This is what we worked on at Blockstack PBC this past week. There are certain things e.g., legal matters or updates on internal infrastructure etc that we can’t make public for regulatory or security reasons. We’re trying our best to make as many updates publicly available as possible.
Would love to hear from the community about how we can further improve this process.
ENGINEERING
Gaia
- There was a Gaia outage last week: we published a forum post about it.
B lockstack Browser
- Ken released v0.33.1 and v0.33.2: https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-browser/releases/tag/v0.33.2
- Ken built prototype for burner ID onboarding idea
- Aaron fixed builds of blockstack-browser for Windows and Linux
Blockstack.js
- Larry finished implementation of UserSession API for blockstack.js and added configurable storage strategies. This pull request is ready for team and community review and feedback, but requires additional testing and documentation before being ready to be merged: https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack.js/pull/542
- Larry created a branch of blockstack todos that uses the UserSession API https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-todos/tree/feature/blockstack-19
- Larry merged improved support for multi-sig addresses in blockstack.js https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack.js/pull/538
Blockstack Android
- Shipped a pre-release of a blockstack react native module https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-blockstack
Documentation
- Mary commented and wrote editorial on app mining review instructions, app registration.
- Mary completed Shreyas comments and iOS tutorial
GROWTH
- Mark set up project boards for App.co data evangelists and editorial contributors to start accumulating content needs
- Mark started outlining Q4 OKR candidates for App.co and Gaia
Auth/Onboarding
- Shreyas debugged developer auth issue
- Further defined target consumer personae conversation based on initial Auth Browser personae outline
- Extended our enterprise trial of usertesting.com and tried to perpetually use it without signing an expensive yearly contract. Also researched some alternatives.
- Jeff ran 10 new onboarding sessions on usertesting.com.
- Jeff re-crunched our mixpanel funnel data and user testing data to make apples-to-apples comparison easier and faster and created several tickets to improve copy and design of our current onboarding.
Community + Events:
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“Decentralizing the World Tour”
- NYC Event: September 13 at 6:30pm. Purchase tickets here w/ code: BLOCKSTACKER
- London Event: October 1. Event registration site to be launched this week.
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Speaking Engagements + Blockstack Participation:
- Oslo Freedom Forum: NYC - Sept 17 (Ryan, Patrick, Jeff, Jude, Liz, Afari and Graphite attending)
- B2B Primary’s Summit: Ryan Shea to present. NYC - Oct. 3
- SF Blockchain Week Event: Ryan Shea included in two panels, one with Naval Ravikant. SF - Oct. 8
- DCG Founders Summit: Ryan Shea to present. CA - Oct. 15-17
Marketing
- Team discussed Gaia blogging strategy and App Mining marketing strategy
OPERATIONS
Hiring
- Looking to fill roles in engineering, product design, product marketing
Office
- HQ IT + Networking contract signed. Parts ordered. Work date to come.
- OKR Q4 meetings scheduled