BitcoinCash’s past BCH applications, such as memo and Blockpress, the decentralized social software, Lighthouse, the crowdfunding platform, and Cointext, the mobile money transfer software, were partly developed by BCH developers, but most of them were spontaneously developed by BCH supporters. BCH itself is an open source blockchain project, so the main force of relevant application development is also community-oriented.
But the power of an individual is always limited. Even with solid computer knowledge and blockchain knowledge, it takes a lot of effort to launch A BCH-based application, and it is even harder to make something disruptive.
In view of this, the BCH community has made many attempts. Launch crowdfunding platforms such as Lighthouse to raise money for developers; BCH supporters paid their own money to reward the development, such as BCH mining company Goingeek paid 5 million yuan to collect BCH dyeing solutions; There have even been proposals from miners to force a small portion of the block to encourage community app development. As you can see from a few simple examples, the BCH community has always taken application development very seriously.
Recently, there was good news for aspiring app developers. Bitcoin.com has launched a new developer platform, Developer.bitcoin.com, which features a powerful BITBOX SDK, REST, GUI, cloud for deployment and expansion, and marketplace for testing monetization efforts. The site hopes to help change the world of Bitcoin Cash by building such a first class suite of tools to transform developers’ workflows and reduce their development stress.
Here’s a quick rundown of some of the platform’s features:
BITBOX SDK
Bitcoin.com’s new developer platform is based on the popular BITBOX javascript framework, which has been downloaded more than 36,000 times by users in more than 100 countries. The framework provides utility methods for mnemonics, HDNodes, ECPairs, encryption, address translation, transactions, etc.
REST
The BCH JSON RPC over HTTP includes a fully documented and interactive GUI that developers can use to test their ideas and confirm that their code is making the appropriate API calls.
GUI
1. Helped to create BIP44 development wallet; 2. Convert between CashadDR/legacy addresses; Create QR codes for WIF, XPub, and XPrivs. 4. Sign and verify messages.
Cloud (Cloud)
Blockchain – as – a – Service. Infrastructure for deploying and scaling applications. An ecosystem of add-ons for data, monitoring, logging, measurement, testing, and building more W/bitboxes.
market
Help with paid downloads, popular media posts, in-app purchases, coins, and more ways you can make money.
The above is only a brief description of some functions. The official website has detailed introduction and operation instructions for each function. However, it is important to note that the platform only helps you to reduce the development pressure, which is equivalent to providing a well-equipped laboratory, more or need to develop their own.
The positive significance of this platform is obvious. On the one hand, as mentioned above, it can reduce the development pressure and help some developers, especially individual developers, reduce many unnecessary steps and speed up the application development process.
On the other hand, the launch of the platform’s application model, such as the rebate setting in the marketplace section, has also helped to attract more developers to BCH.