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Ashok Ranadive edited this page Feb 18, 2020 · 1 revision

Engineering Status

Execution

  • Node 0.12 is planned for Feb 13, 2020
  • Team has has entered Sprint 30.

Release

  • Node 0.12 will release on Thursday. Packages will be cut today.
  • DevNet will be updated on Thursday. Please re-fund your accounts or re-deploy your contracts.

DevNet has been released that includes the following:

A publicly available network supporting the following features:

  • Assumes all honest validators
  • Validator bonding / unbonding
  • Faucet for deployments and bonding requests
  • Mint & Token Contract
  • Secure deployments, with payment code and session code
  • Smart block gossiping
  • Gas processed metrics
  • Genesis process
  • Support for GraphQL
  • Structured Logging

Interact with the network at https://clarity.casperlabs.io

Current Focus

  • Continue production implementation of CasperLabs Honest Highway.
  • Setting up Test Environment in preparation for Testnet.
  • CLarity and GraphQL enhancements.
  • Optimizing Integration Tests and making CI work on Highway Branch.
  • Modeling Reward Distribution.
  • Research on Spam Protection.
  • Performance and stabilization.
  • Automation of infrastructure setup.

Consensus

  • Highway implementation with Eras with fixed-length Rounds is mostly complete.
  • Team is testing consensus locally, and will use our testbeds to put the system under pressure.
  • Implementing Fork Choice Rule & validation for Highway.
  • Sequoia Simulator for CasperLabs Blockchain.

Execution Engine

  • Making System Contracts native in EE. This will speed up execution engine performance.
  • Creation of RustDocs to support dApp development using the new Contracts kit.
  • Logging and Metrics.
  • Write a Rust Iterator
  • Performance testing and hardening of the Execution Engine

Node

  • Stability, Optimizations and Performance of Node.
  • Adding more relationships to GraphQL.
  • Deploy Gossiping.
  • Continue CLType integration with Node & Clients.
  • Implement log(n) optimization for ForkChoice Rule.

Test and SRE

  • Standing up and initializing Testbed environment. Node restart test.
  • Optimizing integration testing and CI, so it's faster.
  • Network Simulation for testing Node restart.
  • Benchmarking EE on various AWS instances.

Ecosystem

  • Updating documentation for Smart Contract Examples.
  • Creating Smart Contract Developer guide.
  • Token Vesting contracts & Interfaces in Clarity.
  • Enhancements to CLarity and making it useful for Node Operators.

Economics Research

  • Design of combined computation/storage/bandwidth pricing.
  • Design document for Spam Protection.
  • Mock up for reward distribution in Python.
  • Sequoia Simulator for CasperLabs Blockchain.

Team & Company Update

  • New website launched
  • Weekly workshops every Thursday at 8 am PT and Thursday at 4 pm PT (Friday 8/9 am in Asia)

Governance Status

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