Theta: Pre-Guardian Node program continues to grow with more than 800 verified nodes and 98…

Theta: Pre-Guardian Node program continues to grow with more than 800 verified nodes and 98 million total THETA in PGN client, The Theta web wallet Ledger and Trezor integrations, Theta CTO Jieyi Long at IEEE Blockchain conference in Seoul Biweekly update 9th May — 23rd May Theta Pre-Guardian Node program continues to grow! For those who aren’t familiar, the PGN is an early preview of Guardian Nodes, the 2nd layer of nodes in Theta’s multi-BFT consensus mechanism. Since April 22nd, 2019: the number of verified nodes increased from 662 to 814 and total THETA in PGN client from 80,200,527 to 98,017,413! The program is off to a great start! And you can now check out the latest updates on TFUEL integration with SLIVER.tv at the new TFUEL streaming roadmap — this will continue to be updated as new features are completed and added to roadmap. The Theta web wallet now allows you to access your mainnet THETA + TFUEL on both Nano Ledger and Trezor devices. As for social encounters, the final version of “Scalable BFT Consensus Mechanism Through Aggregated Signature Gossip” paper by Theta CTO Jieyi Long and lead developer Ribao Wei was presented by the team at the IEEE Intl. Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency in Seoul. Theta community continues to grow. There are a constant slight grows in the number of token holders and subscribers of Theta social media channels. NASA’s events are streaming on Sliver.tv. Network statistics constantly shows impressive numbers. The project gains ground. Stay tuned! Development GitHub metricsTHETA has 8 public repositories and 15 private repositories. Overall, the Project has frequent commits to the collection of repositories. Developer activity (from Coinlib.io) Since April 22nd, 2019: Verified nodes increased from 662 to 814 Total THETA in PGN client from 80,200,527 to 98,017,413 For information on Theta Guardian Nodes and how to join, see their announcement blog. The first TFUEL distributions for the Pre-Guardian Node program went out on May 6th, 2019. For more info on PGN, check out Theta Labs previous blog posts. Check out the latest updates on TFUEL integration with SLIVER.tv at the new TFUEL streaming roadmap — this will continue to be updated as new features are completed and added to roadmap. Note: Ledger access uses the Ledger Ethereum app to interact with Theta blockchain. This is intended, and will work for mainnet Theta tokens Social encounters May 16th, 2019: Theta CTO Jieyi Long presented his white paper Scalable BFT Consensus Mechanism Through Aggregated Signature Gossip at the IEEE Intl. Conference on Blockchain & Cryptocurrency in Seoul, South Korea. Source: IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency.Read more on “Scalable BFT Consensus Mechanism Through Aggregated Signature Gossip” by Theta CTO Jieyi Long and lead developer Ribao Wei here. In this paper, they present a new BFT consensus mechanism which enables thousands of nodes to participate in the consensus process, and supports very high transaction throughput. This is achieved via an aggregated signature gossip protocol which can significantly reduce the messaging complexity and thus allows a large number of nodes to reach consensus quickly. The proposed aggregated signature gossip protocol leverages a non-interactive leaderless BLS signature aggregation scheme. The authors have proven the correctness of the protocol, and analyzed its efficiency. In their analysis, each node only needs to send and receive O(logn) messages to reach agreement, where each message just contains a couple kilobytes of data. The team will be doing monthly live AMAs going forward, and you can vote for who you’d like to see next from Theta team here. Roadmap Q2 2019: Beta release universal edge cacher client Launch 3rd party Validator partner program Enhance Mesh Streaming Network scalability Enhance Blockchain scalability Launch Developer tools for Theta mainnet integration Beta release Android mobile SDK integration with initial partners Q3 2019: Launch support for video on demand (VoD) in Theta Mesh Streaming Network Launch guardian node functionality and onboard initial group of community-run guardian nodes Beta release support for Android-based set-top boxes and smart TVs Introduce guardian nodes into the validator node set on rotating basis Launch smart contract support Q4 2019: Expand Theta content delivery beyond video to support all forms of data (e.g. file updates, game patches, video ads, audio/music, etc) Partnerships and team members No updates.