2020-01-17 · timestamps by ADAtainment
UPD 01/17/2020
- All of IOHK is on deck for Cardano, with new project management estimates and a Gantt chart that de-risks Shelley, Goguen, Basho and Voltaire delivery.
- Every major component is now on a fixed release cadence: Adrestia weekly, the Haskell node every two weeks, the incentivized testnet and Daedalus weekly.
- February is the big month: an OBFT hard fork for the Byron reboot, the Hydra paper, and a University of Wyoming ADA donation.
- The incentivized testnet is exceeding expectations with almost 900 registered pools and roughly half of all ADA staked, making a thousand pools at launch plausible.
- Pledging could gain punitive measures with cryptographic proofs and frozen ADA, but network stack fixes and social pressure get a few more weeks first.
- Communication is scaling up: monthly product updates from the whole product team, plus Davos, PwC and McCann work on brand and industry standing.
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Wearing an Ethereum Classic shirt because ETC is doing well, and kudos to Dash Nation for their recent run.
Changed project management estimation over the last six weeks, and the resulting Gantt chart shows when Shelley lands and how Goguen and Basho delivery is de-risked.
Every component now has a release cadence: the Adrestia wallet backend weekly, the Haskell node every two weeks and the incentivized testnet every Wednesday, working through connection issues and stability.
Daedalus is on a weekly cycle and near the last mile for hardware support: restoring Ledger devices, managing ledger accounts, plus specs for hardware multi-sig and cold staking.
Now getting to the nuts and bolts of Goguen and preparing its launch requirements, with the company more unified and moving faster than ever.
Flying to Switzerland for Davos and the World Economic Forum, plus a PwC workshop starting in February and first output from the McCann brand refresh.
At Real World Crypto talked with chief scientist Aggelos Kiayias about what is left for Ouroboros, and Hydra simulations are underway for a February paper.
A 39 page paper on decentralized software updates with IBM Research and the EU Horizon 2020 project, which together with voting research and the CIP process forms the bedrock of Voltaire.
Mid February should bring the OBFT hard fork, with the Haskell wallet backend integrated with the Haskell node for the Byron reboot.
Setting up regular communications: weekly ITN updates, monthly product updates from Aparna Jue and the component owners including Rob Cohen on the node and Kevin Hammond on Basho.
The Cardano Foundation will announce a grant program soon, and aggressive negotiations with unnamed exchanges target a custody and listing solution, plus a Bitfinex listing.
Still number one for GitHub commits, and Atala resources move to Cardano to bring the PRISM identity solution in as a first class identity layer for smart contracts.
Planning a year long hackathon master plan with the Foundation, roughly monthly in each major development area, alongside ideas for interoperability such as lightning.
The space is waking up after crypto winter, with options and futures projecting a bullish year, and interviews with research shops like Messari to get Cardano a fair shake as a third generation cryptocurrency.
All of IOHK is focused on Cardano as the number one priority, with weekly blog posts, videos and events, so watch the repos and keep testing the software.
Incentivized testnet KPIs look wonderful with almost 900 registered pools and nearly half of all ADA staked, making a thousand stake pools at launch plausible, and a clear migration path from the Rust testnet to the Haskell Shelley testnet is needed.
Punitive measures for pledging could lock ADA and freeze it with exponentially longer times via cryptographic proofs, but diverging chains mostly come from poor network quality, so three to five weeks of network stack iterations come first.
Discussions about a University of Wyoming donation in ADA, likely a world first for a US university, and starting IOHK payroll in ADA, then meetups in Zurich and Davos before heading back to Colorado.