Weekly Updates

Weekly Development Snapshot

• Javascript implementation of XMSS sign and verification function is in progress.
• Reviewed code for withdrawal processing & attestor slashing
• Code review in progress for attestor verification & processing, State, Initial Sync, epoch transition, validator’s reward, penalty logic & validator shuffling
• TrueBlocks fork indexing complete, working through validation and testing of readiness for explorer integration
• Maintenance patches to zond-explorer and zond-wallet alpha releases
• zond-wallet PWA build in progress
• dilithium5 cli tool experimental work

See us at Consensus 2024 in Austin, TX

We are excited to announce that QRL will be participating in Consensus 2024, hosted by Coindesk in Austin, TX. Our team members Craig Clement, Iain Wood, Jack Matier, James Gordon, Michael Strike, and Ryan Malinowski will be there to represent QRL and educate on the quantum future!

If you’re at consensus, we’re at booth 1151. If not, but are still in Austin, TX, we have a half hour QRL Post-quantum run at 7am local that you’re welcome to attend. Otherwise, just message one of the team members and we’ll work something out!

Weekly Development Snapshot

• Javascript implementation of XMSS sign and verification function is in progress.
• Reviewed code for withdrawal processing per block
• Code review in progress for Attestor slashing, State, Initial Sync, epoch transition, validator’s reward, penalty logic & validator shuffling

Weekly Development Snapshot

• Javascript implementation of XMSS is being reviewed
• Reviewed code for proposer slashing, whistle blower reward, proposer reward, penalty amount imposed on slashed proposer
• Code review in progress for Attestor slashing, State, Initial Sync, epoch transition, validator’s reward, penalty logic & validator shuffling
• Changes in progress for web3.js with the latest changes made on Zond

Weekly Development Snapshot

• XMSS implementation in Javascript is still in progress
• Reviewed slot processing code
• Reviewing in progress for State, Initial Sync code, epoch transition code, validator’s reward, penalty logic & validator shuffling logic each epoch
• More tests for go-zond is in progress
• Removed unused code from the Qrysm & Go-Zond
• Refactoring for Qrysm & Go-zond

New QRL Listing on Biconomy

Biconomy is pleased to announce the listing of QRL, with the QRL-USDT trading pair set to go live at 15:00 UTC on May 7th, 2024.

As a global leader in digital asset trading, Biconomy is committed to delivering fully transparent trading, listing, and digital asset development services to our users worldwide.

Weekly Development Snapshot

• XMSS implementation in Javascript is still in progress
• Reviewing State, Initial Sync code, slot skipping code for the blocks that were not created on allocated timeline, epoch transition code, validator’s reward and penalty logic and other state transition code for Qrysm
• More tests for go-zond is in progress

Weekly Development Snapshot

• XMSS implementation in Javascript is in progress
• Reviewing State, Initial Sync code for Qrysm
• Removed non required consensus engine from the go-zond and configured proof of stake as default consensus engine
• Removed old non required forks and consensus from the qrysm

Weekly Development Snapshot

• Updated pyscaffold version and released QRL v4.0.4
• Reviewed P2P server’s gossip protocol initialization, pruning code for peers with bad score or inactive for long time
• Reviewed Attestation Pool initialization
• Reviewing State, Initial Sync code for Qrysm
• More tests added for both Qrysm & Go-zond
• Further Go-Zond tests are still in progress

Weekly Development Snapshot

• Reviewing P2P code, State & Attestation Pool code for Qrysm
• Some of the Go-Zond tests finished, the remaining are still in progress
• Removed deprecated APIs, functionalities and cli flags for both Go-Zond & Qrysm
• Removed unused beacon params from Go-zond

Weekly Development Snapshot

• Reviewed Genesis initialization code
• Reviewing P2P code, State & Attestation Pool code for Qrysm
• Go-Zond tests are still in progress

Weekly Development Snapshot

• Reviewing P2P code, State & Genesis initialization code for Qrysm
• Go-Zond tests is in progress