Changelog

September 2024

• Protocol

  • Updated the default configuration for the transaction pool to enhance performance and efficiency.
  • Fixed an issue with lost Gwat connections to ensure reliable network performance.
  • Optimized the codebase with various edits and fixes to improve overall functionality and stability.
  • Prepared the network for upcoming load testing to ensure system readiness for high transaction volumes.
  • Added the ability to retrieve information based on both optimistic and full consensus, giving developers greater flexibility.

• Node App

  • New: Display the global validator index.
  • New: Display the amount of rewards.
  • Improve: Monitoring optimization.
  • Improve: Using the standard app close button.
  • Fix: Preventing a second instance of the application from starting.
  • Update: Updating the node to the latest version.

• Releases

  • Released New Node App Version 0.4.2.
  • Tested the Wanchain bridge integration on Testnet9, moving us closer to seamless cross-chain functionality.
  • Testing and preparations for the upcoming hard fork are in full swing, ensuring a smooth transition.
  • Successfully completed three load tests that demonstrated Waterfall's ability to handle high transaction volumes and confirmed the network's robustness, scalability, and readiness for large-scale operations under peak conditions.

August 2024

• Protocol
  • Disabled transaction gas limit validation.
  • Applied code fixes and optimizations.
• Node App
  • Added support for delegate rules.
  • Added support for provider nodes.
  • Implemented mass validator activation.
• Releases
  • Released New Node App Version 0.4.1.

July 2024

• Protocol
  • Added block hash to era.
  • Implemented versioned Validator.
  • Enabled Validator extensions: DepositTxs, WithdrawalTxs, ExitTx.
  • Added Validator processing capabilities (deposit, withdrawal, activation, partial deposit withdrawal, handling operations in the same block).
  • Added bootnodes to Mainnet.
• Node App
  • Added support for Mainnet.
  • Renamed "Worker" to "Validator" and "Validator" to "Verifier."
• Explorer
  • Added balance count job.
  • Implemented balance statistics.
  • Added recount TX job.
• Releases
  • Launched Mainnet, now open to public use.
  • Released New Node App Version 0.4.0.

June 2024

• Protocol
  • Successfully passed load testing with 1.5 million validators, supported by Google Cloud Web3 infrastructure. The network operated on more than 6,200 nodes.
  • Added Fetcher with capabilities to validate Slot and Era.
  • Improved validator storage.
  • Implemented fetching of unloaded parents.
  • Enhanced transition period processing.
  • Removed delays from default cases.
  • Added parameters for using a fixed era length.
• Explorer
  • Added monitoring for validator slots in each epoch.
• Releases
  • Launched Testnet9.
  • Initiated mainnet launch for internal testing and verification before public release.

May 2024

• Protocol
  • Added additional bootnodes for Testnet8.
  • Optimized the EVM MSTORE opcode.
  • Resolved issues related to generating Go/Java bindings for contracts.
  • Modernized internal opcode names to align with Solidity.
  • Streamlined the EVM implementation and enhanced the interpreter loop.
  • Upgraded elliptic curve cryptography.
  • Fixed various errors and optimized code.
• Node App
  • Added ability to download the latest snapshot when adding a new node.
  • Implemented options to import and remove workers and nodes.
  • Added a path option when removing a node.
  • Disabled activation, deactivation, and withdrawal buttons if the node is stopped.
  • Added a check for invalid mnemonics during worker import.
  • Fixed issue where fields were cleared when switching windows during withdrawal.
  • Improved Coordinator/Validator peer management by adding workers.
  • Enhanced optimistic consensus.
• Releases
  • Released New Node App Version 0.3.1
  • Released New Node App Version 0.3.2

April 2024

• Protocol
  • Added Bazel support for GWAT.
  • Implemented ForkChoice (including copy, cache, cache integration, and cache optimization).
• Node App
  • Added functionality to launch a full node and sync with the Waterfall network.
  • Enabled worker management (create or remove workers).
  • Added network status and connected peers view.
  • Added option to save all errors to a log file without alerts.
  • Fixed validator status check.
• Explorer
  • Implemented daily transaction count feature.
• Releases
  • Launched the One-Click Setup Node App (Initial Public release) 0.2.0
  • Released New Node App Version 0.2.1
  • Released New Node App Version 0.3.0

March 2024

• Protocol
  • Implemented a new fork on Testnet8.
  • Added node storage optimization.
  • Introduced stake delegation.
  • Applied various fixes and changes.
  • Added secure cold wallet support for staked amounts.
• Node App
  • Provided balance checking capabilities.
  • Supported external SSDs for data storage.
  • Allowed customization of node settings.
  • Activated node to earn stake benefits and rewards.

February 2024

• Protocol
  • Terminated Testnet7.
  • Added deposit signature validator.
  • Implemented deposit signature validation.
  • Updated GWAT import process.
  • Introduced a new workflow for log processing.
  • Applied fixes and optimizations.
• Bridge
  • Implemented GetTransactionByHash method for clients.

January 2024

• Protocol
  • Prepared optimizations for switching to Testnet8.
  • Added versioned data for valSyncOp.
  • Implemented delegation withdrawal.
  • Updated balance transaction log data.
  • Added activate & deactivate transaction log data.
  • Implemented activate/deactivate transaction log functionality.
  • Enabled update balance & delegate transaction logs.
  • Integrated delegation (support for withdrawal role, support for exit role, transaction pool validation for deposit, withdrawal, and exit, fork slot override).
  • Added RestoreValidatorSyncOp.
  • Added API for parsing validator data in transaction logs.
  • Implemented clean state mechanism for withdrawals.
• Explorer
  • Applied optimizations and fixes.
• Wallet
  • Added Hetzner Cloud support.
  • Introduced deposit service.

December 2023

• Protocol
  • Testnet7 successfully processed nearly 2 million transactions across 1,589 blocks during a load test.
  • Conducting load testing for Testnet8.
  • Ongoing fixes for backend initialization (WIP).
  • Resolved transaction receipt error log formatting.
  • Fixed accessor chain issues.
  • Added processing of withdrawals on GWAT during sync.
  • Introduced a 3-slot delay for finalization.
  • Added and implemented transaction error logging.
  • Enabled delegation (JS support, operation, validator extension, transaction processing, transaction data handling, fork checks).
  • Resolved contract transaction validation issues.
  • Fixed delegation rules.
  • Implemented validator sync operation: balance from coordinator.
  • Added configuration for DelegateForkEpoch.
  • Added withdrawal operation: balance addition.
• Explorer
  • Updated Redis.
  • Implemented data compression.
• Bridge
  • Added CI token support.
  • Added personal token support.
• Wallet
  • Added support for user data.
• Releases
  • Public launch of Testnet8.

November 2023

• Protocol:
  • Launch and internal testing of Testnet8
  • Fixing the selection of the parent block when forks occur (optimistic consensus)
  • Fixing the rollback to the checkpoint
  • Resolve Linter issues on the Sharding network
  • Resolve Linter issues on the Coordinating network
  • Integrate Linter into the pipeline
  • Improve synchronization between the Coordinating and Sharding networks
  • Resolve subscription issues related to pre-votes and attestations
  • Improve the drop peers functionality
• Staking site:
  • Fixed minor errors
  • Added descriptions to each section

October 2023

• Protocol:
  • Rollback to checkpoint when starting shard
  • Sending spine block candidates to the proposer
  • Refactoring and optimization of Merkle
  • Parallel synchronization optimization
  • Fixed the block signature in the shard
  • Optimization under high load
  • Fixed synchronization of large blocks
  • Fixed gas estimation for smart contract
• Explorer:
  • Optimisation

September 2023

• Protocol:
  • Fixed a problem with validator peers.
  • Resolved an issue that was causing significant CPU load and increased traffic between Coordinator nodes and the Bootnode when the number of nodes is small.
  • Added account unlocking for creators before block creation.
  • Corrected a panic issue in the beacon-chain service.
  • Fixed a potential panic in the p2p service.
  • Resolved a delay issue where peers took a long time to connect when starting gwat.
  • Updated the version of the blst Rust library.
  • Fixed the display of validator balances during block creation.
  • Enabled running the node without an account in the keystore.
  • Resolved synchronization issues when half of the nodes are turned off.
  • The first creator of the first slot is now able to create an empty block if no blocks were created during the epoch.
  • Refactored the validation of the head and block.
• Explorer:
  • Optimisation

August 2023

• Protocol:
  • Fixed Subnet Discovery in the coordinating network (reduces traffic consumption)
  • Fixed Peer Banning in the coordinating network (peers are instantly discovered and not banned)
  • Enhanced Synchronization between coordinating node and blockDAG node, introducing 3 synchronization modes
  • Enabled Finalized Checkpoint-based State Preservation (accelerates synchronization)
  • Optimized Single Node Operation for generating multiple blocks per slot
  • Worker Lifecycle Enhancement for nodes flashed in the genesis
  • Accelerated Synchronization among blockDAG nodes, simultaneous block fetching from multiple nodes
  • Transaction Fees and Rewards Adjustment based on tokenomics formulas in both networks
  • Rapid Resolution of Software Freezing
  • Fixed smart-contract deployment

July 2023

• Protocol:
  • Fixed coordinator <-> gwat syncing
  • Improved optimistic consensus (pre-vote proposing)
  • Conducted memory leak testing
  • Resolved issues with RC1 network
  • Addressed transaction propagation errors across nodes
  • Fixed attestation and rewards mechanisms
  • Improved and refactored DAG syncing(pager)
  • Resolved era transition issues during finalization
  • Performed manual and automated tests for Subnetworks
  • Enhanced subnet fork calculation
  • Rectified shuffle algorithm
  • Adjusted block number calculations per era and slot, as well as era length

June 2023

• Protocol
  • tested and fixed rewards and penalties
  • improved exit/withdraw worker
  • updated Bazel
  • fixed coordinator <-> gwat syncing
  • added new RPC API and updated API documentation
  • conducted manual and automated tests for Subnetworks
  • performed other testing and fixing
• Explorer:
  • added monitoring status and balance of Coordinators
• Staking site:
  • use the explorer API to display various statistics

May 2023

• Protocol
  • implement new optimistic consensus
  • improve coordinator <-> gwat sync
  • integration, system, regression, performance testing
  • contracts and easy token testing
• Wallet
  • implement new worker on/off boarding
• Bridge
  • tests fix
• Explorer
  • update block view page
  • fix filter on main page

April 2023

• Protocol
  • improve gwat sync
  • implement authorization for API gwat dag.getOptimisticSpines
  • statistics refinement for tokenomics simulation
  • new state refinement and integration
  • new slot's state API
• Wallet
  • support different count workers and price per provider

March 2023

• Protocol
  • implement era
  • worker on/off boarding
  • new rewards for coordinators
  • change gasPrice for tx and rewards for validators
• Wallet
  • refactoring
• DevOps
  • generate new genesis

February 2023

• Protocol
  • handle finalize in separate goroutine
  • clustering algorithm for Subnetworks
  • move creators consensus from coordinator network to gwat
  • add validators to gwat genesis
  • add validators to state
  • validator apply tx
  • refinement of the mechanism for obtaining seed for shuffling
  • native deposit event support (no contract)
  • add consensus tests
  • deposit cli - update to use new spec tx
  • add subnetwork and new consensus to emulation coordination network for local development
  • add node last block monitoring
  • fix Easy Token transaction identification
  • fix finalizing mismatch
  • fix genesis tests

January 2023

• Protocol
  • improve calculate state after finalization
  • clustering algorithm for Subnetworks
  • move creators consensus from coordinator network to gwat
  • block validation for Subnetworks
  • fork choice support for finalization
  • add creators cache
  • block voting aggregation
• Wallet
  • digital ocean integration
• DevOps
  • improve automatisation for networks deploy to digital ocean
• Releases
  • v0.7

December 2022

• Protocol
  • improve calculate state after finalization
  • core clustering algorithm for Subnetworks
  • find peers after change subnet
  • change stake amount 32->32k
  • improve optimistic consensus
  • memory optimization
• Wallet
  • hcloud integration
• DevOps
  • improve automatisation for networks deploy to hcloud

November 2022

• Protocol
  • public statistics of validators for Subnetworks
  • add subnetwork support in cli
  • add subnetwork support in the tx pool
  • broadcast transactions to specific subnets
  • improve sync coordinator and gwat nodes
  • fix freezer
  • fix dag sync no candidates
  • add node sync monitoring
• Wallet
  • bugs fixing
• Node Client
  • add monitoring node
• Bridge
  • add support for multiple bootstrap nodes
  • dynamic reconnect to network
  • implement tests (p2p)
• DevOps
  • improve automatisation for networks deploy to aws

October 2022

• Protocol
  • collect statistics of validators for Subnetworks
  • calculate state after finalization
  • remove recommit cache
  • implement optimistic consensus
  • fix sync blocks batch
  • fix stuck tx
  • fix disconnect gwat from coordinate node
• Wallet
  • bugs fixing
• Bridge
  • implement pBFT consensus
  • private key protection
  • improve tests(monitoring, storage, client, host)
• Releases
  • v0.6

September 2022

• Protocol
  • update block structure
  • improve DAG sync
  • sync coordinator and gwat nodes
  • tests for txPool, processing
  • remove old consensus/clique
  • fix txpool
  • fix create collect parents
• Explorer
  • api for Easy tokens
  • api documentation
• Wallet
  • support for Easy tokens
  • support stable coin payment
• Bridge
  • add support Easy Tokens on backend
  • private key storage
  • refactoring
  • add binary protection
  • fix pending nonce
  • fix broadcast messages
• Releases
  • v0.5

August 2022

• Protocol
  • receipts for Easy Token
  • market functions for Easy Token
  • propagation block validation
  • add spines logic
  • support multi block creation
  • change flag --mine to --create
  • use coordination consensus in gwat
  • fix transactions broadcast
  • fix get block output
  • fix tips consistency
  • fix invalid nonce
  • fix sync
  • fix default nonce in rpcTransaction
  • fix ordering of finalization
  • fix empty dag hashes in admin.nodeInfo
  • fix empty LastFinalizedHash in tips
• Explorer
  • support for Easy tokens in Watcher
• Web3js extend module
  • support for Easy tokens
• Wallet
  • AWS integration
  • support for Easy tokens
  • support Water transactions
  • contacts
• Node Client
  • add api services to start node for wallet app
• Apps
  • fork Remix app
• Bridge
  • improve messages planner
  • block queue
  • users QA
• DevOps
  • develop script to auto send generated tx
  • setup automatisation for networks deploy to aws
• Releases
  • v0.4

July 2022

• Protocol
  • fix mint and burn for Easy Token
  • tests for Easy Token
  • rename minter to creator
  • improve txpool to prevent duplication of transactions in a block
  • implement genesis deposit contract
  • creators calculation
  • use emulation coordination network for local development
• Explorer
  • Postgres DB support
• Wallet
  • Stripe integration
  • Add validator functions
  • KYC
• Bridge
  • calculate nonce
  • sync tests
  • improve messages planner
  • implement tests(monitoring, signature, client, host)

June 2022

• Protocol
  • implement candidate and finalization blocks
  • finalization DAG blocks
  • fix non-empty create blocks
  • fix dag ordering
  • test speed 6
• Wallet
  • design DB
  • Metamask auth
• Bridge
  • messages planner
  • connections pull
  • improve logger
  • implement tests(client, types)
  • signature

May 2022

• Protocol
  • connect coordinator node to gwat node
  • rename geth to gwat
  • improve consensus for DAG test
  • bazel support
  • coordinator support
  • Easy token tests
  • fix ethclient
  • fix simulated
• Explorer
  • api usage update
  • block filter
• Bridge
  • split block receiver and transactions handler
  • UI bugs fixing
• Releases
  • v0.3

April 2022

• Protocol
  • implement cache state
  • fix creator tips
  • fix repair node while start
• Bridge
  • refactoring
  • transactions monitoring
  • UI functions

March 2022

• Protocol
  • chain explorer optimisation
  • fix estimate gas
  • fix lint
  • fix low nonce
  • fix receipts
  • fix broadcast blocks
• Bridge
  • connect to networks
  • messages type
  • catch erc20 transactions
  • UI functions

February 2022

• Protocol
  • fix block propagation
  • fix freezer
  • fix sync
  • fix ordering
  • fix consensus
  • fix bootnode
  • test speed 4
• Explorer
  • optimisation watcher
  • api usage update
• Apps
  • fork demo Aave app
  • fork demo Curve app
• Bridge
  • UI functions
  • implement lib p2p
  • implement core
• Releases
  • v0.2

January 2022

• Protocol
  • refactoring Easy Token
  • refactoring core
  • refactoring rawdb
  • refactoring DAG
  • refactoring blockchain
  • refactoring ordering
  • refactoring api
  • improve emulation coordination network to generate tx for test speed
  • test speed 1-3
• Bridge
  • design
  • investigate lib p2p

December 2021

• Protocol
  • refactoring Easy Token
  • bug fixing and test blockDAG node
  • improve emulation coordination network
• Explorer
  • fix bugs and improve
• Faucet
• Apps
  • fork demo Uniswap app

November 2021

• Protocol
  • emulation coordination network
  • fix metamask connection
  • bug fixing and test blockDAG node
• Releases
  • v0.1

October 2021

• Protocol
  • change messages protocol
  • sync finalization and dag part between nodes
  • implement DAG ordering algorithm (Phantom)
  • finalization blocks
  • update api for explorer
• Explorer
  • Main page
  • Blocks pages
  • Accounts pages
  • Transactions page
• Events
  • 11.10.2021 - Dubai

September 2021

• Protocol
  • change block structures
  • remove block number required in code
  • create and propagate DAG block
  • users QA for Easy tokens
• Explorer
  • Watcher blocks and transaction

August 2021

• Protocol
  • ERC721 functions for Easy tokens
  • Marketplace functions for Easy tokens

July 2021

• Protocol
  • ERC20 functions for Easy tokens
  • change PoW to ePoS

June 2021

• Protocol
  • design Easy tokens
  • fork ethereum