2019-05-09 Meeting notes: Consensus planning

Big blocks

• Slashing

• Validation

• Bonding & unbonding

• Consensus property-based tests

Happy path to Mercury

• Blockers

  • New PoS contract

• Division of effort

  • Pawel

    • Finish Casper engine work (by Fri)

    • Fix genesis ceremony bug (by Tues)

    • Scala portion of bonding/unbonding

    • Property-based tests

  • Kent

    • Slashing blocked by new PoS contract

    • Resolve conflicts with slashing PR and merge (by Fri)

    • Document the incentive plan (the one we have today)

    • Reserve time to keep the conversation going about incentives

      • Phil

      • Greg

      • Kent

      • Chris

  • Ovidiu

    • New PoS contract (by Wed)

    • Bonding/unbonding

    • Method for distribution of transaction fees

    • Script to autopropose

• Daniyar

  • New system process that returns a random value

    • Hash the past 256 block hashes

• Timeline

  • By May 11 specification for serialization

  • My May 17 RSpace2 running in devnet

Incentive conversations

• Biggest risk for consensus to be done

• 6 weeks to complete decision-making for Mercury