Current Status

Engineering Status

• Status reports are delivered weekly at 9:00 AM PT (16:00 UTC, Sydney +11, Beijing +8, Greece +3, Amsterdam +2, Onitsha +1, New York -4, Seattle -7)
  https://casperlabs.zoom.us/j/488766416 and live streamed.
• This update is available on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/dnSX7cel8N8
• Prior updates are available at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8oWxbJ-csEpezWe5KccTtOm-ZuzJP70O

Execution

Team has started third weekly sprint of 21.03 release cycle (Sprint 11.3). Release 21.03 marks the first production version of the Casper protocol.

This release will bring protocol upgrades, performance and hardening improvements. The protocol will also complete the integration with a custody provider during this release cycle.

Release

Tag v0.7.6 with Rust node was cut on 8 Feb 2021 and deployed on Delta testnet.

Delta Testnet

Delta Testnet resumed on Feb 8th. Current status for DELTA-10 Block Height: 9538 with 75 Validators and 401 bids

Current Focus

Performance, hardening and production engineering work.

Highway

• Alter the behaviour to always get the validators from the auction contract including era 0.
• Clear protocol state of unbonded eras.

Node - Rust

• Test Social Consensus Emergency Restart.
• Prototype joiner.
• block-executor/contract runtime optimization.
• Do DB Integrity Checks At Upgrade.

Test and SRE

• Support testnet.
• Create MainNet, TestNet, DevNet accounts on AWS.
• NCTL & STESTS support & extensions.

Ecosystem

• JS SDK enhancements.
• [DSL] CasperVariable.
• Signer demo implementation.
• Casper course slides and recordings.

Economics Research

• Study aggregate supply growth with node slowdowns/failures.

Contract Runtime

• Alternative bids storage scheme.
• Refactor mint to use Key::Purse and StoredValue::Balance types.
• Support for delegate tokens in accounts.csv (at Genesis).

Team & Company Update

• The zoom meeting id is https://casperlabs.zoom.us/j/924713678.
• Welcome new team member: Dmitry Yakovlevich, Smart Contracts developer and Taylor Acree, Third Level Support Engineer.

Governance Status

• We have adopted a Casper Enhancement Proposal (CEP) process to vet and accept important features and changes. Details of the process can be found here https://github.com/CasperLabs/ceps.
• Meetings are Tuesday mornings @ 9 am PT.
• Meetings are available on YouTube.
• Zoom Link: https://casperlabs.zoom.us/j/488766416 & live streamed on YouTube.
• Governance research Repository