Weekly Updates

Weekly Dev Snapshot 📸 👇

• Fixed issue related to P2P syncing
• Fixed genesis block serialization issue
• Go based staking-deposit-cli which will allow to generate staking keys is in progress

Weekly Dev Snapshot 📸 👇

QRL Zond

• Added code to support account with smart contract code while generating genesis state from genesis.json, this will be used to deploy deposit contract for staking in genesis block
• Resolved memory related issue with the beacon chain causing beacon node to crash
• Bug fix for the state resumption after node is restarted
• Tested staking 3000+ blocks
• P2P testing & bug fixing is in progress

QRL

• multiple long-standing explorer bugs fixed

Weekly Dev Snapshot

QRL Node v4.0.3

New version is released which fixes a bug with a wallet daemon throwing error while converting non utf-8 data to string will now try to convert the data into hex string

To update, visit our node update guide.

Note: Only required to update if you’re calling the get_block function from the wallet daemon

QRL: New Richlist

• Implementation of richlist-api middleware between indexer and user-facing applications including export of data as CSV for all non-zero balance addresses
• Added richlist to mainnet explorer & release of explorer 1.4.0

QRL Zond (Proof-of-Stake + Smart contracts)

• Refactoring & Bug fixes for the Zond consensus engine
• Update Zond execution engine to process the blocks received from the Zond consensus engine
• Tested Staking upto 1300 blocks, currently the memory issue fix is in progress
• Implementation of qrl-rich-list-indexer that index rich list from the QRL Python chain to the MongoDB
• Bug fixes for the qrl-token-indexer

Weekly Dev Snapshot 📸 👇

• Added all the updates in the code related to Shanghai, Capella forks
• Changes in the consensus Engine to directly start with Capella fork
• Embedded BetaNet testnet configuration in the execution engine
• Several bug fixes & refactoring
• Updated dependencies versions

Weekly Dev Snapshot 📸 👇

Zond

• Fix for windows build
• Memory utilization optimization
• Added new REST API’s
• Updated logic that deals with the fork choice
• Refactoring
• Added more unit tests

Weekly Dev Snapshot 📸 👇

• Fix: Sync committee message verification is now functional
• Validator set is now generated in each epoch
• Fix: Gossip max length increased to allow block transmission as the block contains consensus related signatures

Weekly Dev Snapshot 📸 👇

• Updated Sync Committee signing & getSyncAggregate to use Dilithium cryptography
• Updated maximum Signature Size for Sync Committee
• Added new constants related to Dilithium
• Added fix related to some instructions which becomes invalid in some of the ARM processor

It’s an exciting week here at QRL!

We’re celebrating five years of QRL and quantum computing progress since QRL genesis.

Read more in our blog!

Weekly Dev Snapshot 📸 👇

• Changes with the execution engine is still in progress to make the API compatible with the dilithium signature.
• Bug fix in progress in the consensus engine which triggers when the total stake contribution is calculated for an epoch for the epoch finality.
• An Indexer is being developed to index blockchain data into the DB which then can be used by explorer or other dApps.

Weekly Dev Snapshot 📸 👇

• QRL Token Indexer indexes all tokens into MongoDB from the Python based QRL blockchain and keeps track of token holders and all transactions associated with a token.
• Built MongoDB database model for the QRL Token Indexer.
• Added automatic collection creation code with field indexing in Go based QRL Token Indexer.
• Added fork recovery / chain reorg handling code in QRL Token Indexer.

Weekly Dev Snapshot 📸 👇

• Added new API GetPaginatedTransactionsByAddress in WalletAPIService, as well as in Wallet Daemon and released QRL Node v4.0.2
• Updated documentation for the new API
• Updated walletd-rest-proxy to support the WalletAPIService
• Updated dependencies for walletd-rest-proxy
• Updated documentation for the installation instruction of walletd-rest-proxy based on latest go version
• Fix for the Beacon node not building on some of the arm architecture