Masternodes Development Update:

A number of very important fixes and enhancements have been made to the different masternodes within the Ambrosus Ecosystem. With regards to Apollo Masternodes, problems related to high CPU usage specifically in the product environment have been fixed. At the same time, a universal script for automated transfers of AMBs from Apollos to the Apollo Top-Up Account has been designed for more efficient movement of AMB among validator nodes. Concerning Atlas Masternodes, ‘Bundle Status Tracking’ (BST) has been implemented as a cleanup mechanism for Atlas Masternodes, to further streamline the process of efficient data storage.

Hermes Masternodes have also been the subject of a number of positive enhancements: for starters, and most importantly, the Hermes Masternode Extended API has been released on GitHub! Such documentation provides additional querying capabilities which consists of both REST and GraphQL APIs. In relation to optimizing Hermes for enterprise usage, the signing of requests on the Hermes Load producer has been moved to the client side, indicating a sophisticated upgrade to the Hermes architecture. Along the same tangent, all scripts related to the Hermes Load producer deployment have been reviewed, with one minor security issue identified and resolved.

Additionally, another tool has also been released on the Ambrosus GitHub, which allows any interested party to gather insights pertaining to each node’s status (i.e. Sync time and current block) on the network! More specifically, the Parity Exporter provides real-time insights into a number of important monitoring variables including gas fees, transaction queues, account balances, and gas limits (among other features) and is openly available for use by any interested party.

On the Horizon:

Bundle synchronization will continue to be monitored, while performance issues relating to the MongoDB will be further analyzed. Beyond minor tweaks, the first Hermes and Atlas Nodes managed and operated by community members will be forthcoming!