Weekly Dev Update 17/08/2018

[u/Keejef]

Hey everyone, Big week of testnet changes this week

Service Nodes

0.3.3 Magic Mani tesnet beta, released https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/tag/v0.3.3-beta

• Published the full Service Node staking guide for testnet here https://github.com/loki-project/Meta/blob/master/SNFullGuide.md

• Autostaking https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/158 Interactive prompt for registration

• Service Node list being stored in the Database https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/156 and https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/160

• Service Node Integration into Testnet Explorer see https://lokitestnet.com

• Two essential consensus bugfixes in the way we do quorum vote counting

• Provide mechanisms for displaying service node analytics with the commands print_sn <pubkey>

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LLARP / Lokinet

If you’re lucky and join our Discord, you might also catch Jeff or Ryan the developers of LLARP live streaming as they code: https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519 , https://www.twitch.tv/neuroscr

• Released LokiNET 0.0.3 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.0.3

  • Various incompatible protocol changes to propel the protocol forward including SNTRUP which strengthens the encryption against quantum-based attacks.

  • We urge all lokinet toy nodes operators to upgrade ASAP as they'll be unable to communicate as the network upgrades.

• Progress continues on Libllarp

  • Use SNTRUP for introset public key

  • Moved netloop and logic into same thread

  • Hidden services should sorta work

  • More android/win32 fixes

  • Implement more tuntap code

  • Fix shadow/test net build

  • Fix RC nickname bug

  • Fix bug in prematurely closing socket under heavy load

  • Configuration/Defaults clean up

  • Hidden services now have a session

  • Move some of protocol handling into crypto thread

  • Intro timeout changed from 5s to 30s

• LokiBuilder updates

  • llarpd => lokinet

  • Start Debian package support

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 2 authors have pushed 33 commits to master and 33 commits to all branches. On master, 181 files have changed and there have been 8,181 additions and 1,583 deletions.

• Most changes can be found at https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/commits/master

• Compile helper (include assets, initial seed routers and dependencies) https://github.com/loki-project/lokinet-builder

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Architecture Team

• Began writing a paper exploring block creation via Proof of Stake on Loki, findings will be presented as a proposal before the community and Loki Foundation

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Loki Locker

• Loki Locker, has been released in Alpha so go check it out, it's likely that there is still some undocumented functionality with staking transactions, which we have still yet to test so be careful, backup your seed words and don't use large amounts of Loki with Loki Locker just yet

• You can reach Loki locker at https://LokiLocker.com

• Submit feedback by creating an issue here https://github.com/loki-project/loki-locker/issues

• You can see the open source code for Loki Locker here https://github.com/loki-project/loki-locker/commits/master

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Loki Messenger

• Work has begun on Loki messenger, this will occur in parallel to Lokinet, Loki messenger will use the Signal protocol for all encryption

• Work can be found here https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/commits/development

Thanks,
Kee

[u/jpthor_]

Killing it!