As the week ends, let's take a moment to look back at what we've achieved in the past few days and see what we've got to look forward to in the week to come.
Particl Desktop Update 🖥️
This week's desktop-related work has been focused on making progress with the updates for Particl Desktop 3.3.3, focusing on the various items contained in the list below.
- Update Particl Desktop-related dependencies and modules. (partly completed, focus shifted to items listed below)
- Diagnose and fix a problem with how market identities behave. (priority)
- Diagnose and fix an issue with the editing of Seller Templates. (priority)
- Tie marketplace content moderation voting threshold to circulating supply.
- Improve proxy connections (better Tor functionality, add i2p, etc).
- Allow copy-pasting via right-clicking.
- Allow for transactions to be abandoned on PD before they are confirmed.
- Default display of chat messages to newest message receive.
Remember that, in the interest of pushing updates more quickly and as the array of dependency updates are rather time-consuming due to the accrued development debts of the past few months, we may opt to push out Particl Desktop 3.3.3 with most of the updates and fixes mentioned above included, and push a subsequent update (i.e., 3.3.4) addressing the remaining larger dependency updates.
Particl Core 🔗
Core Codebase Maintenance 🛠️
tecnovertAs always, we consistently stay up-to-date with Bitcoin's latest version by regularly incorporating upstream updates into Particl Core. You can monitor these changes by visiting this link.
BasicSwap 📈
Decred Integration ✅
We've been working on integrating Decred into BasicSwap, making satisfying progress all throughout the week. Here is the relevant progress report in regards to that specific deliverable:
- Encode and decode Decred addresses (completed)
- Add Decred to
basicswap-preparesetup script (in-progress) - Integrate Decred wallet functionality into DEX (in-progress)
User Interface 🖥️
tecnovertA substantial update to BasicSwap's GUI has been pushed to the dev branch, tentatively tagged as v3.0.0. This update brings changes to several templates, including the order book page, Wallets and individual coin wallet pages, Settings, and more. It also introduces extensive code cleanup and general improvements.
While work continues on finalizing changes to pages like Create New Offer, bids, and offer pages, as well as features like improved modals, popups, alerts, and others, the current state on the dev branch represents the first iteration of the version 3 of the GUI.
Once the remaining tasks are complete, the dev branch will be merged, marking the official release of BasicSwap's GUI version 3.0.0.
Keep an eye out for updates being pushed to the dev branch on Github, and as always, if you would like to test these changes before they make it into the master branch, you can change your active BasicSwap branch to the dev branch (using git checkout dev) and updating BasicSwap as you would typically do for a regular update.
Installation Wizard (Windows) 🧙♂️
Once most of the tasks regarding the 3.0.0 version of the GUI are wrapped up, we will prepare an update to the installation wizard on Windows, integrating bug fixes and improvements as suggested by the community.
Particl x Litecoin MWEB Contest 🎉
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To celebrate the launch of Litecoin MWEB on BasicSwap DEX, we're giving away five (5) 2013 Lealana 1 Litecoin physical coins, each one valued at nearly $1,000 USD, with only two coins remaining.
For complete details on how to participate, follow this link to our contest blog post. Good luck to everyone!
Note: The fifth and final round of the contest ends this Sunday the 14th of April, so make sure to participate before that time for a final chance to win!
Particl and BasicSwap Media 📺
BSX Team on Decred's Monthly Livestream Last Sunday 📅
Last Sunday, the BasicSwap team joined Decred community leaders on their monthly livestream to discuss the upcoming Decred integration, the pressing need for more cryptocurrencies to embrace decentralized trading platforms, privacy concerns, governance, and other related topics.
If you've missed the live event, the recording is now available on Decred's page and through the embed below.
As always, we thank you immensely for your passion and dedication to Particl and what it's working towards achieving. None of it would be possible without you all!
We wish you a great weekend we'll see you all back on Monday! 👋
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