ChronoLogic Begins Research into Latest Scaling Solutions

Immediately after the team’s return from EthCC in Paris we started the next sprint focused on our continuing integrations and research. Everyone at the conference had input and feedback to give us on the Ethereum Alarm Clock, and we were inspired by the 100+ talks given by the power players in the Ethereum space. We noticed novel use cases, thought of ways to optimize the EAC protocol and blazed forward with many new integration opportunities. Undoubtedly, the team’s first priority is the important MyCrypto integration. However, we have a lot more to share…

MyCrypto Integration

We’ve made a lot of progress, but we are not yet ready to publish our progress into the upstream MyCrypto beta release. We’re really hard at work to finish the code and make this integration a reality, both teams are extremely motivated to bring Ethereum scheduling functionality to the end user. First we aim to enable it for the Kovan testnet and after the testing phase and security audit, we can enable Ethereum mainnet transactions scheduling directly in MyCrypto. We really hope you’re as excited as we are, because this is going to be a huge integration. Take a look at the 28 (and growing) commits in the pull request.

EAC v2 — Solidity + IPFS Research and Development

While pushing integrations and our DApp development we are still researching opportunities to make Ethereum Alarm Clock more scalable. The work done by Logan Saether in Sprint 5 is the result of the two-day brainstorming session he had with lead developer Piotr while in Gdansk.

Currently we’re pushing towards moving storage to IPFS and verifying data integrity on-chain by using cryptographic libraries. This can vastly reduce the amount of gas needed to deploy scheduling smart contracts. But this is only one branch of our research. We’re also investigating State Channels usage in Ethereum Alarm Clock.

We’re having internal discussions on this topic and conducting research, including reaching out to experienced State Channels developers. All of the discussion and research has become tangible. Logan Saether already started to work on GitHub. Below you can see a basic diagram which can help you wrap your head around the concept.

Architecture overview of EAC v2

It’s been a busy and rewarding sprint. Also during this time period, developer Logan Saether presented an in-depth demo of the Ethereum Alarm Clock at the TriCity Blockchain Meeting in Gdansk, Poland.

You can expect more updates in the coming weeks. In the meantime, if you’re a developer, you can collaborate with us now at https://github.com/ethereum-alarm-clock/.