It’s almost been a month since our last update. The team has been hard at work preparing the release of test-net1, which is hoped to be released by the end of Q3 as planned.

We are aiming to release test-net1 at the end of this month, 31st August 2019 —(not Tue 2020), and currently we’re on track to hit that milestone 🤞.

Development update and summary

Currently the team is working in 3 streams (in priority), these include:

Consensus (Blockmania) with SWIM (Gossip protocol — membership) Proof-of-Stake (PoS) Implementation of unlinkability (Final piece of the Tangram).

Over the past couple of weeks, we have been finalising and validating implementation of the test vectors for test-net1. With this underway, more of the core functionalities and features will be detailed in depth on release day:

States Messages MessagePool Membership SWIM protocol

Up until this point there have been many bugs squashed, and successful porting the code of Blockmania from Go to C#.

A user guide for test-net1 will be prepared, and will be released and updated following the test-net release. Detailed instructions will be provided, including how to build, install and get started with using and participating in test-net1, along with some extra tips and tricks.

Other areas where we can use the community’s help and support involve ‘breaking things’ and beginning to focus on different threat models. We will aim to provide more details and a threat model cheat-sheet at a later date.

PoS Updates: