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General

• Release
• Sprint
  
  • Sprint 35 in progress 
    • Main focus on cost accounting and genesis vault creation ceremony
    • Investigate long propose times
    • Increased testing
    • Optimizations and bug fixes

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      • Node team
        • Investigate long propose times on testnet
      •  Consensus
        • Completing foundation for bonding and unbonding in Rholang  
        • Modify Casper to use internal messages instead of protobufs  

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        • Supports randomness in the validator protocol that will drive how validators move in and out of epochs.

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            (design review in process)

      • Rspace
        • Address rspace bloat issues - We now have ability to collect statistics with traceID
        • Changes to rspace to address long propose times issue (parallel branch going through testing)
        • Implement merging contract calls 

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            to support the new peek feature in Casper
      • Rholang Team
        • Processing a genesis block that includes RHOC balances (expected to be in testing end of today)
        • Unforgeable name-based REV Vault in review.  

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           . You should be able to control REV from smart contracts once this feature is released.
      • SRE team
        • Sandbox up
        • Further optimizing test environments and tooling to enable multiple parallel testing by dev teams and community
      • Other
        • Exploring technical options and planning for Rhoc to Rev conversion
• Mercury requirements and acceptance criteria
  • Details on the acceptance criteria: Mercury acceptance criteria
  • Please see the documentation at https://github.com/rchain/rchain/blob/dev/docs/features.md. 
• Testnet status
  • Testnet-1 is available.

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    It has been unstable and we're investigating the issues. Needs code refresh with the next release.
  • Sandbox testnet has been setup.
  • Please see RChain public testnet information to learn more about public testnet as well as a FAQ.
• Community testing
  
  • Aug 8 at 14:00 UTC. Please see RChain community RNode testing for more information.
• Security Audits
  • Security Audits will follow an iterative process
  • Can start now on
    • Comms
    • Rholang
    • RSpace

Blockers to testnet-2

• See complete view in 

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• Planned steps to address delay in the launch of testnet-2
  • Release testnet-2 incrementally
  • Revisit how we understand the blockers and are dedicating development effort to them

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Risks to code completion for Mercury

• Addition of work in Rholang and Rspace to address bloat in the tuplespace. 

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• Vetting a proposal to reimplement the registry with a more lite-weight version written registry implementation in Rholang. Plan to look at pseudo code for this later this week. 

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Consensus

• Continuing work to 

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• Additional work needed to merge PR for 

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  . Added a developer to  unblock this with 

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   is done. 
• PRs in review to complete the delivery of methods needed to build validator bonding/unbonding and rewards. 

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Rholang

• Prioritizing work related to resolution of 

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  . Current plan is to serialize the create of RevVaults and test again in node.
• Cost accounting - discussed last week and have a more fine-grained view of what's outstanding
  • Peek
  • Merge for some scenarios
  • Pre-charge
  • Refund
  • Also captured issues that will either optimize or support hardening of this feature, but don't block the first release
• Work starting on 

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   which will provide support 

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RNode

• Node and SRE teams testing genesis vault creation and long proposal times 

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  • Completed work to provide more detailed metrics and to expose output in Grafana
  • Running tests in testing networks

RSpace

• address bloat in the tuplespace. 

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• Plan to discuss findings related to 

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   and 

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   early next week and decide what, if any, changes to prioritize.

SRE

• Collaborating with Node team to investigate 

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• Upgrading software and working to run tests in Whiteblock
• Prepared to support hand-off of sandbox_testnet to dapp community

Developer website

• https://developer.rchain.coop