Fantom Technical Update — 10

Go-Lachesis

• Fixed issues with download & save parent events — https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/go-lachesis/pull/178
• Discovery builtin changes — https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/go-lachesis/pull/179
• Cli improvements and README changes — https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/go-lachesis/pull/180
• PoS FIP-2 implementation stub — https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/go-lachesis/pull/181
• Hosts for network discovery — https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/go-lachesis/pull/183
• Common logger — https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/go-lachesis/pull/184
• Network stability testing using blockade — https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/go-lachesis/pull/185
• Cli transaction — https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/go-lachesis/pull/187
• Made initial merge of Fantom prototype into the PoS implementation and fixed compilation in tests — https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/go-lachesis/commits/quan-layer-may22
• Further development of fantom-testnet-deployment-scripts to allow to configure and startup a testnet with arbitrary number of nodes;
• Rolled out 5-node testnet running a custom forked go-lachesis inspired consensus with Fantom-foundation/go-evm;

Lachesis-rs

• Designed external testing language, independent of implementation language (once implemented, will be usable in everywhere, e.g.: Go, Java, Rust)

Research

• Wrote introduction to Fantom’s governance structure for the mainnet (to be published) including on the following: 1. how voting occurs 2. who gets to vote 3. what gets to be voted on 4. what defines a winning/losing vote ie how a proposal becomes “law” 5. onchain vs offchain voting, and 6. hierarchy of governance: the different layers of governance and their importance
• Working on constitution for the governance of the mainnet
• Discussing Isekai engine with U C Berekely on Zk proofs, in the process of hiring cryptographic researchers and software engineers

Repositories

All Lachesis development updates can be found here:

Go-lachesis: https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/go-lachesis/commits/master

Lachesis-rs: https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/lachesis-rs/commits/master

Jlachesis: https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/jlachesis

Research

• Designed external testing language, independent of implementation language (once implemented, will be usable in everywhere, e.g.: Go, Java, Rust)