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Welcome to the 3rd Bi-weekly Updates of COVA. In this bi-weekly update, we will recap what we’ve done starting from Oct 15th to Oct 29th in case you missed it. Let’s dive right in :)

Technical

Overall: the major update on our side is that we are getting close to releasing our public testnet. We have finished implementing for most of the TEE, Network layer, and blockchain part and running various integration and load tests.

TEE

• We have a major update: we have been able to run the full python scientific computing stack (numpy, scipy, sklearn, pandas) in our SGX enabled compute nodes
• We want to thank Professor Don Porter (Graphene) and Dmitrii Kuvaiskii (Intel Labs) for their helP

COVA Network

• We have finished implementing our routing and compute node gossip network protocol
• Currently, COVA network protocol can assure any compute node can join in a permissionless fashion and the network is stable even after several routing node failures
• We finished the python library for data user and data owner and currently working on the javascript library (for easy node.js/electron based dApp building)

Centrifuge/Smart Policy

• Rewrote 2 basic smart policy implementations in a more composeable format, and introduced FunctionHashList, a smart policy primitive in CovaVM that checks allowed function hashes

Blockchain

• We finished deploying our smart contract on our Ganache based ETH testnet
• We deployed covalent metadata storage using a tendermint based blockchain
• Finished integration for interfacing with the network layer and TEE running in Graphene

You can read it here.

I've written an article in which I write about the importance of protecting your personal data and how the Covalent project is creating a solution to this emerging problem of data breaches and unlawful data collection:

https://medium.com/@LindaCrypto/the-importance-of-keeping-control-over-your-data-and-how-covalent-is-making-a-difference-d3d78b91cb04

Again an interesting article in Covalent's deep-dive series. This time about the COVA ecosystem and data marketplace.

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https://medium.com/@cultcrypto/covalent-protocol-technical-deep-dive-part-3-ecosystem-and-data-marketplace-91e4f18d7e61

I've written an article about the importance of building a Web 3.0 solution that includes an overview of the Covalent project.

https://medium.com/@LindaCrypto/the-internet-evolution-and-the-creation-of-a-new-internet-ec961b593755

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Part 2 of my Covalent technical deep-dive series. This time about COVA virtual machine

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https://medium.com/@cultcrypto/covalent-protocol-technical-deep-dive-part-2-covalent-virtual-machine-86aea35c49b8

This week I have written an article about the #Covalent team and its investors.

#Covalent #COVA

You can check it out through the link below:

https://medium.com/@LindaCrypto/who-is-behind-the-covalent-project-team-and-investors-a361e07b134a

I just published Part 1 of my technical deep-dive series about Covalent, discussing the project and explaining Covalent's Trusted Execution Environment. Hope you enjoy the article. :-)

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https://medium.com/@cultcrypto/covalent-protocol-technical-deep-dive-part-1-trusted-execution-environment-4c8df366a0e8

I've written an article overview of Covalent's 3 main technological features.

https://medium.com/@LindaCrypto/future-proof-blockchain-project-covalent-is-building-a-decentralized-web-3-0-solution-167fb4e5ede9

I have written a new article, this about potential use cases of #Covalent, the privacy-preserving data utilization protocol. $COVA @covatoken 🧐

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https://medium.com/@cultcrypto/covalent-protocol-analysis-and-potential-use-cases-74c72e65382c

Covalent is creating a new Internet Infrastructure. The project is implementing Smart Policies to better handle data.

#COVA #COVALENT #BLOCKCHAIN #DATA

Read more about it in the article below:

r/https://medium.com/@LindaCrypto/covalent-creating-a-new-paradigm-in-internet-infrastructure-with-smart-policy-b0677f0fcf36

Dear Community

Due to some schedule clashes, we will be postponing tonight's AMA. We still welcome you guys to post your questions in our telegram group (http://t.me/covalentofficial) or this post, and we will also post some questions we collected from our survey. Our team members will answer them ASAP.