Current Status

Engineering Status

• Status reports are delivered weekly at 9:00 AM PT (16:00 UTC, Sydney +11, Beijing +8, Greece +3, Amsterdam +2, Onitsha +1, New York -4, Seattle -7)
  https://casperlabs.zoom.us/j/488766416 and live-streamed.
• This update is available on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/dnSX7cel8N8
• Prior updates are available at: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8oWxbJ-csEpezWe5KccTtOm-ZuzJP70O

Current work and release 1.4.0

The team is wrapping up the third sprint of 1.4.x release cycle.

Release 1.4.x marks the fourth major production upgrade of the Casper protocol. The top priority is to keep Mainnet (casper network) and Testnet (capser-test network) stable.

The goal of 1.4.x release is to prepare a patch for casper network with the fourth round of sustainability features:

• Fast sync
• NFT support
• Event stream enhancements
• Brand new developer experience

Detailed release plan

• Document available on Gitub: https://github.com/casper-network/roadmap/wiki/2021-Q4-Release-plan
• We are waiting for your feedback: https://github.com/casper-network/roadmap/discussions/23

Previous releases

• Detailed information about 1.3.x release on Medium
• Tag v1.3.2 with Rust node was cut on the 2nd of August 2021.
• V1.3.2 upgrade to Mainnet has been successfully activated as of 13th of August 2021.

Mainnet - Casper Network

Casper Network started on March 31th. Current status on cspr.live for casper **Block Height: 181,182 ** with 100 Validators and 6,913,275,093 total stake bonded

Current Focus

Performance, hardening, and production engineering work.

Consensus

• CEP: Specify criteria for automatic restart.

Node - Rust

• Fast Sync

Test and SRE

• Support the network and release.
• NCTL: extension and support.

Ecosystem

• NFT design CEP 47.
• NFT implementation
• NFT js client
• JS SDK v2.4.0 available
• Casper course slides and recordings.

Contract Runtime

• Re-enable banning equivocators

Economics Research

• Testing & improving a prototype generic CEP47 NFT auction.
• Developing gas & storage pricing models.
• Beginning to look at the intersection of ZKP and information disclosure models in economics.
• Developing a simple platform robustness model for a client.

DEVxDAO Update

• https://www.devxdao.com/
• Grants list
• Community meetings are Tuesday morning @ 10 am PT.
• Meeting link: https://jitsi.devdao.ch/dao

Community projects

• https://cspr.live/
• https://casperstats.io/
• https://csprstats.com/

Team & Company Update

• The zoom meeting id is https://casperlabs.zoom.us/j/924713678.

Governance Status

• We have adopted a Casper Enhancement Proposal CEP process to vet and accept important features and changes. Details of the process can be found here https://github.com/CasperLabs/ceps.
• Meetings are Tuesday mornings @ 9 am PT.
• Meetings are available on YouTube.
• Zoom Link: https://casperlabs.zoom.us/j/488766416 & live streamed on YouTube.
• Governance research Repository