Weekly Report 26.09.22–02.10.22

Published date: October 5 2022
Share:

Weekly Highlights

1. Over 9 consensus nodes and 581 storage nodes have been successfully registered since the release of the CESS testnet v0.5.1 on Sep 6th, The effective storage space of the current testnet has exceeded 24.414 TiB.

2. Great development progress in consensus nodes, network, blockchain explorer, etc.

Project Development Details:

Consensus Node

Scheduler:

Fixed accountID type issue with VRF solver when retrieving random values from storage.
Optimized the identification of validator nodes during transaction submission.
Improved the credit score system of the R2S consensus mechanism.

Network

Fixed the problem of querying and purchasing space commands on the cess-portal client.
Realized the R2S consensus mechanism for validators to randomly generate blocks.
Updated the storage client to adapt to the latest version of the CESS network interface.

Official Website

Fixed the problem that the content cannot be updated when it has been published.
Fixed the article titleless problem. There were many untitled articles in the draft list in the background, because the title did not get verified when the article was saved as a draft.
Fixed the problem of inconsistent display of article titles in the front and back, due to an error in the publishing API.

Blockchain Explorer Substats

Optimized the chain data synchronization and its efficiency.
Passed a new round of proposal application for W3F Grant.
Optimized JS file size to improve access speed.
Optimized database fields, modified to store important fields only, and deleted fields that were not commonly used.

Others

Added monitoring and early warning of the block production status in the blockchain network.

Testnet

Overview:

The CESS V0.5.1 testnet was launched on Sep 6th. Storage nodes close to 600 as of the end of last week. More details on the blockchain explorer.
The effective storage capacity of the entire network has exceeded 24 TiB.

If you encounter any issues building a node, please seek assistance on CESS Discord.

Event:

The miner reward event for the CESS testnet continued as storage and consensus miners can earn points by participating. Points can be exchanged for CESS tokens when the mainnet launches. Click here for details.

Community Activities

CESS participated in the Singapore TOKEN2049 conference that took place on Sep 28–29. As one of the exhibitors at the main venue and one of the Polkadot’s projects at their official booth on the morning of the 29th, CESS has interacted and built relationships with Web3 users, developers, and industry professionals from all over the world.

2. In addition to the two-day main event, CESS team members also participated in many side events of TOKEN2049, including:

Polkadot Asia Lounge Party on 25th (twitter link)
FIL-Singapore ’22 Summit on 25th- 26th (twitter link)
Chain Debrief — Web 3 Connect
Dinner with founders of Bitforex, CEOs of Bitforex and MasterBlox (twitter link)
Fragnova event on 26th (twitter link)
Huobi With Friends meeting on the evening of the 27th. (twitter link)
Party under the stars hosted by Huobi on 29th (twitter link)

See details on CESS official twitter account.

3. CESS co-founder Jessie Dai, Molly Zhang–marketing lead, and John Humphreys– marketing manager met with investors to discuss the strategic planning for the project’s future business development and marketing. (Twitter link)

Feedback and Support

Your feedback matters! Please report issues at CIPs to share your thoughts with us! You can also connect with CESSthrough other developers in the developer community. We welcome your valuable insights and opinions.