Codex Update June 25th - July 1st
The Codex team wrapped up a successful demo at the Logos off-site and now aims to prepare the demo for the Q2 public testnet release potentially coinciding with EthCC.
An internal devnet 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.
Development is currently broken into three distinct teams:
- Client, Testing, and Infrastructure
- Marketplace
- Research
The following are their team updates.
Client, Testing and Infrastructure
Completed
- Release pipeline for Linux setup (x64 & ARM for Ubuntu and MacOS)
Ongoing
- Workshop preparations
- Slides presentation and complete demo run-through
- General bug hunting and fixing towards baseline stability and BitTorrent-like performance
Marketplace
Completed
- Workshop preparations
Ongoing
- WIP in the Certora’s Application Properties work
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)
7. Encryption
Completed
- Gathered all ZK related documents here
- Writeup on OTP-like encryption to prevent outsourcing attacks
Ongoing
- Ongoing research into the details of folding
- Interviewing more ZK engineer candidates
- Creating take-home programming exercise
- Thinking about how to describe Plonkish circuits
- Looking at new ZK research