Testnet-1 is live. Our intention is to keep this functioning so the community can deploy rholang to this public testnet. Please see RChain public testnet information to learn more about public testnet as well as a FAQ.
Community testing
Thursdays at 14:00 UTC. Kent will be there to address questions related to the consensus protocol.
Consensus
Migration to secp256k1 is in dev and will be a breaking change for users when we release RNode v0.9.7 next week.
Node
Many bug investigations and fixes this sprint.
Metrics support for consensus team.
Rholang
Several PRs merged and in review to support the completion of . With the introduction of cost accounting we observe the current approach to block merging is insufficient.
Work to make use of this in the RevVault, , blocked by discovery of need to move the creation of the deploy to a different tier of the interpreter,
RSpace
PR in review to deliver trie merging. Tests indicate this merging strategy gets us very close to the lower bound for any change to the trie. Next steps are to work to optimize the cold store. Reduce bloat - RSpace (current) analysis
PR in review to provide an alternate way of determining if a deployment is in a block. The current way is to call `show-block <block hash> and search the tuplespace. This is a poor user experience and we want to remove printing all of the tuplespace in a call to show-block. The change will support users using the new deploy ID to confirm it's presence in a block. More details in
SRE
Delivery of a new devnet environment
Work continues on the orchestration component of hardening network #1.