The RChain Developer Retreat

 - Kent demonstrates the Rholang ERC20 Implementation

After a successful Devcon 3 presentation and demo of Rholang by Greg, the RChain developers participated in a developers-only retreat centered around the RChain platform architecture, smart contract language, and ecosystem. Feature set and timelines for Mercury release in Q3 2018 where a strong focus.

The team is having extensive discussions around Rholang, consensus, scalability, namespaces and marketing. The differentiating factor of RChain from any other platforms in the space is primarily it’s correct-by-construction approach as well as its architecture for industry scale applications.  

“Rholang is a fully featured, general purpose, Turing-complete programming language built from the rho-calculus. It is a behaviorally typed, r-eflective, h-igher o-rder process language and the official smart contracting language of RChain. Its purpose is to concretize fine-grained, programmatic concurrency.

Necessarily, the language is concurrency-oriented, with a focus on message-passing through input-guarded channels. Channels are statically typed and can be used as single message-pipes, streams, or data stores. Similar to typed functional languages, Rholang will support immutable data structures.” - Contract Design, RChain Architecuture Documentation

The week is full of intensive agenda items that suit any and all devs attending. Look forward to all of the presentations and content generated from the retreat to be expanded upon and published for a general audience.

The agenda includes:

Day 1

• The RChain Architecture
• Blockchain Consensus & Networking
• Verticals Industries & Applications
• Namespaces

Day 2

• Rholang 101: Syntax and Semantics
• Rholang LAB
• Casper LAB
• Business Requirements

Day 3

• Community Development
• Go to Market Strategy
• Block Formats, Types & Messaging
• Compiler Design - Economics

Day 4

• Type Theory & LADL
• Rholang LAB
• Release Management & Open Source Software Relations

Day 5

• Wrap up

To get more of an in-depth background on the RChain Platform and Rholang, review the documentation at github.com/rchain/reference

Latest Community Debriefs

Every Wednesday at 11AM (PDT) the RChain Coop team livestreams its Google Hangout on its RChain YouTube channel. 

You can find the timestamps and accompanying documents from the past two debriefing Hangouts below:

November 8th

- Greg Introduction

- Medha gives developer updates

- Kenny asks about yellow paper-like specs

- Greg: Co-op business

- Group discussion on Cooperativism and Transparency

November 1st

- Intro | Devcon going well

- Ed gives updates on RChain Holdings

- Lawrence describes experience at blockchain economic forum

- Patrick talks about RHOC cards and Meetup packages 

- HJ asks about consultancy companies in the space

- Medha gives developer update

- Welcome Eitan, Mathematician contracted to help with category theory work.

- Open discussion on Annual Meeting results

In Other News

Greg Meredith, the RChain Cooperative President, was invited to speak on a panel at the Internet Society’s platform.coop conference in NYC, where he and Ian connected with so many prospects for RChain's adoption, as it was a perfect technology fit for most of the organizations goals. Watch the live stream

To strive toward DAO-like blockchain governance, the RChain’s “Governance and Nomination” committee has formed and begun working through a “Social Ledger” experiment, derived from the work of Jim Whitescarver, a long time community member. The experiment is to map out the current organization of the Cooperative onto the social ledger UI as Sociocratic circles, and then to leverage that organizational structure with the self governed budget allocation system in a way that mimics the goals for how a DAO could operate in the near future.

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Best regards and "e pluribus unum"

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