Idena Chronicles
- Greek edition by TomThisIsIt
- 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N/A — users running outdated versions of nodes (VPS/built-in nodes)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.
Even though the size of the network is decreasing, we see that the number of validators is growing in percentage terms. This means that the drop in the network is due to a decrease in the number of identities that do not run the node, i.e. do not contribute to the network, and a decline in the number of identities in the pools. This is also proved by the chart below. The red line shows a downward trend in the number of identities in non-family pools (pools with more than 15 identities).
Idena Core Team Update
- The Green Pill podcast
- Flips compression bug fix
- Updated onboarding for new users
- Tutorial mode for training validation
- IIP-7 Quadratic rewards for extra flips
- IIP-8 Pool voting rights
- Upcoming hard fork update
- Smart contracts
The Green Pill podcast episode
If you missed the Green Pill podcast episode with Kevin Owocki and Andrew, the co-founder of IDENA, check this out:
Flips compression bug fix
During the last validation, there were problems with loading flips at the largest pool. It is likely that this was due to a bug of increasing the size of flips after the introduction of adversarial noise. The size of all flips in the network grew 10 times, which led to an increase in the load on all shared nodes. Apparently, the nodes of large pools could not withstand the load. The shared nodes from the marketplace handled the load much better, but some of them also had problems.
We have fixed the flip compression bug. After testing, it will be released in the next version of the Idena app.
Onboarding for new users
We updated the onboarding process for new users so they can get familiar with the main features of the Idena app (e.g. run a democratic voting, promote goods and services on-chain in an anonymous and decentralized way, earn rewards by being an Idena validator).
New tutorial mode for training validation
To make it easier to learn how to solve flips, we have added a tutorial mode with hints for training validation. If a flip is solved incorrectly, it is shown immediately and a user can choose the correct answer.
Similarly, if the report/approval of the flip was not set correctly, then a hint appears indicating the reason for the report.
New users first go through this mode and then solve the training validation to get a certificate.
The tutorial mode is also available at the Training validation certificates page. It will facilitate the learning process for newcomers and let them easily get the training certificate.
IIP-7 Quadratic rewards for extra flips
We have implemented the IIP-7 Quadratic rewards for extra flips to encourage people to make more extra flips and thus increase the number of flips created by independent users. The changes are related to the distribution of the Flip reward fund (35% of total rewards). It will be divided into basic flip rewards (15%) and extra flip rewards (20%).
The rewards for extra flips will be calculated in proportion to the size of the stake to the power of 0.9. Please read the proposal here.
As the results of the corresponding Oracle vote show, the majority of the Idena community supports the proposed changes. They will be included into the upcoming hard fork.
IIP-8 Pool voting rights
The IIP-8 was proposed by one of the community members @Zen. The proposed improvement is aimed to allow identities to change pools or create their own pools without waiting for 3 epochs. See the details here.
After reviewing the proposal, we see that it does not affect the economy or security. Thus, the Oracle voting is not needed. We will include the IIP-8 change into the upcoming hard fork for update.
Upcoming hard fork update
The hard fork update will be released on December 16th. It will be the last hard fork update in 2022. See more details.
Smart contracts
We are pleased to announce that the main work on integrating the webassembly runtime into the Idena node for executing custom smart contracts has been completed. We have prepared node builds for Linux, Windows and MacOS.
In the test version of the node, it is possible to deploy custom wasm-based smart contracts. Due to the need for extensive testing, we plan to release a node with custom smart contracts in the 1st quarter of 2023. This will be a major node version update released with the number 1.0.0 and named “Corea Hard Fork” (dedicated to Armando Anthony Chick Corea who is the favorite jazz musician of Andrew, co-founder of Idena).
Custom smart contracts on Idena will allow developers to create any socially-oriented DApps. Smart contracts can be easily integrated with Oracle voting. DAOs can use Oracle votes in combination with quadratic token voting to provide sustainable decentralization over time. With quadratic staking and the ability to mine iDNA with no upfront investment, Idena makes on-chain transactions and socially-oriented DApps accessible to anyone.
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:
Telegram — Idena Vietnam 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
Idena Web app translations
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
Hello Humans! As the next hard fork approaches, let’s get into some news from the Community.
Idena Network featured in Bankless on the “Green Pill” podcast
Idena was featured on the famous Bankless Show, in the latest Green Pill podcast presented by Kevin Owocki. In the podcast, Andrew was able to present every aspects of Idena to a large audience and raise the awareness on the sybil resistance topic.
You can check it out here:
Spike also made a great thread about it, presenting every important points mentioned during the podcast:
Idena as an auth method on Telegram? A suggestion made by Fireshift
Sybil resistance is an important topic for all social networks, and we are all well aware of the issues that bots cause to it.
Community member Fireshift (Ltraveler) raised a thread on the Telegram forum, suggesting to use Idena as an auth method. It’s a good opportunity to make people aware of this possibility and how Idena can be leveraged to that extend.
Let’s upvote and keep commenting the thread to make it more visible! https://bugs.telegram.org/c/22195
Flip Wars Tournament : Epoch 94 Edition
Another round of flip wars was organized by EDM (@Relight_Motion) with Вуле claiming the final victory. Congratulations to him!
The tournament saw some epic flips, especially this duel with Lobster/Gate as keywords:
It’s also a great moment to remember that the pool-prize is funded by the Community according to the established rules of governance (https://medium.com/idena/idena-chronicles-epoch-0092-7a972b5f079f). Moreover Flip Wars are a great event which are also a cool method of promoting good “flipping”.
A success made possible by the community and EDM!
Notable tweets
- Piano deserves holidays too…
- Another great flip from flip expert @cryptogeek555
Community Wallet and Community Proposals
Address: https://idenawallet.community/wallets
Previous and on-going proposals: https://idenawallet.community/proposals
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 Chronicles #89.
The current delegates are @NCP69, @Zen, @georgiy, @hlolve and @EDM.
Governance Rules are:
- Amendment https://medium.com/@Zen-44/community-wallet-governance-protocol-23a0e331b5eb
REMINDER regarding Community Proposals:
As the Community is now empowered to build and get funded/rewarded through a democratic governance leveraged by Idena Oracles, please remember that everyone can make a funding proposal.
For that purpose, please join the Community Discord https://discord.gg/UrsDEHMs, reach #community-funding-proposals-and-discussions and follow instructions in the pinned message.
