Cardano developers are working on Peer-to-Peer (P2P) functionalities which will be key in the utilization of Cardano’s capabilities.
The Cardano weekly development report shows that the Lace team, Plutus tools team, Mithril team, Hydra team, and Marlowe team are hard at work towards the general strengthening of the ecosystem.

Cardano has celebrated another major development in its network. As confirmed by the developers of the blockchain, the team has been focusing on its Peer-to-Peer (P2P) functionalities. This is set to enhance the network efficiency as it looks to broaden its utility. In particular, the developers are working on bootstrapping peers, and refactored networking test suites.

For its tests, the team has split it into io-tests and sim-tests. io-tests require to be run natively on all platforms (these tests mostly contain tests that require IO system calls), and sim-tests, which are platform-independent.

As the development of the P2P functionalities continues, the team has also been reporting increased adoption. With these developments, Cardano aims to enable nodes to interact directly with each other without the need for intermediaries. It is also in effort to enhance peer sharing. Overall, this promotes decentralization, security, and transparency for the blockchain.

Cardano Weekly Development Report

On top of P2P development, the different teams in the Cardano ecosystem celebrated minor to major victories. A report from the team has highlighted the various achievements celebrated by the teams.

The consensus team: This team celebrated a major achievement by successfully conducting the first system-level benchmarks for the UTXO-HD implementation. The release is however still not ready as the team has encountered some issues that need more work.

The Lace team: The team continues working on CIP-95 functionality in SDK and Lace, setting up the collateral, focusing on enhancements, and SanchoNet functionality review.

The Plutus tools team: This team has been focusing on focused on rewriting the Marconi EpochState indexers. Additionally, it introduced a significant enhancement in Plutus Tx.

The Hydra team: The team primarily focused on implementing changes required in the network layer. It further produced the initial draft document outlining the necessary design adjustments.

Mithril team: The team released a new distribution 2335.0, which includes some optimizations and bug fixes.

The report highlights other notable technical implementations designed to strengthen the Cardano ecosystem as it strives to become the most prominent blockchain protocol.

The developments come despite the bearish conditions facing the market. In the last two years, ADA has lost more than 90 percent of its value. At the time of press, the 7th ranked altcoin by market cap is trading for $0.24. It is a popular narrative in the crypto space that great projects build in the bear market and thrive in the bull market. ADA investors are fairly confident that this is the case and that the altcoin will in the next bull market recover to test its all-time highs.

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Filed under: Bitcoin - @ September 11, 2023 7:15 am