Holochain News: Archive 2020
At the end of the year the development team of the Holochain and Holo Host project has done their utmost to deliver the long-awaited decentralized and distributed elemental-chat application which serves as a proof of concept for its innovative Holochain technology which performs data consistency. eventually and without a central server. On December 21, 2020, the team shared their test results of the closed alpha app and said they were happy with how it worked while announcing the opening to the community of Holo Port owners. The team will now continue to build their application hosting infrastructure while continuing to test the large-scale internet chat application with all HoloPorts. The end of 2020 is really a great accomplishment for the project, it is the fruit of 3 years of work to develop a Holochain framework in two disposable prototypes (Holochain Go and Holochain Rust) in order to arrive at an incremental prototype. and stable called Holochain RSM. Happy New Year's Eve to you dear readers.
Elemental chat proof of concept
In October 2020, the Holo project updated its roadmap in order to present its next steps to reach the online launch of HoloFuel, which will be the currency of the network. You can find our analysis of the updated roadmap below. In addition, the team is increasing its presence on social networks such as YouTube and Twitter with more and more publications, we encourage you to follow the project on these networks via the links below and to interact in order to contribute to the dynamism too. and publicize the project. It's your turn to participate, especially if you are a HoloFuel holder. And to finish new videos have been added to our Holochain videos section.
During these two months the Holo project has been fairly low key, the Holo team and the community continued to test HoloFuel on the closed alpha version. Time passes but the results are still pending. Fortunately this may change because in parallel the Holochain team has been working discreetly on big changes in the heart of the Holochain framework, we learned at the end of September the release of the new version called Holochain RSR (Refactored State Model) with several very detailed articles shared on Medium and on the official Blog. This new version is simpler thanks to refactoring and more efficient thanks to Wasmer and other changes (up to 2000× performance increases, 40× less memory usage, 2500× less network chatter, and faster compile times). It was all very well received by the community and it gave back a breath of life and great hope for the future of Holo. But that's not all, you will find other important news in the links below.
Today we are doing an article to talk about the latest news of this summer 2020, so this article covers the months of May, June and July 2020. In recent months the co-founder of Holochain Arthur Brock participated in several podcasts to present the technology Holochain as a better alternative to blockchain. You can find the links of the podcasts here. At the technical level, the good news arrived in July since the developers finally managed to overcome the technical difficulties. HoloFuel hApp now works perfectly with 495 nodes. See the stress test. As a result, a special HoloFuel AMA helped deliver the good news, that is, the long-awaited opening of the network to the community. Following this, investors seem to have received the information well since the price of HoloTokens increased sharply and therefore finally broke this long downward trend. You can see here our technical analysis regarding the price prediction of the HOT price. Good to see that Holo is also taking advantage of this altseason, summer is HOT!
The Holochain team is still working hard to push the network into the staging environment where the HoloPort owners will be able to start to earn the TestFuel currency by hosting various Holochain apps. The task is not easy, they encountered many bugs during the internal testing but most of them are now fixed and you can see below the HoloFuel hApps is now perfectly working with 360 nodes (see below the stress test for more informations). We hope to see opening in the following days!! Other than that we can notice the ecosystem is growing and it results in many opensource modules available on Github in order to help developers to reuse the most common part of the system instead of rebuilding from scratch for each new hApp. Also a very very interesting tool called Holochain Playground has been built by Guillem Córdoba, a Holochain app developer and community organiser from Barcelona. At the same time another team is working to build the new RAD tools called Holochain IDE App Builder and you can see below screenshot of this very promising tool. We can't wait to test it! You can also find below a very interesting new partnership with Terran Collective. Another interesting stuff to share with you: The team released the Dev Pulse 67, 68 and 69. Cheers!
Holochain IDE App Builder
Holochain Playground
Holo-Host Stress Test
HoloPort Setup
During the Holo AMA No. 35 the team shared the updated roadmap for this new year 2020. The team is almost ready to open the HP Admin to the holoport owner and few weeks later we are going to see the opening of the happs to the regular internet users. Other than that many features have been talked like the RAD which means "Rapid development tools" for giving to the developers the perfect tool to start a new hApps from scratch in one command line. One another very important feature for improving the DX "developer experience" is the Wasmer which will make the build timer faster. Basically many very interesting features are on this updated roadmap and we can't wait to see those features arriving in the following months. Feel free to check the roadmap in detail below.
At the beginning of January 2020, 1500 HoloPorts were sent around the world and as of January 15, around 500 are now installed and connected to the Holo network. In a few days when all the HoloPorts will be connected then the company will open access to hApps which are the decentralized Holochain applications and we will witness a historic moment since for the first time the first users will be able to communicate with each other using these decentralized applications. You can watch below the video of one of the first hApps available and developped by Holo. In order to understand a bit more the architecture of Holochain we also suggest you to watch the second video which is a record of the Paris peer-2-peer festival which happened on January 10th.
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