Dec 14, 2020
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Taraxa Weekly Update — Week 50.
Optimizing the PBFT execution on Taraxa public testnet and the DAG network syncing.
Taraxa public testnet up and running, you can go check out the block explorer here. On to the updates!
Consensus and PBFT.
- Reviewed the code to optimize the DAG syncing; RPC calls thread pool, and the logger refactoring;
- Implemented a condition variable for the block executor;
- Added a PBFT executed chain size and fixed the unit tests;
- Merged the execution asynchronous with the PBFT manager into the master branch;
- Fixed the unexecuted PBFT queue consistent with the PBFT chain head;
- Fixed the checking empty before removing blocks in the PBFT unexecuted queue.
Block DAG.
- Optimized and simplified the DAG network syncing for non-finalized blocks;
- Fixing and debugging the issues related to the PBFT executor and failing unit tests;
- Looking into GraphQL.
