Hi everyone,

We know you’ve been craving updates from us in a more structured fashion, and we are approaching a point where we have more room to deliver you just that. Today we are going to deliver a taste of that promise, with a small update.

First and foremost, we would like to introduce a seasoned developer, who will be helping our development team. Craig has formerly worked for big tech companies like Vimeo, and came to Shift because of his interest in decentralization. He has, within a short timeframe, already gotten familiar with blockchains and crypto, and will, without a doubt, strengthen the development team at Shift. You will already be able to see the fruits of his labour, as his first project is ready to release.

Our second announcement is the release of Shift Nano, the standalone client wallet. Available for Mac, Windows and Linux. We have chosen to port this wallet from Lisk, because it is a prime example of what a dapp should be like. Craig did a great job on this, and we suggest you give him some support by voting for his delegate node.
https://github.com/ShiftNrg/shift-nano/releases/tag/v1.1.0

For those of you, who are wondering what the development team is doing right now, we're still very busy working on our brand new website. It will be fast and light, hosted on IPFS by Phantom. It will contain a lot of information about the Shift project, and we can’t wait to show it to you guys.

The last thing we would like to talk about right now, is that we are working on bringing an unique new consensus principle to our voting system. This system will try to influence the dominance of the biggest holders, and therefore slightly raise the chances that newcomers can join the forging. We are currently testing how this mechanism would impact the system, if it were to be implemented now, and we will be back to you with more information soon.

The Shift team

 

The April 2017 Newsletter is online, https://www.shiftnrg.org/newsletter-apr/,

 

Go check it out !

Announcement: mandatory update!

For the past few weeks we have been testing a new version of Shift on our testnet. Version 6.3.0 which includes the new 7.0 Lisk code base.
A special thank you for all the members running a Shift testnet delegate!

The new version brings huge improvements in performance and efficiency. The low consensus is now fixed, so no more unnecessary missed blocks. You can read more about the improvements on Github release page: https://github.com/LiskHQ/lisk/releases/tag/0.7.0

Your delegate node has to be updated before block 600,000 (+/- Sunday, April 16).
After this block height old clients are not accepted as peers anymore!
Friday, April 7 we will announce how to update your mainnet node on this page. For now, relax while we prepare the Github branch.

Changelog (client)

– Upgrade to Lisk 0.7.0 codebase with huge improvements in performance and efficiency. See detailed changes here:

https://github.com/LiskHQ/lisk/releases/tag/0.7.0

– Shift_manager knows new commands for updating wallet and client
– Changed minVersion handling allowing to define the minVersion based on blockheight
– Some minor fixes

 

Changelog (GUI)

– Balances in “My Profile”
– Fix forging stats
– Some minor fixes