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Here are the development highlights from this week:
🔬 CORE TECHNOLOGY: The networking team released Dynamic P2P networking to mainnet, the ledger team expanded APIs & worked on governance features, and the consensus team worked on UTXO-HD refactoring, testing & VRF improvements
💳 WALLETS & SERVICES: The Daedalus team improved the starting screen and work is ongoing on Lace desktop development. The Adrestia team extended the multi-signature feature, extracted the transaction balancing library, and optimized cardano-services.
💻 SMART CONTRACTS: The Marlowe team fixed bugs, assessed various conditions in the #Marlowe semantics validator, and implemented a transaction detail view for Marlowe Explorer.
🚀 BASHO (SCALING): The #Hydra team worked on hydra-node mainnet compatibility and prepared for the mainnet beta release. The Mithril team implemented migration of aggregator stores, stake pool store adaptation, and refactored multi-signer to sign multiple concurrent messages.
👥🌐🗳️GOVERNANCE: Check out updates to CIP-1694 and contribute directly on GitHub. Join the community conversation on March 30 to discuss CIP-1694 and future workshops. See the full report for details.
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The age of Voltaire is all about governance, fully unlocking the #CardanoCommunity's contributions to create a self-sustaining system.
CIP-1694 is a #Cardano Improvement Proposal, named after the birth year of the French enlightenment thinker. 🧵 1/6
It’s a key component of #Cardano's next generation of governance, now being designed and community co-created to deliver the on-chain mechanisms which will further empower democratic decision making across the ecosystem. 2/6 github.com/cardano-founda…
IOG, the @Cardano_CF & @emurgo_io recently co-hosted a workshop in Colorado to capture input and take full advantage of the #CardanoCommunity’s incredible hive mind 🧠 3/6
1/ Dynamic peer-to-peer (P2P) connectivity comes with node v.1.35.6 release to enhance node communication.
Dynamic P2P makes #Cardano a much more intelligent network, capable of actively adjusting the blockchain’s configuration to yield optimal results.
2/ Dynamic P2P enables SPO relays to automatically connect to each other, replacing the current manual configuration process.
3/ This automation:
- Saves SPOs time and effort
- Optimizes network performance
- Makes the network more resilient to any communication delays or downtime
- Strengthens security by deterring denial of service (DoS) attacks
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That’s why we’ve put together a selection of key terms from our glossary, so if you’re a newcomer – or if you just need to brush up on vocab – you can navigate #Web3 like a pro @Cardano
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A few clues: she was the daughter of a famous poet, a famous mathematician, and arguably the first programmer.
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Named after the biblical Tower of Babel – or perhaps Douglas Adams’s fish – this mechanism doesn’t help you speak every language, but it will open up interoperability with other digital currencies for #Cardano.
In collaboration with @cardanostiftung, an update proposal was submitted yesterday to upgrade the #Cardano pre-production environment to protocol v8, which will take effect on Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 00:00 UTC.
This upgrade will bring new cryptographic primitives to #Cardano, encouraging greater interoperability and secure cross-chain DApp development with #Plutus.
This environment will allow the community to continue final-stage integration/upgrade testing before the countdown to the SECP upgrade on mainnet on February 14, 2023.
Tentatively set to go live on mainnet on February 14, 2023 at 21:44:51 UTC, Valentine functionality is planned to be available on the pre-production environment on Saturday, February 11, 2023 at 00:00 UTC.
You can now test token transfer between the test environments, connect your wallet and deploy smart contracts and #DApps.
Learn more about what you can do in the video walkthrough by @stevanlohja, Developer Relations Manager.⤵️
This proof of concept testnet is ephemeral and will be regularly respun during its pilot phase. Ultimately, it is intended to be a community resource and we encourage developers and SPOs to get involved and collaborate.