CORE MAGAZINE April 2016 | Page 12

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NXT 1.8 Announced

With the focus on NXT 2.0, it was a suprise to get the announcement of NXT 1.8. The new release will add four new features on top of the already functioning framework (Desktop Wallet, Account Monitor, Wallet Home Customization and Add-Ons). I asked Riker, an NXT developer to give CORE some descriptions of these features.

Desktop Wallet

"The desktop wallet is about framing the familiar browser wallet inside a desktop application frame. The main advantage is that it opens automatically when you start NXT so it's no longer necessary to open the browser and point it to the wallet manually. This may develop in the future into a multiple account wallet which is customary in other blockchains which would mask users from dealing with passphrases on a daily basis."

Account Monitor

"Account Monitor is a business oriented feature which allows businesses to use NXT under the hoods without exposing their end users to the NXT wallet, transaction fees and all these hair balls."

Wallet Home Customization

"We also added a feature to automatically skip the login page and open the wallet directly on a specific page or dialog, this is useful for 3rd party applications which would like to utilize only a specific part of the wallet UI and we introduced an enhancement which would enable users to execute some operating system script when starting the node for initialization and when stopping the node for cleanup."