Community Update 85

General

• Release

  • Node version 0.9.12 released to testnet last Friday  RNode-0.9.12 release plan

• Sprint

  • Sprint 35 in progress 

    • Main focus on (a) genesis vault creation ceremony (b) long proposal times (c) cost accounting

    • Genesis vault creation ceremony - issue with required sigs being investigated

    • Cost accounting - progress in cost replayability (continuing work). Specifying the remaining cost accounting work including 'system deploy' to parallel track development

    • Progress in Investigate long propose times - Code improvements in Casper reduced the proposal times. Now investigating replays of compute states.

    • Working on demo of validator bonding

    • Working on demo of genesis ceremony

    • Increased testing - started to prioritize and specify work needed to enable part of the tests for incentivized test planning

    • Optimizations and bug fixes

    • Node team

      • Investigate long propose times on testnet

    •  Consensus

      • Completing foundation code for bonding and unbonding in Rholang  

      • Modify Casper to use internal messages instead of protobufs  https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3677

      • Supports randomness in the validator protocol that will drive how validators move in and out of epochs.https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3467  (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 https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3638  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.  https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3427 . You should be able to control REV from smart contracts once this feature is released.

    • SRE team

      • Sandbox up and being used for community testing as well as developers

      • 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. https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3593 
    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 15 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 https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3168

• 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. https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3542

• lite-weight registry implementation in Rholang. Plan to look at pseudo code for this later this week. https://rchain.atlassian.net/browse/RCHAIN-3697

Developer website

• https://developer.rchain.coop