In case you missed it, here is a bulletin summary from the governance/update for the call on 29th October 2019. You can watch the live video session that was streamed on youtube here.
Development Update
- The development roadmap for the next six months has been mapped out
- The devnet has been updated with the latest patch with Node 0.8.1
- We are in a three-week sprint focusing on testing, performance, and stability of the network.
- Lots of progress has been made especially on the long-running test with the network running for more than a week with good resilience on different testing scenarios.
- Work is continuing on the highway protocol with progress been made on the foundational element of the protocol eg. fork-choice-rule, ballots, slashing algorithm, etc.
- Lots of automation work going on like spinning up infrastructure(terraform), adding more nodes (ansible).
- On the ecosystems front, we noticed some limitation on our GraghQL during the hackathon and fixing the bugs discovered
- We are also extending the GraphQL schema
- Clarity explorer is being brought into an integration test framework.
- In performance and scalability, we discovered that the slowest of the system right now is the execution engine. We’re implementing multi-threading, module caching and we’re expecting to see a boost in performance after that.
- Testnet pushed to January 2020 to enable the team to work with potential validators and get them familiar with the software to help bootstrap the genesis block which is a key milestone for the Testnet.
Team and Company Update
- Medha and Michael Birch are at CESC 2019 -San Francisco Blockchain week-
- We had a good interaction with the engineering partner at Blockstack on Highway protocol.
- Met with friends of Caspelabs from previous conference and event at San Francisco
- Would be at Epicenter from 1–2 November and Medha would be speaking on Thursday morning
- Michael Birch would be running a workshop on Thursday afternoon and would be sharing a game built on Casperlabs blockchain using smart contracts.
- Last week at Los Angeles we had our first hackathon with three teams building against Casperlabs blockchain
- One of the teams built a learning application with a quiz function that offers rewards in the form of a token. We were able to observe the quiz app and see the token being granted on the Devnet and showing up at the participant’s wallet.
- One of the teams built a “Proof of Activity” app where users would be able to upload their activities to an activity portal, the hash of the activity is broadcasted to the network and a bet is placed in a smart contract by the users against themselves that they would -or would not- complete an activity eg. showing up at the gym, completing a course etc.
- The other team built a pure GraphQL implementation of a 3D gas viewer to evaluate gas usage on the Devnet.
- Our partner, HDAC are working on a Go-gRPC version of Casperlabs execution engine.
- Also, our smart contract developer Maciej Zielinski built a typescript implementation of a token transfer
Where do developers go to learn more and get started?
At release, links to installation packages and relevant documentation are available on GitHub.
Where will bugs be filed?
Report a bug on GitHub
Where do developers go for support?
Join our community on Discord and on Telegram
About CasperLabs:
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