Developer Update - April 2022

[Denise.duncan]

In April, our contributors had A LOT to share, including new repositories and, as promised, a revised spec. The posts on DSNP concepts continue to brilliantly explain the opportunities and challenges of using the blockchain to create the social web. As always, we invite you to add your comments and questions to the discussions at forums.projectliberty.io - and thanks!

• April DSNP Update - Summary of Progress

  • We shared four posts in our blog series on our chain selection process:
    • Concept Series Start 01: The Problems
    • Shorts: The Discovery Problem & Connection Portability
    • 02: Source-Dependent Messages
    • 03: Wherefore Art Thou, Delegation?
  • Released new backend for the spec (mdbook) for better readability and searchability, launching in the first week of May
  • DIP-145 about changing how batch signatures work successfully merged, dependencies managed
  • Several DIPs merged; cutting release in the first week of May:
    • DIP-148: Rename DSNP Announcement URI to DSNP Content URI
    • DIP-149: Reaction Retraction
    • DIP-150: Update spec to include details of un-delegation on past data/batches
    • DIP-158: Make published required in Activity Content Type Note
    • DIP-165: Updating Announcements
    • DIP-180: Tombstones Target contentHash
  • Several repositories have been open sourced:
    • Primary: GitHub - LibertyDSNP/mrc: MRC Substrate Based Chain
    • Dev UI (empty for now): GitHub - LibertyDSNP/mrc-ui: UI for MRC
    • NEAR: GitHub - LibertyDSNP/near-identity-test: Experimental NEAR repo to test smart contract deployment
    • Polygon: GitHub - LibertyDSNP/polygon-experiments: Figuring out how contracts on Polygon might work
    • Algorand: GitHub - LibertyDSNP/algorand-experiments: Algorand feasibility study with experimental code
    • Cosmos:
      • GitHub - LibertyDSNP/cosmos-announcer: Experiemental announcer module for cosmos blockchain
      • GitHub - LibertyDSNP/cosmos-registry: Experimental registry module for cosmos blockchain

• Upcoming

  • Continued recordings of Weekly DSNP Spec discussion, including breakout discussion of levers to control universally objectionable content. Plan to explore ways that current spec can be exploited and ways that delegation can be crafted as a deterrent.