State of Development: Week of March 19th, 2018

This week’s focus is Noise protocol implementation.

This week we have started working on our next release that will focus on securing peer-to-peer communications between nodes by switching to Noise protocol.

In parallel to finalizing the Noise implementation, we continue to make progress on our VM by introducing support for RETURNDATASIZE, RETURNDATACOPY and CALL instructions.

We are also working on enhancing our system testing infrastructure, which will enable us to understand exactly what happened when things go wrong in a system test suite. The testing infrastructure will also make it possible to reproduce the identified problem and make sure that the code is improved and the problem is mitigated.

With regards to our progress on Bitcoin-NG, we are currently introducing the notions of leader, key-block and micro block.

We are also progressing with state channels. The focus currently is on implementing transactions which create and close state channels. These state updates also update the on-chain channel state tree.

You can support the progress through æternity’s dedicated GitHub issues page. Meanwhile, our work continues…

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