Community Update 84

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   RCHAIN-3677 - Getting issue details... STATUS

      • Supports randomness in the validator protocol that will drive how validators move in and out of epochs. RCHAIN-3467 - Getting issue details... STATUS   (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  RCHAIN-3638 - Getting issue details... STATUS   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.   RCHAIN-3427 - Getting issue details... STATUS  . 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. RCHAIN-3593 - Getting issue details... STATUS  
    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  RCHAIN-3168 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• 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

Risks to code completion for Mercury

• Addition of work in Rholang and Rspace to address bloat in the tuplespace.  RCHAIN-3542 - Getting issue details... STATUS
• lite-weight registry implementation in Rholang. Plan to look at pseudo code for this later this week.  RCHAIN-3697 - Getting issue details... STATUS

Developer website

• https://developer.rchain.coop