DMD Diamond's Updates for April 🔥
Today we will tell you about our achievements and the challenges we faced in April, and how we are going to address them.
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🔹 The open Ethereum 3.1 upgrade issues are now mostly solved.
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🔹 A lot of development branch code updates were published to open Github:
https://github.com/DMDcoin/hbbft-posdao-contracts/pull/71⠀
🔹 Migration to open ethereum 3.2.2 is complete, and a new testnet based on 3.2.2 was started.
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🔹 Open ethereum is updated to version 3.2.4.
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🔹 Thomas is working to provide some basic guides: how to add DMDv4 testnet to Metamask, how to get test coins via a faucet, and how to stake them with PoSDAO dApp. Thomas is also working on improving PoSDAO dApps to be ready for external testers and dPoS stakers.
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🔹 We detected an issue of the open Ethereum extensions for Honeybadger in the area of validator messaging and caching that under some conditions messages can be lost. We are running extensive debugging to track the origin.
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🔹 Regarding the detected P2P communications issues between the nodes of the actual active validator set, we are coding a new extension for the communication protocol that can detect lost messages and take care all nodes are in the same state. Even if a node did reboot, it is able to catch up to the actual state with this new state recovery/reliable message delivery protocol.
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🔹 A network simulator has been implemented for the unit tests.
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🔹 We also expand test cases on real network environments with multiple separated hosts as preparation for open testnet.
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🔹 The DMD faucet to get test coins is finished. We will share the link when we start allowing external testers.
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🔹 We have found a new approach to solve the issues with validator message lost via extensive debugging of node communication in open Ethereum sync module.
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🔹 Now we can start invite PoSDAO staking testers and a few selected validator node operators in next week.
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🔹 A bunch new regression tests for staking and unstaking and rewards were made.
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