Namada Weekly Dev Update, September 22
In the past week, Namada has made significant progress across various key areas, with a focus on enhancing the network's performance, security, and user experience.
The week's developments feature wide-ranging advancements across core infrastructure, fee management, and notably, IBC. Here's a high-level overview of this week's dev updates:
🏗️ Infrastructure Development:
- Substantial upgrades and refactoring of the Borsh serialization package have been implemented to benefit both IBC and Ethereum interfaces.
- Debugging and end-to-end testing have been rigorous, particularly focusing on the new genesis flow in the IBC pipeline.
- Advanced token alias mapping functionalities have been integrated to support streamlined IBC transactions and ledger restarts.
- Dynamic gas fee calculations have replaced static minimum values, enhancing fee flexibility.
⚙️ Token and Fee Management:
- Ongoing discussions and planning aimed to enhance transaction shielding for IBC transfers.
- Multiple models for paying gas fees for IBC transactions debated, leading to significant user experience improvements.
- Functionalities for querying total balances of cross-domain IBC tokens with the same base denomination developed.
- Critical issues affecting Cosmos to Namada transfers (Keplr IBC) resolved, ensuring seamless transactions.
🐞 Debugging and Testing:
- Successful debugging of the new genesis flow enhanced system reliability.
- Investigations and debugging of "insufficient funds" errors took place to ensure seamless transactions.
- Continuous work on token import, including the ability to display balances and addressing token alias issues in the IBC domain.
🧰 SDK-Related Development:
- Reassessment of priority on the development of a more robust structure of SDK modules and the refactoring of the existing codebase.
- Developed constructors for different transaction types to optimize common use cases and improve usability.
- A comprehensive review and updates improved error handling, ensuring system resilience.
🔒 Security & Optimizations:
- Implementation of robust replay protection mechanisms enhanced transaction security.
- Substantial improvements made in event handling, and a queue for expired transactions improving Ethereum event handling instituted.
- Changes were merged to better integrate SDK updates, amplifying security and optimization efforts.
📝 Documentation:
- Continuous reviews and updates of SDK and Extension API documentation provided developers with the latest information.
- New documentation guided users on joining the Namada testnet and provided clear instructions for MASP fee payments.
🗣️ Community Engagement:
- Significant restructuring efforts aimed to enhance mission clarity and coordination among teams.
- Plans set in motion for greater community involvement through incentivization.
- Ongoing discussions with validators strengthened and expanded ties within the node operator community.
🔗 Previous Weekly Dev Update: September 15
🛠️ Want to Get Involved?
The developments detailed above invite a natural query: How can one become a part of Namada's journey?
Strengthen Namada's decentralized environment by becoming a node operator. Your participation in running a full node adds to the network's resiliency.
As a validator, you become a vital participant, responsible for voting on state-transitions and proposing new blocks, reinforcing the integrity and security of the Namada network.
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Namada is a Proof-of-Stake Layer 1 blockchain protocol that delivers multichain, asset-agnostic privacy. Utilizing advanced zk-SNARKs technology, Namada facilitates indistinguishable transactions for various assets in its unique Multi-Asset Shielded Pool (MASP). Developed by Heliax in the Anoma ecosystem, Namada is working toward a future where digital asset privacy becomes the norm, not the exception.