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SuperNET Tuesday Update 17/01/2017
This last week was an eventful one for the SuperNET team. Much is happening in the world of the Komodo Platform, not to mention the entire cryptocurrency scene. Komodo has recently announced some important dates regarding the distribution, swap process, and node election. Development is also going as expected.
Distribution, Swap, Election
As previously announced, the BitcoinDark (BTCD) swap has started on the 8th of January. All BTCD holders can and are advised to participate in the distribution campaign. The swap will last 365 days, which means the last date to swap is January 8, 2018.The BTCD can also be sent from an exchange. The BTCD snapshot happened on block number 1486000, on the 15th of January. This snapshot assures that BTCD holders receive their revenue share as promised. If you swapped before the BTCD snapshot date, you will also receive the REVS asset automatically.
The election for the Komodo notary nodes began on the 15th of January as well. Users can now vote on their preferred candidate through the Komodo election website. The elections will last until the 29th of January. The most recent newsletter contains a lot of useful election-related links, including a step by step guide about how to vote.
Currently, 28 candidates are campaigning and trying to get their nodes elected for the open notary node positions. All of them have been active on SuperNET Slack and the bitcointalk Komodo thread. Some have even made great contributions to get visibility. For example check out the 4 meters long FAQ the team rnr and kolo did, the youtube interviews from Juan S. Galt, or the great komodometrics website artik123 did. More projects are coming from the candidates, as PTYtrader is planning to put together a local “Komodo 4 Kids” project.
If you’re still on the fence on whether or not you should vote in this election, then check out this Steemit article about why you, as a token holder, should vote in this election.
GUI Development update
Development is also going as predicted. In the last update, we talked about the GUI wallet updates for Komodo. The team is working hard to provide a fully functional multi-wallet (Iguana) and a decentralized exchange (EasyDEX) for the community. The decentralized exchange won’t be available in the first release, but it`s in the pipeline nonetheless.
The Iguana desktop app is the easy installer built with Electron. It still has few bugs and no anonymous features, so it has not been published publicly. Read the latest Iguana development update.
From the desktop app you can launch both the multiwallet and EasyDEX. Inside EasyDEX you can access full native Komodo wallet where you can do private transactions too. Read the latest Iguana development update. There was also a very informative Slack discussion that was published on the Komodo thread.
The plan is to integrate these two GUI projects together, but for now, they are somewhat separate things.
Questions asked and answered during the week
Why do you think SuperNET price went so low? 62nd place by market cap surrounded by no name projects. It doesn't seem right to me at all.
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