow.

NFT testnet is still running and will remain operational after NFT activation in mainnet tomorrow. Ashot has decided it will be useful to use it for the codebase update so it gets exercised on all the block creation methods we have used.

The Emerald update is going well, over 75% of the network has upgraded. The old node cutoff and NFT activation are programmed in and will happen automatically tomorrow at 06:00 UTC and 10:00 UTC respectively. Everyone who has updated their nodes can look forward to a significant reward boost until the laggards realise they are on the wrong chain and update. Any rewards earned, or transactions initiated by 0.13.4 nodes after 06:00 tomorrow, will NOT be valid on the Emerald chain.

The NFT marketing campaign will kick into high gear tomorrow. The press release is already with the news amplifier service and will start appearing in downstream services in the next couple of days.





https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-emerald-press-release-d79436340a2e

Crown Platform activates “Emerald” NFT’s
In-house NFT Framework to tokenise assets on the Crown blockchain

- Crown Core v0.14 “Emerald” brings the NFT Framework to mainnet.
- The NFT Framework enables decentralised, non-fungible token issuance for tokenisation of assets on the Crown blockchain.
- Artem Brazhnikov, Crown Platform technology lead, author of the in-house NFT innovation.
- The decentralised registry functionality activates on March 24.

Crown Platform, a community driven cryptocurrency (CRW) and application platform, has released the Crown Core v0.14 “Emerald” NFT Framework, its latest technological in-house innovation. The Crown Platform NFT Framework enables the tokenisation of assets on the Crown blockchain by the issuance of protocols and tokens. With this release, authored by technology lead Artem Brazhnikov, Crown Platform extends its functionality to serve as a decentralised and immutable registry: an asset-chain.

Issue protocols and tokens on the Crown Platform starting March 24.

“The NFT Framework is a way to tokenise assets without writing any asset-specific code.”

Starting March 24, individuals, businesses and institutions can become issuers of unique protocols and tokens, specifying their rules and participating in the creation of a decentralised on-chain registry linked to the CRW public-key cryptography and powered by a highly secure Masternode Proof of Stake consensus mechanism. The Crown Platform development has been focused on the usability of the framework. That is why no additional coding language is needed to program the tokens, unlike Ethereum’s ‘Solidity’ approach. As Artem Brazhnikov puts it, “the NFT Framework is a way to tokenise assets without writing any asset-specific code”.

NFT structure: Create a protocol and define its rules. Now you can issues tokens within that protocol!
The NFT Framework represents a central part of the always evolving Crown Platform ecosystem. NFT applications range from registry of digital and physical assets to the extension of Crown’s governance and consensus structures through additional possibilities of registry, authentication and documenting. This development milestone is a big step forward for the Crown Platform and it’s enthusiastic community, and there are more to follow. Implementing instant NFT transactions for non-fungible asset exchange and trading are among the top development priorities, together with the soon to be released Bitcoin v0.17 codebase update.

Crown stakeholders have been working on this pioneering cryptocurrency project for years, allowing Crown Platform to evolve through its Decentralized Governance and Proposal System, an algorithmic voting and funding mechanism that allows the Crown Platform project to self-sustain its path towards further technological and social innovation. By doing so, Crown Platform is creating an alternative, decentralised economy based on it’s native fair-launch coin, CRW.

The Crown Platform community is committed to enabling an open, decentralised, and community governed infrastructure, supporting functionalities that leverage the potentials of blockchain technology while remaining truthful to decentralisation and permission-less interaction in a cryptographically secure and incentivised peer-to-peer network. New users are joining Crown Platform everyday, adding new ideas to build on it’s technology.
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A detailed reach report will be published after the campaign is completed.
Thank you for supporting the Crown Platform project.

[crowncoin_knight]

Crown development meeting minutes 30/03/2020
Just the facts, ma’am

Present: artem, Crownfan, crowncoin-knight, pjcltd, walkjivefly

NFTs are unusable in mainnet due to a configuration issue. Artem has created a v0.14.0.1 patch which is undergoing testing. We hope that this will result in a non-mandatory update in the near future.

Ashot missed the meeting but sent a short report: he has fixed the sync issue and is working on masternode/systemnode sync issues. He made three commits in Gitlab since the last meeting. He hasn’t completed the chainwalker update because of the mainnet NFT problem.

NFT testnet is stalled and out of commission until it is rewound to a recent snapshot or issue 335 is resolved.

About 82% of the network updated to the Emerald version before old nodes were disconnected.

Once NFTs are fully operational the bootstrap creation and use will have to include a snapshot of the platform folder.

[CookyCook72]

is very nice news for business

[AyouthR]

Gemini Launches a Marketplace for NFTs (Non Fungible Token)

Good news for users of NF Tokens (NFTs) such as CROWN CRW because the Gemini Exchange has just launched Nifty Marketplace 2.0 to buy, sell or store NFTs. Following this launch, which is the result of the recent acquisition of Nifty Gateway, Gemini hopes to win even more users and attract even more users. This new feature is sure to be a success, as the new marketplace aims to establish itself as a fully-fledged centralized USD-based digital exchange for NFTs.

Nifty Marketplace 2.0, how does it work?
In their launch message, the managers of this new platform clearly state that it is a centralized exchange based on the dollar only, for the NFTs. Under the leadership of Gemini custody, the new system is being simplified to attract as many users as possible.

The Marketplace then allows NFT non-fungible tokens to be sold, stored and/or purchased and converts them to dollars only, which is a first for these tokens. The amounts will be paid directly into the users' bank accounts, announces Nifty Marketplace, as is the case for example for sellers on eBay.

Gemini, the American exchange offers a market place for NFTokens
In order to register, Nifty Marketplace users must have a public profile and identity, along with a photo and biography. To start trading NFTs, the email address is also required.

Nifty Marketplace has high ambitions for this new platform and hopes that the billion users will collect NFTs," said Tommy Kimmelman, Business Development Specialist at Nifty Gateway. So the schedule is already set, as NFT collectibles will be presented every three weeks.

A market in the making
In its launch announcement, Gemini talks about collaborating with renowned artists and brands to create exclusive collections.

The first collections have just been launched by three celebrities, Michael Kagan (illustrated in this article), a New York artist working in futuristic technology and space travel, and Lyle Owerko, a photographer and artist from Los Angeles, music icon of the 80-90s with works purchased by the Jay-Z-Beyoncé couple, and finally, Cris Cyborg an MMA champion who recently invested in Bitcoin (BTC) and created a collection of original Nifties, small frames to suit small faces.

Cris Cyborg and NFT Tokens
Cris Cyborg is planning to explode the NFT market...
The idea of Nifty Marketplace is to put the artists in direct contact with the public, in a relationship coordinated by the blockchain that will trace the exchanges and establish the authenticity as well as the rarity of each piece. This ambition is more or less inspired by that of Delta Time, promoter of the NFT auctions in the world of Formula 1. Gemini hopes to conquer the world with the NFT.

https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2020/03/17/gemini-nifty-marketplace-nft-store/

[crowncoin_knight]

https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-development-meeting-minutes-06-04-2020-e6a28644c45f


Crown development meeting minutes 06/04/2020
Just the facts, ma’am

Present: artem, ashot, crowncoin-knight, pjcltd, walkjivefly

Testing completed successfully for the NFT registration problem and Artem tagged the patch for release. walkjivefly pushed the release on Saturday. A number of NFT protocols and tokens have now been successfully registered including the first CrownCards.

Artem did not submit a proposal last month nor this and doesn’t expect to have any time for Crown issues beyond emergency hot fixes in the foreseeable future. He is still committed to creating an NFT trading design doc but can’t say when this might happen. He thinks there are two likely ways trading could be implemented. The first would involve a two-party multisig transaction and might be the simplest to implement. The second would involve separate request transactions to advertise an NFT for sale and invite bids, and response transactions. These could be fixed price maker-taker kind of operations or auction style with multiple possible competing bids within a defined limited period of time.

crowncoin-knight asked if someone else could (at least temporarily) takeover continuing development. Artem replied it would be possible for someone with the correct mindset and technical skills. However, doing so without the NFT trading design doc would be difficult and it is unlikely there is anyone in the community with the skills, time and inclination to do so.

Artem will monitor the level of NFT framework adoption as an indicator of how important the community sees the implementation of trading.
There have been a number of reports of sync and “hang” problems since the Emerald release. Most are probably due to forks but some could be related to open testnet issues such as 366, 362, 342 or 341. Artem doesn’t have time to look into them but Ashot said he might be able to. In the meantime we ask anyone having sync/hang problems to provide as much information as possible to help classify and resolve them.

Ashot continues to work on the governance syncing aspects of the codebase update. He estimates the project completion at about 85%. Hopefully this week he will also find time for the FlipsideCrypto chainwalker NFT update, and next week will attempt to merge the NFT framework code into the codebase update. He expects to be ready for testnet soon after that.

Ashot will review the open NFT testnet issues 335 and 333 and decide whether to address them or create a new testnet for the codebase update testing.

The bootstrap instructions have been updated to accommodate NFTs. Testing showed there is no need to change the actual creation process and revealed a potential link to a reduction in bootstrap performance. Issue 367 has been opened. Artem will review the log file.
There has been a report of a potential problem with the Electrum Crown servers. These are not managed by the infrastructure team so defunctec has been asked to contact the community developer to get them upgraded if necessary.

[crowncoin_knight]

Crown development meeting minutes
Just the facts, ma’am

Present: ashot, crowncoin-knight, pjcltd, walkjivefly

Ashot continues to work on the masternode/systemnode syncing aspects of the codebase update. He pushed one commit last week. The NFT integration looks like being a bigger job than he initially thought. He has updated the FlipsideCrypto chainwalker so that NFT transactions get reported and counted in their metrics. He plans to address the testnet issues once the codebase update is otherwise ready for testing.

Community developer, Zhan, estimates the Bitcore NFT update could be ready in about a month. This will make it easier for Javascript developers, including Chronovault, to build use-cases on the NFT framework.

The Electrum Crown problem has been localised to the Electrumx server which interfaces between the Electrum Crowm wallet and the Crown daemons. We suspect the server doesn’t like or understand our NFT transactions and this stops it from syncing and indexing correctly. This then prevents the wallet from connecting. Community developer, Sirak, is working with Artem to identify and fix the problem. There is no ETA for a fix yet.

It has been suggested that after the Bitcoin codebase update is delivered, we concentrate development on smaller projects which can be completed more quickly and which deliver enhanced usability and functionality to the Crown platform. Examples could be BTCPay server integration, in-wallet proposal creation, Crown Masternode Tool, and on-chain governance (this last one perhaps implemented using NFTs). All present thought this would be a good idea. Some of them are already logged in Gitlab.

If you have any ideas for projects which could be candidates for consideration, please let us know through Discord.

[AyouthR]

Hello, can you include this resource as a shortcut from your website in the Crown CRW section:

This is a decentralized Real-Time Platform and an based search A.I. engine that lists NFTs (non-fungible tokens) created as side-chains in CrownBlochain! It's associated with Crown CRW.

https://monitor.crownplatform.com/

Nota: the guys who created Monitor are visionaries! The applications are infinite and time-stamped in a secure blockchain POS which consumes the equivalent of a multi-frequency decentralised battery.


Source: https://medium.com/crownplatform/crown-platform-monitor-20d8d8005ec1 🚀