Canonical Ledgers had another busy month in July working on our pledges, getting onboarded and participating in various aspects of the community.

Pledges

When we campaigned we promised to achieve a number of things for the community and to-date have made good progress so far. Below is a list of our campaign pledges.

Maintain the unofficial Arch Linux packages for factomd, factom-walletd, and factom-cli in the Arch User Repository

Run our nodes at 50% efficiency

Write a FCT tipbot for Discord

Publish our configurations for collecting node data using InfluxDB

Develop EntryCredits.io

Contribute to Factom through development and community participation, and identifying high-value integrations for Factom

The Arch Linux packages for factomd, factom-walletd and factom-cli are up-to-date.

Both our Audit servers on the mainnet are running at 50% efficiency (diverting 50% of the FCT to the Grant pool).

The tipbot is completed and the code is open-sourced and can be found here. Unfortunately, due to legal concerns of being considered a money transmitter in the US, we cannot run this code ourselves but are still looking for an entity in a more favorable legal jurisdiction willing to host the tipbot.

We are using the InfluxData Open Source TICK stack in our internal infrastructure monitoring. All of our configuration including some systemd service files for ensuring that factomd stays running can be found here.

We have a functional MVP for EntryCredits.io, but with the advent of the community entry credit store template being developed by community member Ilzheev of DeFacto, we thought the ecosystem might be better suited by open-sourcing our code to assist that project. In addition, Adam has been working with Ilzheev to advise him on how to integrate some of our code for interacting with factomd into his PHP framework.

This last task is an ongoing pledge to provide support and bring value to the Factom community. For July we have participated in the following ways:

Adam wrote a CLI completion program for factom-cli. [dev]

Adam wrote a factom-testload program for standardizing loads on the testnet. [dev]

Adam joined the group of sponsors for the Factom Inc development grant as a technical adviser. [community participation]

Sam Vanderwaal was appointed as Chair of the Exchange Committee and has been working with the committee to get FCTs listed on new exchanges. [community participation]

Sam has continued to function in his role as a Guide. [community participation]

Onboarding

We are officially onboarded! Our servers were upgraded to Audits on Friday, August 2. We’re excited to be officially part of the Authority Node Operator set and look forward to contributing to the network.