AI Data Consumption |Weekly Debrief — January 11, 2023
Happy Wednesday! I hope you enjoyed your holiday and time with friends and family. This week we look at the potential of AI regarding data consumption and some blockchain updates. Tomorrow, Thursday, January 12th, we will be hosting our Cloud Cover AMA (Ecclesia #7) with Saswata Basu on YouTube Live. Make sure to attend as there will be a new demo of our apps. In this weekly debrief we will discuss AI data consumption, App updates, blockchain updates, and how smart contracts are revolutionizing estate planning.
App Updates
With the Bolt app just around the corner, Züs is making sure every last detail of quality assurance has been taken care of. While Chalk is currently working on final touches, such as pricing mechanisms and minor adjustments to ensure a seamless service when it is ready for release!
Storm of the Week
AI Data Consumption
There is limitless potential for Artificial Intelligence when it comes to data consumption. As AI gets widely adopted, more IoT devices will collect data and need a place to store it. Not only that, but AI also generates synthetic data that is used to train itself to improve its algorithms. At Züs, we believe that a more efficient and performant solution is needed for AI to scale.
For the ones who have yet to hear about it, ChatGPT is a fantastic chat tool that has endless use cases. For example, you can ask it to create articles, review texts, code, product descriptions, and copywriting. It is completely free, and I encourage anyone to try it out! It just feels like discovering Google for the first time!
Unfortunately, the App is only sometimes working as it has capacity limitations as their own servers struggle to support all of the demand. That is where Züs could come in handy, offering more scaling solutions. With exponential demand, service providers would be highly incentivized to scale, and other entities would join the network and start earning. To facilitate adoption, Chimney will offer anyone to participate by renting a server or plug-in their idle servers, so even people who do not have experience with servers will easily be able to participate.
Blockchain Team Update:
Partition Location Issue
Last week the team focused on fixing the partition location issue. Instead of letting users handle their partition locations, they refactored the partition package to manage the location internally and update them properly when deleting items. They also refactored, removing redundant code to simplify the package, and wrote unit tests to cover most of the methods/functions for the package.
Meanwhile, the team detected and fixed a bug in updating allocation SC. The bug was detected when adding new test cases. The issue was that when updating an allocation to add a new blobber to the allocation, the blobber’s total offer token needed to be updated, which could lead to uint64 overflow issue. Refer to the PR for details.
Beyond the partition location fix, the team closed 15 PRs and 8 issues and opened 5 new PRs. Check for details below:
Uptime & Downtime stats
The team added an uptime state for providers to expose through APIs. With this update, users will be able to view the provider’s uptime, and downtime. In addition, they added aggregated tables for miners, sharders, authorizers, and validators.
Benchmark test and APIs
The team performed benchmark test fixes on storagesc, and a benchmark tests update to adjust removed endpoints and added test cases for `/search` for each input type. Also, they fixed benchmark tests for minersc.
Moreover, the team added more APIs for gosdk to get aggregated data of providers and fixed provider rewards, and delegate wallet APIs. Also, they changed how to sort aggregated ids from sharders.
Gosdk updates
- Updated doc for mobile SDK
- Improved code to load and create zcn.wasm outside reactjs for more stable runtime and higher performance
- Fixed `CreateAllocation` and `CreateAllocationWithBlobbers` in mobile SDK.
- Exposed function to get public encryption key for win SDK.
- Added Snapshot functions for miners, sharder, validators and authorizers aggregates.
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It is no secret that the legal system is often slow, expensive, and full of red tape. This can be a major problem when it comes to estate planning. After all, you want your loved ones to inherit your property as quickly and easily as possible. One way to solve estate planning issues is by using smart contracts to automatically execute the terms of a contract. They are secure, reliable, and tamper-proof.
Developer Resources
- Interested in learning more about building on Züs 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.
- Züs’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 Züs
Züs (formerly 0Chain) is a high performance storage network powering limitless applications. It is a new way to earn a passive income from storage.
