Update summary
This week, the team entered the final weekly Sprint for the current release cycle, Sprint 2.4. To sum up the Sprint, we would be releasing Node 0.20 after which we would kickoff the Milestone for our Beta Testnet. For the Beta Testnet, we’ll be focusing fully on smart contract authoring, deploying contract-headers, and multi-key support. We’ll also be designing incentives to encourage developers to build decentralized applications on the Beta Testnet.
On the call, our CTO, Medha Parlikar gives a talk on the Mission of CasperLabs, we also released an article on “Building An Efficient Blockchain” which explains the concept of Omega blocks which is an optimization for performance and efficiency on CasperLabs’ Blockchain.
Engineering
- We’ve entered the fourth and final weekly Sprint for the current release cycle: Sprint 2.4
- At the end of this cycle, we would be releasing Node 0.20
- We’ll be kicking off the Beta Testnet milestone on or before July 15th
- For the beta Testnet, we’ll be offering incentives for DApp developers
- There’ll not be support for validator bonding and un-bonding yet on the Beta Testnet
- We’ll be focusing fully on smart contract authoring, deploying contract-headers, and multi-key support.
Highway
- Supporting serialization and deserialization of messages containing Highway vertices i.e. votes, blocks, and other data structures that are part Highway protocol.
- Signing of votes and validating signatures.
- Communicating detected equivocations for slashing.
Node
- We’re reimplementing the Node container:
- Implementing initial client API with at least two endpoints; one to receive a rudimentary “deploy” stub with unique id’s and another to query the existence of a “deploy” by id in node storage.
- We’re researching ways to incentivize Nodes to gossip and propagate information across the network.
- Adding support for SecureEnclave key type.
- Node side work for implementing WASM-less transfer.
Community/Ecosystem
- We released a Medium post on Building an Efficient Blockchain
- Our CTO Medha Parlikar gives a talk on the Mission of CasperLabs
- Onur Solmaz a presentation on Price Stabilisation on CasperLabs
