---
layout: default
title: pages.update.title
description: pages.update.description
---


{% include hero/update.html %}
{% include base.html %}


<div class="page page--home">

	<!--
		WHAT IS DASH?
		LINK TO VIDEO.
	-->
	<section class="section section--home-cta">
		<div class="section__content">
				<h2 class="section__title">{% t pages.home.video-heading %}</h2>
				<div class="section__lead">{% tmd pages.home.video-text %}</div>

				<div class="section__btn-grp">
					<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcHC40YmS0g" class="btn-blue btn-large" target="_blank" data-js-popup="video">{% t pages.home.video-btn %}</a>
					<a href="{{ basenav }}/get-dash/" class="btn-blue-solid btn-large">{% t nav.download %}</a>
				</div>
		</div>
	</section>

	<!--
		MERCHANTS
	-->
	<section class="b-get-section">
		<div class="content">
			<img src="/assets/img/update/woocommerce.png" alt="">
			<h2>{% t pages.update.merchants-heading %}</h2>

			<p>{% tmd pages.update.merchants-text %}</p>
			<div>
				<a href="https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/x/j5AxBg" class="btn-white-solid" target="_blank">{% t pages.update.merchants-btn%}</a>
				<a href="https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/x/sZAxBg" class="btn-white-solid" target="_blank">{% t pages.update.masternodes-btn%}</a>
				<a href="https://dashpay.atlassian.net/wiki/x/yJAxBg" class="btn-white-solid" target="_blank">{% t pages.update.exchanges-btn%}</a>
			</div>

		</div>
	</section>

	<!--
		INTEGRATION
	-->
	<section>
		<div class="content">
			<div>
				<h2>{% t pages.update.integrate-heading %}</h2>

				{% tmd pages.update.integrate-text %}
			</div>

			<div class="ctabox ctabox_small-font ctabox--gray-light-bg" data-js-ctabox>
				<div class="ctabox__inner">
					<article class="ctabox__cta" data-js-ctabox-item>
						<a href="https://shakepay.co" target="_blank" class="ctabox__link">
							<div class="ctabox__imagewrapper">
								<img src="/assets/img/update/network.png" class="ctabox__image">
							</div>
							<div class="ctabox__text">
								<h4 class="ctabox__title">EVOLUTION</h4>
								<p class="ctabox__description">Lead evolution developer Andy Freer has been locked away producing huge amounts of documentation for the various concepts of Evolution.</p>
							</div>
						</a>
					</article>
					<article class="ctabox__cta" data-js-ctabox-item>
						<a href="https://www.livingroomofsatoshi.com/" target="_blank" class="ctabox__link">
							<div class="ctabox__imagewrapper">
								<img src="/assets/img/update/update.png" class="ctabox__image">
							</div>
							<div class="ctabox__text">
								<h4 class="ctabox__title">RESEARCH</h4>
								<p class="ctabox__description">In January 2016 we released an early Evolution prototype based on Electrum which enabled basic functions such as registering a username and paying friends by name.</p>
							</div>
						</a>
					</article>
					<article class="ctabox__cta" data-js-ctabox-item>
						<a href="https://www.bolehvpn.net/" target="_blank" class="ctabox__link">
							<div class="ctabox__imagewrapper">
								<img src="/assets/img/update/frontend.png" class="ctabox__image">
							</div>
							<div class="ctabox__text">
							<h4 class="ctabox__title">FRONTEND</h4>
							<p class="ctabox__description">The 3 main areas of frontend design and development have been to design a secure, SPV based Web Wallet, merchant tools to enable drag-and-drop checkout on a website, and an SDK that connects web clients to DAPI.</p>
							</div>
						</a>
					</article>
					<article class="ctabox__cta" data-js-ctabox-item>
						<a href="https://node40.com" target="_blank" class="ctabox__link">
							<div class="ctabox__imagewrapper">
								<img src="/assets/img/update/backend.png" class="ctabox__image">
							</div>
							<div class="ctabox__text">
								<h4 class="ctabox__title">BACKEND</h4>
								<p class="ctabox__description">The first has been to port BitPay’s Bitcore Platform to Dash including merging Bitcore Node to DashCore 12.1 for native API support.</p>
							</div>
						</a>
					</article>
					<article class="ctabox__cta" data-js-ctabox-item>
						<a href="https://shapeshift.io" target="_blank" class="ctabox__link">
							<div class="ctabox__imagewrapper">
								<img src="/assets/img/update/code.png" class="ctabox__image">
							</div>
							<div class="ctabox__text">
								<h4 class="ctabox__title"> CORE</h4>
								<p class="ctabox__description">Evolution Core work has been focused on first providing a basis to the new system in the form of Sentinel and improving DashCore to be implementation-agnostic to governance functions and objects.</p>
							</div>
						</a>
					</article>
					<article class="ctabox__cta" data-js-ctabox-item>
						<a href="https://misconductwineco.com/" target="_blank" class="ctabox__link">
							<div class="ctabox__imagewrapper">
								<img src="/assets/img/update/strategic.jpg" class="ctabox__image">
							</div>
							<div class="ctabox__text">
								<h4 class="ctabox__title">NETWORK</h4>
								<p class="ctabox__description">Enforcement will be turned off for this network upgrade, meaning nodes running the old version of the Dash software (12.0) will quickly stop being paid (contingent on miners upgrading).</p>
							</div>
						</a>
					</article>
				</div>
			</div>

			<div>
				<a href="http://dash-nation-invite.herokuapp.com/" target="_blank" class="btn-blue">{% t pages.update.slack-btn %}</a>
				<a href="https://www.dash.org/forum" target="_blank" class="btn-blue">{% t pages.update.forum-btn %}</a>
			</div>
		</div>
	</section>

	<!--
		DASH FEATURES
		PRIVATE | INSTANT | SECURE
	-->
	<section>
		<div class="content">
			<div class="row features-collection">
				<div class="col-sm-4">
					<img src="/assets/img/home/instant.svg" height="100" alt="{% t pages.home.feature-instant-heading %}">
					<h2>{% t pages.home.feature-instant-heading %}</h2>
					{% tmd pages.home.feature-instant-text %}
				</div>
				<div class="col-sm-4">
					<img src="/assets/img/home/private.svg" height="100" alt="{% t pages.home.feature-private-heading %}">
					<h2>{% t pages.home.feature-private-heading %}</h2>
					{% tmd pages.home.feature-private-text %}
				</div>
				<div class="col-sm-4">
					<img src="/assets/img/home/secure.svg" height="100" alt="{% t pages.home.feature-secure-heading %}">
					<h2>{% t pages.home.feature-secure-heading %}</h2>
					{% tmd pages.home.feature-secure-text %}
				</div>
			</div>
		</div>
	</section>

	<!--
		NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
	-->
	<section class="section--masternode">
		<div class="content">
			<div class="row">
				<div class="col-sm-6">
					<h2>{% t pages.update.execution-heading %}</h2>

					{% tmd pages.update.execution-text %}

					<a href="{% t pages.update.execution-link %}" target="_blank" class="btn-blue">{% t pages.update.execution-btn %}</a>
				</div>
				<div class="col-sm-6 home-architecture-graphic">
					<img src="/assets/img/update/execution.png" alt="{% t pages.home.execution-heading %}">
				</div>
			</div>
		</div>
	</section>

	<!--
		SELF GOVERNING | SELF FUNDING
	-->
	<section>
		<div class="content">
			<div class="row">
				<div class="col-sm-6 col-sm-push-6">
					<h2>{% t pages.update.update-heading %}</h2>

					{% tmd pages.update.update-text %}

				</div>
				<div class="col-sm-6 col-sm-pull-6 ">
					<img src="/assets/img/update/updateevo.png" alt="{% t pages.update.update-heading %}">
				</div>
			</div>
		</div>
	</section>

	<!--
		FASTEST GROWING NETWORK
	-->
	<section>
		<div class="content">
			<div class="row">
				<div class="col-sm-6">
					<h2>{% t pages.update.evolution-research-heading %}</h2>

					{% tmd pages.update.evolution-research-text %}

					<a href="{{ basenav }}/currency" class="btn-blue">{% t pages.update.evolution-research-btn %}</a>
				</div>
				<div class="col-sm-6 home-network-graphic-live">
					<img src="/assets/img/update/research.png" alt="{% t pages.update.research-heading %}">
				</div>
			</div>
		</div>
	</section>

	<!--
		EVOLUTION
	-->
	<section>
		<div class="content">
			<div class="row">
				<div class="col-sm-6 col-sm-push-6">
					<h2>{% t pages.update.launching-heading %}</h2>

					{% tmd pages.update.launching-text %}

					<a href="http://dashvotetracker.com" target="_blank" class="btn-blue">{% t pages.update.launching-btn %}</a>
				</div>
				<div class="col-sm-6 col-sm-pull-6 home-evolution-graphic">
					<img src="/assets/img/update/lan_date.png" alt="Dash Evolution">
				</div>
			</div>
		</div>
	</section>

	<!--
		LATEST NEWS
	-->
	<section class="home-latest-news">
		<div class="content">
			<h2>{% t pages.home.news-heading %}</h2>

			<div class="row">
				{% for post in site.posts limit:4 %}
				<div class="col-sm-6 col-md-3">
					<div class="news-post">
						<div class="news-image">
							{% if post.image %}
								<img src="/assets/img/blog/{{ post.image }}">
							{% endif %}
						</div>
						<div class="news-body">
							<h3 class="news-title">{{ post.title }}</h3>
							<div class="date">{{ post.date | date: "%b %d, %Y" }}</div>
							<p>{{ post.excerpt | strip_html | truncate: 250 }}</p>
							<a class="read-more" href="{{ basenav }}{{ post.url }}">Read More...</a>
						</div>
					</div>
				</div>
				{% endfor %}
			</div>

			<div>
				<a href="{{ basenav }}/blog/" class="btn-blue">{% t pages.home.news-btn %}</a>
			</div>
		</div>
	</section>


</div>