Release 1.4.0

⚡Release 1.4.0 - 🚀 Response speed! ⚡

We are hard at work building valuable products & APIs around our subnet, based on the ability to query miners through the validator proxy. As a part of this, one of our potential clients highly values the ability to respond at lightning speeds, anywhere on the globe. As a part of this, we recently set up a second validator in Oregon in addition to our existing validator in Frankfurt, ensuring a better global spread. Since miners currently have no incentive to be fast, some requests take almost the full 10 second time-out to complete. This is not an acceptable time-window for a production API, so we are making some changes. With this new update, response time will be part of the reward incentive!

What will be changed exactly?

• 30% of your score will be based on response speed. This is again done through a curved distribution. Here the median response time of all miners for that challenge is computed, and you will be awarded a score-component between 0 (slow) and 1 (fast) depending on how much better/worse you are than the median score!
• We also changed the curving mechanism for all scoring slightly. Currently, if there were only a few unique predictions, miners could get a score of 0 despite being very close to the best performer. This could make the incentive jump around a lot. To remedy this, the ranges for the score-curving are now based on multiples of the average score, not on the min/max of the scores.
• Networking improvements, to ensure your response time is influenced as little as possible by validator networking capacity.

Action for Miners:
Your current code will definitely still work! But you will able to get even better performance by optimizing your prediction code for efficiency🚀

The Zeus team