Digix shows off marketplace preview with platform almost ready to launch


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Anthony Eufemio, CTO of Digix Global, the smart asset company tokenizing gold on Ethereum, today provided the newest development update in regards to the highly anticipated marketplace platform launch. Of chief importance right now, the CTO mentioned the upcoming third security audit and the refactoring work needed to get the codebase ready for it.

During the first two audits, Digix wanted the audits to focus on the consumer-facing portions of its code, which includes the following:

Anthony Eufemio, Chief Technology Officer at Digix Global

Additionally, the CTO wanted to get some feedback regarding the modular contact patterns (made possible through Digix CACP/ICS contracts).

Splitting contract code into different contracts based on their function which may fall in one of the following categories, which allows for the following:

CTO of Digix Anthony Eufemio said:

“These are all great things that CACP/ICS provides our contract development efforts but the biggest caveat is that this design makes it difficult to properly write unit tests. All of the issues that were brought up during our first and second audits have since been resolved except for the most glaring one which is the lack of unit testing. The reason for this is that writing unit tests in CACP/ICS is not a trivial exercise…”

A simple test of a controller contract would require the following steps:

This week Digix is working towards finding a middle ground solution to its testing woes which involves some of the following:

The goal is to have a golden code base with 100% coverage of mission-critical portions of the Digix code base and 100% sanity check coverage for non-critical portions of the code.

Marketplace Platform

More updates provided from Chris Hitchcott, Digix Core Developer announced the progress this week of a newly skinned marketplace to make it more closely match with Digix branding (screenshots seen above). The skin includes components to improve UX, integrating the Digix semantic UI theme, adding visuals to the landing page (a big slideshow banner with login overlay), adding the Terms & Conditions, styling charts, the various other UI tweaks.

Developers also progressed with backend updates to the routing system to deal with redirects, and wiring up various hard-coded URLs to prepare the app for different staging environments.
Additionally, the development team has prepared a short survey to help them determine the prominence of copy on the marketplace landing page, based on feedback from potential DGX holders.

Hitchcott finished the update by saying:

“Pending the updated contract API…the final step for publishing a live marketplace (for user testing of purchasing DGX) is to integrate the new contracts and deploy this updated app — plus maybe one or two additional minor iterations of UI tweaking here and there, and recording a walk-through video. This week I am wrapping up by working on the PoA system, pending the updated contract API.”

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