Sprint Nov 28th - Dec 9th

New feature "Express Deal"

Added new "Express Deal" feature discussed here. This feature allows providers create deals without a previous proposal, this feature includes:

• New function createDeal inside the smart contract
• New function createdeal inside the provider-cli
• Wrote all required tests to be sure everything works as expected
• Created a general Appeal contract useful if a provider wants to allow anyone create appeals

New feature "Network status"

A new daemon written in Rust was developed to aggregate statistics on deals, network and create value-over-time charts. This daemon connects directly to MongoDB and runs all required aggregations. Final result is saved in form of json files.

Also a boilerplate for the UI was inserted expecting a minimal UI to check the network status in next sprint.

Documentation improvements

• Better management of README.md page
• Wrote an architectural diagram that explains how parties interact.
• Added the TESTS.md page inside the smart-contracts website
• Aligned PAPER.md page to last version on HackMD

API fixes

• Added the stats endpoint that serves the previously calculated aggregated stats.
• Minor fixes on the deal parser
• Minor fixes on the connection between onchain.storage API and retriev API