Milestone report October 2024
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This report is a progress update which follows on from the previous Quarterly Milestone report issued in September and provides a summary of achievements related to Cardano Continuity during the month of October.
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Byron have completed the remaining work on the GovTool WebApp, finalizing the beta testing phase and Hard Fork Product Releases. They are also continuing their work on the Cardano GovTool, which supports vital governance processes for Cardano. This contract includes; refactoring the front and back ends of the Delegation and Voting pillars, and maintaining and supporting these pillars through testing networks and mainnet phases, with an emphasis on fixing bugs and gathering feedback.
“I am pleased to announce that we have successfully achieved several significant milestones over the past month. Here’s a summary of our key accomplishments:
Hard Fork Preparation and Execution: The team efficiently prepared for and executed a hard fork, demonstrating our strong commitment to technical excellence.
Initialization of Pilars: We initiated work on the Pilars project by setting up the necessary repositories, creating projects, and copying over some of the existing code.
Rebranding of GovTool: We have successfully rebranded Sanchonet GovTool to Cardano GovTool, aligning our tools with our broader strategic vision.
Pre-release of Design System: We launched the pre-release of the Design System to support Pilars, ensuring a uniform styling framework across our projects.”
DQuadrant have completed the final milestones in their contract and have made significant contributions to Cardano’s testing framework, specifically related to the governance tooling and readiness for the Chang hard fork. Their efforts to test Plutus v3 and ensure the continued functionality of decentralized applications (DApps) have been crucial.
DQuadrant are continuing to extend the testing frameworks for Cardano GovTool to accommodate new features. DQuadrant are maintaining the Cardano GovTool integrated testing and the Governance Action Loader.
“The overall purpose of our project is to test the Cardano node readiness for the Chang hard fork. Milestone 1 focuses on testing Plutus v3 new builtins, regression tests, wallets (hardware/software) and performance measurements. This milestone is important in the broader development of Cardano as it ensures that the Plutus v3 and the migration to v3 is smooth.
For Milestone 1, we prepared the tests for Plutus v3, inheriting the base framework from Antaeus repository. We also prepared a separate tests dashboard to show all the Plutus v3 tests. Ledger Nano S hardware wallet and several software wallet were also tested with several testing scenarios ranging from normal transactions to governance functions. To support DApps for smooth migration to Plutus v3, we also prepared a comprehensive migration guide, which was widely shared in the communications. During testing, some bugs were found which were promptly reported to the respective development teams.
Under the scope of the milestone, we were able to successfully cover the expected tests defined on the scope of work, and are proud of the work done.”
“The overall purpose of our project is to test the Cardano node readiness for the Chang hard fork. Milestone 7 focuses on monitoring the core repositories: cardano-node, cardano-api and cardano-cli for the user reported Github issues.
This milestone is important from the perspective that no critical user reported bug is left un-triaged and the critical bugs are brought to the attention of the respective teams. For Milestone 7, we monitored the new issue reports on the core repositories daily to triage to find out the reproducibility and severity of the bugs. In the process, we ourselves raised several additional bugs as well. During the scoped time, there were several issues reported but no critical labeled issues were found that would impact the Conway era functionalities.”
Galois continued their critical work on the Midnight Halo 2 project, focusing on enhancing the capabilities of Zero Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) within the Cardano ecosystem.
Milestone 5: Recursion
“Galois has achieved full IVC recursion of ZK proofs over two cycles of curves within the Halo2 codebase: 1) The Pasta curves with the IPA commitment scheme 2) The Pluto / Eris curves with the IPA and KZG commitment schemes This milestone completes the project of providing ZK-proof roll-up capability in the Halo2 framework. Integration of the results of all previous milestones was necessary, the culmination of a year’s worth of work.”
Tweag are developing the Ouroboros Genesis mechanism (Genesis), which enables new nodes to join the Cardano blockchain and bootstrap themselves without relying on a trusted service. It also allows nodes to become disconnected and rejoin the network similarly. Earlier this year Tweag completed Limit on Patience, Genesis State Machine & Lightweight Checkpointing.
“Tweag analyzed the validator scripts comprising Constitution script, contained in the repositoryas of commit ccebcc0. As this is a security audit we are inclined not to reveal to many details.”
WellTyped achieved another key milestone with the Minimal Working Version of the on-disk storage component for UTxOs. This solution will allow for higher UTxO scalability and improved performance, benefiting the broader Cardano ecosystem.
“Well-Typed are developing an on-disk data storage component intended to be used in Cardano to help Cardano scale to much larger numbers of accounts and UTxO sizes, while preserving good system performance. In previous milestones we have implemented the component’s public API, covering basic key/value operations like lookups, inserts and deletes.
In this milestone, we extended the public API to support “BLOB” storage and retrieval, range lookups and cursors. BLOBs allow storing large values efficiently, such as scripts in the UTxO. Range lookups and cursors allow efficient iteration through the contents of a table. This will be used in Cardano (once the stake-related tables are stored on disk) to implement incremental bulk queries such as aggregating the stake distribution.”
Input Output Engineering is continuing to develop and test the Cardano governance node in readiness for and continuity maintenance.