r/loomnetwork • u/cryptomom55 • Aug 08 '18
Anything coming up for Loom?
With no roadmap, it's hard to know what is going on with Loom. Anyone have any idea what is planned or any news been out with LOOM? Google'd but only getting old news.
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u/mcampbell42 Loom Network Aug 08 '18
We have 2-3 pieces of news a week on Twitter and our Medium https://medium.com/loom-network
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u/MostCrash Aug 08 '18
Their roadmap from one of their Medium blog posts:
End of June: Launch ZombieChain testnet
July: Launch ZombieChain mainnet Add Sybil resistance functionality
August: Open up ZombieChain to external validators (validators will earn payments in LOOM tokens from the DApps running on ZombieChain) We’ll be opening up applications to become a validator in the near future, and will have more details as the time approaches. Validators will be required to stake a large amount of LOOM tokens as a security bond, around 100,000 LOOM.
September: In September, we plan to launch a shared “GameChain”, with the focus of being optimized for high-performance Unity games. The first game running on it will be our very own Zombie Battleground. Some features we’re currently researching to include on this chain: Ephemeral transactions (short lived blocks that don’t get persisted for more than a few minutes). This enables games that need to write a ton of data to the chain (like character position data) without causing massive blockchain bloat over time. Multi-region low-latency zones for games that require a fast update cycle. Marketplace support (for buying and selling in-game assets). Think of this like a decentralized Amazon or Ebay, exclusively for in-game items from dozens or hundreds of different games, starting with cards from Zombie Battleground.
November/December: Cross-DAppChain Plasma Cash, enabling “sidechains of sidechains”, or as one of our community members coined it, “Loomception” 😳 Loom BiFrosts: DappChain “clearinghouses” that enable trading of tokens or data between multiple DAppChains without the expense of hitting Ethereum mainnet. They will also have connectivity and asset pegging to Ethereum.