ADAMANT team met security experts on the last meetup
Hi everybody!
Today we'll tell you about ADAMANT's meetup in September. We met world-known cybersecurity experts of Defence Group in Moscow City business center. Together we discussed possible vulnerabilities of ADAMANT as well as various topics on privacy and security.
If you follow us here on Medium, you already know that our team is distributed: many of our employees work remotely from different cities and even countries. We all share common virtual space but sometimes have live meetups as well where we get to know each other and have discussions. Each meetup is very unique since challenges are becoming more complex due to constant evolution of the project and expanding of our team.
September meetup represented a new phase for us. We discussed a lot of cybersecurity issues and conducted an audit of ADAMANT.
ADAMANT is a highly secure messenger
The cybersecurity tests are in process — we’re running our first security contest since the inner audit is successfully completed and now we need third party audits.
The experts noted some advantages of ADAMANT Messenger such as no phone number for «restoring access». We also discussed typical vulnerabilities of popular messengers and target audience of high privacy and security services.
Meeting in Defence Group’s office. Moscow City, business center “Capital City”
Roadmap update
On the second day of meetup our team discussed phases of development according to ADAMANT's roadmap.
Our major achievements in September are integration of Binance Coin into the transactions system and cooperation with regional representatives in Germany. We also did a lot of other work which might not be visible for our end-users but is definitely good for the future.
September «Done» list:
* Tests coverage for ADAMANT nodes;
* Research on Lisk updates. Backporting critical updates;
* Monitoring and notifications on system failures;
* Running security tests;
* Code reviews on security issues;
* First Security Contest;
* PWA: Transition to Vue 3.0;
* PWA: Transition to IndexedDB;
* PWA: Integration with Binance Coin;
* Lookup for international conferences;
* Contact authors of messengers comparisons articles;
* Find regional representatives (Germany);
* Apply for fiat processing account;
* Design Guidelines;
* 1-pager design;
* Merchandising;
*Translations updates.
Development plan:
Blockchain
* API for optimal work with chats and peers, bootstrap, address book and other KVS records; write APIs for standardization;
* Research on Group chats and Closable chats;
* Research on storage of files on the nodes;
* Multiple tests of ADAMANT current features;
* Append APIs;
* Documentation for exchanges.
Infrastructure
* Nodes for Ethereum (ERC-20), Lisk, Bitcoin, DOGE with indexes;
* ADAMANT 2FA solution;
* Creating ADM forging pool service;
* Monitoring and notifications on system failures (services part);
* Running security tests (other services).
Progressive Web Application
* Transition to Vuetify;
* UI responsiveness improvement;
* Moving to new API and pagination;
* Health check;
* Integration with ERC20-tokens. GitHub repository for ERC20-tokens list;
* Transaction list for Ethereum and ERC20-tokens;
* Tokens list design update;
* Fast UX for sending payments in-chat;
* Notifications improvements;
* Optional login by password with secure on-device storage;
* First release of Electron version of the PWA application;
* Releasing the app (Electron) on Windows Store;
* Releasing the app (Electron) on Mac App Store;
* QR-codes functionality;
* Integration with DOGE; in-chat payments with DOGE.
iOS
* Integration with Ethereum (storing and transferring of Ethereum);
* Integration with Lisk (storing and transferring of Lisk);
* iPad app adjustments;
* Multi-accounts;
* Welcome screen on app launch (5-pager for understanding what ADAMANT is);
* Transition to the new API for bootstrap and contact list, KVS;
* Search through messages;
*Themes (dark theme);
* Avatar images generation.
Android
* First version of Material Design 2.0 app;
* Test app in Google Play.
Marketing and PR
*Planning and visiting new conferences;
* Posts about ADAMANT Messenger on security forums and communities;
* Article on security of popular messengers, its translation and promotion;
* Find more regional representatives.
Administrative
* Partnership with an information security company.
Design and Website
* Explorer redesign;
* Nice and clean video about ADAMANT.
