Weekly Dev Update #28

Hey Y’all,

Merry Christmas, and happy holidays to everyone! Over the next few weeks the Dev Updates will probably be more sparse as most of the team is having a little time off for the Christmas period. We hope to be refreshed before a great 2019 for Loki!

Loki Core

• First Draft of Infinite staking, more work to be done refining this, but basic building blocks are on this branch 

  https://github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commits/InfiniteStaking

• Address issues with transaction exports related to issue 357 and 370 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/379

• Add miner_reward to RPC get_block_header 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/378

LLARP / Lokinet

If you’re lucky and join our Discord, you might also catch Jeff or Ryan, the developers of LLARP, live streaming as they code: https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519 , https://www.twitch.tv/neuroscr

We could really use your help. To be considered for inclusion in packaging distribution, we need people to star, watch and fork our Github repo. If you have a Github account, please consider helping us out.

• Windows packaging UX fixes 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/180

• Read user packets on windows 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/179

• Fix UTP tests on linux 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/174

• Reduce allocations when processing messages

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/173

• Convert llarp::AlignedBuffer to be backed by std::array 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/172

• Flush packets in same tick cycle

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/171

• Order downstream packets 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/170

• Fix private testnet issues 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/167

• Add success messages on bootstrap 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-network/pull/166

Loki Messenger

• Change PoW logic, cap message length at 2000 characters and PoW timeout at 3 mins 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/115

• Add option to copy conversation pub key 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/112

• Add a number of statistical measures for PoW, this should help us decide on the difficulty of the PoW in the future 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/119

Thanks,

Kee