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!
counterparty-server 9.55.0 Released – Please upgrade!
Earlier this week Counterparty released a major new update for its reference client software. The new version of counterparty-lib, 9.55.0, brings numerous enhancements such as P2SH support, Docker builds, several protocol-level updates, as well as dozens of bug fixes....
Storj and Counterparty partner to add support for payment channels
Payment channel technology powers the upcoming Lightning Network and enables low-cost, almost instantaneous Bitcoin micropayments. Earlier this year, Storj developed a proof of concept to utilize such technology with Counterparty tokens. According to Shawn Wilkinson,...
Counterparty Community Update
Ecosystem News TopCoin is a Counterparty project created by Josh Jones, co-founder of DreamHost, and his partner Michael Blend. The project has been operating since September of 2014 but has largely been flying under the radar. “Topcoin (“TPC”) is the world’s only...
Counterparty’s EVM Port Moves Forward
NOTE: We have created a FAQ page for EVM/smart contracts. As most of you are aware, Counterparty is completing a port of the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) to Bitcoin. When we heard about the attack that was successfully carried out earlier on the DAO contract code,...
Counterparty Community Update
Ecosystem News Spells of Genesis was featured in a piece by Brave New Coin where several updates were announced: “Shaban Shaame, founder of EverdreamSoft and the conceiver of Moonga, one of the first online trading card games, was excited to announce three significant...
EVMParty Progress Update
2.5 weeks ago we announced our plans to work towards the launch of the EVM running on Counterparty. Today I’m writing an update on the progress that has been made so far and an attempt to outline the roadmap/timeline for the rest of the work. Test Coverage For a while...
Counterparty Community Update
Ecosystem News On June 1st, Storj attended Decentralized and Encrypted in Berlin, Germany. The Blueyard Capital event was self-described as “The mission to upgrade the internet & an open conversation with Edward Snowden”. Storj’s Shawn Wilkinson gave a...
Counterparty Community Update
Ecosystem News Spells of Genesis is a popular Android and iOS game that makes use of Counterparty to create in-game assets. Spells of Genesis posted a project roadmap that outlines the steps needed to complete the game by the estimated full release in September 2016....
Counterparty Foundation Update
The 2016 Counterparty Foundation has been busy the past couple of weeks. We have several changes to announce that came out of our first meeting: The first Counterparty Community Meeting will be held on June 1st. These community meetings will be held once per month on...
Proposal for Ethereum Smart Contracts on Counterparty Mainnet
Background and Progress In late 2014, Counterparty added support for executing Ethereum smart contracts on testnet by porting the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) to our codebase. At this time, Ethereum was in a pre-alpha state, with its first major release, Frontier,...