In previous weeks, the Ambrosus Developer Team led by Dr. Vlad Trifa have been working overtime on the creation, testing, and launching of different facets of the Ambrosus Network. Beyond developing an original cryptoeconomic model, configuring gateways to integrate IoT sensing devices, and designing the functionality and operability of Hermes Masternodes with AMB-NET, the various teams have also been responsible for the successful development and implementation of a number of network essential tools. Among others, these include the Ambrosus Bridge, the Ambrosus Explorer and lastly the Ambrosus Dashboard.

Specific information about the current status of AMB-NET, the recent developments of network tools, and new information about the smart contract architecture and cryptonomic simulations of Atlas and Apollo Masternodes are explained more in detail below!

AMB-NET Onboarding Update

The Wave of Chaos has been interacting on Test-Net for quite some time, allowing the first network operators to familiarize themselves with the full scope of activities and opportunities available, before complete onboarding into a real-time/risk-reward environment. For the Network, positive auditing and testing results indicate that AMB-NET is capable of sustainably managing a large number of network operators at one time. These positive results confirm that AMB-NET is ready for industrial implementation, and has allowed the developer teams to move towards final preparations for release of the entire crypto-economic network.

More specifically, final measures are in the process of being completed through a comprehensive network audit: this involves a final smart contract audit, penetration testing and security reviews, as well as further performance and security testing. This comprehensive final audit is important for two main reasons:

First, it means that upon completion the smart contract and network architecture that Ambrosus will be releasing to sustain the entire Ambrosus Crypto-economy is in fact bulletproof. Since Ambrosus provides a business to business (B2B) software solution, this remains the number one priority for building a sustainable ecosystem that hundreds of enterprises can depend upon for their integrated data needs. In this sense, there is no compromise on network quality.

Second, the comprehensive network audit is the very last thing needed before Masternodes can onboard onto AMB-NET, and more waves of operators can begin interacting on the test network: without further impediment or delay, masternodes are able to henceforth onboard consistently into the Ambrosus Crypto-economic ecosystem to test out strategies, manage their node uptime, and eventually shelter bundles of data sourced from enterprises around the world! The network, for its part, will be guaranteed to sustain such an onslaught of activity.

AmberEx: The Ambrosus Explorer

For the purpose of monitoring the state of the network in real-time, AmberEx allows anyone to view all of the address, block, transaction, bundle, asset and event details happening upon AMB-NET. Built intuitively and for easy navigation of bundle content and upload rates, AmberEx has recently been upgraded with a number of improvements. Beyond passing the final tests prior to deployment, other updates involve:

Manual and socket synchronization for existing blocks, bundles, and transactions.

Data fetching performance monitoring

Improvements to User Experience (UX) making navigation between interfaces more intuitive and organized.

Small issues that have remained as blockers for the ‘go-live’ implementation have been fixed.

Overall Status: On-Schedule for Deployment in January — has been released and tested internally.

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Enterprise Dashboard for Hermes Nodes

The Dashboard is made to be utilized by business and developers in order to manage their Hermes Masternodes and its accompanying functions: configure the strategy for uploading ‘Bundles’ to AMB-NET the visualizing and management of Assets, Events, and various accounts, and most importantly the selection and organization of data between the blockchain and a private database.

The current developments to the Ambrosus Dashboard are focused on fine-tuning the product itself, while also tweaking the design based upon a better understanding of business demands and standards for such a product. The developer team is pleased to announce the following enhancements to the Ambrosus Dashboard:

From the Front End and Design Team, all Screens for the Dashboard MVP (Minimum Viable Product) have been completed. These screens pertain to Assets, Forms, Searches, and also to the underlying organization of the Dashboard, Accounts, and Invitations options.

Strategic Synchronisation Sessions (SSS) have been held with the Ambrosus Business Developers (Biz Dev’s) in order to gain market insights on what additional tools would be beneficial to integrate for businesses to make use of.

Advanced Asset Search Tooling currently being developed and implemented in order to increase performance and dashboard maneuverability. In-Depth Asset Functionality currently being researched.

Internal Mongo Database Operations have been tested to better understand performance tuning. This additionally involved a meeting between Back-End and Devops teams discussing the scalability of serving large bundles through the Hermes API.

Mongo Database replication problems have undergone a general troubleshoot and are now certified for performance.

Extended API and Dashboard compatibility is being finalized.

Overall Status: After months of work, the Dashboard MVP is on-schedule for deployment as it continues to undergo its final testing phase. Enhanced and more enterprise-oriented revisions are currently being implemented in order to boost business optimization and applicability.

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The Ambrosus Token Bridge

Built for the exchange of Native Amber (AMB) with the Ambrosus ERC20 token, the Ambrosus Token Bridge is in its final stages of testing and security auditing. After adding a history of transactions to the bridge, the developer team has internally deployed the bridge and tested its performance. The successfully deployed architecture was then recorded before a ‘PhantomBridge’ was deployed for the testing of more complex features.

Overall Status: Awaiting public deployment and undergoing routine tests. The release is scheduled to take place once the public onboarding on main-net will be launched.

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Smart Contract Architecture

In the past week, the smart contract architecture for masternode operability, bundle upload, and access controls have been updated resulting in a total of over 40 different types of completed smart contracts officially ready for deployment within AMB-NET. Ranging from payouts to sheltering transfers, to fees and KYC Whitelisting controls the updated architecture ensures the automatic and efficient performance of masternodes and the uploading and sheltering of data.

Cryptoeconomic Simulations

Ambrosus is currently in the process of finalizing the remaining tests for the mathematical proofs and equations behind the functionality of the Apollo and Atlas Nodes reward/penalty structure! While more information will be released in the near future, the benefit of these simulations is that they confirm and finalise the functionality of the Ambrosus cryptoeconomic model. Beyond providing a macro economy of nodes and formal functions for the validation and storage of data on the network, an equally exciting (and rewarding) micro economy has also been developed for Atlas node operators: pick a strategy, implement specific algorithms, and prepare for a fast-paced and bundle-packed sheltering environment!

Within the next two weeks we will release a detailed report on our cryptoeconomic simulations for AMB for the community. This will show how much thinking and modeling goes into making AMB a truly integral element of security and incentive model in our distributed network.