Taraxa Weekly Update: Week 13

Business as usual: continued work on Taraxa Testnet

Another week is a wrap, and we’re here to share the most recent accomplishments on the tech side. Focused on improving the stability of nodes of Aphrogenes, we’re making some significant progress on the network’s security and throughput.

Consensus and PBFT

Efficient proposals enable Taraxa’s PoS to produce fair and non-coordinated block proposals, which is essential for the network’s security. Accomplished this week:

Work-in-progress: implementing the PBFT state machine to improve current PBFT daemon.
Looked into pending block issue and RocksDB configuration options

RPC and EVM

We introduced an EVM-compatible toolchain to achieve maximum backward-compatibility to make Taraxa’s code modular and reusable, and the unique concurrent virtual machine that is able to run smart contracts in parallel ultimately increasing the network’s throughput.

Completed the planned features.
RPC error handling
Work-in-progress: rearranging the code, preparing to integrate the changes into taraxa_node, and into the CI.