0Chain Weekly Debrief — December 22, 2021
Welcome back to another week! A smaller update this week as some developers have taken some early holiday (their first break in many months). Even with the holidays around the corner, the majority of the 0Chain team continues to be hard at work, continuing to make progress with application UI updates and core blockchain testing. As the year comes to an end, we will pause the Weekly Debrief articles until the first week of January despite the team’s continued efforts on all fronts (I, too, am taking a break). We want to thank you all for the support throughout this year and we look forward to a strong start to 2022!
Non-Dev Updates
As the dev team continues to make great progress with core features and implementing UI updates, we continue to plan and collaborate on building out the explorer page. In addition, we have begun the process of confirming Active Set status in preparation for continued testing of the blockchain layer. While we make progress towards Active Set testing, we have begun to prepare materials for our Service Desk which will offer a variety of Knowledge Articles for simple onboarding of service providers, addressing common issues, and FAQ.
For those who missed the AMA with CEO Saswata Basu, make sure to check it out here.
Development Team Updates
Some great success this week with our load testing showing improving stability and efficiency of our storage layer in conjunction to the blockchain layer. Our recent updates to automated testing have resulted in the identification and subsequent fix of three potential bugs that could have been added with new code pushes, highlighting the successful improvements to our process. The team also has begun internal planning of packaging and pushing new public releases across all our public repos — more to come in the new year.
The 0Box and 0Wallet teams continue to collaborate with the UI team to implement new updates and conduct regression testing. This ensures that the new UI is able to properly interact with the core features of our storage platform. In addition, the dev team is implementing API updates for the explorer page so that users are able to quickly access metrics about our dStorage platform. Additionally, some commands have started being converted to our wasm layer. This means that they run natively and securely in your browser. Until now, all commands have relied on the 0proxy layer, which is less ideal and therefore will be deprecated before mainnet.
With the blockchain network running at a large cluster, the team continues to conduct testing which has resulted in a couple more updates over the past week. Recent updates addressed issues which could cause sharders to run slow via high resource demand. Updates to json encoding processes enable sharders to reduce resource demand and improve speed resulting in an inherently more stable network. Additional updates were made as well as the beginning of implementing strategies for future blockchain updates. Further testing of the above changes proved to reduce network latency and improve stability with a full cluster of nodes.
Developer Resources
- Interested in learning more about building on 0Chain or becoming a service provider? Check out our GitHub for access to repositories. Community ambassador Sculptex has created numerous tutorials to help get you started.
- Try our BetaNet here! Users can create wallets and allocations, store files, send transactions, and share files.
- Need help navigating creating wallets, allocations, or joining as a blobber? Check out our documentation page.
- 0Chain’s API endpoints use simple and intuitive HTTP requests to interact with the blockchain in order to send/retrieve information to and from miners, sharders or blobbers in the active network
About 0Chain
0Chain is a high-performance decentralized storage network designed to eliminate business threats such as censorship, privacy liability and data breaches. 0Chain helps entities achieve GDPR compliance, localization and tokenization, and monetizes private data sharing.
