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Consensus Team Update

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Damian Nadales

High level summary

  • Added a document that discuses ticking and how its used within the Consensus layer (#1385). The rendered version of this document can be accessed in our documentation page.
  • The benchmarks for the UTXO-HD version of Node with the in-memory backend confirmed that its resource usage is on par-with the baseline version of the Node. There is a slight decrease in CPU usage (-9%), and a slight increase in memory consumption (+3%).
  • Fixed the mempool snapshotting regression in the UTXO-HD branch (from +185% to -21%) (#1382).
  • Added a Consensus section to the Cardano Blueprints (#7).
  • Held the technical-working group meeting. The recording can be accessed using this link. In particular, the importance of the KES agent and its roadmap were discussed during this meeting.