Idena Chronicles
- Italian edition by Kazeru Wakabayashi
- Romanian edition by Zen
- Russian edition by IDENA World
- Serbian edition by NPC69
Network metrics
Active miners — total number of actively mining identities running their own mining nodes or delegated into mining pools.
Mining nodes — total number of full mining nodes run by individual identities or pool owners who activated online status.
Newcomers — number of addresses that validated for the first time
Success ratio — share of users attended the validation and successfully validated
Active wallets — unique wallets that made transactions during the last epoch
Competitors
Network stats
Markets
Node type stats for the last validation
Nodes on VPS — users running their nodes on VPS
Built-in nodes — users of the Idena Desktop App with build-in node
Shared nodes (web) — Web App users renting shared nodes via marketplace
N/A — users running outdated versions of nodes (VPS/built-in nodes)
Unknown shared nodes (web ) — Web App users who connect to shared nodes that are not listed in the Idena shared nodes marketplace
The data is given for the latest validation.
To have a smooth and reliable validation ceremony experience, we recommend using VPS or built-in nodes if you have fast Internet connection and good router, or the nodes listed in the node marketplace in the official Idena Web App in other cases.
Reporting performance
Quadratic staking progress
Idena Core Team Development
Summary:
- Oracle voting results on IIP-5
- Creating an ad campaign based on the Oracle voting data
- Oracle voting update
- Restricted access warning
- Desktop app update
- Protecting flips with adversarial noise
- Ads on validation
Oracle voting results on IIP-5
The Oracle voting on IIP-5 is finished and the results are the following:
Read about IIP-5 here.
We sincerely appreciate your support of the proposed changes! We have finished the IIP-5 development. It will be released in the next hard fork update. The hard fork announcement with the full list of changes will be published on August 16, 2022.
Creating an ad campaign based on the Oracle voting data
While an ad campaign is not yet launched the ad data is stored in the local storage of the web browser. This means that ad data can be lost after clearing a browser cache or when using incognito mode of the browser. For these cases, we have added a button Create campaign in the Oracle votings which are related to ads. This button is only available to the advertiser.
In addition to restoring the ad, it also allows you to create campaigns with different sets of target parameters.
Oracle voting update
Some updates on Oracle votings have been made:
- We have added a new status “Prolongation” for Oracle votings. This status is assigned to those votings that need to be prolonged to select a new committee. There are 2 cases for prolongation:
- If a quorum is not reached
- If a new epoch has started and the voting period is not finished yet.
Please update the desktop client to correctly display the new status
2. On the My Votings tab, you can now see not only the votings that you created, but also the Oracle votings in which you participated
Restricted access warning
We see that some web users forget to rent a shared node and fail validation. That is why we implemented a warning form which appears 1 hour before validation. It reminds users that restricted access does not allow validating and they need to connect to a shared node to be able to participate in the validation ceremony.
Desktop app update
A new version of Desktop app client 0.32.0 was released with the following changes:
- Zoom feature for flip images on validation
- Showing invitation reward tag on profile
- Introducing prolongation status for oracle votes
- Raw transaction dialogue update (dna://raw)
- Displaying oracle voting results bug fix
- Update translations: Turkish (by @kubi34)
- Formatting URLs in the oracle voting text bug fix
- Other bug fixes and UX improvements
Protecting flips with adversarial noise
We’ve been working on adding a “Protect your images” step to the flip editor. It generates adversarial noise for images, their hue is randomly changed and some of them are flipped horizontally. The combination of these methods gives better results in computer vision recognition resistance.
You can try to make flips with an adversarial noise for your images using this link: http://protect-flip-test.idena.io
The generation of watermarks is temporarily disabled, as together with noise they make some images difficult to perceive. We hope to enable watermarks back once we find a more suitable way of doing it.
Ads on validation
The integration of ads into validation flow is finished. Ads will be shown 5 mins before validation during the flip lottery and after the submission of long session’s answers.
If you want to test the validation flow with integrated ads, please follow the instructions:
- Export your private key from app.idena.io
- Use the key to sign in to https://validation-test.idena.io/
- Wait for the next validation on August, 20 and use this link for validation
The update of the Web app will be after the next validation
Community
Global community channels
Top active users
Community Discord leaderboard:
Telegram — Global community leaderboard:
Telegram — Idena Balkan leaderboard:
Telegram — Idena Italia leaderboard:
Telegram — Idena France leaderboard:
If you want to feature your telegram community leaderboard in the Idena Chronicles, please add ComBot to your telegram group and add @AndrewIdena to the list of group admins to give the Idena core team access to your group stats.
Idena website translations
Credits for the contribution (in brackets is the number of updated strings):
- Italian
Spiketrain Idena <spiketr4in@gmail.com> (83)
We invite you to join the idena translation community and contribute to the translation of the Idena website to your language!
If you want to take part in translation verification and funding, please contact Syd or Rioda to join the translation management workgroup.
Community updates
Edited by Syd
IDENA COMMUNITY — EPOCH 90
Hey Idenians!
This Epoch was marked by the 3rd birthday of Idena. Three years already! And what an incredible journey it has been since the public launch. From a few bunch of validators to now more than 10k, we are writing history more and more every new epoch.
It’s no secret that building the most decentralized and democratic blockchain is not an easy task. However, that didn’t stop the Devs: Idena is still thriving, thanks to the support of the community. And this Epoch was no exception.
Community key role for IIP-5 vote
Discussions around IIP-5 were a great illustration of the strength of the community: while the proposal was received at first with some scepticism from few community members, it generated a lot of brainstorming, data analysis and further debates within the community. Devs’ proposal was challenged and discussed as we can see for instance on the github thread: https://github.com/idena-network/idena-docs/discussions/81
In the end, this extraordinary commitment from the community allowed many members to make their own conclusions, and finally, IIP-5 vote gathered a large majority.
Congratulations everyone!
Building Idena as a community member
Your voice counts!
You might remember a few epochs ago, ZenMaster came up with a clear and detailed proposal in a dedicated thread (https://github.com/idena-network/idena-docs/discussions/64) which allowed the Core Devs to implement fixes in a hard fork proposal.
More recently, Community member Ubiubi2018 has been working and discussing on his own proposal. You can check it out and participate as well:
The point is to illustrate that everyone can participate, not only as a validator in Idena Network, but in every aspects of its development and governance. Either through IIPs, Community proposals (see below) or even simple discussions, YOU, as a community member, can be an Idena builder.
Join our social networks!
Notable Tweets
- Fireshift/Ltraveler has now fully translated his video explanation of Quadratic Staking. Check it out!
- As per tradition, a flip tweet! We all love simple but still creative flips, what do you think about this one?
Community Wallet
Address: 0x182d0fDC04859021456c4F8EE5314AcF57E31650 (multi-sig wallet)
Amount : 23 205,114 iDNA
ICYMI, the Community Wallet is now controlled by 5 delegates who execute decisions made on Oracles through multi-sig. For more details, please refer to the previous Chronicles (#89).
This epoch, as already announced previously, we witnessed the 1st proposal transparently selected by the community delegates to go through an Oracle vote. Despite some technical hiccups with the multi-sig wallet, an oracle was created and approved the funding proposal.
As the Community is now empowered to build and get funded/rewarded through a democratic governance leveraged by Idena Oracles, it’s again a good moment to remember that everyone can make a funding proposal.
For that purpose, please join the Community Discord https://discord.gg/UrsDEHMs, reach #community-proposals-and-discussion and follow instructions in the pinned message.
