Mar 29, 2019
Shift: No updates
Biweekly update 15th March — 29th March
This is not financial advice.
During the last two weeks, Shift team didn’t make any announcements on the development and didn’t illustrate any social activity in the media landscape.
Development
The table above illustrates the low development activity.
Last commits on public GitHub were made on March 4th, 2019 in shift-js repository (JavaScript library for sending Shift transactions from the client or server).
A lot of the information is private at present. Shift has also private GitHub repositories.
A month ago Shift team made the announcement that they have now completed the major milestone of integrating the Phoenix IPFS Cluster software with the Shift blockchain. This achievement represents the first instance in which IPFS infrastructure has been successfully combined with the automation and management functionalities enabled through blockchain, allowing them to debut a fully decentralized and censorship-resistant storage and hosting platform with the ability to render data immutable.
Two weeks ago, since making the announcement, the team has been receiving the support of a number of external developers, who have been performing a code audit. This audit included a thorough review of the code itself, and has now moved onto the stage in which the various components of the platform are tested by sending transactions in multiple scenarios, ensuring that they are correctly recorded on the blockchain and their contents implemented at the storage layer.
In anticipation of completing this task and moving ahead with Shift testnet release, the team has created a demonstration page that will allow the community to experiment with the four new transaction types at the earliest possible opportunity. Through a browser-based interface, users will be able to broadcast the four new transaction types (LOCK/UNLOCK and PIN/UNPIN) directly to the testnet. This will render the platform functional and available for public testing while Shift completes their easy-to-use storage user interface accessed through the upcoming version of the client wallet, Shift Nano 2.0.
From Official Ryver chat:
Ralf S (Shift President and Lead Developer) on December 20th, 2018:
“Still making progress on the backend every day. But I admit it’s an awful lot of work. We’ve received various request in DM to show something to the public. But it’s mainly code work we’re doing now, no eye candy. But I guess I can share a bit of what we’re working on right now. I will paste some screens in our Discord channel.”
Social encounters
- From Official Telegram Group:
Werner Heisenberg (Vice-president and Operations manager) on October 23rd, 2018:
“The concept of conferences is something for the future”.
Finance
- SHIFT is now listed on Cryptofacil Exchange (powered by Bittrex Exchange).
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- You can change SHIFT on SimpleSwap — instant exchanger with more than 200 currencies.
- See also Shift Wallet and Explorer.
Partnerships and team members
No updates.
Roadmap
From Official Discord channel:
Werner Heisenberg (Vice-president and Operations manager) on February 1st, 2019:
“The next development milestone will focus on a Proof-of-Spacetime algorithm that is used to verify whether storage providers are hosting the content they should be hosting. Based on those results storage providers will be rewarded (at the blockchain level) for their services.”
Development:
100% completed:
- Proof of Concept: New Shift Website
- Introductory White Paper (First of Four)
- Storage Cluster Optimization
- Hydra Decentralized CMS: Pre-Alpha Release
- Shift Core 6.7.1t
- Shift Core 6.7.2t
- Shift Core 6.7.3t: Block Reward Division
- Shift Core 6.8.0t
- Shift Core 6.8.1t: dApp Ready
- Decentralized Blockchain Explorer
- Shift Core 6.7.1: Emergency Patch
- Shift Core 6.8.2t
- Shift Core 6.8.2
- Fully Stable Sidechain
Hydra Decentralized CMS: Alpha Release — Q2, 83% completed.
Phoenix — Q4, 90% completed. Priority.
Blockchain Integration with Phoenix — Q4, 83% completed. Priority.
Nano Wallet Update v2.0.0 — Q4, 33% completed. Priority.
Atomic Swaps — TBD, 0% completed. New.
New Shift Core: New Consensus Algorithm — TBD, 37% completed.
Phoenix Websocket Communication — TBD, 0% completed.
Decentralized Cluster Consensus — TBD, 5% completed.
Improved Shift Chain — TBD, 33% completed.
New Shift Website — TBD, 50% completed.
Public awareness:
100% completed:
- Animation Series: Blockchain
- Collaboration: Coins and Steel
- Screencast: Phantom dApp Quickstart Guide
Shift Project Progress Report — Q4, 80% completed. New.
Partnership: To Be Revealed — Q4, 0% completed. New.
Phoenix Pilot Program — Q4, 0% completed. New.
Screencast: Decentralized Storage Solution — Q4, 0% completed. New.
Applying for New Exchange Listings — TBD, 0% completed. New.
Introductory Business White Paper — TBD, 90% completed.
Financial White Paper — TBD, 0% completed.
Rumors
From Official Discord channel:
- When release?
Use the Shift Bot, which provides real-time insight into the blockchain events of the Shift Project.
Social media metrics
- Community Update: Forum transition from Ryver to Discord.
As one of the team’s goals is to build a larger community and the crypto scene represents a major source of potential members, they switched from Ryver to the more popular Discord.
Shift community grows slowly, social media dynamics shows that it remains virtually unchanged. There is a slight fluctuation in the number of subscribers of Shift social media channels these weeks.
Telegram — Discussion about updates, voting, marketing and coding.
See also unofficial Shift Telegram News Channel.
Facebook (since March 2016) — Announcements, 10–30 likes, 1–2 shares.
Twitter (since February 2016) — Average number of retweets is 25–50 for one post (tweet about new decentralized website got 351 retweets, December 31st, 2017).
Official Discord channel — Discussion on voting, roadmap, and bounties.
Reddit — The longest thread in 2018 is about 1 million stolen Shift from the team’s dev fund (it has 29 comments).
Bitcointalk.org: since August 17th, 2015. Discussion on FAQs, latest news, videos, exchanges etc. Last post — on March 10th, 2019.
See also unofficial Shift forum: Delegate proposals mostly.
There are also Tools for Analyze Delegates:
- Analyzer tool ( develop by snatic delegate)
- Dutchpool (created by dutchpool team)
- Dpostool (created by delegate Vekexasia)
The graph above shows the dynamics of changes in the number of Shift Reddit subscribers, Twitter followers, and Facebook likes. The information is taken from Coingecko.com.
