CKB Dev Log 2024-08-21

[gpBlockchain]

Updates

Features

• CKB
  • get_transaction RPC supports returning tx_index Add tx_index to TxStatus for get_transaction RPC #4583
• CKB-VM
  • Built a demo for validating Bitcoin Scripts on CKB-VM https://github.com/xxuejie/ckb-bitcoin-vm
  • Upgraded multisig contract deployed on testnet: fix: rare failing case in multisig ckb-system-scripts#98
  • Molecule serde implementation for serialization https://github.com/XuJiandong/serde_molecule/tree/main
• CKB-Testtool
  • Ckb-debugger supports lldb debugging Support lldb ckb-standalone-debugger#136
• CKB-SDK
  • Supports CKB v0.117.0 Add RPC Support for ckb v0.109 -> 0.117 ckb-sdk-go#221
• CKB Fiber Network
  • Enabled broadcasting of channel and node information for multihop payments. [WIP] Broadcast {channel,node} information for multihop payment fiber#144
  • Completed contract development based on the Daricprotocol feat: refactor commitment lock to using daric protocol fiber-scripts#10
  • Active development on the network graph component https://github.com/nervosnetwork/fiber/tree/multihop-graph
• CKB Light Client
  • Released v0.3.8
• Common Chains Connector Locks (CCC-Locks)
  • Deployed CCC locks for BTC, ETH, SOL on testnet. Add testnet deployment ckb-devrel/ccc-locks#8
• Tools & Libraries
  • Developed a CKB SMT integration tool https://github.com/yangby-cryptape/ckb-smt-tool
  • Created libraries for building a global registry on CKB https://github.com/yangby-cryptape/ckb-global-registry
  • Released OffCKB (CKB local development network) v0.2.7

Improvements

• CKB
  • Limited the number of returned Cells in get_cells calls fix: add limit to get cells #4576

Fixes

• CKB
  • Fixed the issue where the Worker in VerifyQueue has a very small probability of not being awakened VerifyQueue: re_notify other Worker when OnlySmallCycleTx received a large cycle tx #4591
  • Fixed unstable integration test cases:
    1. Test: remove expect in verify_mgr because process_tx may return None #4585
    2. test: fix script test error caused by rand step cycles #4581
  • Fixed the macOS x86 binary for CKB v0.117.0
• CKB-Testtool
  • Fixed an argument acceptance bug in ckb-debugger libraries/ckb-standalone-debugger@4243fe2
• Nostr-binding
  • Fixed Nostr-binding SDK bundler and demo integrated with CCC https://github.com/cryptape/nostr-binding/releases/tag/v0.1.0-rc9

In Pipeline…

• CKB
  • Reduce HeaderSync time with Light Client protocol
• CKB-VM
  • Look into libcxx for potential customization
  • VM experiments
  • Use Clang-18 to build testsuites for ckb-vm and ckb-script
  • Molecule serde implementation for deserialization
• CKB-Testtool
  • Develop a VS Code plugin that supports ckb-debugger
  • Develop ckb-script-templates to generate configuration information required for debugging
• CKB Fiber Network
  • Keep working on pathfinding
  • Support multi-hop cross-chain transactions
  • Document how to route payments
  • Implement Onion Message (Sphinx)
  • Design and implement node-side work of the watchtower module
• Tools & Libraries
  • Plan and implement OffCKB v3 V3 improvements Plan ckb-devrel/offckb#112