Fantom Technical Update 9

Go-Lachesis

• Added Proof of Stake improvements as per the Proof of Stake technical outline.
• Added golangcibot error checks
• Added cli staking commands
• Added unit tests for staking

Lachesis-rs

• Reviewed classes of distributed consensus algorithms
• Generalized new architecture
• Split Consensus out of lachesis-rs repo into separate repos, as per new architecture
• Finished with basic data-structures in Solidity
• Tested and fine-tuned the new parser
• Researched literature on how to implement hash tables in dynamic languages

JLachesis

• Investigating and planning of porting / reimplementing some of the latest changes in Go-Lachesis

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

• Investigating an improved consensus protocol for more reliable and scalable consensus
• Introduced the notion of root graph and used it for more deterministic frame assignment
• Working on a new approach to topological ordering of event blocks coming to finality