📣 Masa Protocol release v1.2

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🗺 What's left for release

🌍 Protocol

• spike: Validator Expansion masa-oracle#330
• feat: On chain content-addressable system masa-oracle#381
• Gate network validators masa-oracle#427
• feat: move nodeData to the ledger masa-oracle#518
• feat(workers): Implement adaptive worker selection for improved task distribution masa-oracle#544
• Use gossip to co-ordinate worker selection masa-oracle#507

🧪 Code testing

• Acceptance testing
  • ci(e2e-tests): Web Data Endpoints masa-oracle#372
  • ci(e2e-tests): Discord Data Endpoints masa-oracle#373
  • ci(e2e-tests): LLM Worker Endpoints masa-oracle#374

📡 Testnet Environment

• TBD

🚑 Code health

• Move away from gin #36

🤖 CI and release process

• feat(ci): automated release notes masa-oracle#393

🎁 Product:

• spike: research what a SaaS API endpoint would look like #22
• implementation: MVP developer playground #37
• implementation: static data sets (TBD) #39
• spike: Use Flock.io to run an experiment to train an LLM on Masa data #44
• https://github.com/masa-finance/product-issues/issues/7

💻 Infra

• https://github.com/masa-finance/masa-oracle-infra/issues/44
• https://github.com/masa-finance/masa-oracle-infra/issues/53
• https://github.com/masa-finance/masa-oracle-infra/issues/35
• https://github.com/masa-finance/masa-oracle-infra/issues/9
• https://github.com/masa-finance/masa-oracle-infra/issues/6

🔮 Metrics

• Worker metrics in Dune dashboard
• MVP CID/Transaction explorer

📖 Documentation

• Documentation audit and refresh #21

🔦 Highlights

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✅ Release Checklist

• Stage 0 - Finishing Touches
  • Make sure CI tests are passing.
  • Ensure SDK is aligned to have the neded Oracle features exposed for the release
  • Ensure the CLI is aligned to consume the latest SDK correctly
  • There is a Masa-Oracle release
  • Update release files to bump the version in the Oracle
• Stage 1 - Manual testing
  • How: Using the assets from master, make sure that test scenarios not covered by automatic tests are passing, and that docs are still aligned
    • ...
• Stage 3 - Release
  • Tag Oracle
  • Tag SDK
  • CLI and App needs to point to SDK version and have its own tag
• Stage 4 - After release
  • Release notes needs to be updated in the documentation here: https://developers.masa.ai/docs/masa-oracle/RELEASE_NOTES
  • Update notion documentation about release