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.
BasicSwap 📈
New Update is Live ✅
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Earlier this week, we've pushed a new production build of BasicSwap live on the master branch. It includes the addition of Dogecoin along a wide variety of improvements, bug fixes, and tweaks on almost all fronts.
On top of this update, we've pushed a few post-update fixes to the master branch since then.
- Javascript clean up and various fixes to the order book, notably to fix some memory leaks under certain scenarios (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
- Additional dependencY update (python-gnupg-0.5.4) (1)
- Bumped Bitcoin Cash core version (1)
- Fix overflow bar (offers) (1)
- Auto and manual eslint (1, 2)
- Improved identity fetching (1)
- Simplified API requests (1)
- Fixed an API issue with Firo (1)
- Better error handling for tooltips APIs (1)
- Fixed manual refresh button (1)
- Fixed scrollbar (in progress) (1)
- Fixed HTTP error 429 (in progress) (1)
- Add --upgradecores (in progress) (1)
- Renaming of min. bid to min. purchase (in consideration) (1)
- Add djlint (in progress) (1)
Considerations for Next BasicSwap Update 💭
We're currently evaluating the next set of features for the upcoming major BasicSwap update. Here are some of the key items under consideration:
- Multiple messaging backends (as fallback network after SMSG),
- Light nodes integration (users can choose between running a full node or a light one),
- Network-wide, decentralized reputation, including node gossip mechanism,
- "SMSG2"; tentative name for a new, improved mixnet focused on both privacy and scalability, optimized for Particl marketplace and BasicSwap use-cases,
- New "Quick Swaps (Taker)" page, which filters, sorts, and aggregates offers for a given pair and allows for "market buy/sell orders" across multiple offers. This is part of a broader series of new or improved pages intended for BasicSwap (Quick Swaps, (new) create new offers, (new) order book with separated buy/sell offers and market depth chart),
- A series of other items which may be resolved or worked on before the above mentioned ones (e.g., better market making functions within the GUI, various bug fixes and improvements, etc).
All these updates are designed to be cross-compatible with renewed, upcoming development on the Particl Marketplace, especially considering its future multi-coin, agnostic architecture.
Over the past few months, our primary focus has been on making progress to BasicSwap's codebase. However, we're now reaching a stage where we can begin implementing major features and functionalities that will be seamlessly portable to the Particl Marketplace — effectively making them improvements for both platforms.
As a result, depending on the development path we choose, some of these features may ultimately be categorized not as BasicSwap-specific updates, but rather as broader deliverables applicable to both of Particl’s decentralized applications.
Stay tuned for more details as they become available!
Particl and BasicSwap Media 📺
Privacy Roundtable 🗣️
Don't miss our upcoming Privacy Roundtable on X Spaces with our friend from PIVX and Firo this coming 22nd of January at 2:00 PM GMT as we pass in review the year 2024 and kickoff the new one!
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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