Scorex - Ultracompact Cryptocurrency Engine for Researchers

[kushti]

1, Scorex Lagonaki 1.1.1 has been released! https://github.com/ScorexProject/Scorex-Lagonaki

2. Project got sponsorship from IOHK(new project of Charles Hoskinson)

3. A lot of refactoring is planned for next few days. Hopefully before Nov, 14th 1.2.0 milestone will be reached, and then a new submodule will be started.

[Este Nuno]

Awesome work. Congrats on getting sponsorship too.

[kushti]

Version 1.1.2 has been released with consensus-related API calls added. 1.2.0 roadmap has been considered, we're working towards it. Hopefully 1.2.0 will be done before the weekend

[TPTB_need_war]

I may want to collaborate with you guys at some point. I've been coding in Scala as well. I began to port EdDSA from Java I2P. When I get some time, I will look at your Curve25519 implementation.

[kushti]

I may want to collaborate with you guys at some point. I've been coding in Scala as well. I began to port EdDSA from Java I2P. When I get some time, I will look at your Curve25519 implementation.

At the moment Scorex uses this implementation: https://github.com/vRallev/ECC-25519 . I have a plan to switch to implementation from WhisperSystems if my trivial pull-request about possibility of keypair generation with a given seed will be merged (https://github.com/WhisperSystems/curve25519-java/pull/7).

It would be good to get both Curve25519 reviewed. Also it would be good to get some more signature schemes under the hood.

And another direction about crypto primitives, the cryptographic hash function. While Scorex is using SHA-256 from JDK, it would be good to get Blake2 implementation under the hood (https://blake2.net/). It would be also good to compare its performance with SHA-2/3 in the JVM.
 

[pozharko]

Scorex team won on Moscow blockchain hackathon http://forklog.net/moscow-blockchain-hackathon-winning-team-proves-the-permacoin-algorithm/ and working on permacoin consensus algo

[LiQio]

Scorex team won on Moscow blockchain hackathon http://forklog.net/moscow-blockchain-hackathon-winning-team-proves-the-permacoin-algorithm/ and working on permacoin consensus algo

Cool stuff, congratulations!

[kushti]

Thanks guys! Yes, we won the Hackathon with Permacoin prototype implementation, now we've implemented Permacoin as Scorex module, the only thing to run a testnet is data segments p2p protocol. I'm going to implement it, and then we're more or less ready to launch a testnet.

So we are looking for contributors! Please contribute with a hardware to run a fullnode with or without mining! 5-10 nodes are okay for start

And we're starting to welcome developers to look into the code!

[kushti]

A lot of code just has been merged into master. P2P code redone(it's modular now as well as other parts of the core and allows custom plugins), and blocktree support has been added as well(so a node could store few blocks of a same height).

The only thing remains before 1.2.0 release is Permacoin dataset segments exchange via P2P network.

[kushti]

1. We're going to launch a testnet with Permacoin implementation as consensus module in coming days. PRE-ANN is there: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1327860

2. Developers maillist: https://groups.io/g/scorex-dev

[kushti]

1.2.0-RC1 is out: TCP framing, peers handshaking, UPnP ports mapping, new p2p settings, a ton of bugfixes.

I'm going to start a wiki.

[kushti]

Well, public testnet release will be on this week hopefully. And Wiki will be released during this week as well.

Scorex now is a part IOHK Research ( http://iohk.io/about/ ). It is (and will be) under CC0 license, and everyone is welcomed to contribute!

Cryptographic primitives have been externalized into separate framework scrypto: https://github.com/ScorexProject/scrypto

[kushti]

It is possible to connect to a public testnet right now, though public announce will be later, and Debian package / Docker image will be available soon. To connect to a public testnet, run current master on your machine: https://github.com/ScorexProject/Scorex .

Testnet will be alive for few weeks and later will be updated with a new consensus algorithm with working name RollerChain 

[enet]

This great work deserves more coverage. Waves is building on top of Scorex. Hopefully they'll use some funds to contribute back to core.