2021 Q4 Release plan

Release Overview

Simple Overview

Release 1.4.0 marks the fourth Mainnet version upgrade of the Casper protocol. The team has identified several areas of opportunity where the protocol will benefit from performance and sustainability fixes.

This release will focus on Performance & Sustainability.

The goal is to patch Mainnet with the fourth round of sustainability features:

• Fast Sync
• NFT support
• Event stream enhancements
• Update documentation at Casper Documentation

Detailed Overview

Node

• Fast Sync
• Event stream enhancements
• Malicious node(s) strategy
• Deploy acceptor

Execution Engine

• Fast Sync
• Account Unification (Design)
• Tech Debt work

Protocol

• Optimize Consensus memory usage
• Finality signatures improvements

SRE

• Permissioned network performance measurement
• Archival strategy
• Tooling to Spin up a permissioned network in AWS specify the number of nodes, keys, & Associated weights -> new permissioned network.

Ecosystem

• Light client (design & implementation)
• JS SDK maintenance
• Casper Signer UI/UX enhancements
• Signer: Integrate Phishing module
• Hackathons
• Adjustment of contracts and tutorials to network version 1.3
• Developer experience portal & NFT Workflow Doc
• NFT Base Contracts, Auction Contract
• Assembly Script ecosystem push - Upgrades for AssemblyScript
• Encryption dApp
• Document mgmt Demo dApp
• Example Upgrade Contract: Example contracts calling contracts
• Example dApp for 'Casper' events using a named key + event querying.