Phala Wrapped Up Hackathon With Outstanding Results | Phala Weekly Vol. 57

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Phala Network

4 min readNov 8, 2021

🚀 Khala Secure Worker Mining

The cumulative number of workers in Khala SWM system increased by 800+. In addition, in the past week due to the network upgrade, the number of online workers on Khala network declined for a short period of time, then gradually returned to normal. The daily average number of Online Workers during the period was 10,583. The highest was 15,577. The real-time value of TVL is 66,733,561 PHA.🚀

The details of Khala SWM system statistics are below:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AqglrvcaFBZvu04hn9h1cZ8mr6IuIRWiHJBncUwF4cQ/edit?usp=sharing

Dev Updates

💯Completed

1. Khala

Released v0.1.7-quickfix, it’s a compatibility workaround for Kusama 9120 runtime upgrade
Due to known issues in Substrate, the stability of Khala network and nodes encountered some problems early this week. We have taken a series of mitigation measures, and the network has stabilized now; we are still communicating with Parity to try to resolve other legacy issues as soon as possible
Relates issues

PR: https://github.com/Phala-Network/phala-blockchain/issues/551
PR: https://github.com/paritytech/cumulus/issues/607
PR: https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/issues/9697
PR: https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/issues/9770

2. Pherry

Released a new version for Kusama 9120 upgrade

3. Phala & PRuntime

Released a new version for Kusama 9120 upgrade

4. Phala App

Bug fixes and optimizations

5. PRB

(Not released yet) Fix a rare case that a miner may do register_worker too early

💻Work in progress

1. Khala

XCM
Upgrade to Polkadot v0.9.12, migrate to MetadataV14
Fix for Issue #500

PR:https://github.com/Phala-Network/phala-blockchain/issues/500

2. pRuntime

Persisting state to avoid syncing block data every time

3. PRB

Single miner version to replace Pherry
Add ability to redo benchmark for miners

Community & Ecosystem

Communities Stats:

Phala published the “Phala x Polkadot Encode Club Hackathon” challenge recap: A Deep Dive in Phala Confidential World: More Creativity and Broader Scope of Applications. The article summarized a few outstanding projects. Please read for your further inspiration.

Activities & News

On November 2nd, Phala and its strategic partner SubDAO jointly launched an airdrop event. SubDAO will provide Phala community with $10,000 equivalent GOV as bonus. If you are interested, you can acquire the reward by joining Phala DAO and voting on governance proposals on SubDAO testnet.

Details: https://twitter.com/PhalaNetwork/status/1455447437854658560

On November 2nd, Phala successfully held the Web 3.0 Phala for Beginners Meet-Up in Dusseldorf.

PR:https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/phala-privacy-meetup-dusseldorf/events/281590671/

On November 4, Phala held the fifth overseas online community meeting. At the meeting, the core members of the Phala team summarized Phala’s Metaverse concept and gave a recap on the “Phala x Polkadot Encode Club Hackathon”. They also further popularized Phala World and Fat Contract to the community. If you missed it, you can watch a recap here:

On November 7, Clifton, the representative of the Phala British community, successfully organized the first PHAmily offline gathering in London, UK. The event attracted nearly 30 people to attend. Dr. Shelven Zhou remotely shared Phala-related information about Metaverse, Fat Contract, Web3 cloud computing etc. Looking forward to seeing you guys next time!

🪧 Upcoming

11/11, 18:30(GMT+1), Phala & Polkadot Meetup Berlin

Event details: https://www.meetup.com/Polkadot-Berlin/events/281710295/

About Phala

Phala Network tackles the issue of trust in the computation cloud.

This blockchain is a trustless computation platform that enables massive cloud processing without sacrificing data confidentiality. Built around TEE-based privacy technology already embedded into modern processors, Phala Network’s distributed computing cloud is versatile and confidential. By separating the consensus mechanism from computation, Phala ensures processing power is highly scalable but not wasteful. Together, this creates the infrastructure for a powerful, secure, and scalable trustless computing cloud.

As a member parachain of the Polkadot cross-chain ecosystem, Phala will be able to provide computing power to other blockchain applications while protecting the data layer, enabling possibilities like privacy-protected DeFi trading positions and transaction history, co-computing DID confidential data, developing light-node cross-chain bridges, and more.

On-chain services currently being developed on Phala Network include Web3 Analytics: high-performance smart contracts from Phala to enable highly concurrent mass data analytics with privacy, paving the way for an alternative to Google Analytics that inherently respects individual confidentiality.