KIRA Announcements

2022-05-03 22:23:19 WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

FRONTEND
WIP Account transactions query and Identity Registrar UI support

MIDDLEWARE
Created new INTERX release v0.4.8 containing unsafe & behind query parameters in the node discovery endpoints allowing filtering of search results by all accessible public IP’s & maximum number of blocks that other nodes might fall behind before being discarded from results.

BACKEND
WIP multistake module types, keeper, corresponding cli commands & module code prototype

WALLET
Finalized restoring, importing and generating backups for the SAIFU wallet with password protection.
Started work on a single UX to enable processing of cryptographic signatures, file transfers & transaction signing by utilizing generalized QR code metadata structure

INFRASTRUCTURE
Started work on updating KIRA manager to support SEKAI, INTERX & tools repo release files

https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1521570840516915200?s=21 Open / Comment

2022-04-24 18:05:57 WEEKLY DEV UPDATES 2/2

WALLET
WIP on the new UI screens for the SAIFU wallet backups feature.
Enabled exporting and importing backups within SAIFU app, including both wallets and user preferences

INFRASTRUCTURE
Created bip39gen tool based on go-bip39 with additional user & system mixed entropy to provide higher security while generating mnemonics in the next iteration of the KIRA Manager
Added dedicated action workers for the tool repo to correctly produce & test ARM64 releases for all KIRA tools
Researched potential security breach related to on chain validator mnemonics manipulations

https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1518243599514992640?s=21 Open / Comment

2022-04-24 18:05:26 WEEKLY DEV UPDATES 1/2

FRONTEND
Started work on the Identity Registrar UI
WIP to enable automated unit & integration testing via github actions

MIDDLEWARE
Updated documentation to include details on the INTERX RPC response caching capabilities & configurations
Added check of the current & historical block hash while connecting to INTERX nodes to ensure that forks are not being added to the nodes list
WIP adding new parameters to enable simpler queries of the priv/pub/interx nodes via network discovery endpoint

BACKEND
Started work on the new multistake module, corresponding protobufs & generating types
Updated tokens registrar to support new multistake module

https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1518243599514992640?s=21 Open / Comment

2022-04-19 15:41:36 WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

FRONTEND
Fixed connection error with localhost interx
WIP to enable automated unit & integration testing via github actions

MIDDLEWARE
Updated node-discovery module. (WIP)
Node discovery queries now verify chain-id, block height & hash to prevent including forks in the output

BACKEND
Resolved snap period issue in the fee distributor module
Added performance counter query to monitor node uptime for the puropse of the fair fee distribution
WIP multistake module - KIP_74

WALLET
Added backup exporting and importing feature
Finalized KIRA Transfers web app
WIP on updating network code for signing transactions & messages

INFRASTRUCTURE
Created workflows allowing generation of automated KIRA miro & SAIFU transfer releases

https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1516396522573037568?s=21 Open / Comment

2022-04-10 14:26:24 WEEKLY DEV UPDATES

FRONTEND
Added Firefox private window support
Added build scripts & documentation to enable simple, one command deployments
WIP Account Transactions page

MIDDLEWARE
Updated node discovery response: add safe, block-height, sekaid/interxd version
Added new flags allowing for easier for node discovery & chain_id check

BACKEND
Implement KIP_73 (fee distributor module), added tests and pushed new release v0.1.25-rc.9

WALLET
Refactoring of SAIFU Transfer website for production use
Migrating packages to null safety and testing implementation

INFRASTRUCTURE
Refactored SEKAI & INTERX workflows to protect against unwanted PRs to already released branches
Created workflow for automated generation of Android APK & AAB releases for the SAIFU wallet
Created scripts to analyze 1M+ blocks of the current testnet and generate empirical proof of approximately equal chances for all KIRA validators to propose new blocks

https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1513117034057715712?s=21 Open / Comment

2022-03-25 13:58:40 WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

FRONTEND
Finished Account Balances Page & started code refactor

MIDDLEWARE
Updated proto types for spending pools and corresponding proposals query
Finalized spending pools/proposals query & updated postman API collections
Updated interx functions metadata query to support latest sekai release

BACKEND
KIP_73 (fee distributor module) WIP - building module infra

WALLET
Features and UX update from feedbacks.
Documentation write up for deployment and automation for Saifu.
New SAIFU version released.

INFRASTRUCTURE
Created workflow for automated generation of DEB releases for all KIRA Tools

https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1507307510667042833?s=21 Open / Comment

2022-03-24 19:09:20 Tune in to listen to our Co-Founder & CTO, Mateusz Grzelak @Asmodat , discuss KIRA, #Web3 and Multi-Bonded-Proof-of-Stake (#MBPoS) with zempcapital on EP.238 of the Blockhash Podcast.

Follow the podcast link: https://anchor.fm/blockhash-podcast/episodes/Mateusz-Grzelak---CTO-of-Kira-e1g4nc5 Open / Comment

2022-03-16 15:56:29 WEEKLY DEV UPDATES

FRONTEND
WIP Testing and fixing reported issue with Account Balances Page

MIDDLEWARE
Updated all endpoints grpc paths to ensure compatibility with latest sekai release
Added spending pool query with names filter

BACKEND
KIP_73 (fee pool spending module) review and implementation drafts
Testing changes in the bash script used for setup and release packaging

WALLET
Implementation and designs of securing SAIFU vaults with pin
Improved SAIFU database management

INFRASTRUCTURE
Created workflow for generation of DEB releases for SEKAI & INTERX. Created script for asynchronous queries to API endpoints.

https://twitter.com/kira_core/status/1504076955595026435?s=21 Open / Comment

2022-03-11 16:04:26 WEEKLY DEV UPDATES

FRONTEND
WIP Account Page
Started work on Loading Page

MIDDLEWARE
Created new interxd installation script that does not depend on the docker containers
Modified protobuf generation script to automatically source sekai proto files
Resolved issue with account/balances query endpoints after proto files sourcing

BACKEND
Finalized UBI module
Resolved edge case with spending pool reward rate change

WALLET
Started work on securing vaults and option to import private key wallets

INFRASTRUCTURE
Created github workflow for building & signing docker images in the KRIA docker repository

https://twitter.com/kira_core/status/1502267586314133505?s=21 Open / Comment

2022-02-23 15:53:12 WEEKLY DEV UPDATES

FRONTEND
Implemented designs and new login mechanism in Saifu Sign-in Page
Started work on the Dashboard Validators stats section
Created basic data cache mechanism

MIDDLEWARE
Added status_only flag for validators query api
Included execution fees query for sekai & interx

BACKEND
WIP building proposal system for spending pools

WALLET
Added support for signing & verifying files
Improved text signing & verification UX

INFRASTRUCTURE
Added documentation on creating GPG keys. Resolved issues with the deb packaging

https://twitter.com/kira_core/status/1496466927035822083?s=21 Open / Comment