State of the project: Newsletter from Pascal blockchain.

joelagbo (70)in Project HOPE • 4 years ago

Through the tough and turbulent times we have continued to stay put as many areas in the world still surfer highly from the corona virus pandemic, despite the halt in most social and economic activities and the various restrictions placed on some activities, we continue to live through the uncertainty and hope that things get better with time. We urge continued support for the health sector and adherence to the guidelines set to flatten the infection curve and restore a balance globally.

At Pascal, we have been persistent in maintaining and developing out blockchain technology as well as the managerial aspect of the Pascal coin project. We have not relented a bit in the all-round development of the project. The pandemic unarguably slowed the speed of development a little bit and has also reduced community participation, but not a total stop.

A new month brings a new wave of optimism and despite the world remaining in this very difficult time, we hope thing gets better with time.

It’s been an interesting run of days and we bring you the major highlights of the past month as it concerns the Pascal blockchain project.

Changes to core development and management team

Since our genesis block and even before, the Pascal core team have devoted untampered efforts towards the development of the Pascal blockchain and their efforts have led to the development of on the most technologically advanced blockchain in the crypto space. The core development team isn’t immune to changes however and so many amazing developers have joined the team over the time with few leaving due to other personal engagements.

In keeping with this, we wish to announce the newest changes to the core development and management team.

Due to personal reasons and the need to focus on other engagements, Pascal co-founder Albert Molina have handed over the management and development of our main github account to fellow lead developer Herman Schoenfeld. This handover makes Herman Schoenfeld the lead developer of the Pascal blockchain project and the custodian of our github repository, this handover has been concluded smoothly and technological developments have continued in earnest.

We also wish to announce a major change to the core management team and a major change in the management of the project’s treasury and finance and a new custodian of the Pascal development treasury. The new custodian will re-activate our Hong-kong foundation and also proceed with core financial management responsibilities.

Release of Pascal v5.3 macOS build

We are pleased to announce the release of the latest version of the Pascal blockchain for mac operating system. All features of the current version are now available for MacOS devices. The v5.3:
• Fixed "out of memory" error when downloading Safebox
• Fixed freeze bug on GUI when updating accounts grid
And other Minor improvements for testing
Further information

Community participation reward distribution

As promised in our previous update, we have documented our most active community members and will be distributing rewards as soon as possible. The pascal community participation reward scheme hopes to encourage community participation and contribution to the growth of the project by rewarding deserving community members on monthly basis. Rewarded members are active members of our discord, telegram (general and Arabic) and other social media channels.

Join us, stay active and get rewarded for your membership!

Reminder to submit your entry for the ongoing writing contest

Our second writing contest is still ongoing with deadline set to 17th September and results to be announced a week later, we urge every contestant to submit their articles within this set time to enable the team assess all submissions duly.

Multiple language support for Pascal classic wallet

To simplify the usage of our desktop wallets, we have been working a translation library to enable multiple language support on our desktop wallet. We are pleased to announce that this development is in its final phase and we will be integrating the multiple language support to our wallets soon.

Proposal to re-write Pascal Codebase in a more modern programming language

The Pascal blockchain codes were written in Pascal programming language, however, per complaints from certain developers, the Pascal language could be tedious for certain modern developers, to further simplify development of the Pascal blockchain, the development team have submitted a proposal to have the current codebase re-written in a more modern language. Join us and share your contributions as regards this.

New exchange listing

Pascal (PASC) have been added to CoinPark exchange’s boost trading zone. The boost trading is an auxiliary section of CoinPark’s token trading. The boost trading zone is a selection of high-quality potential tokens. Tokens from this section which reaches a certain transaction volume, they will be listed for free on the exchange. CoinPark is a cryptocurrency exchange based in Singapore.

Re-activation of our official medium channel

Our medium channel have been down for a couple of months now and have resorted to using alternative channels for our official announcements while we worked towards fixing this issue and re-activating our official announcement channel.
As regards this, we are pleased to announce that our official medium channel has been re-activated, well, I guess you are reading this announcement from out official medium channel.
Else kindly follow us on https://medium.com/@pascalcoinblockchain to keep up with subsequent announcements.

And, yes! We have been Featured by Yahoo finance

As we continue with this odd time in our existence, we urge everyone to stay safe and adhere to social distancing specifications and other guidelines which are expected to sustain safety and slow the rate of infection. Until next time, stay safe!