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Ashok Ranadive edited this page Mar 23, 2020 · 1 revision

Engineering Status

Execution

  • Node 0.14 was released on Feb 14, 2020. Our March release will be cut to support the launch of TestNet at the end of the month.
  • Team in second week of Sprint 32.
  • Prepping Incentivized Testnet Program.

Release

  • Node 0.14 was released on Friday 14th, 2020 and DevNet updated.
  • March release will be cut to support the launch of TestNet at the end of the month. Entering code freeze on Thursday.

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
  • CasperLabs contracts crate to set up a new smart contract project, and the test infrastructure.

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

Current Focus

  • Testing and debugging CasperLabs Honest Highway Network.
  • Moving Standard Payment to host side and making 'Turbo mode' as default.
  • Augmenting STests Environment for testing various scenarios.
  • Formalizing approach to Spam Protection.
  • Updating Technical Specifications.
  • Economic research on Gas Pricing.

Consensus

  • Formalizing approach to secure against spam attacks by adapting Reliable Broadcast.
  • We have started collaborating with the researchers at Cardinal Cryptography.
  • Updating Technical Specifications.

Node

  • Stability, Optimizations and Performance of Node.
  • Stress testing network under various scenarios.
  • Implementing 'IsOrphaned' flag.
  • Updating and adding consensus metrics for monitoring the protocol.
  • Deploy Gossiping.

Execution Engine

  • Making 'Turbo Mode' default.
  • Removing bonding and unbonding for Alpha.
  • Documentation for AssemblyScript and tutorials.
  • PoS contract for Highway.

Test and SRE

  • Integrate STests with ansible and rundeck.
  • Setting up monitoring and alerts for Testnet.
  • Setting up infrastructure for Alpha TestNet.
  • Augmenting STests Environment for testing various scenarios.
  • Stress testing for Alpha launch.

Ecosystem

  • Browser plugin for the deploy signing and updating CLarity to use it.
  • Google analytics page tracking for CLarity.
  • Updating dApp developer guide with Assemblyscript Smart Contract examples and tutorials.
  • Technical Specifications for CasperLabs network.

Economics Research

  • Refreshing Yield and Returns calculations for CasperLabs network.
  • Community engagement strategy.
  • Studying LRT resource consumption.

Team & Company Update

  • Leadership offsite: We may have to hold this online considering the Covid-19 Pandemic.
  • Weekly workshops every Thursday at 8 am PT and Thursday evening (Friday in Asia - exact time being decided)

Governance Status

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