Cortex Project Updates #63

Oscar W
Cortex Labs
Published in
2 min readDec 3, 2020

Technical Updates 🤖

MRT & CVM R&D

1. Added MRT V2 module to design a more general model quantitative structure.
2. Fixed duplicate file name issue in the deserialization configuration file parsing in V2.tfm_pass, and canceled type detection restrictions.
3. Added MRT V2 the quantization realization of groupwise convolutional network, which locates and solves the problem of low quantization accuracy of the old MobileNet.
4. Improved MRT quantitative steps, implementation methods, and principles.
5. Reconstructed StyleGAN and StyleGAN2 using MxNet with FFHQ data set to train the model.
6. Retrained MobileFace-6 on the Celeb-Asia dataset with face recognition accuracy rate reaching 95%.

Cortex Full Node Development

1. Upgraded Zokrates 0.6.2 code test.
2. Full node adapted to Golang version 1.15.5.
3. Optimized CVM Context code split and fixed Storage panic bug ;
4. Optimizated bn256 library operation. Fixed WebSocket and optimized file upload logic.
5. Solved the problem that the Okex client cannot withdraw coins.
6. Released 1.10.13 stable version.
7. Investigated the trusted setup of zkSNARKS and started the MPC (Multi-Party Ceremony) test of the Cortex team.

Miscellaneous

1. Customized the first version of the CRC-4 Meta Data format, and used IPFS to store metadata;
2. Investigated and manually audited the contract code to prevent contract vulnerabilities and prevent malicious attacks;
3. Updated Cortex Wallet (including iOS, Android) to version 2.1.2. Support CIP-4 protocol and CRC-4 NFT token reception, transfer, display, and other new functions.
4. Updated Cortex block exploer. Support CRC-4 NFT token holding information and transaction information query on-chain.

Community Updates 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦

1. Co-Hosted the first on-chain AI art exhibition, Alice and the Mirror of Hash Power, with Crypto Artist Song Ting and Conflux. The auction amount reached 25.5 ETH.
2. Planned Wuhan “Pandemic·Human·Net” encryption art exhibition preparation work at “Belief in the future” 2020 World Blockchain Conference.
3. Worked with media for upcoming promotional events.
4. Established the Cortex forum points system.
5. In-depth studies on various NFT projects and Generative Adversarial Network (GAN).
6. Continued to work on the NFT series column.

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