Latest Sprint News: New Website Launch

The end of Sprint #8 is just around the corner, and like always,  Giant sums up the outcome of the past two weeks (24 September - 7  October 2018). Like many other IT projects, Giant tries its best to  solve the majority of short-term tasks in two-week periods called  sprints. This management model for software developers is called Scrum. 

Technologies Development

In full accordance with the backlog, Giant developers have been  working on the safe and secure integration of smart contracts into the  Giant blockchain. Due to the fact that Giant.Exchange and all other  planned decentralized applications will actively use this technology, it  is very important not to act rashly. As evidenced by the history  of other smart contracts projects, it’s in the best interest of the  community to prevent vulnerabilities from the start instead of dealing  with the tough consequences of hacks and thefts. 

This refactoring included many various subtasks, and the development  of the future update for Giant CLI was the most notable one. Users will  be able to get the information on a chosen smart contract by using  simple commands. 

The Giant.Exchange underlying assets price motion graphs mentioned in  Sprint #8 Backlog have seen several changes as well, as reported by the  developer directly responsible for the issue. Other front-end matters,  for example, Oracles list, are actively being upgraded. 

The Giant website has taken a lot of our resources but the result of  our work is objectively better than the one you can see right now. And here it is -  which, unfortunately, cannot be said about the beta version of  Giant.Exchange. The decision to postpone the Giant.Exchange Beta  introduction was not taken lightly by our team. 

Overall, the biggest development issue of this sprint was to  implement design solutions exactly as intended — this can prove  difficult in practice. 

New Website

The website of Giant has been updated at the end of this sprint —  this is a direct result of our combined efforts. The old Giant website  was outdated, as unanimously agreed by the team after an independent  review. New descriptive texts on Giant products have been composed, and  again, it was critical to create quality materials. You can report any  interface mistakes on the new website in case they escaped our  attention. 

The biggest challenge of the update process was to provide an  easy-to-understand explanation of a sophisticated project filled with  countless features. This became possible through new illustrative means  such as infographics, annotations with links to extensive articles - all  this was not present on the old website. Now you can, for example,  switch between different features to understand the strengths of the  Giant project in a eponymous section. 

This major change will have a long-term positive consequences related  to marketing, as it will raise the level of conversion. This term means  that less people will be discouraged with the poor design before even  realizing the project benefits. The new users will immediately recognize  the project potential after arriving on the new website. 

Informational Materials

The project White Papers on the old website were far from ideal. With  the help of the project founders and developers, the Giant writers have  seriously raised the quality of these documents. The new website contains the new version of the Giant, Giant.Exchange and Giant.Contracts White Papers. 

The long-awaited comparative analysis  of Giant.Exchange with other projects is finally published! This is the  biggest educational material on our site by far. Several platforms -  Betex, BlockOptions.io, Spectre.ai - are compared to Giant.Exchange by  several criteria. 

The most important conclusion of this research is that the Giant  underlying asset price motion data supply mechanism (Oracles) has no  full equivalents on the market of blockchain binary options platforms.  Another serious inference from this comparison is that sometimes the  attraction of funds through initial coin offerings (ICOs) is more  important for the project team than the actual product itself. This is  yet another solid reason against Giant holding its own ICO. And, lastly,  no other project from the article will have customizable fees which can  be determined by the community voting instead of centralized  management. 

Although we have already described everything that the Giant  founders, developers and project managers viewed necessary to outline in  the form of articles, there were some serious text-editing tasks this  sprint. In a notable occasion, a Giant wallet setup instruction had no  factual errors yet had poor grammar. As you can guess, nobody would take  the project seriously if we ourselves cannot express its gist properly. 

The current market of masternodes projects is experiencing a wave of  pessimism built on stereotypes: masternodes are viewed as a tool to  control the coin supply circulation and manipulate the price. To debunk  the myths, we might post a material dedicated to this issue. It will  also describe the clear advantages of masternode projects in the context  of certain trading fields. But this is likely to be the task of the  next sprint the backlog of which will soon be formulated and published  on the Giant website. 

Social Media

It was unanimously agreed that the Giant social media channels need  more attention, and now you can read daily descriptions of the aspects  of our work. We were quite interested to see how the community would  react to the delay of Giant.Exchange Beta - and many responded that such  events are usual in the world of IT projects. Giant thanks its  supporters for the trust they put in our enterprise. 

You can read other progress reports on our website to see  what Giant has been doing since this summer. We intend to stick to this  reports format in the future. You can also find out more about our immediate pressing matters on Discord.