Cartesi’s October 2021 Development Recap
Check out what the team’s been working on this month
As of 2022 Descartes has now been renamed as Cartesi Compute.
Development Updates
During the last month, the Cartesi team made continued progress on several of our initiatives. The major developments were:
Cartesi Rollups: Continued implementation of the Cartesi Rollups infrastructure.
- Updates on the implementation of the Rollup Machine Manager, a service that will act as an interface between the high-level Rollup logic and the Cartesi Machine.
- Completed architectural updates on the Cartesi Machine Emulator to support the Rollups requirements.
- Researched ways to improve the rollup interaction of the userspace software that will run inside the machine.
Noether’s PoS Delegation System
- Released Noether’s Beta Release on Mainnet that included limited pools and caps. Testing was very secure and smooth.
- Released Noether’s Full Release on Mainnet.
- For pool managers, please see the latest guide here.
Texas HODL’em Poker: progress towards the full MVP implementation.
- Poker Verifier fully integrated to the TurnBasedGame smart contracts, so that a game can be started on the blockchain and later on replayed and verified by Cartesi Compute Validator Nodes
- Progress on porting the client app to Electron: completed basic web app port and initial binding to native Poker Engine modules (Mac + Linux)
- Improvements and adjustments to Poker app logic, especially showdown rules
Miscellaneous
- Improvements on the Cartesi Compute Machine Manager
- Research on improving the boot process of the Linux OS that runs inside the machine.
We’re hiring! We’re looking for collaborative team players to join the fast-growing Cartesi team. If you’re passionate about blockchain and have an interest in making blockchain mainstream, make sure to head over to our career openings or send your resume along with an introduction of why you’re interested in the position and Cartesi to our HR e-mail: hr@cartesi.io.
We highly encourage any developer willing to use or collaborate with Cartesi to contact us on Discord. See you there!
About Cartesi
Cartesi is a multi-chain layer-2 infrastructure that allows any software developer to create smart contracts with mainstream software tools and languages they are used to while achieving massive scalability and low costs. Cartesi combines a groundbreaking virtual machine, optimistic rollups and side-chains to revolutionize the way developers create blockchain applications.
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