Community Update 25

Medha
- Please welcome Ovidiu Deac to the development team! He will be joining the Rholang team, developing the system contracts needed for the blockchain.
- Node 4 Demos today!
- Team is focusing on release activities.

Rholang team:
- Logical Connectives complete. Examples being added to demonstrate how they work in the language.
- Working on Equivocations in Casper.
- Demo of Rholang in blocks!
Node team:
- TLS /TCP transport layer implementation is complete
- Starting a node will now generate a certificate if one doesn't exist, or use an existing certificate, if placed in the appropriate folder.
- Initial flavor of History & Rollback in flight.
- Code to measure Comm events in a pull request.
- Specification of execution traces in flight, these will be stored in the blocks as part of the Comm event root (receipts root).
- Demo of Metrics and TLS/TCP!
Roscala team:
- Refactoring for mutability is going smoothly.
- Multi-threaded (thread safe) model is being worked on, PR coming soon.
- boot.rbl Object export is close to being done. Implications are that the VM will not need to run boot.rbl prior to running Rholang/RBL code.
- Documentation of the OpCodes is complete, now waiting for Transition function to be complet.ed
Website - https://developer.rchain.coop
- RCon3 conference page now available.
RCon3
- Thanks for feedback to our survey to help plan the program
- Call for speakers is open. Please see https://developer.rchain.coop/conference for full details and application. We are taking submissions through June 1.

Date
30 May 2018