Taraxa Progress Update: January, 2023

📣 State of the network as of January 31, 2023:

• 759M TARA staked
• 520M TARA delegated
• 41 active consensus nodes on the Mainnet
• 156 active consensus nodes on the Testnet
• 718 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 — January 2023

Taraxa Development Activity — January 2023

💡 Progress Highlights

• Released 2022 Retrospective and Outlook 2023, outlining our 2023 Roadmap.

• Updated Taraxa’s website to help refocus the project’s messaging on our overall goals, with much-requested features such as a live token stats page.

• Updated developer’s documentation to help onboard developers & ecosystem projects that wish to build on Taraxa’s Layer-1.

📒 Ledger Updates

• ✂️More proactive state db pruning on light nodes
• ⏳Fixed excessive-syncing edge case caused by incorrect period # stored in PBFT blocks
• ↔️ Mitigated potential attack by limiting max # of DAG tips to equal max # blocks / level
• 🐞 Fixed a websocket bug that caused RPC nodes to crash
• 🚢 Create a getter script that indexes the on-chain precompiled DPoS contract’s data
• 🔨 Added additional opcodes to the VM
• 🧐 Review of the use of panic() in VM code to ensure no self-inflicted downtimes
• 🛰️ Reviewing solutions to boot nodes gossiping wrong IPs to dev deployed mainnet nodes
• 🗒️ Working to aggregate logs across mainnet nodes

🌱 Ecosystem Updates

• 🧭 Fixed issue with indexer on explorer
• 🧰 Fixed backend sync issues with community site, will release a new site soon that doesn’t need a backend
• 📢 Hype app indexer resolved, moving into internal testing next few weeks

Stay tuned! 🪁

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