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Engineering Status

Planning

  • Team has completed Sprint 24 and started Sprint 25.
  • Node 0.10 release on 19 Dec to include work done in the sprint #25 (02-13 Dec).
  • We have a proposed feature roadmap plan for future releases laid out - being finalized.

Release

  • Last release: Node 0.9.1 with a patch that fixes a bug in the Voting Matrix and CLarity.
  • DevNet is updated with the new software.

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

  • Implementation engineering plan for full CasperLabs Highway Protocol and dependencies worked out - under review.
  • POC for test environment and automation.
  • Performance and stabilization
  • Adding more functionality to CLarity
  • Simulator
  • Ground work for benchmarking alternative fork choice rule

Consensus

  • Efficient implementations of Fork Choice and Validation of Equivocation detection and slashing.
  • We have developed a detailed engineering plan and dependency graph for the implementation of Highway.
  • We continue to work on Simulator that will help run critical tests to understand and benchmark different algorithms.

Execution Engine

  • Contract Headers.
  • Providing get_balance endpoint.
  • Proposal for removing stateful FFI

Node

  • Stability, Optimizations and Performance of Node

Test and SRE

  • Devnet Security  
  • Automation: Ansible and Terraform
  • Write System-wide tolerance document
  • Testbed Environment

Ecosystem

  • Building ZKSNARK Example.
  • Reviewing and organizing technical documentation. Updating user guide for node operators.
  • Key generation for Casperlabs-client.

Economics Research

  • We also continue to work on the theoretical economic research and modeling of the protocol.
  • We will walk through rewards distribution
  • Modeling for game theoretic study and comparison with Electricity Utility pricing.
  • Studying point based reward distribution for Highway.

Team & Company Update

  • Bart Kaminski started this week on EE team.
  • Team is adjusting the roadmap taking into account the new approach to full Highway implementation.

Governance Status

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