0Chain Weekly Debrief — December 8, 2021
Happy Wednesday! This week is a rather quiet week for our team, so we dive into some of the ongoing processes in the background to enhance both our code development and onboarding of future service providers. Thank you to the community for submitting all your questions for the AMA! We hope to have the video out next week for all to enjoy.
Non-Dev Updates
While the UI team continues to collaborate with the development team, this week we look at our Support Desk buildout. As we are approach the launch of MainNet, it is important that 0Chain offers a support system for service providers and users alike. This week, the team conducted initial research and planning to build out the platform. Initial emphasis of the platform will include a series of knowledge articles for service providers, community forum, and support ticket processes. The knowledge articles will cover a variety of topics to assist with onboarding and troubleshoot common errors along the way. The team is currently in progress of populating the platform with content, developing new articles, and enhancing layout. Developing this platform will not only benefit current Active Set members, but will also decrease the barriers for onboarding future service providers down the line. Following the development of initial articles, we will also begin the buildout phase of our support desk for dStorage users. Thanks again to everyone who posted their questions for Saswata. I will be getting on a call this weekend with Saswata and hope to have the video out sometime next week. Stay tuned!
Development Team Updates
This past week, the team completed updates to the method in which we submit new code to the master branch. This new process helps ensure that the new updates do not cause issues elsewhere. By automating this process, the team not only improves its speed in pushing updates, but it also helps reduce the amount of bugs that could be introduced into the system while continually scanning for old ones. During this time, the Magma team has completed platform testing resulting in Byzantine updates as well as conducted a series of benchmark testing.
0Box and 0Wallet
Over the last week, the team conducted further UI tests for 0Box and 0Wallet Android versions. During this time, they have also completed minor code cleanups for 0Box iOS. The team is currently in progress of completing further UI tests while also working on design implementation for 0Box iOS. Recently, we have completed three new screens which are currently undergoing review.
Blockchain
The blockchain team continues to optimize network performance while conducting further testing. Some of the key updates this week include optimizing VRF share complete speeds and LFMB syncing processes. By addressing these, miners and sharders improve their ability to correctly broadcast and interpret the active status of a node which can impact its ability to send/receive messages. During this time, the team is ensuring updates to blockchain layer remain compatible with our storage layer. In addition, the team has conducted research and submitted initial proposals for future blockchain updates. This will be reviewed and progressed over the coming weeks.
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.
