ArcBlock Monthly Review for January 2020

ArcBlockJan 31, 2020

ArcBlock Developer Forge Monthly Review SDK

January 2020 saw the release of ArcBlock's much anticipated bidirectional tokenswap service.

Product Releases

1/24 - ArcBlock Token Swap was released

1/7 - ArcBlock releases new community site using Decentralized Identity and ABT Wallet. The community site is being launched to enable the community and ArcBlock teams to share, discuss and brainstorm topics important to the community, users and customers.

1/9 - ABT Wallet 2.1 was released.

GitHub Weekly Updates

Activities

1/30 - ArcBlock's VP of Marketing provided testimony to the Washington State Legislature about blockchain. ArcBlock's testimony included firsthand testimony on how blockchain is being used today and how it can benefit governments and their constituents in the future.

Blog

1/9 Features of the the new ABT Wallet 2.1 update

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Products

Forge sunset
An SDK and toolchain for building chain applications without assembling the node, the data layer and the client separately. ArcBlock Chain is what that became.

Terms

SDK
The library and tooling a platform ships so a developer does not have to write the protocol by hand. What it covers, and what it leaves to you, is a fair summary of what the platform actually takes responsibility for.