Radium Update #42 — Core Protocol Progress Report

In the last few months the developers have been working on the upcoming Radium protocol hardfork. We wanted to share our current progress as well as our future timeline.

We have so far implemented all the hardfork changes we wanted to implement in Radium Core v1.5.0. Phase 1 of our protocol upgrade plan. You can view our progress on GitHub.

We are currently in the process of refactoring some of the code and thoroughly testing our upgrades. In order to ensure a successful hardfork we have been taking our time with network testing. Our testnet is running with the new hardfork changes but there is still some testing to be done in order to ensure there are no new and unintentional attack vectors.

There has been a lot of recent questions from the community concerning when exactly we would be hardforking. Unfortunately, blockchain development is such that we believe that hard deadlines imposed “at random” on the developers can be counterproductive. The reason we believe this is because we want to ensure that the Radium blockchain runs as smoothly as possible. A hardfork is an important change and we therefore think that a long and thorough testing phase before mainnet release is very important. Having said this we are very close to being finished with our testing, we still need to do some minor refactoring of the code but we are confident we will be able to release Radium Core v1.5.0 this month.

— The Radium Team