Weekly Updates

Weekly Development Snapshot

• Implementing simulator of reward per block for all validators with different role
• Multiplex communication system implementation in progress for Zond Chrome Extension based wallet
• Customization of evmone and solidity compiler is in progress. Several unit tests already updated

Beginner’s Guide to the Quantum Threat: What’s Coming and Why It Matters 🔎

We’ve just released our latest QRL Show episode…

Beginner’s Guide to the Quantum Threat: What’s Coming and Why It Matters

In this episode, QRL Core team members Ryan Malinowski and Michael Strike sit down to cover a Beginner’s Guide to the Quantum Threat, covering everything from what vulnerabilities exist for most blockchain projects today (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc) to what QRL is doing to address the Quantum Threat.

If you aren’t already in the QRL community, this is a must watch. If you are, this episode makes for a good starting point to share with a friend/colleague ⤵️

Weekly Development Snapshot

• Established weight relationship between sync committee, attester and block proposer. Changes are in progress with reward and penalty algorithm.
• Work in progress to develop provider required for the Zond Chrome Extension Wallet to support Wallet connect.
• Solidity compiler, evmone customization is in progress and tests are being updated for the same

Weekly Development Snapshot

• Changes are in progress for the reward value for the block proposer, validators (both attesters and sync committee members)
• Started development of wallet connect feature for the Zond Chrome Extension Wallet
• ERC20 token support added into the Zond Chrome Extension Wallet
• Solidity compiler and evmone customization is in progress

Weekly Development Snapshot

• Changes are in progress for the reward value for the block proposer, validators (both attesters and sync committee members)
• Changes are in progress to support smart contract based tokens created on Zond for Zond Chrome Extension Wallet
• Commenced the customization of the Solidity compiler based on the opcodes supported by the Zond

Weekly Development Snapshot

• Calculated initial rough value for the staking reward, changes in the Qrysm code in progress to update the reward value for the block proposer and validators
• Changes in progress to support smart contract based tokens created on Zond for Zond Chrome Extension Wallet
• Review in progress for the changes made in the Zond related to the removal of legacy code and changes made to support new unit tests

Weekly Development Snapshot

• Reviewed code for Trie (get, insert, update, shortNode, fullNode), TrieDatabase.Reader
• Review in progress for insertChain, stateDB.commit
• Changes with the staking reward value in progress
• Unit tests added for Chrome Extension Wallet
• Looking into changes required to support Smart Contract based Token for Chrome Extension Wallet

Weekly Development

• Reviewed code for StateDB.AddLog, Beacon.Finalize, Processor.Process, Blockchain.reportBlock (bad block reporting), BlockValidator.ValidateState, Bloom Filter
• Review in progress for Processor.insertChain, Processor.writeBlockWithState, StateDB.commit
• More tests are being added for Go-Zond
• Added docker support for Ubuntu 22.04: “Jammy Jellyfish” https://github.com/theQRL/qrl-docker/tree/jammy

Weekly Development Snapshot

• Reviewed code for applyTransaction, ApplyMessage, TransitionDB, preCheck, IntrinsicGas, stateDB.Prepare, setNonce, refundGas, types.Receipt, StateDB.Finalise.
• First draft implementation for Zond chrome extension wallet finished, other features such as support for tokens, dApps, UI polishing in progress.
• Updated qrl.proto & regenerated stub files for walletd-rest-proxy.
• Updated XMSS MaxHeight limit to 30 in go-qrllib and updated panic message for the same.
• More tests are being added for Go-Zond.

Weekly Development Snapshot

• Reviewed code for newTrieReader, node (to retrieve a trie node), getDeletedStateObject, getAccount (for trie), Prefetch, other codes relevant to Prefetch in TrieDB, RawDB, CachingDB, SecureTrie, Trie
• Review in progress for blockchain.Process function in Go-Zond
• More tests are being added for Go-Zond

Weekly Development Snapshot

• Reviewed code for OpenDatabaseWithFreezer, cachingDB, OpenTrie, OpenStorateTrie, ContractCode, ContractCodeWithPrefix, ContractCodeSize
• Review in progress for TrieDB, RawDB, insertChain, Prefetch in Go-Zond
• Added 50 tracing tests for Go-Zond