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

The team has started fourth 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: 10334 with 75 Validators and 572 bids

Current Focus

Performance, hardening, and production engineering work.

Highway

• Alter the behavior to always get the validators from the auction contract including era 0.

Node - Rust

• Replace era with signed switch block to save memory (CEP 36).
• Test Social Consensus Emergency Restart.
• Prototype joiner.
• block-executor/contract runtime optimization.

Test and SRE

• Support testnet.
• Terraform VPC for new accounts on AWS: MainNet, TestNet, DevNet.
• NCTL & STESTS support & extensions.

Ecosystem

• JS SDK enhancements and refactoring.
• [DSL] CasperVariable.
• Casper course slides and recordings.

Economics Research

• Enumerate and finalize chainspec parameters for mainnet.

Contract Runtime

• Auction optimizations.
• Restore delegator slashing.

Launch!

• We will begin the process of creating the Genesis block!
• Genesis validator set is being put together
• Creating the starting balances, participants will have the opportunity to approve.
• Trial run planned on March 9th.
• Release candidate planned for March 8th.

Team & Company Update

• The zoom meeting id is https://casperlabs.zoom.us/j/924713678.

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