APEX Network blockchain development progress

Oct 18, 2020

Development status report — #8

Dear community members,

Below you will find an overview of development tasks performed over the last three weeks

This week’s focus topics were a continuation of the work from week 39 — Ledger and Federated learning

We continued making headway with the technical work regarding Ledger implementation
Continued work on the oracle scheme
Further federated learning opcode optimizations

This week our focus topics were our oracle protocol and the technical aspect of our partnership with Red Pulse

Completed further frontend work for the Desktop Client
Finished the cooperation solidity contract between APEX and Red Pulse
Chainlink, Tellor, DOS, Band and NEST were selected to converge into the aggregated oracle protocol
Completed script for Nep-5 batch transaction querying

The work done during weeks 40–42 relates to the following items on our roadmap:

2 — Desktop wallet (Q4'20)

· Initial release of the desktop wallet (Late Q3 / Early Q4'20)

· Second iteration of the desktop wallet — feature rich, built-in HW wallet support（Q4'20)

3 — APEX Federated Learning (Q1'21-Q2'21)

· Deploy the APEX Federated Learning smart contracts (Q4'20)

4 — APEX Oracles (Q1'21 onwards)

· Release APEX’s own Oracle Plan (Q3 ‘20)

· Develop the on-chain and off-chain specifications (Q4‘20)

The next development update is scheduled for two weeks from now!

Thank you for your time,

APEX Team