Codex Update Mar 5th - Mar 11th
The Codex team continues to make progress with various initiatives to wrap up the demo for the Q1/Q2 public testnet release. An internal testnet has been running for the past few weeks and has been used to test the latest version of Codex and can be accessed using the Codex Testnet Starter documentation.
Ongoing and new lines of research and development will soon begin in preparation for the next version of Codex that will be used for the mainnet release.. Here are the updates from different team members and their ongoing work. Development is currently broken into three distinct teams:
- Client, Testing, and Infrastructure
- Marketplace
- Research
The different teams have actively moving on various fronts. The following are their team updates to various ongoing Epics.
Client, Testing and Infrastructure
Epic: Multithreading
Completed:
Ongoing:
- Started work on scheduling prover computation on a thread pool
Epic: Wiring the Proving System
Completed: Ongoing:
- Marked PR as ready - scheduling erasure encoding and decoding on a thread pool
- Started work on scheduling prover computation on a thread pool
Epic: Improve Client Stability
Completed
- Reasoning on why the profiler works the way it does
- Closed bug: fixes double lookups when block does not exist
Ongoing:
- Some triaging of bugs in the Codex repo, still some way to go
Marketplace
Epic: End-to-end Testing
Completed: Ongoing:
Research
2024 R&D Goals
1. Proving system and aggregation improvements (folding or lookups)
2. Aggregator/validator design
3. DHT improvements
4. Tokenomics and incentive design
5. Bandwidth incentives
6. Dynamic data (appendable data)
Completed:
- EthResearch post on sampling techniques (https://ethresear.ch/t/lossydas-lossy-incremental-and-diagonal-sampling-for-data-availability/18963)
- Logos X space with Leo and Danny
- Minor refactor the proof circuit PR
Ongoing:
- DAS simulator (https://github.com/codex-storage/das-research) paper prep (calls + work)
- Shadow based P2P emulator for DAS (https://github.com/cskiraly/dst-gossipsub-test-node/tree/FullDAS)
- Looked into how circom handles custom gates (tldr: it’s easy to abuse for our own purposes, but snarkjs doesn’t implement anything)
- Started working on prototyping stuff for the new proof system