Peter and Levon are still working together on Spark state. Levon is researching on Spark state design.
Drop in Block time and new tokenomics proposal
Peter started to implement the 2.5 minutes block time to testnet and require testing.
An estimate of 1 month of testing 2.5 minutes block time to be released on mainnet (date not finalized).
Extensive testing to be done once its rolled out on testnet
Elysium
Sproxet and Peter are working on Elysium speed improvements.
Mobile
Android wallet V0.1.18 is ready to be released and waiting for Google Play Store for approval.
Zorayr continues to fix bugs on iOS Version mainly UI issues.
Compilation issues
GUIX successfully complies for M1 Mac but needs to come up with a signature scheme to sign binaries for M1 Mac.
Firo Client
Firo Client has completed integrated coin swap but working on build issues to make release
Vong working on integration of RAP addresses in Firo Client
Bug fixes
Levon is finalizing fixes for issue #1163 and #1164.
Investigation is still ongoing on issue #1162 regarding gettoutsetinfo.
Gevorg is investigating QT GUI freeze issues. Related to mutex locking.
Research
Finalizing presentation for Trusted Smart Contracts workshop in association with Financial Cryptography 2022 in Grenada. Aaron will be presenting due to Aram unable to get necessary visa approvals
Finalizing Aura voting paper for publication on IACR
Areg completed Hierarchical One out of many Proof implementation for faster proving times
Investigating Avalanche subnet flexibility in supporting Spark addresses.
Personally I’d like some more detail on the potential pros and cons on these * to aid in forming an opinion one way or the other.
Also provisionally how is the Firo tokenomics structure going to work exactly within Avalanche, and the airdrops?
Tbh, I was hoping once Spark was released it would allow us to settle for quite a long time on a stable base protocol and to divert resources into building out Elysium and peripheral infrastructure so people have both easier access and reason to use Firo. For instance we’ve only just got a mobile wallet, which is pretty late in Firo’s development lifecycle.
Is it me, or is anyone else thinking we will see thousands of nodes just liquidate in order to stake AVAX (or some other coin) and earn passive income instead. Not sure how an airdrop can fix that… except for encouraging people not to do it before the chain switch. However I don’t know much about this whole proposal, so more detail is required for me personally…