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Engineering Status

Execution

  • Team has entered into second weekly sprint of 20.10 release cycle (Sprint 6.2). The focus of this cycle is to launch Delta Testnet with minimum 50 validators. The release will incorporate all economic rewards as well as security and implement 'Event Stream' for that will send events to all subscribers.
  • In the 20.10 Release Cycle, we are also focus on doing design and specification work for some crucial features like 'State Pruning & Garbage Collection', 'Unification of Accounts and Contracts' and 'Payments 2.0' which will enable several additional usecases.
  • We have been working on Rust implementation of the node and the repo has been made public now. You can check the work and progress here: https://github.com/CasperLabs/casper-node.

Release

  • Release 0.20.1 was cut on Friday, 31 July 2020. Release 0.20.1 fixes bugs found in Contract Runtime, Clarity and the Python Client earlier in the week.

Testnet

Testnet was launched on 31 March 2020 with following features. Beta (Phase 2) of the Testnet was launched on 03 August 2020:

  • Alpha Highway consensus
  • Assumes honest validators
  • Supports Eras, configurable round exponent and other Highway parameters
  • Does not support bonding/unbonding, slashing, rewards
  • Genesis process
  • All smart contracting features
  • Testnet Explorer

Testnet Performance

  • Beta Testnet was restarted on on Friday, 04 September 2020 at 19:00hrs UTC with 50 validators. 40 Validators are in sync, 8 are not reporting status and 2 have not cleaned their state before joining.
  • The testnet is healthy and working as intended. Current J-Rank is 71376.

Rust Node Network

  • A Rust network (code name Charlie) with 5 validators will be launched this week.

Current Focus

Highway

  • Validator set rotation.
  • Implementation of Slashing.
  • Implementation of Highway Core security features (defenses against equivocation based spam attacks).
  • Update of the Highway Proofs for readability & security features.

Node - Rust

  • Design for Accounts and Contracts unification.
  • Design of Merkel Proof API for Global State.
  • Design of Event Stream.
  • Implement infrastructure for improved testing of Rust Node.
  • Provide Node API to support client interfaces.
  • Adding more features to Rust client.

Test and SRE

  • Rust network launch with 5 validators.
  • Supporting Beta Testnet.
  • Continue automation.
  • Updating STests for Rust node.
  • Partnering with Sensei Group for testing and hardening of Rust node. They will kick off this week.

Ecosystem

  • Design of Payments 2.0.
  • Improvements to POC for IPwe.
  • Updates to UI/UX for CLarity.
  • Review of Token Standards in the wider landscape as a precursor to defining Casper Token Standard.
  • Self-hosted Blog: Improvements to GitHub workflow and adding Google Analytics.
  • Updating new designs for Generic Voting App.

Economics Research

  • Prototype for ChainLink-CL adaptor.
  • Investigate Gas Futures and write preliminary specs. We have rejected https://github.com/CasperLabs/ceps/pull/7 as it does not meet the requirements for price stabilization properly.

Node - Sc

  • We will not do any additional work on Scala Node. There will only be fixing of bugs reported on the Testnet.

Contract Runtime

  • We will restart work on Contract Runtime once we have designs and specifications for 'Accounts and Contracts Unification' and 'Payments 2.0'.

Team & Company Update

  • Dan Werner joined the team starting this week.
  • Next week we have a Developer trainer & advocate joining the team.
  • We are searching for talented SRE's to join our team.
  • We have new timings for our weekly workshops, held twice a week on:
  1. Thursday 07:00 am Pacific time and
  2. Friday 12:00 am Pacific (4pm Japan Time).

Governance Status

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