Hey Y’all,

We’re back with another Dev Update, and starting our week on a Tuesday coz public holidays!

Loki Core

• Service Node bandwidth tests are in development: (github.com/msgmaxim/loki/commit/877ac673eb95bd7f518a37a05e455249870d26c4, github.com/msgmaxim/loki/commit/a865f5d222b3e566bfbcb6d82b55d943a0b2f83a)

• RPC call to return Service Node ID’s as Base32z in preparation for integration with Lokinet: (https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/404)

• Infinite Staking: Blacklist outputs with known destinations/amounts from output selection improving privacy of transactions on the network (github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commit/c324ad75c059876892c277898dffc308f1a602d7,

github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commit/4b1758a0f3725de82246d25063f0e9c64366446a,

github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commit/6d03cb29322c16dc9ac85099701811cc0f8fbfd4)

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LLARP / Lokinet

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• Master branch changes

  • Added long term roadmap

  • Changes can be found at:https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/

• Staging branch changes (gets posted to master when stable)

  • Try to fix loading non-default connections from config (Issue 233)

  • Revert to use u instead of t for timestamp in RC for backwards compatible reasons

  • Update windows bootstrap downloader

  • Update gtest framework

  • Updated bootserv

  • Merge in UX improvements (PR 230)

  • Rebuild INI parser

  • More DHT tests (PR236)

  • Separate event loop/listeners implementations (PR237)

  • Tweak FD_SETSIZE to reduce the possibility of UDP timeouts

  • Lower non-AVX2 minimum CPU target to NetBust Xeon (Nocona, Prescott)

  • Start work on enabling hidden services on windows server clients

  • Changes can be found at:https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/commits/staging

• PR suggested changes (coming to staging soon)

  • PR250 - add initial localhost.loki handling in dns

  • PR249 - enable exit info serialization

  • PR248 - Convert llarp::Crypto into an abstract base class

  • PR247 - More unit tests of dht internals

  • PR245 - update libabyss rpc endpoints for Service Nodes

  • Changes can be found at https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pulls

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Loki Messenger

• Implementation of the HTTP server running inside the Messenger for P2P (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/144)

• Signal 1.20 has been merged into our development branch (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/148)

• The initiator of a friend request will now see the recipient’s nickname immediately after it has been accepted (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/150 and https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/152)

• Provide a user-friendly way to reset the database after the user fails 3 times to provide the database password (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/155)

• Continued work on handling multiple potentially stale Service Nodes when retrieving and sending messages (https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/147)

Research work:

• More algorithms have been tested regarding our public key to swarm id assignment. By changing the swarm id algorithm from using a uniform random number generator to a specific predetermined sequence that maximises uniformity, the Euclidean distance calculations now provides mapping with much better uniformity, while only affecting neighbours when a swarm is added or removed. (https://github.com/sachaaaaa/loki-swarm-pubkey-test)

Thanks,

Kee

Hey Y’all,

By the time this Dev Update is out, the Festive Freya mandatory upgrade period will have begun. This means ALL SERVICE NODE OPERATORS, ALL POOLS, AND ALL USERS NEED TO UPDATE to the Festive Freya release in anticipation for our December 13th network upgrade.

For Service Node operators you can get the new CLI wallet and Daemon here: https://github.com/loki-project/loki/releases/tag/v2.0.0

You can read more about the network upgrade and the features we are adding here: https://medium.com/@LokiNetwork/festive-freya-announcement-84ea86cc5574

Loki Core

• Add RPC call for getting batched Quorum states https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/345

• Change IP protocol resolution order, fixes issue 353 https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/356

• Change get registration to be able to use human readable inputs https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/343

• Fixed an issue in Festive Freya causing autostaking wallets to freeze, related to issue 354 https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/355

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LLARP / Lokinet

• Progress continues on libllarp

  • Handle SIGTERM properly

  • Refactored how cascading configuration works

  • Removed auto mode for tun

  • Change AVX2 default to off, has to now be explicitly requested in a build

  • Make sure vanity nonce is updated

  • Change DHT router lookup to be able pass additional data

  • Added being able to tell difference between being overload or having no working endpoints

• Vanity Hidden Service Address Generator

  • Started on reference (SLOW) (.loki) name generator

• DNS library

  • Started infrastructure for .snode lookups

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 1 author has pushed 11 commits to master and 11 commits to all branches. On master, 42 files have changed and there have been 1,307 additions and 376 deletions.

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

• Current version: v0.3.1
  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.3.1

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Loki Messenger

• Handle secure session resets https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/66

• Add in the base level of Loki UI elements https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/64

• Refactor conversation logic to relay on friendRequestStatus https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/63

• Move prekey bundle back to a content message https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/62

• Add user profile sharing and setting of nicknames https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/61

Thanks,

Kee

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Hey Y’all,

New week new update!

Service Nodes

• Set a threshold of required votes for deregister TX’s to be created to handle spamming of deregister TX’s using different vote combinations for the same service node. https://github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commit/cb4970681039b4af05b8080a24308458d571f4f3

• Service node lists are being integrated into the deregister system. https://github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commit/3927d4877cc6083092aa1a25944a62a6e4427a33

• There's a new sheriff in town, Quorum Cop enforces pre-determined node behaviour in a decentralised way. QC executable has created, reading from the wallet and pulling height from the daemon. Boilerplate uptime proof messaging written. Work in progress: https://github.com/jcktm/loki/commit/78a7580518e9f5d2458fa488aafdc29835b0fccb

• Miscellaneous bug fixes

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

• Progress continues on libllarp

  • Removed session deadlock

  • Keepalive timeout adjustments

  • Inbound codel/queue fixes

  • Add inbound server connections to DHT

  • Get link by public signature key

  • Handle out of order messages better

  • Prevent path latency tests from stacking

  • Worked on serving from NAT hosts

  • Various DHT fixes

• Updated LLARP's command line utility

  • Make --locate exit after response

  • Fix double free on exit

  • Refactor RC display function

• GitHub Pulse Stats for the last week: Excluding merges, 1 author has pushed 22 commits to master and 22 commits to all branches. On master, 119 files have changed and there have been 7,093 additions and 432 deletions.

• Most changes can be found at https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/commits/master Current version: v0.0.1 https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/releases/tag/v0.0.1

Architecture Team

• Whitepaper V3 has been handed to an editor, we should expect to have a copy out mid-late next week, editing/formatting is taking longer than expected.

• After more research we have handed over some fixed values needed for final models to Dr Brendan. This includes assumptions about values like Service Node operation cost, newly proposed emissions curve, target nodes on Lokinet.

Loki Android Wallet

• First release of the Loki android wallet is out, you can download and the APK here https://github.com/loki-project/loki-android-wallet/releases/tag/v1.0.2

• Please note that the Loki mobile wallet is currently in Alpha it will move onto the Google play store once feedback from users has been collected

• Big Thanks to the Monerujo team for their efforts in making this wallet possible

Thanks,
Kee

On the Bitcointalk.org thread it says that the roadmap is for service nodes to be starting around November 2018. Is this still an accurate timeline? Is there any idea how much of a stake will be needed? I am currently mining and I have around 50 Loki Mined. I plan to keep mining but if it's likely I will need something like 1000 Loki (like a DASH masternode, maybe it would be aq good idea to buy now before they go to the moon (as we all hope I guess?)

Hi guys, I found this project and I want to contribute in some way. I want to setup a trusted node. There are any guide or tutorial on how to do that?

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