2023-09-15 Codex weekly

Client §

Milestone: Block Merkelization §

• Continuing work on merkelization
  • Storing and retrieving data using merkle trees
  • Coders for merkle trees
  • Refine merkle tree construction

Milestone: Block Exchange protocol refinements and simulations §

• Tracker simulation implementation
• Block exchange protocol thoughts
  • https://rpubs.com/giuliano_mega/1067876
  • https://rpubs.com/giuliano_mega/1082104
• Follow swarmsim repo for updates

Milestone: Async Disc Access & Threading support §

• Work on IO threads support
  • https://github.com/codex-storage/nim-datastore/pulls
  • Some early integration here - https://github.com/codex-storage/nim-codex/pull/552
    • Based mostly on https://github.com/codex-storage/nim-codex/pull/545 and prev work by @elcritch

Milestone: Client stability and debugging §

• Major effort to stabilize the Codex client through continuous automated testing

Infra §

Milestone: Monitoring and Metrics §

• Install Node exporter and Prometheus in Dist-Tests cluster
• Grafana Dashboard updates - waiting for public DNS to be setup
• Automated metrics scraping - waiting for public DNS to be setup

Marketplace §

Milestone: Availabilities and Reservations §

• Work ongoing in
  • https://github.com/codex-storage/nim-ethers
  • https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-contracts-eth
  • https://github.com/codex-storage/nim-codex
• Some recent PRs
  • https://github.com/codex-storage/nim-ethers/pull/54
  • https://github.com/codex-storage/nim-codex/pull/535

Research §

Milestone: Publications §

• White paper - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LCy23m90IHf32aUVhRT4r4772w1BfVcSLaJ0z9VTw9A/edit#heading=h.qs3bayckj5u4
• Various publications incoming from Csaba

DAS §

Milestone: DAS Design §

• Ongoing discussions around - https://ethresear.ch/t/peerdas-a-simpler-das-approach-using-battle-tested-p2p-components/16541

Milestone: Measurments and simulations §

• Work continues on simulating various aspects of the DHT in https://github.com/cortze/py-dht
• Csaba discussed/suggested fixes for Discv5 with Felix Lange