EOSphere Guild — January`24 Update
EOSphere operate a Guild on the WAX Protocol Network providing infrastructure, services and initiatives with a focus on ensuring the health of the network, as well as assisting in the growth and adoption of the WAX Ecosystem.
Welcome to our January 2024 EOSphere Guild Update. This is where we publicly inform our WAX community of EOSphere’s last six weeks challenges and achievements, rather than just sharing them with the WAX Office of Inspector General (OIG) and peer Guilds.
Happy New Year! Here's to bullish markets and successful projects launching on WAX in 2024.
This last month was a slightly less hectic month as most of the team took some time off over Christmas and New Year. We did continue building out services in our Perth DC, progress is slower than we would like but we are getting there.
The big news last week was the release of Antelope Leap 5.0 Stable on the 5th January 2024. WAX Software is derived from Antelope Leap and will soon start to be rolled out across the network. Leap 5.0 brings:
- Increased network speed
- Reduced memory consumption on infrastructure
- Enhanced control
- Better reliability of block production
- And loads more….
You can read more about the release of Leap 5.0 here.
On to the Update:
Technical Operations
Infrastructure and services are currently operating normally and the network is well utilised as usual.
We have started the process of refreshing our Sydney Data Centre servers, some will be replaced and some will be decommissioned with those services being moved to Perth.
We have yet to start rolling our WAX 5.0 but expect to start on the Testnet and then only move to Mainnet.
EOSphere WAX API Statistics (Last 2 weeks)
Global usage distribution is far and wide with the most concentrated usage being from the US, Europe and Indonesia.
97.41% of requests are normal WAX Software requests, 2.59% are for the Hyperion API. In total over 280 Million user API requests over 2 weeks, excluding our Atomic Assets API which isn’t represented
This represents the number of HTTP response codes over the last two weeks per 12 hours. Currently we serve around 18–22 Million successful “200” HTTP requests per day. This is lower than last month where we were serving between 20–24 Million.
This lists the top 25 request types over the last 2 weeks, it’s quite clear that “get_table_rows” for HTTP v2.0 (43 Million Requests) and HTTP v1.1 (132 Million Requests) are still requested most by our users.
What’s also quite phenomenal is that our EOSphere Infrastructure fields around 1.3 Million HTTP v1.1 and 309 Thousand HTTP v2.0 WAX Blockchain Push Actions per day.
Not all queries have referrals, but of those that did most referrals came from the WAX Cloud Wallet 22.15%, Alienworlds 16.08%, and WAX Blocks 13.33%.
Please let us know in the comments if there are any specific statistics you would like to see in the next update. Elastic Stack has lots of granularity.
If you are having difficulty or are just curious in using our services you can always check uptime and availability statistics via our WAX Public Facing Service Dashboard.
Product Development
In the last period, HeadsUp had completed the rewrite of code from Python to Rust and the team were fixing bugs ahead of the Beta v0.1 release. However we encountered some severe stability issues caused but CPU and Memory consumption that rendered the latest build unfit for production.
The HeadsUp team are on the case and currently working through the following:
- CPU, Memory and Disk IO fix
- Code clean up of some old Python config
- Optimisation of the node connects and latency metrics
- Github Actions
Bring on 2024 and bring on HeadsUp Beta v0.1 .. we are almost there.
Business Development
A reminder that EOSphere offer Commercial Solutions for WAX Services.
We are able to host or operate your own infrastructure for the following:
Hyperion Full History
Atomic API
WAX Protocol Network API
At this point, we unfortunately aren’t able to provide this service to other WAX Guilds. However, you are welcome to use our ElasticSearch Snapshot Repository API.
Please contact us at info@eosphere.io to discuss your needs so we can craft a suitable solution for you.
Ecosystem Development
WAX Technical How To
If you are technically curious or interested in running services on the WAX network, be sure to have a look at our WAX Technical How To series published monthly in the EOSphere Blog on Medium.
These guides are being added to the WAX Developer GitHub.
This month we created a guide that is slightly different to our usual blockchain focus and is on TCP BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round Trip propagation time). TCP BBR is an alternate congestion control algorithm to the normal Cubic in Ubuntu and may bring benefits to latent or high packet loss networks.
Implement TCP BBR Congestion Control
Be sure to ask any questions in the EOSphere Telegram
EOSphere Guild is a Block Producer on the WAX Protocol Network as well as many other Antelope based Blockchains.
If you find our work helpful, please vote for us on the WAX Mainnet: eosphereiobp
If you prefer to proxy your vote, our proxy account is : blklotusprxy
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