We teased it last week in our Dev Update, and it’s true! Our Testnet is officially live weeks ahead of schedule! Our devs have been busy this week hitting all kinds of important milestones. We also wrote an in-depth article on spam-prevention on the Cilantro network. Read on.

Clove Development Updates

Fixed issue with mainnet currency networks, which allowed us to make a mainnet bitcoin based atomic swap between Dogecoin and Litecoin.

Fixing Clove Bounty data provided by volunteers to enlarge our currency stack

data provided by volunteers to enlarge our currency stack Worked on calculating fee per transaction for networks that are not supported by BlockCypher

Detailed usage of Clove on the real example of swapping Monacoin and Dogecoin

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Cilantro Development Updates

Testnet is live!

Prototypes of our 3 node system (Masternode/Witness/Delegate) are running each inside a Digital Ocean droplet

Quick testnet stats

7000+ transactions executed

14 Million+ coins transferred

4000+ blocks created

Demonstrated confirmation time of less than 1.5 seconds

This week, we are going through major refactor to promote more robust and modular development

Switched from using JSON to Captain Proto for serialization — allowing us to substantially reduce the memory footprint of packets through our network

Transaction packets are now smaller by a factor of ~4

Refactoring networking modules to support parallel processing of computationally expensive tasks (such as consensus algorithms and block validation)

Added support for detailed logging, as well as Sphinx for documentation

Seneca Development Updates

Worked on smart contract storage

Did a small POC with SQLite, but we decided using MyRocks, a high performance variant of MySQL, would be even better

Overhauled the module import system for the standard Seneca library and smart contracts

What’s Next?

In the coming week we plan to continue work on smart contract data storage API. For Cilantro, we will perform tests on networking modules and data structures, and work on a Consensus algorithm for validating blocks between delegates. We will continue cleaning up the Clove Bounty submissions and begin distributing rewards, and we will be working further on Ethereum-based currency integration.

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