#1: Keep Calm and Nervos Dao
When moon?
Hello, welcome to issue #1 of the CKB Weekly, a newsletter about the Nervos Common Knowledge Base blockchain and related technology.
One twitter user recently asked “CKB is dropping but difficulty does not adjust, it's even increasing, there is something wrong…” Rest assured, there is no problem. In spite of recent price drops, the CKB hashrate and chain security do continue to steadily increase, due to recent ToddMiner C1 Pro shipments.
Last week, there was a scheduled unlock of 2.8 billion CKB at 1,000th epoch, which brought the total amount of circulating tokens to ~17 billion. Deposits in Nervos DAO kept growing to 5.3 billion, accounting for ~32% of the circulating supply.
Nervos DAO is a base layer implementation, which is different from MakerDAO or any DAO on Ethereum. It issues the blockchain’s native CKB coin to hodlers, who always remain in sole control of their CKB through the Nervos cell model.
Here are the latest:
Sparklings
CKB stored in the Nervos DAO can only be withdrawn at the end of a deposit period, about once every 30 days. This DCKB project aims to create a new token, a derivative of CKB deposited in the DAO, which provides the benefits of hodling in the DAO while also providing deposit liquidity.
Can we use cell model to control the ownership of ASIC miners? The type script can be used to create an independent cell with a unique type_script_hash character, and the hash can be burned in ASICs with OTP(One Time Programmable). Only the owner of the ASIC can hold and update the data of settings for mining and no one can change it. - Discussion(CN)
Introduction to CKB Script Programming by Xuejie Xiao [creator of CKB VM]
Upcoming Silicon Valley Ethereum virtual meetup - Technical Dive into Nervos and Skale Network
What people are saying
While there is intensive discussion in chatroom around marketing and “Nervos doesn't have enough meme/hype/awareness”, someone also pointed out:
“The project just needs integrations more than it needs hype. Defi builders with a long term interest in their assets need to prefer Nervos. I’d like to see us build Defi primitives with people who don’t want to rebuild finance with the same discretionary policies as central banks.”
What do you want to see on CKB? Join the chatroom on TG or discord, or you can reply and discuss^
Core
CKB released v0.32.0-pre1.
Muta [layer2 framework on CKB]
refactor mempool, verify signatures in parallel and replace rayon with `tokio::spawn`
released overlord v0.2.0-alpha.11
Neuron
v0.30.0-rc2 has been released.
Bypass password verification when deleting/exporting watch only wallet.
Skip rescan when importing existing wallet.
Ecosystem
Wallets - MathWallet (new!), ABC Wallet, imToken, HyperPay, Bitpie, Cobo, Hoo, Renrenbit
Supporting mining pools - 14 [source:miningpoolstats]
Exchanges - 27 market pairs [source: coingecko]
GrowFi [token swap functionality]
building UX/UI and information parts
Lay2 [build dApp on CKB and run them everywhere]
Doing research on WebAuthn and related contents
Migration of secp256r1 to CKB has been preliminary completed
Obsidian Labs[developer IDE]
CKB Studio released v0.4.0, allow modifying the transaction object before and after signing and support multisig
Obsidian Systems[CKB integration with ledger wallets]
updated the Ledger SDK
[New proposal] Hardware wallet support in ckb cli and additional ledger features
Summa One [BTC/CKB interoperability]
N/A
Synapse [browser wallet and keyper agency]
Synapse Extension supports importing private key and keystore
Synapse Extension supports keyper, generate multiple addresses corresponding to lock script after importing the private key
CKB Cache Layer supports getting a list of transactions through address
New proposal
The scope of grants and current open RFCs
“Nervos Dao” artwork by ckbmeme
*CKB Weekly is curated by a group of people who witnessed Lina’s birth and started this to record her growth. Any views expressed are personal and do not represent an official position of the Nervos project. Got updates or articles you would like to include? Any feedback or other suggestions? Let us know by replying to the email.