In the past we have talked about how
Iguana will have its first release before Komodo ICO starts. This should convince everyone that these are not just empty words, but jl777 has coded a lot of stuff and it's working.
Just now there was a
GUI update from @boogieman on SuperNET Slack #iguana:
The GUI update:
1. We have 0 (ZERO) tasks in To Do column for 0.1.
2. We have completed Iguana/Non-Iguana Create Account/Login Screens
3. Authorization Features and Dashboard were pushed to the repo, now we are testing it. Need code optimizatin to make it faster. Working on it.
4. Features Sending\Receiving to be delivered very soon. The devs finally done with syncs after major changes and now working on API.
5. The rest of the tasks are minor improvements.
So we are in the final phase and getting ready to test and release.
Komodo will use some of the code from Iguana, as Iguana is the low level technology that many other SuperNET projects will leverage on, i.e. atomic swaps and a decentralized exchange.
So what is Iguana? Here's a quote from jl777:
I will be using iguana to implement the bitcoin interfacing required in komodo. komodo is a usecase of iguana tech. iguana is the platform level codebase and so now the time is come to build things on top of that platform. dPoW is a relatively small and well defined module to complete and I will add that into a zcash fork.
Iguana is a bitcoin daemon and wallet that can sync the entire BTC blockchain from scratch in 2 hours. It also can sync over a dozen other coins, all from a self-contained codebase that I wrote from scratch. Its codesize is about 3MB and it has been ported from unix to osx, win32, win64, android and chrome app. docs.supernet.org documents its API bindings and it is now in the final stages of debug and will be used as a component within komodo. I have seen some GUI that is looking pretty good and for basic wallet function and parallel sync it appears to be working, though I do the core level code and not the GUI so I cant speak for it in detail.
What does the Iguana achieve:
Iguana brings all the bitcoin compatibles into the same technical platform. Multiple coins can run through iguana, they are directly connected in a way. This makes things like Atomic Swaps possible. Send btc and receive btcd without using an exchange