Nervos CKB Development Update #27

Ian Yang
Nervos Network
Published in
2 min readJan 15, 2020

Covering Dec 30 to Jan 12

by LinFeng Qian, Xuejie Xiao and Ian Yang

TL;DR

  • ckb 0.27.0 released on Jan 10
  • The team is currently working on: Animagus — an AST contract framework, Randao — a random number generator and Godwoken — a layer 1.5 framework for Optimistic Rollup or Zk Rollup.

Changes in RFCs

We have made several revisions to the existing RFCs (#167, #166, #156 and #164). Thanks to @paymog, @louzhixian and @stwith for the contribution.

Changes in CKB

ckb 0.27.0 release

This version allows executing a script when the local chain has changed (#1891).

@quake has added TCP and WebSocket to RPC service (#1882), which will allow us to add pub/sub RPCs in the next release.

In addition to the new release, the team is also working on:

  • Animagus — an AST contract framework.
  • Randao — a random number generator.
  • Godwoken — a layer 1.5 framework for Optimistic Rollup or Zk Rollup
  • Add a pruning mode to lower the disk requirement on the node.
  • Upgrade Rust toolchain and switch to new version of Tokio.

Changes in CKB Cli

  • q#227: Update ckb dependency to v0.27.0

Changes in CKB VM

  • #93 Add step mode for AsmMachine

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