Taraxa Progress Update: February, 2023

State of the network as of March 4, 2023:

• 842M TARA staked
• 736M TARA delegated
• 46 active consensus nodes on the Mainnet
• 186 active consensus nodes on the Testnet
• 615 monthly commits across top repos in Github

🪁 Keeping up with the latest network stats

• For staking & delegation stats, check out: https://taraxa.io/stake/
• For network & dev stats, check out: https://taraxa.io/run_node/

Taraxa Network Status — February 2023

Taraxa Development Activity — February 2023

💡 February focus: preparing for the native token conversion

• Constant communication with exchanges to collaborate with technical tests and negotiating a firm conversion timeframe
• Ledger team feature-froze the node and focused on tests only
• Ecosystem team focused on supporting apps to the ledger, namely, explorer and community site
• Read more about the native token conversion in the docs

📒 Ledger Updates

• ⛽️ Put a gas limit on DAG block tips, bounding the size of the PBFT block
• 🧵 Implemented state change tracing
• 🔒 Replaced C++ boost locks with standard locks
• ⚖️ Tuning DAG block production chances to be more proportional to delegation
• 🛡️ Improved DDoS protection
• 🔒 Moving testnet into a feature-freeze mode in preparation for the native token conversion
• 🏗️ Fixed bugs in the db-rebuilding functionality
• 🛡️ Improved node’s ability to check its own db for consistency on startup
• 🪶 All nodes on the internal dev-net are now light nodes, stress testing for release onto the testnet
• 🐞 Fixed graphQL query bugs that caused testnet nodes to crash
• ⚙️ Small functionality to allow operators to override config settings via CLI
• 🥧 DAG vs. delegation proportionality tuning deployed on devnet, looks good so far!
• 🐞 Corrected the wrong assumption that gossiped packet validity is always tied to the gossiping node’s state
• 🪲 Fixed node crashing issue when asked for a future block via PRC
• 🧪 Fixed various RPC & P2P unit tests

🌱 Ecosystem Updates

• 💨 Improved performance + stability of the new explorer
• 🌅 Re-tuned the explorer to recognize the genesis block as a non-standard initialization
• 🗂️ Fixed some indexing bugs on the explorer
• 🗂️ Building a node-side indexer to serve historical records to explorer & community site
• 🔧 Published a Go-lang library used to interface with the node
• 🧪 Deployed stress tests to simulate random shutdowns & delegations

Stay tuned! 🪁

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