KIRA Announcements

2022-10-07 13:21:05 Its been an exciting week at KIRA and we want to thank our community for their continued support, so we are giving away $200 to one lucky winner! Check out the tweet below to enter and have your chance to win, good luck!


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2022-10-04 16:33:28 Our CEO @milanavalmont discusses the differences between PoW and PoS systems in the context of the Ethereum Merge.

Crucially, she highlights the weaknesses that remain in a PoS system, namely that the system favors early adopters who may have gotten a big bag of native tokens for cheap, and being dependent on a “stake-as-trust” system could have protocol-breaking implications in a cross-chain ecosystem. She then explains how KIRA's innovative Multi-Bonded-Proof-of-Stake solves such issues.

Check out the full article below : https://hackernoon.com/looking-into-ethereums-merge-and-how-kira-circumvents-poss-biggest-weakness Open / Comment

2022-10-03 15:47:54 KIRA has a unique and innovative Governance Model that aims to continuously improve its efficiency and decentralisation, independent of wealth and stake distribution.

In order for an individual to become a validator, they must first be accepted by the current network validators in order to prevent fraudulent activities and bad actors.

On top of this, by allowing the network to be governed by a syndicate of validators the scalability of the network itself is guaranteed, while eliminating the need to worry about what occurs on-chain.

Learn more about our Governance Model below: https://blog.kira.network/kira-governance-model-4ef09e067386 Open / Comment

2022-09-29 13:39:10 WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

FRONTEND
Finished integration of Send Tokens page with infrastructure
Started Confirm Transaction page
Next step : Broadcast Transaction page

MIDDLEWARE
Completed unit tests and released new version that involves integration tests written in bash script and unit tests for golang
Worked on bitcoin api and completed bitcoin status api.
Next step : Continue to work on adding more bitcoin apis and complete blocks and transactions endpoint.

BACKEND
Added permission to check basket module emergency actions
Added queries for mints,burn,swap amount done during limit period along with CLI commands
Tested emergency cli commands, and mints, burn, swap amount on limit period query CLI and resolve issues
Implemented average disbalance function & slippage fee on swap operation
Implemented sending slippage fee to “fee collector account” to pay network
Implemented basket tokens to claim rewards in case of holding multistaking tokens
Added unit test for basket action history, basket get, set, delete, create, min, burn
Resolved issue for in-state upgrade without binary changes
Next step : Resolve soft fork issue + upgrade plan fields, governance claim councilor

WALLET
Tons of chrome extension testing and started the first working extension with back-end communications, and tons of features
Added Flutter into the chrome extension and made it possible to support video scanning
Added useful scanning ability, for the future features we want to add
Next step : Finish up the back-end for the chrome extension, so we can start scaling it up with UX and features.

INFRASTRUCTURE
Researching on how to implement multisig for validator set without breaking to groups
Researched rescan threshold for bitcoin core watchwallet
Next step : Continue to research on multisig

https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1575434684871413767 Open / Comment

2022-09-23 12:54:34 WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

FRONTEND
Started integration of Send Tokens page with infrastructure
Next step: Finishing Send Tokens page integration with infrastructure

MIDDLEWARE
Added EVM contract write endpoint
Introduced EVM faucet configuration
Completed unit tests for proposal, UBI, pool and status API functions
Working on integration tests using golang
Next step : write EVM faucet endpoint
Next step: work on bitcoin APIs and build basic structure for integration tests

BACKEND
Added basket stores management by denom
Implemented CLI commands for transactions, queries, proposals and grpc query
Add limitation on min/max amounts on mint/burn/swap
Added more restrictions on tokens cap and limitation period
Added permission to check basket module emergency actions
Tested CLI commands : mints/burn/swap amount, limitation period, emergency actions and resolved issues
Next step : Complete basket module, upgrade issue fixes (in-state)

WALLET
Report page is setup, similar to a Google Forms, for reporting bugs and Issues related to SAIFU
Fixes as reported by Internal team from Report page
Testing and working on web extensions to add SAIFU features to internet browsers, and connecting browser to saifu via an extensions
Next step : Continue exploring what’s possible with web extensions and what features it can or can’t support from SAIFU

INFRASTRUCTURE
Finalized research of the bitcoin core limitations. Results written in documentation
Next step : Prepare data for the next testnet iteration. Research limitations of multisig transactions on bitcoin network

https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1573249197280837632 Open / Comment

2022-09-16 16:07:06 WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

FRONTEND
Finished Send Tokens page
Next step : Integration of Send Tokens page and infrastructure

MIDDLEWARE
ABI decode for contract call
Finalize Read Contract endpoint
WIP: Write Contract endpoint
Unit tests for APIs that query genesis, data reference, tokens, upgrade plan, node discovery, and permission data
Next step : EVM faucet endpoint
Next step : Complete unit tests and basic structure for integration tests

BACKEND
Connect basket module to app.go
Add more protobuf for txs of basket module
Implement mint, burn, swap operations
Implement proposal system
Surplus increase on swap operation
Implement surplus withdraw operation via proposal
Next step : Complete basket module, gov claim councilor

WALLET
Built interface screens for Shared Secrets update, these are simplified screen to support the back-end code produced last week.
Added feature to show all the Shared Secret’s categories, selecting multiple categories, and storing data with a secure storage.
Next step : Implement Shared Secret’s functions (such as adding/deleting/modifying peers that you want to share information securely) and expanding the categories of things that can shared securely.

INFRASTRUCTURE
Continued testing btcnode endpoints and address re-scanning features
Next step : Put results in the doc. Test multisig limitations.

https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1570760921571786760 Open / Comment

2022-09-09 10:36:09 WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

FRONTEND
Finished new Transactions system.
Next step : Send Tokens Page UI.

MIDDLEWARE
Fix response json snake_case issue.
Prepare read/write contract for EVM endpoints. (query ABI, read ABI json and prepare packed calldata)
Complete unit tests for api functions related to account, transactions, validators, faucet and proposals.
Next step: Complete unit tests for apis that query genesis, data reference, tokens, upgrade plan, node discovery, and permission data.
Next step : Read/Write contract on EVM chains.

BACKEND
Built basic protobuf for basket module.
Initiate basket module types, keeper, CLI files.
In progress of building read/write logic for basket objects.

WALLET
Finished end to end encryption implementation (Diffie-Hellman), that is to be used for SAIFU and others applications.
Continued working on IOS fixes and release, waiting approval.
Next step : Built new UI that interacts with new (end to end) implementation of Diffie-Hellman, so that SAIFU can register and store many secret communication channels and also be able to ensure each interaction with SAIFU is a secure channel.

INFRASTRUCTURE
Deployed latest environment for the front-end.
Next step : Testing Bitcoinnode capabilities and limitations in terms of processing requests.

https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1568140947740925953 Open / Comment

2022-09-02 14:04:11 WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

FRONTEND
Finished rebuilding Account Page - Balances tab
Next step : Dashboard Page.

MIDDLEWARE
Update response data json to always use snake_case
Remove gas_wanted and gas_used from transaction endpoints
Application Binary Interface (ABI) endpoints of EVM chains
Next step : Add remaining EVM endpoints.

BACKEND
Built documents for staking, slashing, updated gov module proposals section
Resolves issue on upgrade module for distributor module genesis import/export
Next step : KIP 78 - Token Basketing module (*multiple types of a different tokens such as stablecoins can be combined - basketed - into a single token before whitelisting them for staking*)

WALLET
Worked on creating audio files (wav) and including hidden data inside (steganography)
Worked on release of experimental SAIFU app for IOS.
Added documentation on Audio QRC Steganography
Next step : Start working on diffie key exchange for establishing secure communication channels.

INFRASTRUCTURE
Tested prime numbers generator for SAIFU [DHKE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exchange). Collected data from bitcoin node for further testing. Tested bitcoin node CLI wrapper under the load (I/O operations)
Next step : Testing RPC endpoints of bitcoin node. Deploying testing environment for front-end team.

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2022-08-26 14:46:04 WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

FRONTEND
Working on Account page, list of current Tokens Balances tab
Next step : Loading page

MIDDLEWARE
(EVM chains) - Finalized account/balance queries (70%).
Next step : Finalize remaining EVM queries (30%) , update response data JSON to use snake_case

BACKEND
Consider LP tokens and coins ratio in case of undelegation
Prevent upsert staking pool and new delegation for slashed pool
Try CLI command and add example commands for operations on slashed pools
Moved Undelegate function into delegation.go for better management
Added test for Undelegation / SlashStakingPool / RefuteSlashingProposal
Automatic proposal : Proposal now shows “colluders” = previously jailed validators within a short timeframe before proposal is triggered
Automatic proposal : Proposal creation don’t trigger when MaxJailedValidators parameter does not reach
Automatic proposal : Proposal now tests if same validator slash proposal already exists to prevent double proposal
Slash proposal integration test
Next step : Staking module documentation, upgrade proposal rollback

WALLET
Working on audio steganography documentation and worked on simplest experimental build (using Least Bit Algorithm with encrypted messages)
Next step : Continue documentation and use a more robust for audio steganography

INFRASTRUCTURE
Researching queries limitations, loads on BTC test network

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2022-08-18 14:42:43 WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

FRONTEND
Upgraded project version to flutter 3.0.5
Fixed clearing data about latest connection info when server went offline. Now connection info is kept until user manually switches to different server.
Completed some minor and major refactors around project.

MIDDLEWARE
KIP-77 : Finalized INTERX endpoint for transactions estimation & propagation
Complete writing integration tests using bash script for apis related to account and transactions.

BACKEND
Consider poolCoins and coins ratio in case of undelegation
Prevent upsert staking pool and new delegation for slashed pool
Try CLI command and add example commands for operations on slashed pools
Moved Undelegate function into delegation.go for better management
Added test for undelegate, SlashStakingPool, RefuteSlashingProposal

WALLET
Continued work and research on Audio Stenography, in order to listen and process encoded audio data. The first iteration is to be built to support encoding and decoding secret messages hidden in tone.

INFRASTRUCTURE
BIP93 : Improved readability of data output on terminal + added functionality to handle raw entropy with checksum bits.

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