Here are some of the main things to highlight this week:

- Big news this week with the announcement of our partnership with Identillect Technologies Corp. Read more about the collaboration on the Forum2, Medium13 and our blog4.
- The Indian office is running a hackathon on the 15th of March 2018 to attract graduate developers from one of Chennai’s top colleges. We’ve launched a website18 to promote the event being held at Venkateshwara College.
- Saturday, March 10th sees the second meetup of the Kuala Lumpur group2. @dugcampbell will be calling into the meeting via Skype and we’re looking forward to an interesting chat with the community.
- The front-end team recently published a new version of safe-node-app (v0.8.0) which upgrades the native safe_app lib to the latest available version (v0.6.0).
- The SAFE Client Lib team is getting back to Java bindings and working together with the front-end team to fix some of the issues that they have discovered.
- The Routing team is currently focused on implementing a push-pull gossip protocol and carrying out evaluation work on that.
- A few members of the Routing team have also been working in the background on improving the asynchronicity of our consensus ordering algorithm for data chains.