CKB Dev Log 2023-03-08

[anipenguin]

"blu" by @XuJiandong 📸

What's New

• The 2023 hardfork is already in the works, and we will announce additional details as soon as we finish gathering proposals.
• CKB-VM
  • Enhanced Owner Mode on xUDT
    • By setting owner_script and owner_signature to proper values, transaction can be valid even without any input cell
  • The SPHINCS+-based quantum resistant lock script is now ready for deployment on testnet
• Light Client
  • Started a repo to benchmark the performance of dynamic cryptographic accumulators: merkle mountain range and sparse merkle tree
• Open Transaction
  • Created a demo of the CKB Open Transaction memory pool
• Molecule - the serialization scheme designed for CKB
  • Added Go-codegen support for generating customized union ID

What’s Coming

• CKB-VM
  • Deploy quantum resistant lock script on testnet and create sample transactions
  • Begin testing the implementation of the RISC-V A extension
• Open Transaction
  • Investigating the use of Open Transaction solution for NFT marketplace
  • Drafting a RFC on an Extensible Transaction Format
• Molecule
  • Finishing primitive type support in Go and integration with ckb-go-sdk
• CKB SDK
  • Adding ckb-sdk-rust/java support to the new feature: exact search mode, that matches exact script when querying