EOS Hot Sauce #52 – Anchor 1.0, WPS Audit, EOSIO Education, China’s BSN, WAX, Telos, BOS and More!

Based on the latest DappRadar Report for Q1 2020, the WAX Blockchain continues to build momentum and is closing in on the notorious Top 3 Blockchains for dApps, Tron, Ethereum, and EOS. One reason for the growing numbers might be that WAX has a big focus on creating the most user and developer-friendly environment possible. 

Let’s take a look at the most recent tools developed by some of the WAX Guilds.

The newest contribution by Aloha EOS is the WAX Tracker, which helps you easily follow WAX Accounts that are important to you. All info is sourced in real-time, including prices via DelphiOracle. The Tracker is already available as an iOS app and the team is currently working on an Android release.

Other features that will be added in future releases of the tool include an indicator of account health showing whether you are getting maximum rewards, and WAX account activity notifications for transfers or permissions changes.

After releasing the @waxmeetupbot, a simple tool to create WAX accounts within Telegram, the WAX Guild MaltaBlock brought us further tools, such as the ZOS-IBC Solution for Cross Chain token transfers between WAX and EOS, and the 2bpintegrity smart contract in an effort to improve network security. The smart contract stores the name and contact information of a BP’s system administrator on-chain and also includes an agreement that states that the block producer is not sharing its infrastructure with anyone else.

Another initiative of Maltablock in cooperation with EOSphere is the Wax Blockchain Meetup, which was live-streamed on CrowdCast and can be reviewed on Youtube.

Besides covering and discussing all the recent developments in the WAX Ecosystem, they’ve also invited Jona Wilmsmann, co-founder of the pink.network. He shared some interesting insights about their new NFT standard, Atomic Assets, and its upcoming NFT Hub, the first Worker Proposal to be funded via WAX Labs.

As you can see, there’s much activity in the WAX Ecosystem, and lots of it is driven by the WAX Guilds who are evaluated on a monthly basis by the Office of the Inspector General. The OIG report for the month of April just came in and we’re happy to report that EOS Nation has held its position in 4th place.

After a complete rebrand, a lot of new tools, and some interesting dApps like Seeds, Zeptagram, and Newlife successfully launching on Telos, this EOSIO network is definitely worth a mention in this week’s Hot Sauce. And in an effort to improve the public exposure for the ecosystem, the Telos Block Producers have voted to partner with the Transform Group, a global firm with unique public-relations expertise in the blockchain space and an impressive track record representing Tether, Ethereum and Dash. Our guess is that we’ll hear a lot more about Telos in general Crypto Outlets, which is a great opportunity to show the power and flexibility of EOSIO Technology.

And yet another partnership, this time related to gaming, was announced by the Telos Foundation. 

The blockchain development company BlockBastards decided to launch Qudo, a proof-of-gameplay reward mechanism, on the Telos Network. Qudo is compatible with the Unity engine, a popular platform for game developers. A release is planned for the end of the second quarter of this year. The Telos Foundation partnered with BlockBastards to provide marketing and technical support.

The BOSCore team had some great news to share as a BOS/USDT Trading pair will be listed on the hoo.com Exchange. And they launched a daily trading competition to celebrate the occasion. Congratulations to the whole BOSCore team for this great step forward for the BOS token. 

Meanwhile, the BOS IBC is shaping up nicely and there was some interesting activity going on across a multitude of different EOSIO Networks. 

3 years after the concept of side chain based data storage was first envisioned by the BlockBase team, and after 3 months of testing on the Jungle Test Net, Blockbase Beta is now connected to the EOS Main Net. The Blockbase storage services will be paid in BBT Tokens and Blockbase users are separated into two types: service requesters and service providers. The price of a service depends on different variables that are laid out in an article the team has published on their website along with a simple to use online calculator for fees. 

Congratulations to the team for this major milestone!

Running out of Resources on one of your EOS accounts has been an unpleasant experience, and such incidents surely have cause frustration for many users. But EOS BPs, wallets and dApps quickly came up with services and solutions to overcome such hurdles. Chintai’s Charm, one of these solutions, just had a 2.0 update, providing fully automated resource management to achieve the utmost efficiency.

The Charm smart contract is checking block per block if your account has sufficient CPU or NET and allocates additional resources if it needs them, effectively making you immune to network congestion. 

While Charm can be used by individual accounts, it becomes especially attractive for dApps, as they can pay for their users’ resources and let Charm do all the management, ensuring a frictionless experience.

Using Chintai’s very own CHEX token gives you a 50% reduction in fees. Check out a detailed article on Chintai’s Medium Blog for further information and a full setup guide.

Chintai has developed many services aiming to simplify the use of tokenization and blockchain services. Many of them can be used as white labeled products that provide built-in compliance. While assets tokenized through Chintai can be traded on any blockchain, the tech portion is built on EOSIO based smart contracts and utilizes the DAPP Network to achieve further efficiency and scalability. To learn more about the vision and tech behind Chintai and the LiquidApps products they’re using, check out the newest Episode of #BuildOnDapp.

Shortly after introducing kChat, the Top21 Block Producer EOS Rapid introduced yet another decentralized alternative to a commonly used internet service – this time a URL shortener. Using Url.fo you can ensure that your shortened links will always redirect to the actual web address that you wanted to share, by leveraging the immutability of the EOS Mainnet. Because who knows what will happen to centralized service over time?

EOS Rapid put it this way: “Centralized URL shorteners […] can get hacked or change owners, and suddenly one day choose to point the shortened URL you shared with your colleagues to a phishing website or worse (imagine all the nasty sites on the internet).”

Using the service is pretty easy, check out the short tutorial on Youtube.

The Klevoya Team released Hydra, a tool for EOSIO Developers to test smart contracts and identify bugs before their product goes live. What’s special about Hydra is that the execution environment doesn’t require developers to run a local blockchain, but runs a modified EOSIO node on its back-end, specifically designed for testing.

According to Klevoya, no additional software is needed.

They’ve published a thorough getting started guide for interested developers and are available for further questions in their Telegram Channel.

Looking at all the development that’s happened within the Equilibrium Framework, it’s hard to believe that they’re just celebrating their 1st anniversary. If you feel like you need some catching up, the team released a 1st anniversary recap showing Equilibrium’s impressive track record as well as some hints to what they have in the pipeline for the second year, including:

• Integration of BTC and other blockchains

• A brand new web-application

• Savings Pool

• and more product features to turn Equilibrium into a one-in-all DeFi hub of interoperable products and applications

Equilibrium CEO Alex Melikhov took the anniversary as an opportunity for an AMA on Youtube, and all highlights were later summarized in a blog post.

Kudos to the Equilibrium team for their passion for Defi and happy anniversary!

The Top 21 Block Producer StartEOS added a much-requested feature to their Wallet, which allows the token holders to release the RAM used up by unwanted tokens. The RAM Releasing Tool can be found within the StartEOS Wallet app under New Dapps in the Discovery Page. There you can select the tokens you don’t need anymore and check how much KB RAM could be released.

Those who followed the DACathon 2020 in January might remember the presentation of Consortium and their plans to launch a voting portal for the communities of different dApps or projects. Now 3 months later, Consortium went live and has its genesis voting, resulting in the distribution of 85% of the GOVRN token. If you’re interested in participating in the decision making process of your favorite dApp or project, go to Consortium’s portal to stake some tokens for them. You’ll receive a portion of GOVRN tokens, which you can use to vote.

This great idea can develop into an awesome and very useful tool for communities to find consensus and it’s fairly easy to use once you’ve watched the short explainer video.

Eventually, the functionality of deferred transactions is going to be deprecated, meaning that this feature won’t be supported anymore on the protocol layer, for good reasons. But for many applications and use cases, it’s essential to be able to create transactions that are not executed right away, but instead at a specific upcoming point in time. Being the second layer solution for many scalability issues, the LiquidApps team once again created a service on the DAPP Network to address this need. It’s called LiquidScheduler and last week they published a comprehensive LiquidScheduler walkthrough for those interested in using it.

In another interesting article, they gave an overview of current cloud services and introduced what LiquidApps has to offer to help this industry take a leap and update into Cloud 3.0. There’s no doubt the cloud brought users a new level of convenience, but at the same time these services created new risks and dependencies, as they’re controlled and maintained by just a few large players. 

The DAPP Network already offers the infrastructure and tools to build a secure network with a fairer and more secure model, putting the user back in control and opening the market, “offering more choice, more redundancy and more opportunity.”

If you want to take a look into the near and non-dystopian future, this article is a must-read.

The EOSIO based P2P Trading Platform, CryptoLocally, keeps expanding at a rapid pace. They’ve just added support for Tron,  BNB, BUSD and BTC (BEP-2).

With Sesacash they’ve also added a new payment method that’s especially interesting for users on the African continent. 

If you haven’t checked the platform out already, here’s another reason: A brand new referral program to earn some extra crypto for your bags.

The decision by the dFuse team to go open source, and the following announcement by Block.one to integrate the code into future EOSIO releases created much enthusiasm within the community. Now, after a bit of a cleanup, dFuse for EOSIO has been released under the Apache 2.0 License, which allows developers to integrate the source code in their projects and query chain data easily, fast and reliably. Since then, further developments happened, such as dFuse joining the Blockchain Game Association (BGA) and a partnership with MYKEY. We’re excited to see dFuse being developed further by the open-source community, want to congratulate the dFuse team for their success, and express our gratitude for this essential tool, which we use in many of our own products. 

The future of dFuse is not limited to EOSIO, as it will soon speed up processes for Ethereum and other protocols. The future is multi-chain and dFuse is adding an important piece to the puzzle of the decentralized web. In light of this new area of focus for EOS Canada, they recently announced they will be unregistering as a block producer in order to focus all of their efforts on growing dFuse. 

Thank you EOS Canada for all your contributions and we look forward to seeing dFuse grow across the entire blockchain ecosystem.