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Damian Nadales

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  • Started preparations of a TSC proposal regarding Chain Growth violations.
  • Wrote a document about the Cardano-specific instantiation of the Praos protocol theorem.
  • Georgy Lukyanov joined the Consensus team and is going through the onboarding process.

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Damian Nadales

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  • Reviewed the UTxO HD PR, and started addressing Review comments.
  • Engaged with Researchers about to discuss the HFC simplification proposal.
  • Reverted the Babbage->Conway era transition workaround, clarifying the semantics around stake from pointer addresses (see #1297).
  • Well-Typed worked on two features for lsm-tree:
    • snapshots (for persisting ledger snapshots)
    • table union (for storing more parts of the ledger state on disk)
  • Addressed minor tech debt issues (#1269).

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Damian Nadales

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  • Investigated performance improvements in mempool snapshotting in recent node benchmarks and discussed potential further improvements.
  • Started the review of the UTXO-HD feature branch after all the issues have been resolved.
  • Published io-classes-extra, which hosts concurrency utilities that were extracted from the consensus repository.
  • Elaborated the plan for the last quarter of 2024. You can reach out to our Discord channel for any comments or suggestions.
  • In the context of UTXO-HD, Well-typed presented another LSM-tree milestone. The implementation includes incremental merges, which prevents substantial spikes in resource usage (CPU, disk, memory), and duplicating table handles, which is crucial for efficiently representing sequences of ledger states. The test coverage of the LSM-tree library was improved as well.

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Damian Nadales

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  • Released diff-containers-1.3.0.0, fingertree-rm-1.0.0.3, cardano-lmdb-0.4.0.2, and cardano-lmdb-simple-0.7.0.1.
  • Improved IOSim:
    • Added MonadLabelledMVar (176).
    • Improved the Show instance of ScheduleMod (175).
    • Ensure labels are printed where possible in IOSimPOR (174).
  • Released Consensus packages for Node 10.0.
  • Simplified Cardano hard fork triggers (1282.
  • Decreased max permissible clock skew for headers from the future from 5s to 2s (1279).

· One min read
Damian Nadales

High level summary​

Over the past two weeks, we worked on establishing a first baseline for the Consensus QTA (#1256). This work is also helping inform discussions with the Networking team about sync performance goals in general and for specific improvements, such as Genesis.

UTXO-HD was rebased atop main and the tests are passing.

Finally, the team has also worked to improve the Consensus layer's robustness and security.