Core Tasks
- Testnet Instrumentation. Internal, for debugging pre-releases.
- Health Monitoring
- Instrumentation for DS debugging
- Leader selection and Fork visualization
- Network Explorers. Public access, but a critical tool for debugging.
- Block and mempool explorers
Action Plan
This work-stream is purely an engineering effort, but with the caveat that introduces user-facing systems like the Network Explorer. Both internal instrumentation and public-facing functionality should be initiated as soon as possible.
The key in implementing these is to start with a minimal functionality keeping these two primary objectives in mind:
- Help us develop, debug and understand our network
- Attract users by exposing visualizations of the blockchain with cool tools for exploring the chain and the network behavior. This is, in a way, a marketing tool.