Technical Update 13

By Michael Kong

Our teams have be working hard to bring you the latest development updates, as we approach the launch of our mainnet!

Go-Lachesis

• Reviewed and approved PR#285
• Finished work at fork mechanics and median time in vectorindex: PR#286
• Improved ASCII scheme to draw fork PR#287
• Developed CacheWrapper for Database: PR#288
• Refactored new event structure. Used RLP serialization. Fixed posposet/ event/ ASCII tests
• Prepared posposet/ and inter/with new database and event and creating branch for merge: https://github.com/devintegral3/go-lachesis/commits/feature/posposetdbs.
• Vectorindex tested to detect forks
• Geth-node adaptation: PR#289
• Fixed issue with fork: PR#290
• Tested for poset with forks in ASCII: PR#291
• Poset: added FindBestParents method as emitter helper: PR#292
• Fixed issues with old protocol. Preparing for transition to ethereum accounts: PR#294
• Integrated new database in node: PR#295

Rust

• Added useful traits in libvm-rs: https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/librevm-rs/commit/6b957a4735d1011ff9a603ea817a36a3159d9171
• Fixed a blocking issue with libvm-rs: https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/librevm-rs/commit/61b6c580c378ddc20de29a45eb52139dff9b8313
• Refactored full-cli-rs with futures, split the main module into several modules to expose self-contained components: https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/full-cli-rs/commit/f5915719c2071bd1c345711540e61db0c2b6c1bd
• Continuing to work on libnode-membership, on the gossip graph builder module.
• [WIP] Definition and implementation of libcommon-rs:
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libcommon-rs/commit/c32839e
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libcommon-rs/commit/f590c3d
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libcommon-rs/commit/d951c48
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libcommon-rs/commit/9e5ce6e
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libcommon-rs/commit/114b2fb
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libcommon-rs/commit/9a8c322d
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libcommon-rs/commit/ba9878e
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libcommon-rs/commit/74b78d2
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libcommon-rs/commit/2253536
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libcommon-rs/commit/4650cf7
• [WIP] Definition of libtransport an common test:
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/e705444
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/436b2db
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/aa91c39
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/3778c0b
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/0138a77
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/9a65241
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/e1dc8f1
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/731bde6
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/d6f7989
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/c69c4ab
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/9570788
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/1c1a034
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/b399fe8
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/51d3ef4
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/621c4af
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/792849a
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/0ea211a
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/82edc81
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/8e03673
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/5bba6da
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/f9df604
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport/commit/0b84f1c
• Implementing libtransport-tcp:
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport-tcp/commit/caa65e4
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport-tcp/commit/4b1f1af
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport-tcp/commit/c359f98
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport-tcp/commit/6d5042b
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport-tcp/commit/c81d8fd
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport-tcp/commit/65efaba
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport-tcp/commit/bd43640
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libtransport-tcp/commit/57b6f67
• [WIP] Definition of libhash:
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libhash/commit/4a761d7
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libhash/commit/e33729e
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libhash/commit/7f600bd
• Implementation of libhash-sha3:
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/libhash-sha3/commit/29313cbv
• [WIP] Implemented serde for prostprost, to enable switching between protocol buffers, bincode, and other formats, transparently:
  https://github.com/Fantom-foundation/prost/commit/dd39d9e9fc13f0bbde397ce0bc22bec6eed7fbb6

Fantom’s Stable Coin Platform — Statheros

• Added queries and handlers
  https://github.com/dev10/fantom-asset-management/commit/e303647ea5ba71cd2e81d09ba030eae107ce3d86
  https://github.com/dev10/fantom-asset-management/commit/a92986e4f882e275c3f3b703edc2da7767ad6881
• Added Tests
  https://github.com/dev10/fantom-asset-management/commit/3385ed00c63a7de898a8f951fbbf775543883585
  https://github.com/dev10/fantom-asset-management/commit/66358a78713f787cefafc9cf38ded3dfb734fb64
  https://github.com/dev10/fantom-asset-management/commit/580ca6587bf9aee2daee80ab70c19cfb09c86609
• Handled of issue, mint, burn and (un)freeze messages
  https://github.com/dev10/fantom-asset-management/commit/81ab452a4d53a4db32ac9d2fa06b738244b819d0
  https://github.com/dev10/fantom-asset-management/commit/92f3dce012ea97c3ed0214c5f072f2ecc99e6c34
  https://github.com/dev10/fantom-asset-management/commit/fe860d038095086ad1d8a7f033f96b1f55f5e13c
• Added (un)freeze and burn coin messages with registration
  https://github.com/dev10/fantom-asset-management/commit/a02814d4371ea8c453e583dfe3d4266b2a44ed37
  https://github.com/dev10/fantom-asset-management/commit/f1c7e516e8403c34025b67b20fa5d31e8e1da3f2
  https://github.com/dev10/fantom-asset-management/commit/353d48a03e988a122ef0cb7a843d342e696e306f
• Added Issue and Mint errors and fix linter errors
  https://github.com/dev10/fantom-asset-management/commit/18ebea275ffd90c175a13f1cc3eaa205e59fb9f7
  https://github.com/dev10/fantom-asset-management/commit/376d9416e6394086415f3171466c5c0cbacf2680
• Consistent state keeping errors added
  https://github.com/dev10/fantom-asset-management/commit/fb0d5c8f6de98a1e38a6c83f5160d0ef2dc26643

Research

• Invested some improvements to our PoS model. The new model should be safer and will give a more balanced chance for both users and validators.
• Introduced a simplified staking model that will encourage more engagement from participants.
• New paper has been rewritten and is ready for internal review, before publishing.

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