SLP 2020 Recap - Part 1 - Post Office Protocol Alpha, Infra Upgrades, and New Tech.
What a rollercoaster year it has been for Bitcoin Cash. We encountered a risk of a damaging hard fork, started by a lead developer gone rogue, then successfully averted it.
We made history in being the first blockchain to successfully replace a lead implementation without it splitting or damaging the ecosystem, proving the strength of Bitcoin Cash's decentralized nature, and its prime value proposition for being the world's global money.
Along with this, BCH stakeholders demonstrated the strength of voluntary funding by successfully using a revolutionary decentralized crowdfunding app called Flipstarter to raise 5963.73 BCH (valued at 2 million USD at the time of writing) **in 45 projects, funding multiple node developers, marketing campaigns, wallets, games, infrastructure and more in less than a year.** https://flipstarters.bitcoincash.network/#/
In the background, all this time the SLP Foundation has been hard at work in the background to deliver substantial upgrades to the entire SLP ecosystem.
In part 1 of a 2 part series, we present an overview of all that has happened for SLP in 2020. Combining both the SLP Foundation's work and collaboration with all the amazing people who work day and night to make SLP the best plug and play token solution there is in the crypto industry.
Post Office Protocol Server Release https://read.cash/@SLP-Foundation/slp-2020-recap-part-1-post-office-protocol-alpha-infra-improvements-and-more-104c7459?signature=223a711aedcb9f5018c1ea25349a3941aed9e465a4dc5e74f6a17b13657bd419#post-office-protocol
Let's start with the big announcement first! For those who don't know, the Post Office Protocol allows wallets to send SLP tokens without BCH as gas. So if you sent USDT, you would no longer need BCH to send it, and the fee will be deduced as USDT. Eliminating the need for the base layer token completely for token transactions.
The Post Office Protocol Server, first funded by bchinjim, then fully funded by the SLP Foundation **is now available for alpha testing.**
For this project, the team has gone above and beyond in delivering substantial features to the server, which we think many business builders will find useful to work to develop their own post office protocol servers.
As with any SLP Foundation funded project, it is entirely open-source and available to all.
Check out a front-end here, and the code here.
Features Implemented: http://postoffice.fountainhead.cash/ https://github.com/simpleledger/slp-post-office-server#readme
Works with BCHD with SLP integration to prevent token burns
Allows live updating of price from CoinFLEX, Coinex, and Bitcoin.com Exchange
An automatic splitting tool to create stamps
Code configuration
Apply custom rules to price data
Multiple token support
**Usability, Stability and Speed** https://read.cash/@SLP-Foundation/slp-2020-recap-part-1-post-office-protocol-alpha-infra-improvements-and-more-104c7459?signature=223a711aedcb9f5018c1ea25349a3941aed9e465a4dc5e74f6a17b13657bd419#usability-stability-and-speed
When the SLP Foundation was funded, usability, stability and speed were the core tenets of what we want promised to deliver for SLP 2020.
In our last recap, we covered substantial improvements made to SLP-DB's performance. Unit tests, fuzzing suites using AFL and the graph search server built. Launching SLP decoder, SLP Parser, and the now highly used SLP Metadata Maker. https://read.cash/@SLP-Foundation/slp-foundation-update-what-have-we-been-working-on-442e7462
Since then, the SLP Foundation has funded maintenance and continued improvements on SLP-DB over the course of the year.
Various additions to NFT functionality have been made, such as additions of NFT commands to SLP-JS and other libraries. An NFT faucet that uses the new BCHD SLP API was funded and made by the SLP Foundation. https://github.com/zh/slp-faucet/tree/new-nfts
Graph search (GS++), the all important C++ validator built by our lead developer JT "Blockparty" Freeman, has undergone significant optimizations, adding differential and graph fuzzing features. This has been used to find hard to spot inconsistencies in other SLP implementations.
Graph search (GS++) was also implemented in the BCHD SLP indexer, so now we have two graph search implementations, one in C++ and one in Golang. https://gs.fountainhead.cash/
**This improvement was vital in providing high-level tools to facilitate wallet improvements to no longer rely on a single source of truth.** The increased speed of graph search means the speed of crawling the DAG for SLP transactions has increased greatly.
Island tools such as slp-parser and slp-metadatamaker was ported to Dart and Go, and can be ported to more, and flexibility of where the origin of truth comes from has been incorporated into many examples, allowing developers to freely switch from bitcoin.com's rest API and BCHD's new SLP indexing.
Enhancement and Infrastructure https://read.cash/@SLP-Foundation/slp-2020-recap-part-1-post-office-protocol-alpha-infra-improvements-and-more-104c7459?signature=223a711aedcb9f5018c1ea25349a3941aed9e465a4dc5e74f6a17b13657bd419#promotion-enhancement-and-infrastructure
We completed SLP-Light a super easy to use wrapper for creating SLP transactions that was successfully **used to integrate Tether's USDT** in a collaboration with bitcoin.com's developers to onboard USDT onto Bitcoin Cash. https://github.com/simpleledger/slp-light
**One of the most significant improvements made this year to SLP is James Cramer leading the addition of SLP indexing into the BCHD full node.**
*Credit for the entire SLP upgrade goes to: JT Freeman, Ekliptor, Josh Ellithorpe and Chris Pacia.*
BCHD node's new SLP Native Indexing can now be used as REST API or as a GRPC client connected a BCHD node, giving a new fantastic option to developers on easily interacting with SLP on the blockchain.
*Some of the cool things this allows:*
Receive SLP metadata on transactions, tokens, all from one source. This allows you to do one query and not have to worry about synchronizing issues like when using SLPDB.
Burn Protection -- you can be sure that you aren't burning any SLP tokens due to a bug in your software. If you do want to burn some tokens that still works too, just enumerate them. You can check SLP validity prior to broadcasting or during broadcast.
Parse and create SLP metadata. You can use this inside your application when constructing your transactions.
Subscribe to all transactions involving specific tokens.
BCHD is self-funded independent from SLP Foundation, and SLP Foundation provided collaboration in the form of implementation help and testing tools. We give a great shoutout to the BCHD team for making SLP on BCHD happen!
You can check out the swagger-UI which documents the REST API on BCHD for SLP here (test REST calls immediately!). You can check out the gRPC client to BCHD implementation here. It's all ready for use! https://bchd.ny1.simpleledger.io/#/ https://github.com/simpleledgerinc/grpc-bchrpc-node
If you are adventurous you can also spin up the SLP branch of BCHD yourself as well. https://github.com/simpleledgerinc/bchd/tree/slp-index
Following this, James Cramer created SLP Comps, an extremely useful tool that tests the validity of transactions by pinging more than one source of truth. *We will discuss more about SLP Comps in part 2.* https://github.com/simpleledgerinc/slp-comps
Promotion, Workshops, and Documentation
The SLP Foundation together with the Bitcoin Cash community-funded a game-changing hackathon called Block Hack Global 2020 with big education and investment partners. A serious curriculum and had many prizes. https://www.blockhack.ca/
Blockhack 2020 had 312 attendees, 122 participating hackers, and 30 workshops.
Some notable innovations are offline SLP payments, SLP negotiation protocol, SLP smart contracts allowing cross-chain swaps, and trustless jobs escrow application that works on SLP. https://github.com/modenero/telr.exchange/tree/master/contracts
Full details can be found here. https://read.cash/@SLP-Foundation/overview-of-the-winning-slp-projects-from-blockhack-2020-497a77af
Additionally, for the Blockhack, the SLP Foundation produced many SLP workshops which will serve as great videos to onboard future developers to SLP.
We will be starting an SLP Foundation video channel soon alongside our new website, details in part 2.
We have been adding to SLP.dev as well, our awesome one-stop documentation site. https://slp.dev
Want to find out more about SLP 2020? https://read.cash/@SLP-Foundation/slp-2020-recap-part-1-post-office-protocol-alpha-infra-improvements-and-more-104c7459?signature=223a711aedcb9f5018c1ea25349a3941aed9e465a4dc5e74f6a17b13657bd419#want-to-find-out-more-about-slp-2020
Don't miss out on part 2. Where we will be talking about the SLP Foundation's brand new website, our research into federated validation for SLP, more on SLP Comp, new apps coming to the ecosystem and more!
Overview of the Winning SLP Projects from Blockhack 2020
Firstly, let us congratulate the BCH community on a successful Bitcoin Cash upgrade!
As many of you know, we have been doing a hackathon joining with many education partners and other cryptocurrency ecosystems like Polkadot **as the first-ever BCH/SLP led cross-chain hackathon.**
The goal of the hackathon was not to produce just interesting projects but to foster projects that can be built into entire businesses in the future.
Blockhack 2020 had 312 attendees, 122 participating hackers, and 30 workshops!
It was a month worth of code hacking and two rounds of judging, lots of friends made new friends across different cryptocurrencies.
We had many happy hour events organized by **Satoshi's Angels**, for which we are grateful for bringing added engagement to the event. The BCH community remains awesome.
We also send our thanks to the numerous mentors from the BCH community helped to make this happen, including JT Freeman, Pokkst, Chris Troutner, James Cramer, and more.
With a whopping **6.5K worth of SLP bounties** up for grabs, and we are pleased to announce the winners here for their innovation, hard work, and forward-thinking.
*Bear in mind these projects are all still work in progress and still gearing up for launch.*
**The Economic Freedom Challenge**
*Bitcoin Cash is programmable money with no central control. Peer to peer with no third party. Freedom to trade and do business with anyone, anywhere around the world.*
For this challenge, we have chosen two winners. These projects were chosen because they enable people with new methods to do business.
Paytaca
**Paytaca** enables offline Bitcoin cash and SLP payments between people and businesses in the developing world where the internet is often unreliable.
It is secure, efficient, cheap and most importantly works offline.
https://github.com/paytaca/pitaka
ZHware by Stoyan Zhekov
**ZHware** is brand new SLP protocol to negotiate and barter deals over the blockchain trustlessly.
https://github.com/zh/bhg2020
https://www.loom.com/share/d1e1628a3f4a40058a88fc32ff0405f9
**The Technological Freedom Challenge**
*Trustless technology. Countering government overreach, authoritarian censorship and privacy invasion. Agorist markets. Innovative ways to mint, distribute and stake tokens trustlessly.*
We have also chosen two winning projects for this challenge. Projects chosen created innovative new ways to use the blockchain on SLP.
Telr by Modenero
**Telr** is an exchange that uses smart contracts for creating an entirely trustless, noncustodial atomic dex, across different cryptocurrencies and SLP. Bridging users from other PoW blockchains to the Bitcoin Cash community.
https://github.com/modenero/telr.exchange
SLPEC by Op_Return
**SLPEC** For employing cutting edge technology like SLP's Post Office Protocol, BIP 70, Bitcoin.com's Link and even smart contracts to create a fully functional trustless DAPP with no gas fees
https://youtu.be/8wuqg2GsUzw
https://github.com/BCHDEVCON3/SLPEscrowCash
**The Collaborative Freedom Challenge**
*Nobody should be silenced. Freedom of speech. Freedom to associate, collaborate and socialize with anyone you want.*
The winning project was chosen because it could enhance global collaboration. Also goes to SLPEC again!
SLPEC by Op_Return
**SLPEC**, For creating a full functioning user-friendly trustless jobs escrow application that works on SLP. Making it easy to onboard new Bitcoin Cash and SLP users. Increasing decentralized collaboration.
**Finally for the bonus bounties.**
We award **Telr** again for the $1000USD **atomic swap bounty**, for successfully achieving atomic swaps between Ethereum, BCH and SLP and presenting it on a decentralized exchange as well as open-source code to do it.
Notable Mentions: MOTA & Bitcountry
We want to give our hats off to the MOTA team for delivering a compelling business proposal.
MoTA is breaking into the multi-billion dollar remittance industry with blockchain technology in a way never done with blockchain before. MoTA mimics Mobile Money/Mpesa to facilitate in-country and cross-border transactions and remittance. This is achieved through decentralized intermediaries (vendors, agents) interacting via a hub software platform. Mode of Transfer Alternative (MoTA) is a secure decentralized censorship-resistant transactions platform built for technophobes, under-served, off-grid and technologically handicapped communities. Riding on Bitcoin Cash and Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP), it has the potential to on-board millions including those who have no direct interest in blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. With a booth, a mobile phone/PC and minimal capital, vendors are ready to bridge the adoption gap.
Also, **Bitcountry** for making headway into trying to build a bridge between SLP and Polkadot and also being an interesting virtual land/social community hub. https://bit.country/
Create your own country and community. Attract more people to join using the rules and policies you can set by your will. Grow your country and monetize your community in multiple ways without any intermediaries. Create a currency for your country, and incentivize the people who contribute to your community. As your community grows, your currency will gain value on the exchange. Everyone in the community will benefit from this. Countries can be auctioned, rewarding all who had a stake in it.
Conclusion
We are very pleased with the results that came out of Blockhack 2020.
We hope some of the **open-source code** and projects here can help or inspire a new wave of SLP products, in the new Bitcoin Cash era.
An era where the focus will be building the best user experiences on one of the most competitive cryptocurrencies in the space.
Look forward to seeing you guys at the next **Bitcoin Cash Hackathon - Coinparty**.
- The SLP Foundation
SLP协议关于Bitcoin ABC 就 BCH 11月份升级的联合声明
SLP基金会认为节点的去中心化对BCH的稳定性和生存至关重要；同时，扩展SLP的代币生态系统也很重要。
我们的目标是推动BCH成为最适合发行代币的公链。分裂会影响这一使命的实现。
为此，SLP基金会与维护SLP基础设施和生态系统的各实体发布以下联合声明：
**我们不承认更改coinbase奖励的协议为BCH，尤其当该规则是由单边发起的**。
没有事先与广泛BCH生态进行讨论的前提下，Bitcoin ABC团队擅自宣布了这个规则，这与其他BCH节点背道而驰。私自更改经济规则使得ABC团队违背了BCH的价值观和原则。
**我们将始终支持基于BCH的SLP基础设施开发，而非ABC引发的分叉链。**
我们将继续与认同BCH价值观和原则的的节点协作，抛弃那些试图分叉BCH的节点。
综上所述，我们希望SLP所有的核心基础设施与合作伙伴都能持之以恒地支持BCH。
以下为SLP基金会和合作伙伴共同维护的SLP基础设施軟件：
SLPDB
slpserve
slpsocket
slpjs
slp.dev
slp-light
GS++
BCHD 的 SLP 索引
slpstream
Electron Cash SLP
simpleledger.info (SLP浏览器)
邮资协议 ( Post Office Protocol)
签署机构：
SLP基金会
SLP 协议 (领导 James Cramer)
Fountainhead
Electron Cash SLP
`如果你希望将您自己所在的SLP组织列在签署机构列表中：`
`请确保在此联合声明上签字。`
`请在电报 (Telegram) 上私信@slowsynapse，并提交你的全名，职位和机构。`
SLP基金会将保证继续对SLP项目提供技术支持和指导。
如有任何疑问，请随时在SLP电报小组联系我们。
-SLP基金会团队
Simple Ledger Protocol's Joint Statement Regarding Bitcoin ABC on BCH's November 2020 Upgrade
The SLP Foundation sees a decentralized node landscape as crucial for the stability and longevity of Bitcoin Cash (BCH), and by extension the SLP token ecosystem. https://read.cash/@sha256_88ebd526/bitcoin-cash-bch-november-2020-upgrade-statement-f7c03159
Our goal is to make Bitcoin Cash the best token ecosystem to build on top of. A split does not align with this mission.
SLP Foundation and SLP entities maintaining the infrastructure and ecosystem issue this joint statement:
**We do not consider a protocol that redirects coinbase rewards to be Bitcoin Cash (BCH), especially when such a rule was announced unilaterally.**
This action by Bitcoin ABC was carried out without prior discussion with the wider BCH ecosystem, and is a sudden deviation from every other Bitcoin Cash node implementation. Therefore by forking economic changes on its own volition, ABC is also no longer a project that aligns with Bitcoin Cash's values and principles.
**We will support SLP infrastructure development on Bitcoin Cash, not on a fork of Bitcoin Cash by ABC.**
We will continue our work with collaborating with the large array of BCH node softwares that have chosen to collaborate rather than fork.
Put simply, in our view, all of SLP's critical infrastructure and partners should carry on uninterrupted supporting BCH.
SLP Infrastructure Maintained by SLP Foundation and Partners:
SLPDB
slpserve
slpsocket
slpjs
slp.dev
slp-light
GS++
BCHD's SLP Indexing
slpstream
Electron Cash SLP
simpleledger.info (SLP Explorer)
Post Office Protocol
Signed Organizations:
SLP Foundation
Simple Ledger Protocol
Fountainhead
Electron Cash SLP
`If you would like your SLP organization added to the Signatories List:`
`Make sure your organization signs off on this joint statement.`
`DM @slowsynapse on telegram with your full name, position, and organization.`
**SLP foundation will ensure technical support and guidance to SLP projects for the path ahead.**
If there are any questions, feel free to reach out to us on the SLP Telegram Channel. https://t.me/simpleledger
-The SLP Foundation Team
SLP Foundation Update - What Have We Been Working On?
From Here to There
The origins of the Simple Ledger Protocol (SLP) goes all the way back to April 2018. James Cramer incepted the idea of a simple equities (stock shares) solution built directly using the OP_Return function on Bitcoin Cash. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/8fkxxi/simple_ledger_protocol_proposal/
Soon after, Cramer published a **conceptual specification** for the SLP protocol. https://github.com/simpleledger/conceptual-specification-obsolete
At the time there was a bunch of competing token solutions, as many as 10 different proposals. Lots of people in Bitcoin Cash were thinking about how to do token solutions directly on-chain. A lot of these were technically difficult and required node changes.
**It was rapidly adopted** due to the design ideology of not needing consensus or serious rule changes to implement. https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/8fkxxi/simple_ledger_protocol_proposal/)
As the SLP idea gained traction, other Bitcoin Cash fans like Mark B. Lundeberg, Calin Culianu, Jonald Fyookball, and more came to help finalize it.
In the end, Cramer pushed ahead and with the blessing of many others, published the now-famous **type 1 token spec**. https://github.com/simpleledger/slp-specifications/blob/master/slp-token-type-1.md
The rest as they say is history.
Snapshot of the Current SLP Ecosystem
With a growing ecosystem of tokens worth real money such as SPICE, HONK, DROP, USDH, FLEX and SAI and growing more and more. In the past year, SLP was rapidly adopted by exchanges such as Coinex, Coinflex, Bitcoin.com, Cryptophyl and Sideshift. https://www.coinex.com/ https://coinflex.com/ https://exchange.bitcoin.com/ https://cryptophyl.com/ https://sideshift.ai
This culminated in the formation and funding of the SLP Foundation November last year by many big BCH players, with the goal of supporting developers and businesses in the budding ecosystem. https://read.cash/@SLP-Foundation/announcing-the-slp-foundation-e8cededa
Recently using new tech developed, a collaboration between Bitcoin.com, Bitfinex and the SLP Foundation has culminated in USDT becoming a new addition to the SLP ecosystem with Tether minting 6 million USD of SLP USDT tokens on its first day of release. https://news.bitcoin.com/the-popular-stablecoin-tether-is-now-circulating-on-the-bitcoin-cash-network/
We are confident more and more projects will come to see SLP as an attractive token solution to build on. In return, this spurs more exchange adoption.
On the side, we have been talking to builders working on SLP projects.
We know more stable coins, DEFI, decentralized exchanges, games, reward points, crowdfunding, and green energy technology are working hard to become the next big hits in SLP.
So over on the technical side, what has the SLP Foundation been working on so far?
Improvements to Speed, Compatibility, and Usability
Since established in November 2019, the team has been hard at work coding and collaborating with devs behind the scenes.
Great improvements have been made to SLP-DB's **speed**. The sync time has been reduced from days to hours, along with many other optimizations that increase efficiency with deployment and usage. https://github.com/simpleledger/SLPDB
Unit tests and good practices for developers have been developed to aid developers in making sure their application is good to go for commercial launch. https://github.com/simpleledger/slp-unit-test-data https://slp.dev/guides/slp-implementation-instructions/#prevent-users-burning-tokens-by-accident
A graph search server was built in C++, known as GS++ validator. This was integrated with the Electron Cash SLP wallet, greatly increasing wallet sync times for SLP tokens with large histories. This also paved the way to completing improved fuzzing suites. https://github.com/blockparty-sh/cpp_slp_graph_search
Fuzzing suites using AFL, allows thousands and thousands of generated transactions per section to quickly iron out disparities between different SLP implementations. This means for example there would be **no compatibility issues in execution** between SLPDB and Electron Cash. In other words, squashing many scaling issues and edge-case bugs.
We are even going further with work on many small tools such as: SLP decoder, tx decoder, crash fuzzing and graph fuzzing.
The increase in island tools means SLP can now be easily integrated with our new micro libraries SLP Parser and SLP Metadata maker, which can be easily ported to different languages for **compatibility.**
SLP-Light, Our Rapid Multi-Tool Solution
One of the biggest things we have been currently working on at the SLP Foundation is reviewing the current tech stack. Brainstorming and collaborating with other teams on how we could drastically improve the experience for developers and businesses.
The current tech stack involves either spinning up your own node which includes having to set-up SLP DB, or using SLP-Js or some form of trusted validation (e.g. bitcoin.com rest API). After some review, it was decided that for various reasons, neither solutions are currently as frictionless as it could be for devs and businesses who want to quickly onboard SLP.
Spinning up SLP-DB and related dev applications setup takes a lot of effort, and current REST API solutions do not guarantee uptime and maintenance, in addition , SLP-JS is a relatively large library. These are just a few reasons why we think a new tool is required.
**This means moving forward we need to offer something better for developers who want to build apps and play with SLP quickly.**
In comes SLP-Light.
Soon to be released, the SLP's Foundation's collaboration with Bitcoin.com. Based on some code developed by Cryptophyl and Detoken’s Semyon Germanovich, and taken on by SLP Foundation’s Lead Developer Jt Blockparty Freeman and Andreas Larsson, Lead Backend Engineer at Bitcoin.com
The success of putting USDT has been the result of Bitfinex adopting SLP-Light as a solution.
SLP-Light is a wrapper layer of code built on the great Bitcore Lib Cash library by Bitpay which has received acclaim from almost all the developers in SLP space.
SLP-Light extends Bitcore Lib Cash’s libraries with easy to use SLP functionality, with enough functionality for most use-cases businesses with SLP projects will need to implement SLP.
You can plug and play different things for getting utxos for bch or slp, and the same for broadcasting transactions, single library that can interact with all these different backends, use bitcoin.com’s REST, Fountainhead or any node. You could use your own node, but you don’t have to, you can just use validators online. High customizable and incredibly lightweight.
**SLP-Light is currently undergoing testing and is in beta.**
In addition to this, a successful Flipstarted fundraiser has created plans for BCHD to index SLP directly. The SLP Foundation and James Cramer are working intensely with BCHD to work towards a BCH node that indexes SLP transactions without the running of SLP DB, and we hope that other nodes will also implement SLP indexing using BCHD’s code. (Check out the work here). https://github.com/gcash/bchd/pull/387
The Future of SLP Technology Stack
We believe together these two developments (SLP-Light and BCHD) will pave a path to a much more compact tech stack option for developers and businesses looking to build.
Importantly, this opens a pathway for a much easier pathway for exchanges to add SLP tokens, as the technical resources they need to devote to adding SLP tokens reduce significantly.
This doesn’t mean that SLP-DB is redundant. For more complicated functionality, developers can always use the current tech stack, including SLP-DB or whatever fits their development goals.
Finally, work has been done to modularize various functions that previously were all done using a single library. Allowing developers to easily add the functionality they need rather than loading a single large library every single time. (Examples are SLP-parser, SLP metadata).
Beautiful Documentation for SLP Developers and Post Office Protocol
At the SLP Foundation, we believe navigation for budding SLP developers could be improved greatly by beautiful and concise documentation. Collaboration with bitcoin.com to cross-reference and not have developers embracing libraries or solutions that are no longer well maintained.
The ultimate goal is to grow and retain our developer base.
Therefore we are actively developing our SLP documentation site, which will serve as the new convergence point for all SLP documentation on all tooling available with tutorials. The first which has just been merged here on Setting Up SLP for Devs, alongside a budding array of guides and useful information for devs. https://slp.dev/guides/slp-software-setup/#slp-wallet
We also started on funding an open-source implementation of the Post Office Protocol. You can see a USDT transaction made using the Post Office Protocol server stamp here (No BCH needed!). As well as an early video demo here.
Once testing with Electron Cash SLP is complete we will release the implementation for all to build with.
We are also excited that commercial adoption of the Post Office Protocol is happening. Our view at the foundation is to never end up offering commercial solutions that compete directly with private enterprises, sticking to our philosophy as a non profit entity. https://medium.com/@vinarmani/simple-ledger-postage-protocol-enabling-a-true-slp-token-ecosystem-on-bitcoin-cash-f960a58c16c4 https://explorer.bitcoin.com/bch/tx/ae67548b57583dbe25f0d1f274061d635dd27c564cfd66d8e3879c76b947300c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGCzujDCgYs https://twitter.com/vinarmani/status/1276109794034647040?s=20
All-together, we paint a picture of the future architecture of SLP. One that is easier to adopt for anyone looking to build for SLP, a better experience for the entire ecosystem, bolstering the attractiveness of the ecosystem.
What’s next for the SLP Foundation?
Our work has only begun, and there is much to do. In the coming months, we want to work with businesses to adopt the NFT1 standard, make SLP libraries available for more languages, and more.
We have a very exciting project we are looking forward to revealing more details about, called the Rewards Tools. Lead by SLP visionary James Cramer, working with the foundation. This will be an evolution of the beloved dividend/airdrop functionality in more ways that one.
Currently, we are starting the early work on making the next SLP hackathon bigger and bolder.
The future has not been built yet, and SLP together with Bitcoin Cash can be at the forefront of building use-cases for the future economy.
Let’s build something truly global, truly game-changing, and truly simple.
-The SLP Foundation
*If you have a project we have not heard about, always feel free to swing by SLP's* *Telegram Group* *and ask for the SLP Foundation.* https://t.me/simpleledger
SLP基金会正式宣布成立
我们很高兴宣布SLP基金会正式成立。我们从2019年11月开始筹集启动资金，今天我们想分享一些基金会的信息，以及我们将如何支持SLP协议的发展。
本基金会的使命是为顶级的开发、扩展、研究和社区建设提供必要的支持和资源，最终目标是使比特币现金（BCH）成为代币经济的主要载体，并推进其在全球被采用和发挥经济价值。
自2018年推出以来，得益于SLP代币协议的先进性（且易于使用），SLP代币协议在比特币现金社区内外获得了很高的普及率。像CoinEx、CoinFLEX、Cryptophyl和Bitcoin.com这些交易所都采用了SLP技术，并且上架了一批先行SLP代币产品，已上架的代币有Spice, Drop, FLEX, SAI 等。SLP协议的需求一直在增长，每天都有新的代币被创建。 https://www.coinex.com/?lang=en_US https://coinflex.com/ https://cryptophyl.com/ https://www.bitcoin.com/?utm_expid=.6XwjoklQSJi9ud_lDEscOw.0&utm_referrer= https://spicetoken.org/ https://cryptophyl.com/drop https://coinflex.com/flexcoin/ https://sideshift.ai/hns/bch
SLP基金会主要关注点是提供开源工具，以支持SLP协议实际用例快速增长。我们还将致力于协调开源开发者在SLP经济生态的共同利益，为增长和创新培育一个健康的环境。我们在很早期就决定将基金会保持在较小的规模，以避免其他类似项目的那种政治问题。
SLP基金会是非盈利性组织，运营资金来自比特币现金经济生态圈内著名企业捐赠。吴旭锋（Peter Ng）, 黄祖轩（Joey Wong）和吕斯文（Stefan Rust）最近成立了一个委员会，在选出更合适的董事会之前，他们将担任类似董事的职务。他们致力于组织沟通，管理，研究和增长等工作，这样开发人员就可以专注于他们最擅长的工作，编写代码和构建项目。
SLP 2020
SLP基金会的一项重要举措是“SLP 2020”，这是一项广泛的努力，指在改善SLP基础设备的四个主要方面：速度、稳定性、兼容性和推广。该计划的执行将为新的开发者提供激励，提供更快更具鲁棒性的后端，将SLP扩展到多种编程语言，提供更多的工具，举办更多的黑客马拉松和漂亮的文档。
SLP基金会将主动积极探索更大的传统业务领域，如数字媒体权益，身份管理，积分系统，游戏NFT，授权访问令牌，受监管的证券和其他传统金融行业。与此同时，我们将接触钱包商和交易所，如果他们要整合SLP协议到产品和服务中，我们将提供直接的服务支持。
在关键的基础设施建设之上，我们基金会还将资助更多的创新和研究，如POP协议（Post Office Protocol）和NFT技术。
当我们推出SLP 2020时，我们会和社区分享更多的细节。
比特币现金（BCH）的未来是光明的
比特币现金现在有多个完整节点实现获得了开发资金，我们相信比特币现金的发展道路是光明的，我们希望帮助BCH成为商业和个人使用的最佳的加密数字货币。我们将和比特币现金社区一起工作，包括中英社区，以及和更广大的加密数字货币圈合作，共同将比特币现金推向一个全新的高度。
我们相信SLP协议和BCH是有独特价值，这是一个真正易于使用，即插即用的代币经济解决方案以及相关的一整套技术，同时具有快速、廉价和可靠的交易特性。我们相信，没有其他加密数字货币能够同时为开发者和终端用户提供这种程度的简洁性。
——SLP基金会团队
Announcing the SLP Foundation
We are excited to officially announce the existence of the SLP Foundation. We have raised initial funds since November 2019 and today we would like to share some information about the foundation and what we will be doing to support the development of SLP.
The mission of the foundation is to provide the needed support and resources for top-tier development, scaling, research, and community building, with the ultimate goal of making Bitcoin Cash the premiere token ecosystem to build on, and furthering its goals of global adoption and economic empowerment.
Since launching in 2018, SLP tokens have had a high adoption rate within the Bitcoin Cash community because of SLP’s advanced (yet easy-to-use) capabilities. Exchanges like CoinEx, CoinFLEX, Cryptophyl, and Bitcoin.com are adopting SLP technology and listing first-mover tokers such as Spice, Drop, FLEX, SAI and so on. The demand for SLP tokens is growing and new tokens are being created every day.
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The SLP Foundation’s primary focus is to provide open-source tools to support the rapid growth of SLP use cases. We will also aim to coordinate the common interests of the open source developers working within the SLP ecosystem to foster a healthy environment for growth and innovation. We decided very early to keep the foundation team small to avoid the kind of politics that plague our ecosphere.
The SLP Foundation is a non-profit endeavour; it has been funded by donations from notable business owners within the Bitcoin Cash ecosphere. Peter Ng, Joey Wong and Stefan Rust have recently formed a council, where they will serve akin to directors until a more suitable board can be elected. They will assist in communications, administration, research and growth efforts, so the developers can focus on doing what they do best, writing code and building projects.
SLP 2020
One of the key initiatives of the SLP Foundation is something we call “SLP 2020”, which is a broad effort to improve SLP infrastructure on four main fronts: speed, stability, compatibility, and promotion.
Execution of this plan will provide incentives for new developers, a faster and more robust backend, expansion of SLP to different languages, more tooling, more hackathons, and beautiful documentation.
The SLP foundation will actively seek exposure in the larger traditional business fields, such as digital media rights, identity management, points systems, gaming NFTs, authorized access tokens, regulated securities, and other traditional finance industries. At the same time we will be reaching out to wallets and exchanges to offer a direct channel of support if they are integrating SLP into their products and services.
On top of working on critical infrastructure, the foundation will also be looking to provide support for innovative cornerstone projects, such as the Post Office Protocol and NFT technology.
As we roll out SLP 2020, additional details will be shared with the community.
The Future is Bright for Bitcoin Cash
With a multiverse of nodes being funded, we believe the path for BCH ahead is bright, and we want to help make it the best cryptocurrency for business and personal uses. We will work with the Bitcoin Cash community, both English and Chinese, and the larger cryptosphere to push Bitcoin Cash to a whole new level.
We believe SLP with Bitcoin Cash has something unique to offer, and that is bringing a really easy to use, plug and play solution to tokenization and its related technologies, whilst maintaining fast, cheap and reliable transactions. We believe no other cryptocurrency can offer this level of simplicity for both developers and end-users.
- The SLP Foundation Team.
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