Video Support:​ Over the last month we have added video support to listings. This will allow a user to take a video of their products with their mobile device, or upload a video, as an alternative to still photos. Videos get more attention and contain more information than still photos. This is just one factor that will make Blockmarket a unique offering among ecommerce platforms.

Along with video support, we have added video subtitling via speech recognition; subtitles can be added by simply speaking out loud while recording the video of your product, and Blockmarket Web will automatically subtitle your video. This user-friendly means of adding text to product videos benefits merchants by enabling shoppers to browse products and still benefit from videos with their sounddisabled/muted. It also grants an accessibility characteristic to the hearing-impaired, and benefits internationalization of Blockmarket ecommerce into the future. Manual subtitle editing is available in the event the recognition algorithm is not entirely accurate, which can happen with product names and descriptions from time to time.

Subtitles are the first step in our plans for internationalization. Future development will add functionality to convert subtitle text into other languages automatically. This will allow people to record a video in one language, and have it viewable and readable in any other supported language. This, too, is unprecedented in ecommerce platforms. Videos with internationalized subtitles will open Blockmarket to global audiences upon inception.

Geolocation Support:​ This month (November 2019) we were able to add Geolocation support for offers and vendors. This significant addition allows a shopper to find products in their area, and search within a specified distance from their current location. This utilizes data from GPS on the browsers mobile device and/or IP location from desktop devices. Geolocale distinction between the vendor and their offers is necessary for vendors selling items that are not at the vendor’s location.
For instance, a real-estate agent will have multiple listings at different locations, while a brick and mortar store will have offers at their physical vendor location primarily. Current Development: We are adding the ability to order products from more than one vendor, in more than one currency. Currently supported are Syscoin, Bitcoin and fiat through Stripe. 

The user will be able to sort their shopping cart items by currency, and to show prices for items in their selected currency. Users will be able to sell items as one-offs, or open their own stores. Opening their own store will require a subscription in SYS. This subscription will enable vendors with a custom URL that points to their own branded store.Additionally, we are currently adding preferred shipping and preferred currency to the user profile, a full shopping cart and mini-cart, and more.

Web3 for Syscoin Platform will make it much easier for Dapp Builders to use the Syscoin Blockchain. Ethereum already uses Web3. If you want to learn more on how Web3 works, here is an introduction video:  

A Trustless Bridge

Syscoin Bridge is set to offer trustless and permissionless interoperability between the Syscoin and Ethereum blockchains, freeing you from the common limitations and risks when moving from one platform to another. Neither counter-parties nor incentivized custodial holders are required to use the bridge.

A two-way mint/burn process using zero-knowledge proofs provides token fungibility in both directions, while the sum token supply is properly maintained across all involved platforms.

Syscoin Bridge stands apart by providing other distributed ledgers the benefits of Syscoin Platform, including access to the decentralized high-throughput transaction layer, ZDAG; tested by Whiteblock and shown to surpass the transaction throughput of the largest credit card networks.

Bridge users benefit from Syscoin's underlying security, which is inherent in being merged-mined with Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash; Syscoin’s base layer remains fully compliant with Bitcoin Core, staying up-to-date with the latest Bitcoin technology. 

Prominent Syscoin core developers, 

Blockchain Foundry

 selected Ethereum as the first subject of integration for this bridge. Two fundamental reasons led the company to choose Ethereum: to provide new and existing Syscoin Platform Tokens with access to Ethereum's time-tested smart contract capabilities and toolkits, and address Ethereum's growing need for a viable scaling solution by giving ERC20s access to fast, secure, low-cost transactions on a scalable layer that is also decentralized.