Status Update

DAEDALUS　

This week, the team fixed several UI issues within the delegation page, testnet rewards dialog, and diagnostic screen, which now shows more accurate information about hardware specifications. Finally, they improved navigation settings using keyboard shortcuts.

ADRESTIA

This week, the team released versions of cardano-graphQL and cardano-rosetta compatible with node 1.33.x. They also worked on finalizing a new transaction workflow, the DB layer renovation in cardano-wallet, and continued designing a cardano-js-sdk MVP.

NETWORKING

This week, the team continued reviewing IOSimPOR. Specifically, they focused on the partial order reduction algorithm for IOSim. They rebased IOSimPOR on top of the current master branch, made some cardano-node updates, and finalized the timeouts testing.

Finally, the team updated chain-sync documentation addressing some issues, and are in the process of investigating mainnet behavior during the heavy load period.

CARDANO DECENTRALIZATION

This week, the team continued working on UTXO HD property-based tests, elaborated a design for exercising the UTXO HD backend, and made more improvements to the process of its integration with consensus. Additionally, they sketched an initial implementation for the transaction addition logic.

The Hydra team released Hydra v.0.3.0, which implements ​​on-chain verification of the Hydra Head lifecycle, and updated the Hydra Head implementation roadmap. They also updated upcoming features within a backlog, created an acceptance test for multiple Hydra Heads support on-chain, and documented Hydra direct contract mutation testing. Finally, they refactored cardano-api use cases into a hydra-cardano-api package.

GOGUEN

This week, the Plutus team made some improvements to the area of decoding and overflows. They also updated the core Plutus specification and fixed a merge conflict in their tests. Finally, they worked on some optimizations and metatheory improvements.

The Marlowe team worked on metadata improvements in the Marlowe Playground. They also worked on documentation and held a planning session with the education team for the first cohort of the Marlowe Pioneers Program which is coming soon.