Acuity

Project History

Work started on BlobStore

26th November 2015

The Ethereum mainnet had just been launched over the summer. This was the first technology that could be used to build a fully autonomous and permanent social media platform. The primary Acuity smart contract, ItemStore was originally called BlobStore and the first version was only 23 lines long.

17th December 2016

MIX Blockchain (the precursor to the Acuity Blockchain) was orginally called LINK.

27th April 2017

The LINK blockchain is activated and mining begins.

Switch from log storage to IPFS

3rd June 2017

In the original design, published content (excluding attachments) was to be stored in Ethereum log storage. It was determined that IPFS would be a much better technology to store all content, with the hash of each content revision being stored in contract state. Here is the commit.

July 2017

Founder Jonathan Brown and developer James Drummond travelled to Kuala Lumpur to deliver a presentation about LINK. Here's the video.

12th October 2017

Due to another high profile project commencing trading as LINK, the project and cryptocurrency was renamed to MIX.

Anarchapulco Gold Sponsor

15th - 18th February 2018

MIX was a gold sponsor of Anarchapulco 2018 in Acapulco, Mexico.

MIX Party San Francisco

15th March 2018

MIX threw a party in The Mission, San Francisco with a project update by Founder Jonathan Brown and a live swing band.

MIX hardfork at block 3,000,000

27th October 2018

The Ethereum difficulty bomb was beginning to slow down block production, so MIX needed a hard fork to disable this. At the same time the EVM was upgraded to Byzantium.

Chiang Mai Presentation

4th February 2019

Jonathan Brown gave a project update in Chiang Mai.

MIX Acuity Browser released

5th August 2019

The MIX Acuity desktop browser for Windows, Mac and Linux was released. It is fully autonomous, doesn't connect to any servers and has rich functionaity such as profile creation, image publishing, feeds, topics and trust network - all implemented as smart contracts. It also has in-app mining.

MIX Acuity web app

November 2019

The MIX Acuity browser was very powerful, but it had a problem - installing it was a huge barrier to entry. Having it available as a web app meant content could be linked to directly from other web sites. Because the desktop app had been built with Electron and web technologies, creating a web app build was fairly easy.

Video publishing functionality

20th January 2020

The desktop app could transcoded the video to multiple resolutions and video could be streamed from IPFS in both the web app and the desktop app. Additionally a command line utility could synchronize video from YouTube to Acuity. Here's the video.

Migration to Substrate / Polkadot announced

8th June 2020

An independent Ethereum PoW blockchain had been an excellent technology to develop the platform on. Now MIX is moving to the Polkadot eco-system as a Substrate PoS blockchain. This has many advantages: increased economic security, cheaper transactions, greater capacity, autonomous communication with other blockchains, standardized tooling, extensibile functionality, autonomous upgrades. Additionally the MIX name is being droped entirely in favour of ACUITY. Here's the video announcement.

Substrate Regenesis

1st September 2020

A snapshot of all MIX accounts and balances was recorded at block 7,396,472.

Acuity Blockchain Activated

3rd September 2020

The new Substrate-based Acuity blockchain was launched. MIX holders began claiming their ACU.

1st Hybrid Indexer Grant

6th March 2023

The first Web3 Foundation grant for Hybrid Indexer is approved.

2nd Hybrid Indexer Grant

22nd September 2023

The second Web3 Foundation grant for Hybrid Indexer is approved. Hybrid was later extended into Acuity Index.

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