Technology Development: 1. Make Blockstore: scan_and_fix_roots() take optional start/stop slots. The optional args allow reuse by ledger-tool repair roots command Also, hold cleanup lock for duration of Blockstore::scan_and_fix_roots(). …

Technology Development: 1. Every module is hidden behind a feature flag in the list of used features. Install was working by accident, as for each package, the requested feature set is a superset of all features requested by all packages in the workspace, and the console used to list features that install…

Technology Development: New getter functions for StoredAccountMeta. This makes all the StoredAccountMeta fields pub(crate) and provides getter functions to access its member fields. Remove VoteState::deserialize() from sbf builds. The existing deserialize implementation overruns the sbf stack and is unusable in a program context. this silences a warning to that effect which all…

Technology Updates 1. Experimented different turbine fanouts for propagating shreds. The commit allocates 2% of slots to running experiments with different turbine fanouts based on the slot number. 2. Feat: Allowed for verifying the signs of partially signed txs. Added tests for partial signed tx verification 3. Fix: Made comments ab verifying…

Technology Development 1. rpc: Improved error messages for decoding errors. 2. chore: added spl-instruction-padding/program to the downstream ci script, refactored the commit transactions step, cleaned up token pre-balances. 3. Added a test to better exercise find_slots_to_clean(), as well as a minor bug fix to this method that was found as a result of writing the test. 4. Added convenient methods to Vote Instruction to distinguish vote types.

Technology Development 1. alt-sdk: added length check for ristretto encodings, added type check for sigma proofs, fixup client docs in sdk, use constant time equality check for elgamal and aes key derivation. 2. Handled VoteStateUpdates for outdated roots bigger than slots in existing VoteState, set root to the latest vote in the tower proposed vote state). 3. Updated BigTable apis to respect a limit of zero, parse address-lookup-table instructions

Technology Core Development of the Month 1. GameFi SDK development in progress, complete the development of event and timer components 2. Added timing measurements for gossip vote transaction processing, add time for gossip vote transaction processing and fixed a parameter error in building clippy. 3. Consensus mechanism fix to avoid missing root local slot before the…

Technology Development 1. GameFi SDK is under development, the physical module and the light and shadow module are completed, and the overall progress is 40%. 2. Adopted LMD-GHOST (Latest Message Driven Greediest Heaviest Observed SubTree) protocol as the fork selection rule for our main network consensus. 3. Tested and solved…

Alitas New Milestone Reached As of April 2022, the development of the Alitas mainnet is well underway and has made some significant initial progress in terms of security, scalability, the efficiency of transactions, and the development of the GameFi SDK. …