[ANN][KMD][dPoW] Komodo - An Open, Composable Smart Chain Platform, Secured by B

[jl777]

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KV coin is an example of how I see the komodo ecosystem developing. As coins such as KV get established and succeed, KMD will gain value as the underlying coin.

Somehow I have the feeling that the underlying coins can suffer from ICOs. For example NXT had a steady decline, since it was massively used as ICO relay.

I also can somehow understand why. People, that had a lot of NXT, became rich.
Some cached out already, but the people, who still held were investing a high percentage of their NXT in assets.
But those asset distributors were of course caching out a lot, because they need the money... so it can only lead to decline...

Each assetchain is totally its own coin. When they use dPoW they create demand for KMD. The assetchain coins are denominated in themselves and they control their own destiny.

Also, I am not proposing any ICO for KV coin. It is not out of the question, but it would be up to the KV team, which is in the process of spontaneously forming. Whatever they do can only be incremental extra activity within the komodo ecosystem. There is no sell pressure on KMD as it is not denominated in KMD.

I think it is best to analyze the komodo ecosystem with a fresh look, rather than assuming it suffers from the same ills as older systems

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[globalbtc21]

My waiting stage is coming to an end . In about almost two week . I can have KMD . The wallet looks pretty neat .

so within this month KMD wallet will be ready ? that is good.

[jl777]

The KV functionality didnt take long to add to komodod. It works for all the blockchains, komodod and all its assetchains. This allows each chain to have its own KV storage.

Initially, it does no protections for keys, so anybody can update any key at any time. Still thinking about the best way to give update rights to the creator and not to others. I am leaning toward having a signature in the value portion. That way we can use an external signature system to manage this. Using utxo sigs just seems a bit too messy.

The API is as simple as can be:

kvupdate key value
kvsearch key

For now, everything is a string, didnt want to complicate things to deal with binary key/values. It does waste about 12% of space, I can always add encoding modes later. The following is a simple test sequence. I first assign the value of "bar" to the key "foo". Then I overwrite it with the value of "spam"

To make the behavior identical on all nodes, until the block with the KV entry is processed, it wont take effect.

Code:

./komodo-cli kvupdate foo bar
6a0f4b03000300c77c0200666f6f626172 opretbuf
6a0f4b03000300c77c0200666f6f626172 opretbuf[17]
{
    "coin" : "KMD",
    "height" : 163015,
    "key" : "foo",
    "keylen" : 3,
    "value" : "bar",
    "valuesize" : 3,
    "txid" : "ce56eaee0c86b29a28e953580ac02813fb63ede31f1b06571c2c5284eea4a90f"
}

./komodo-cli kvsearch foo
{
    "coin" : "KMD",
    "currentheight" : 163020,
    "key" : "foo",
    "keylen" : 3,
    "height" : 163015,
    "value" : "bar",
    "valuesize" : 3
}
# ./komodo-cli kvupdate foo spam
6a104b03000400cc7c0200666f6f7370616d opretbuf keylen.3 valuesize.4 height.163020 (66 6f 6f)
6a104b03000400cc7c0200666f6f7370616d opretbuf[18]
{
    "coin" : "KMD",
    "height" : 163020,
    "key" : "foo",
    "keylen" : 3,
    "value" : "spam",
    "valuesize" : 4,
    "txid" : "6829c220da03b3b8997dddd2407339d1df6f7f339e505efc749e4c5f6e6c653f"
}

# ./komodo-cli kvsearch foo
{
    "coin" : "KMD",
    "currentheight" : 163023,
    "key" : "foo",
    "keylen" : 3,
    "height" : 163020,
    "value" : "spam",
    "valuesize" : 4
}

[yassin54]

GUI Wallet Progress Update!

Updated EasyDEX-GUI with bit more performance and fixing some GUI issues.
- The Add coin dialog box now let's you start Komodo in Native mode, and is conditionaly set to select Native mode ONLY if user selects a Supported Native coin from the dropdown coins list.
- The Basilisk Mode, in which user doesn't need Full blockchain to download on their local machines, is updated with new DEX* APIs in EasyDEX-GUI at some places. James already made Basilisk APIs to be compatible with DEX* where needed, but I adapted the code to be bit flexible to conditonally use the DEX* APIs at some places instead of Basilisk for better performance.
- Native Komodo Wallet earlier wasn't showing any progress of wallet sync with network. With latest updates it shows the sync progress percentage, blocks synced, longest known block number, and number of connected peers with wallet.
- Also fixed some bugs in EasyDEX-GUI Dashboard. Coins listed with Native mode status now goes to their Native Wallet screens unlike before just showing Wallet screen under Dashboard which are only for Full Mode or Basilisk Mode.

From EasyDEX-GUI part I'm feeling better as it's more better than before and release version.

There are few things being worked on which are last issues to be solved for Iguana Wallet.
- There's "pm2" module related bug which doesn't let iguana  daemon start with Production version of Iguana Wallet. In Developement Environment, it works without any issue. And this issue is Only specific to OS X and Windows. This issue doesn't seems to be specific to our code, but seems like an issue specific to "Electron" and "pm2". @ca333  had a word with devs, and possibly it will be not just fixed for our project, but will be a fix for anyone using these technologies in their projects.
- Iguana Wallet comes with iguana daemon and komodod  daemon bundled with it. The bundled binaries needs to be static and should not look for any dependency libraries on system. In case a user is having a fresh install of OS, the binaries should work without issues.
We have iguana and komododdaemons working in static mode on platforms as follows:

OS X = iguana - Static | komodod - Static
Linux = iguana - Static | komodod - Dynamic
Windows = iguana - Static | komodod - NOT SUPPORTED YET

Once we have have the static binaries for OS X and Linux done, it'll be production ready and I'll make installers for team and users for easy install on their machines.

Screenshots

Twitter : https://twitter.com/KomodoPlatform/status/822542873874800642

Reddit : https://www.reddit.com/r/komodoplatform/comments/5p6fn1/gui_wallet_progress_update/

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/KomodoPlatform/posts/397702990576278

News SuperNET : http://news.supernet.org/posts/9D9jZfaerL6Lg89Gh/gui-wallet-progress-update

[jeewaka]

regarding Gui Wallets, how can you say its production ready without support for the most popular OS or give a rough ETA for the Windows Release?

[windjc]

yesterday, there was a request to create a new coin. So I took an hour out to make WIRELESS coin as an assetchain. I found a few undocumented steps in the new asssetchain creation process, so I fixed that.

just made KV assetchain, will be added to list of coins
it will have the smart function of Key Value storage
took 15 minutes from concept to notaries funded with KV coin so they can dPoW

but it has no smart functionality yet, that will be added as I can, in order to solve some DEX and PAX issues, I need a KV storage, so I figured might as well make a decentralized KV to help out.

KV storage is a low level way a lot of things that need a database do things
KV chain will be a decentralized KV storage that can be used by anything that uses the KV API
 
decentralized data storage is relatively important as it allows for long term state to be securely created and modified, it will mimic an append only database, so changing data will be supported.

There are 1 million KV coins and its value will reflect the value of decentralized KV storage. Of course, KV is dPoW'ed and supports zcash shielded transactions. Record size will be limited to 8192 bytes, but multiple records can be combined to create larger sized storage. txfee is standard bitcoin txfee model, and if the capacity becomes an issue, a fee market will develop.

In order to reward the long time SuperNET investors, I will be sharedropping 20% of KV coin to SuperNET coin holders. We will need to create a migration path from the SuperNET NXT asset to the SUPERNET assetchain first,but that is already in the works for the migration of the various NXT assets. Once that is done, then we can do a KV sharedrop. You must hold the SUPERNET coin (not NXT asset) to get the sharedrop as there is no way to directly sharedrop a KMD assetchain coin in NXT.

If you are interested to be a part of KV coin team, please contact me, I certainly wont have time to do much with KV coin (other than technical) and I think it has a relatively large possibility for usage due to the popularity of KV storage. KV coin bounties and even some KMD will be made available

KV coin is an example of how I see the komodo ecosystem developing. As coins such as KV get established and succeed, KMD will gain value as the underlying coin.

I have 1/2 my SN in Nxt exchange and 1/2 in Unity. How do I get it into the SN Coin??

[jl777]

yesterday, there was a request to create a new coin. So I took an hour out to make WIRELESS coin as an assetchain. I found a few undocumented steps in the new asssetchain creation process, so I fixed that.

just made KV assetchain, will be added to list of coins
it will have the smart function of Key Value storage
took 15 minutes from concept to notaries funded with KV coin so they can dPoW

but it has no smart functionality yet, that will be added as I can, in order to solve some DEX and PAX issues, I need a KV storage, so I figured might as well make a decentralized KV to help out.

KV storage is a low level way a lot of things that need a database do things
KV chain will be a decentralized KV storage that can be used by anything that uses the KV API
 
decentralized data storage is relatively important as it allows for long term state to be securely created and modified, it will mimic an append only database, so changing data will be supported.

There are 1 million KV coins and its value will reflect the value of decentralized KV storage. Of course, KV is dPoW'ed and supports zcash shielded transactions. Record size will be limited to 8192 bytes, but multiple records can be combined to create larger sized storage. txfee is standard bitcoin txfee model, and if the capacity becomes an issue, a fee market will develop.

In order to reward the long time SuperNET investors, I will be sharedropping 20% of KV coin to SuperNET coin holders. We will need to create a migration path from the SuperNET NXT asset to the SUPERNET assetchain first,but that is already in the works for the migration of the various NXT assets. Once that is done, then we can do a KV sharedrop. You must hold the SUPERNET coin (not NXT asset) to get the sharedrop as there is no way to directly sharedrop a KMD assetchain coin in NXT.

If you are interested to be a part of KV coin team, please contact me, I certainly wont have time to do much with KV coin (other than technical) and I think it has a relatively large possibility for usage due to the popularity of KV storage. KV coin bounties and even some KMD will be made available

KV coin is an example of how I see the komodo ecosystem developing. As coins such as KV get established and succeed, KMD will gain value as the underlying coin.

I have 1/2 my SN in Nxt exchange and 1/2 in Unity. How do I get it into the SN Coin??

As I wrote above "We will need to create a migration path from the SuperNET NXT asset to the SUPERNET assetchain first,but that is already in the works for the migration of the various NXT assets. Once that is done, then we can do a KV sharedrop. "

this is work in progress

[jl777]

I added support of a flags parameter to kvupdate.

The least significant bit is a write protect bit, so if it is set, it cant be updated until it expires.

The next bit is reserved, will become a binary data flag for signed data

The rest is currently use as a duration multiplier. The normal fee is multiplied by the the duration multiplier. The default is 1 day (1440 blocks)

Using the write protect bit, it is a bit of a first come first served free-for all, but with the duration all things will expire when the payment is used up.

I think with a signed binary option, we can get all that we need as the signed entries wont be able to be changed without a valid signature

[temmuz]

I said write it here. I'm tired of waiting. I have great expectations from you as soon as I want to see you on the market. 

[CryptoSporidium]

I had a bit of spare time, I created 10 more assetchains:

./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=SUPERNET -ac_supply=816061
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=DEX -ac_supply=1000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=PANGEA -ac_supply=1000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=JUMBLR -ac_supply=1000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=BET -ac_supply=1000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=CRYPTO -ac_supply=1000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=HODL -ac_supply=10000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=SHARK -ac_supply=1400
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=BOTS -ac_supply=10000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=MGW -ac_supply=10000000

These are 1:1 issued to match the corresponding NXT Assets:

SuperNET, InstantDEX, Pangea, NXTprivacy, Privatebet, crypto777, jl777hodl, sharkfund0, NXTcoinsco and MGW

These are all zcash forks with on-demand block generation and dPoW enabled. When we get the MGW setup to use assetchain coins, there will be an automated process to convert between the assetchain coins and the NXT assets using MGW

Is there an assetchain for NXTventures also?

[tyz]

When one swaps his/her BTCDs after the first distribution in 12 days when will the KMD coins be distributed? Daily, weekly or on fixed dates?

12 days to the distribution date, any news on exchanges to trade this coin, poloniex will be an idea place since supernet team seems to have good relationship with Poloniex.

[RichardT]

regarding Gui Wallets, how can you say its production ready without support for the most popular OS or give a rough ETA for the Windows Release?

Yeah that's a good question. Any updates on this?

[Cyndonald]

I'm waiting for windows wallet because I'm using windows systems.
I saw the wallet for the other systems but I could not see the windows systems. when is it available after distribution?

[KomodoPlatform]

I had a bit of spare time, I created 10 more assetchains:

./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=SUPERNET -ac_supply=816061
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=DEX -ac_supply=1000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=PANGEA -ac_supply=1000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=JUMBLR -ac_supply=1000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=BET -ac_supply=1000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=CRYPTO -ac_supply=1000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=HODL -ac_supply=10000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=SHARK -ac_supply=1400
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=BOTS -ac_supply=10000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=MGW -ac_supply=10000000

These are 1:1 issued to match the corresponding NXT Assets:

SuperNET, InstantDEX, Pangea, NXTprivacy, Privatebet, crypto777, jl777hodl, sharkfund0, NXTcoinsco and MGW

These are all zcash forks with on-demand block generation and dPoW enabled. When we get the MGW setup to use assetchain coins, there will be an automated process to convert between the assetchain coins and the NXT assets using MGW

Is there an assetchain for NXTventures also?

No, because SuperNET won't be building on top of Nxt anymore. However the NXTventure holds big stakes our other projects.

We will probably distribute it's asset holdings to the shareholders and liquidate the asset. So it does have some value, but no future plans.

[KomodoPlatform]

regarding Gui Wallets, how can you say its production ready without support for the most popular OS or give a rough ETA for the Windows Release?

Yeah that's a good question. Any updates on this?

We are going to do some beta test on the KMD distribution, and for that we will publish some GUI and test it at the same time. The official publication date is still not announced, but should happen very soon.

The linux wallet works, but there is one bug in the windows wallet which is soon fixed.

[CryptoSporidium]

I had a bit of spare time, I created 10 more assetchains:

./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=SUPERNET -ac_supply=816061
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=DEX -ac_supply=1000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=PANGEA -ac_supply=1000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=JUMBLR -ac_supply=1000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=BET -ac_supply=1000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=CRYPTO -ac_supply=1000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=HODL -ac_supply=10000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=SHARK -ac_supply=1400
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=BOTS -ac_supply=10000000
./komodod -pubkey=$pubkey -ac_name=MGW -ac_supply=10000000

These are 1:1 issued to match the corresponding NXT Assets:

SuperNET, InstantDEX, Pangea, NXTprivacy, Privatebet, crypto777, jl777hodl, sharkfund0, NXTcoinsco and MGW

These are all zcash forks with on-demand block generation and dPoW enabled. When we get the MGW setup to use assetchain coins, there will be an automated process to convert between the assetchain coins and the NXT assets using MGW

Is there an assetchain for NXTventures also?

No, because SuperNET won't be building on top of Nxt anymore. However the NXTventure holds big stakes our other projects.

We will probably distribute it's asset holdings to the shareholders and liquidate the asset. So it does have some value, but no future plans.

Ok, thanks. Probably makes sense to do that liquidation on NXT before migrating the other assets. Does NXTventures have much BTCD? That might complicate things a bit

Edit: looks like NXTventures doesn't own any BTCD

[KomodoPlatform]

Nxt Asset Gateway to Assetchains

Vanbreuk gave an update about his efforts to enable SuperNET assets to be withdrawn to their independent blockchain via MultiGateway technology. As many might already know, jl777 has already created all the assets with the assetchains. The assets have dPoW protection and on-demand block generation.

Here's the update from Vanbreuk:

about the assetchains gateways (MGW for SuperNET assets currently on Nxt blockchain, to allow transferring them to Komodo):

In the tests last week I used native Komodo+assetchains, and the MGW database synchronized remarkably well, but using native Komodo turned out to be not an option in the multisignature address creation tests, since MGW uses the accounts feature in bitcoind & forks, which has been removed in Zcash and hence in Komodo.

The alternative is using Iguana as swiss army knife client for assetchains. Initial tests this week found a problem in the wallet creation process for every asset chain, but that happened just about the same time some wallet creation issues that AFAIK james has already addressed in Iguana beta branch.

Over the weekend I expect to have functional Iguana wallet files for assetchains, which should get us to the same point where we got with native Komodo, but without the problem with the accounts feature. After that, the only important test left should be the Nxt AE > Komodo assetchain assets withdrawal. So I hope to have Nxt AE > Assetchains gateways working when Komodo distribution happens.

[KomodoPlatform]

Clarification about the overall GUI situation and its support of T&Z transactions

Windows Iguana Wallet will support Komodo, but only the Transparent Mode Transactions, and not Z (Private).
 
Note that Komodo is Fork of Zcash, and Zcash hasn’t still provided ANY Windows Support for their wallet. Nonetheless, Komodo will be supported on Windows.

Our dev @fadedreamz is working on solving support for Zcash with iguana, and as soon as it’s solved we’ll also be supporting Transparent mode support of Zcash in our Windows Iguana wallet.

The GUI developer Satinder Grewal said: "I can not exactly say when we’ll have Private Mode support for Windows, but we are trying our best to get things done to our potential."

So we have two daemons, and the other one supports T-transactions only:
- iguana daemon = Transparent Mode
- komodod daemon = Transparent Mode + Private Mode

Currently the situation is as follows:
OS X = iguana daemon + komodod daemon
Linux = iguana daemon + komodod daemon
Windows = iguana daemon | No Komodod support yet

This means, that with Linux you are able to choose whatever you want to launch Iguana daemon (full mode) or Komodod daemon (native mode). For now, you can only use the Komodo full mode on Windows.

When you launch Iguana desktop app it will ask you which mode you want to use. If you want to switch from 'full mode' to 'native mode' you will have to close the app and restart it; then select the new mode you wish to start with.

If you switch between the modes you will have to re-download the blockchain. Iguana daemon and komodod daemon are totally different implementation codebase to run Komodo Blockchain, their format of storing and syncing blockchain to your local machine is way different from each other. That is also why iguana daemon Only supports T (Transparent) Transaction, and why komodod daemon supports both T (Transparent) Transactions & Z (Private) Transactions.

[yassin54]

Development blog: Decentralized Key/Value Storage.

https://komodoplatform.com/decentralized-keyvalue-storage/

Twitter : https://twitter.com/KomodoPlatform/status/822734094664667137

Reddit : https://www.reddit.com/r/komodoplatform/comments/5p9umm/development_blog_decentralized_keyvalue_storage/

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/KomodoPlatform/posts/397976047215639

News SuperNET : http://news.supernet.org/posts/PL55iyNr4a8QwttJF/development-blog-decentralized-key-value-storage

[soyab0007]

I have Converted BTCD to KMD
Done with voting

what else i have to do?

and am i eligible to get bonus? (KMD swap on 13th Jan)