Engineering status The team has started the fourth weekly sprint of the 20.12 release cycle (Sprint 8.4). Release 20.12 delivers prioritized bug fixes, networking improvements, and more consensus protocol security features. The network will support up to 100 validator slots in the bonding auction. …

Update Summary We’re excited to announce the release of the Zug500 Delta testnet — our final incentivized testnet before Casper’s mainnet launch in 2021. With an eye towards the public mainnet, we are launching Delta as the most complete way for validators and developers to test out the capabilities and benefits of…

Update Summary This week, we released v.0.1.6 of the Rust node, this release has been deployed to the Delta testnet and is available on GitHub. We’re working with our partners on polishing and finalizing the Highway paper for the audit process. We’re glad to have added a new member to the team…

Update Summary The team has started the first weekly sprint of the 0.20.12 release cycle (Sprint 8.1), the network will support up to 100 validator slots in the bonding auction, and validators can bid for open slots by using the bidding API. We’re preparing for the security audit of our smart contracts…

Update Summary We’re in the last stages of articulating rewards for the Delta testnet, approving and distributing reward for the Alpha and Beta testnet, we’re also working on the sign-up sheet for the Delta testnet and getting the rust client ready for key generation. We would need all validators to regenerate their…

Update Summary CasperLabs Switzerland hosted a Meetup at CVLabs in Zug, earlier during the week, and they streamed the event live on YouTube. We are also excited to let our community know that we have closed our $14M private validator token sale led by crypto fund Digital Strategies. The Team started the…

Update Summary Node 0.20.10 has been released and deployed for testing on our LRT framework. This release comes with validator set rotation, seigniorage, equivocation detection, and slashing. This version of the node software will be used for the launch of the Delta testnet by October 31st. The team has started the second…

Update Summary The team has started the first weekly sprint of the 0.20.11 release cycle (Sprint 7.1). …

Update Summary Over the past week at CasperLabs, the team entered into the fourth weekly sprint of the 0.20.10 release cycle (Sprint 6.4). At the end of this cycle, we’ll be feature complete to launch the Delta testnet. …