We have a new stable test network for you as PunchNet winds down. Impressive work as always from the community, and it’s wonderful to see all the dashboards brightening up the thread.
With this testnet we’re going to punch some holes!
Computers in a home network will normally be unreachable from the outside, unless ports are forwarded manually. Lately, we’ve been experimenting with relays and hole punching, meaning nodes from inside a home network can participate in the network.
Some good news to kick off with: we have succeeded in getting nodes and clients working from behind NAT firewalls with Quic so we’re definitely getting there in terms of nodes from home
So come and give it a whirl from home with our latest alpha network: PunchNet.
We have a new testnet out, following successful poking at the recent alpha network. Thanks to all those who have tried it so far.
And we are pleased to say the node manager is performing well now, so we advise that as the default way of deploying nodes as it provides several additional controls, particularly with regard to upgrading.
Welcome to our first attempt to have a couple of testnets running in parallel!
Here we have an alpha network, where we want to verify changes before we do a full release that would be compatible with the existing network.
This is not expected to be a wildly long testnet. But participation here will help iron out any potential issues as/when we release new code compatible with BasicEconomyTweaks.
Thanks as usual to the noble testers our first Technical Beta Network is still going good guns, and is proving as stable as we’ve come to expect.
We have a new separate testnet to test potential changes over here. This will run alongside the stable beta network and allow us to test out ideas without having to bring the beta down.
With Bbbadnet highlighting some of our bad node detection as… overzealous, and also tipping up an issue with the faucet (and restarting the faucet), we’ve made tweaks to improve pricing economics too.
Come and join us😎
BbbbadNet has now gone off to the great beyond. It was one of the better ones, and taught us some useful things. First, that we’re on the right track with respect to bad node detection being key.
We also worked on improving node performance, by loosening the bad node detection criteria and making changes to how payments are issued to nodes.
Plus, we have amended the pricing curve and the way that nodes are paid.
There's a new testnet up now we’ve squashed some BadNode detection issues. This testnet adds in some basic detection of anomalous node behaviours, and aims to keep the network’s routing tables nice and tidy and neat.
Beyond that, the team has been continuing to push forward across many fronts!
The latest testnet adds basic bad node detection, as well as fixed some issues from node startups in the previous testnet.
On top of this, we’ve tweaked the storage pricing algorithm to increase more over time to see what impact this has on node storage/hypothetical demand.
Autonomi is the new name for the Safe Network. Download the new white paper that explains the whys and wherefores. Or if that's too much, there's a 40 second video too 😎
So here we have it folks. A path to guide us through the final turns of the journey and across what to some might feel like a finish-line, but is the start of a new future.
On top of what our expanding team is working on, you’ll have lots of opportunities to be involved directly in this roadmap—and be rewarded for getting stuck in.
This week has seen us working on the remaining tasks to be tidied up before beta and the next testnet. Plus there’s been lots going on with comms behind the scenes.
ICYMI: MaidSafe (remember them) have appointed a new CEO to take Safe Network from beta to launch and are starting communications today, with online events starting tomorrow (Xitter spaces), and new roadmap this week.
New CEO is @forthebux who helped take Gala Music and Gala Games to massive success in a few months.
Our new CEO Bux will be taking many of the partnership and commercial activities off David’s hands, leaving him free for some serious thinking and able to really get his hands dirty once again.
Bux has masses of experience in Web 3 projects, most recently Gala, and is a perfect fit for our project.
New staff members will join soon to help us with the AI aspects of the vision.
ValentinesNet is still going strong, so all being well we’ll keep it alive til we run out of space or release a breaking change.
We are moving ahead with updates on the fly, and hope to put it to the test on the current testnet. Basically what will happen is that node IDs and data will be seamlessly retained even as the sn_node software is updated.
We have a suspicion that the high-mem nodes are those that subscribed to gossip for royalties. This testnet is aiming to probe that hypothesis by removing gossip royalties!
The aim here is largely to see if we have avoided such high memory nodes.
Yesterday we launched our latest testnet to analyse the effect of encryption on node memory performance. This builds on the previous QuicNet, which saw a move from TCP to QUIC, and drew a rapturous response.
QUIC is evidently the future. Nevertheless, this being cutting-edge engineering, for every step forward the law says there has to be half a step back ...