During a week marked by substantial progress and active involvement from the community, Cardano’s diverse development teams have been diligently pushing forward to enhance the blockchain ecosystem. Here’s a summary of the key accomplishments of each team.
Cardano Network Performance & Tracing Team
According to weekly report, the Performance and Tracing Team completed benchmarking activities for node v8.2.1 and initiated benchmarking setups for GHC9.6 and UTXO-HD. Infrastructure enhancements were a focus, leading to a reduction in the memory footprint of the analysis pipeline. The team also integrated a new batch of optimizations into the tracing system while continuing efforts to ensure namespace consistency guarantees.
Additionaly, the Lace team made substantial progress with Metadex integration, filtering user-owned and trading tokens, and bug fixing. Their work included testing native token minting, creating custom liquidity pools for decentralized exchanges, and conducting load/performance testing. Hardware wallet transactions were fixed, collateral setting was finalized, and automation tests were expanded for Lace.
The Plutus Tools Team dedicated their efforts to rewriting the Marconi indexers, implementing and testing a new indexer, and updating the cardano-api version in plutus-apps. The Plutus Core Team released plutus-ledger-api-1.11.0.0, introducing the ScriptContext data type for Plutus v3.
Meanwhile, the Marlowe Team actively prepared for the CryptoPall workshop, introducing a survey contract exercise and mechanisms for key generation and token metadata acquisition. They resolved setup issues in Demeter Run, focused on a withdrawal widget for Marlowe contracts, and improved workspace configurations.
The Hydra Team held its monthly review meeting, emphasizing transparent communication and project evaluation. They also conducted educational initiatives for the community, updated Hydra demos, and worked on improving hydra-node availability.
The Mithril Team worked on the second phase of the stress test tool for benchmarking the aggregator, improved the client, implemented simultaneous download and extraction of snapshot archives, and explored zstandard compression for snapshot archives. They also enhanced verification and metadata in snapshot archives.
In Project Catalyst, a Twitter Space event with Charles Hoskinson discussed the roadmap, while technical achievements included wallet updates, snapshot data integration, voting power checks, and automation of review processes.
With these achievements and community engagements, the Cardano ecosystem continues to evolve and flourish, demonstrating its commitment to progress and inclusivity. Stay tuned for more updates in the ever-evolving world of Cardano.
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