Latest News
Below you will find the latest news from the Counterparty project since its inception in 2014 all the way up to today! These news items include, community updates, development updates, important announcements, and more!
Announcing the Start of the 2017 Counterparty Foundation Community Seats Election
On May 1st last year, the Counterparty community elected four Counterparty Foundation community directors to help shape the direction of the Counterparty project and grow the community around it. Candidates with most votes from the community were Matt Young, Jeremy...
Counterparty: On scalability and the future
Since its inception, Counterparty has functioned as a “metalayer” on Bitcoin, enabling functionality that Bitcoin could not perform on its own. Until recently, Counterparty and Bitcoin technology worked well together to provide this valuable functionality quickly,...
Counterparty Community Update
Ecosystem Updates Bitcoin and Counterparty were recently on Shark Tank South Africa as a result of an investment made by South African entrepreneur Vinny Lingham. Augmentors will be raising funds in part by selling DATABITS, a token on the Counterparty network....
counterparty-lib update 9.55.1
Release Announcement for counterparty-lib 9.55.1 Counterparty experienced roughly 14 hours of downtime on December 2nd, 2016. Counterparty is back up and running thanks to a fix enacted by several leading Counterparty developers. Ruben de Vries will be porting changes...
Counterparty Community Update
Development Updates Robby Health Issue Several months ago, due to increasing complications with a chronic health condition, Robby had to stop working for Symbiont. He is on the road to recovery, and has had to minimize his involvement in Counterparty. We wish him the...
Counterparty Foundation Bounty Program
Counterparty Development The Counterparty Foundation is starting a program to allow the community to fund features they want added to the Counterparty protocol. We will facilitate payment plans for development requests with widespread interest. Plans will be started...
Counterparty Community Update
Ecosystem Updates Spells of Genesis has launched the web version of the game and their team has been busy adding features which include in-game gain, achievements and leaderboards. Check out the announcement here. An unofficial Spells of Genesis Telegram group has...
Counterparty Community Update
Ecosystem Updates IndieSquare and Spells of Genesis have teamed up with TCG Force of Will to innovate using Counterparty. Force of Will has a growing community with over 100,000 players that will soon be able to utilize game items on the Bitcoin blockchain. For...
Counterparty Community Update
Ecosystem News The mobile app company known as MandelDuck recently added support for Counterparty tokens within the popular Bitcoin geocaching app known as Takara. This is not the first time MandelDuck has integrated Counterparty tokens within one of their games,...
Counterparty Community Update
Ecosystem News Storj kicked off Test Group C on July 8th. This is a major announcement for the Storj team as it signifies the beginning of their final testing period before the full launch later this summer. “We’re thrilled to announce the start of our final testing...