Halo Platform Bi-weekly Newsletter:

June 8, 2018

Platform — New Features

With the recent success of the Main Net release, many users have already launched a private or pooled masternode. Once the masternode has become active, rewards will occur between 8 and 24 hours since the last payout. If interested in creating a private or pooled masternode, we recommend using the Full Node version of Featherlite. Using this version, Marketplace listings will populate faster compared to the Lite version of the wallet after the initial sync to our blockchain.

Good news for masternode participants, collecting a reward has just gotten easier. Formerly, withdrawing a reward meant users would need to “Manage” their masternode within Monitoring and then withdraw the reward there. The new feature simplifies the process with a “Withdraw Reward” button in the Monitoring page. Below is a sample image take directly from the Featherlite Wallet. As long as your wallet is the latest version, this feature will be available.

Below is a list of recent changes our developers have made to enhance the Featherlite wallet.

Wallet:

• Added a home page showing a card for each wallet

Masternodes:

• Added withdraw button to cards on monitoring page
• Disabled share sell/buy feature temporarily while we work out the UX
• Fixed ping times to be in UTC/GMT time
• Monitoring Card now shows your available reward amount for withdrawal
• For shared masternodes, the Manage Masternode view now reflects your available reward amount for withdrawal instead of the entire masternode balance
• Added “Refresh” button in Monitoring so users will not have to refresh the wallet with keyboard command CTRL+R (Windows) or Command+R(Mac)

Featherlite — Upcoming releases

Behind the scenes, our developers are working to upgrade the Monitoring action bar component. In the future the action bar will give notifications. One example: when another user is attempting to send you a sell order from the marketplace, a red number badge indicator will appear.

Community Chat & Groups DApp

We have started work on the proprietary community chat and group application for the platform and have gone through several proofs of concept. There is a strong focus on security and privacy with this system so we are working through several encryption mechanisms to allow users to share data they want to and keep data secret that they want to. We are also identifying UX and UI improvements to current proof of concepts to increase ease of use. A lot of feedback we have gotten about the current platform is helping us design a better and more user friendly system for the chat and groups.

HaloJS

We will be adding seed phrases and data migration into HaloJS. Along with that, we are looking at doing some transaction caching to reduce the amount of times feather is hitting a node looking for information.

Masternode System

In the coming weeks, expect the masternode dapp to see performance improvements as we have identified some data loading bottlenecks on the system. This means that your monitoring refresh and marketplace won’t take as long to load.

Halo Platform Accounts

We are currently building out the API and information needed to incorporate an optional account structure into featherlite which will allow you to sync your keys to other devices securely and privately. A lot of the work we have been doing on chat and group discussion encryption allows us to securely encrypt and store private keys and other data in the cloud for syncing across devices. This will be an opt-in feature added to featherlite in the future.

Exchange Update

Now that the coin and platform is launched the pressure is on for an exchange release! As such the past two weeks have been pretty intense for the Exchange team. From the core exchange team we worked to harden the client facing order management API, added more advanced order functionality, built in protection mechanisms, laid out recovery procedures, and added functionality to the client API library that we aim to provide with v1. The front end team worked on our extremely customizable dashboard as well as mocking up more pages for the user/trade administration portal. The infrastructure team worked on the user management API and database structure.

We’re really excited to be building an exchange so feature rich and robust and we plan to keep up the pace on development to bring it to you as soon as we can. Stay tuned!

Block & Chain Games Update

There hasn’t been a lot of news coming from the Block and Chain team for a while, with good reason. You have probably noticed blockchain games are hot news right now, and lots of companies are getting in on the action. The problem is that many of these companies are slamming out sub-quality products with very limited entertainment value. This result is a lot of hype with little substance. Block and Chain is turning that concept on its head.

We currently have three great games well into development internally and a very important partnership with an external developer, who is building a suite of fantastic games for the Halo Platform. Marketing and media attention will shift to these applications shortly before they are ready for launch. We want to delight game enthusiasts and explode onto the crypto gaming scene in a way that demonstrates we are in it for the long term!

Masternode Instructions

Setting up and using a masternode is simple with the Halo Platform. Featherlite walks you through the necessary steps to acquire, deploy, join, watch, and collect awards from your masternode.

For detailed instructions with images, go here:
https://wiki.haloplatform.tech/Masternodes

Masternode Estimated Reward Payouts

If you’re curious about masternode reward payouts, refer to the below spreadsheet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ghIixsf4WSrd9RYEAEc3lzuB8pq9MX9mi27h39GJL-U/edit#gid=826076888

Block Explorer

Check out our searchable block explorer to take a close look at any block or transaction on the chain. In the coming days you’ll be able to see transactions for each wallet address on chain: https://explorer.haloplatform.tech/.

View our progress on our roadmap. https://www.haloplatform.tech/roadmap.html

Connect with us in social media

Twitter — https://twitter.com/Halo_Platform

Reddit — https://www.reddit.com/r/HaloPlatform/

Discord — http://discord.haloplatform.tech/

Telegram — https://t.me/haloplatform

Google+ — https://plus.google.com/u/0/108336112327687734137

Steemit — https://steemit.com/@haloplatform

Medium — https://medium.com/@haloplatform

Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/HaloPlatform.tech/

Youtube — https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZqP3U9jFO0XTV6EYNt1dqg

Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/halo_platform/

LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/company/haloplatform/

Where to Get Help

If you run into any issues with any of our products (and you’ve tried refreshing and full node and that doesn’t fix it), there are numerous ways to reach out to us:

Email: [email protected]

Discord: http://discord.haloplatform.tech/ (our moderators and support are online almost 24 hours a day. Special thanks to Moggy, Abe, Jay B., Pesh, and SeriousBasil237).

Website (we have a support platform built in): https://www.haloplatform.tech/

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On behalf of all of us on the Halo Platform team, we want to thank you for your support in helping us build this amazing platform and for being a dynamic and engaged community!

^Everyone @ Halo Platform