Community Update 28

  • Medha
      • Node 6 Specification in flight.
      • Team needs a board decision regarding validator rewards.
        • We have currently specified that validators will receive transaction fees only.
        • Will validators receive additional rewards? If so, where will those rewards come from?  What is the size of the reward?  How frequently is it distributed?
        • Timing is urgent, as we would like to have these answers for prospective validators at testnet launch.
  • Rholang team:
    • Deterministic unforgeable names is in progress.  On track.
    • Integrated Casper with RSpace  
    • Implementing support for ETH addresses (secp256K1 for Rholang)
    • Specification for Validators signing genesis block is done. 
    • Casper, implementing the blessed Rev contract.
  • Storage/Node team:
    • Storage - Execution traces and replay delivered to Casper team.  
    • Documenting storage functionality.
    • Issue in p2p layer identified.  Fix was tested during node testing on Tuesday.  We will be patching Node 4 as well as including the fix in Node 5.
    • We will be holding node tests every Tuesday morning at 7 am PDT.  Join us in the node-testing Discord channel.
  • Roscala team: 
    • Primitives work under way
    • Working through bugs on the threading implementation.  
    • Object code import into Rosette in flight, working on the linking the objects to the Codebuf.  Looks like the PR will be pretty large.  Coming today.
    • Working on the MBoxes implementation in the Actor system.
  • Website - https://developer.rchain.coop 
    • RHOC/REV page is published. This is the place to find accurate information.
    • Work in progress to improve content. Feedback is welcome.
  • RCon3
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