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2021.04.27

Piotr Dziubecki edited this page May 4, 2021 · 1 revision

Engineering Status

Execution

The team is working on third weekly sprint of 1.2.0 release cycle (Sprint 13.3). Release 1.2.0 marks the second production upgrade of the Casper protocol. The top priority is to keep Mainnet stable and roll out the first upgrade to the casper network.

The goal of 1.2.0 release is to prepare a patch for Mainnet (casper network) with the second round of sustainability features:

  • Context state improvements
  • Network stability enhancements
  • Deploy processing stabilization
  • Event stream enhancements

Release

Tag v1.1.1 with Rust node was cut on 19 April 2021.

Mainnet - Casper Network

Casper Network started on March 31th. Current status for casper Block Height: 34661 with 49 Validators

Current Focus

Performance, hardening, and production engineering work.

Highway

  • Design: Evict immediately, without the auction delay.

Node - Rust

  • Avoid restarting event-stream event ID from 0 on each restart.
  • Make testable (and test) low-level network connection logic.

Test and SRE

  • Support the network.
  • Repository migration (casper-node, casper-node-launcher, and docs are already in casper-network org).

Ecosystem

  • JS SDK: Implement CLValue json serialization.
  • Casper Signer UI/UX enhancements.
  • Casper course slides and recordings.

Economics Research

  • Entry auctions best-response formalization.
  • Reward shortfalls monitoring.

Contract Runtime

  • Quantstamp audit remediation.

Team & Company Update

Governance Status

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