This past week significant progress was made on the necessary RPC protocol and testing framework required for our testnet.

RPC Protocol and Node Interface

Resolved Metamask incompatibility issues in transaction signing

Modified PBFT test scripts for the revised jsonrpc interface

Created transaction order table and necessary tests

Developed transaction to block mapping table and requisite tests

PBFT Consensus and Execution Schedule Layer

Sequenced DAG block height interface implemented in PBFT chain

Refinements made to PBFT interface for ongoing DAG and VM integration

Further PBFT integration tests run

Merged several changes implemented in the concurrent EVM branch into master branch

Testnet Improvements

Key pair generator and address generator console app

Put code formatting script in place and reformatted code to adopted convention, an important step towards open-sourcing

Merged improved testing setup to master branch

Stay tuned.