Witnet Monthly Report — March 2019

Testnet-2 is now live — and you can run your own node on a Raspberry Pi!

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🏗️ Development Update

Testnet-2 is out! This new major release includes many changes that extremely improve the security and stability of the Witnet Testnet:

The witnet-rust basecode is growing at light speed, and it now comprises many different components intended to work in the Witnet ecosystem:

node : a fully validating and archival Witnet blockchain node.

: a fully validating and archival Witnet blockchain node. wallet : a separate server for managing Witnet keys and abstracting the complexity of creating transactions.

: a separate server for managing Witnet keys and abstracting the complexity of creating transactions. crypto : library implementing all the crypto-related operations used by Witnet, including signatures, hash functions and verifiable random functions.

: library implementing all the crypto-related operations used by Witnet, including signatures, hash functions and verifiable random functions. rad : an interpreter for RADON scripts included in Witnet data requests.

: an interpreter for RADON scripts included in Witnet data requests. storage : the convenient local storage solution used by node and wallet .

: the convenient local storage solution used by and . p2p : modules for managing peer sessions and connections.

: modules for managing peer sessions and connections. data_structures : data structures common to all other components.

: data structures common to all other components. validations : functions that validate Witnet protocol data structures.

: functions that validate Witnet protocol data structures. schemas: Protocol Buffer schemas for the Witnet protocol.

Members of the Witnet project are also developing and maintaining these other related Rust crates:

protobuf-convert : macros for convenient serialization of Rust data structures into/from Protocol Buffers.

: macros for convenient serialization of Rust data structures into/from Protocol Buffers. async-jsonrpc-client: event-driven JSON-RPC client with support for multiple transports

🔧 We Like To Have Our Pi and Eat It Too

The Witnet Roadmap to Mainnet has been released with dates and milestones towards launch:

To enable the community to get further involved in our iterations of testnets leading up to mainnet, we published a getting-started guide for setting up and running your full Witnet testnet node:

Also, as a fun experiment to bring further clarity to the sort of software and hardware requirements to participate in the Witnet Decentralized Oracle Network, we have shown that a $15 Raspberry Pi Zero is capable of mining blocks on the Witnet Testnet. More from Adán:

Open Source Contributors:

Are you interested in contributing to the development of Witnet-rust? We would be thrilled to have you! Visit our new contributing guide and development guide for more info!

We are also extremely interested and receptive to anyone curious about building a separate implementation of the Witnet-rust. Have a favorite language you’d like to try to build Witnet with? Let us know and we’ll be happy to support you!

💜 Team

The Witnet Foundation has new open positions, including a brand new Growth Lead role located in the Madrid office. So if you are aware of the impact a decentralized oracle network will have on the crypto landscape and want to get involved, be sure to check them out and get in touch with us!

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