11 October 2022

Proposal 2210-8 : Infrastructure Escrow Funding

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Proposal Type: Signalling
Champion: 0o-de-lally
Date: 12 October 2022
State: Draft / Work in Progress

Context

If the Final Supply proposal (2210-1) passes, an Infrastructure Escrow Community Wallet will be created to provide future validator rewards; this is a replacement for the daily minting of coins. The need for validator incentives will remain after minting of new coins stops, and this fund is designed to fill that gap into the medium term future (5-10 years). 

Note that the re-basing contemplated by the Final Supply proposal means that the total supply will increase by a multiple. That multiple can be applied equally to all wallet types or distributed among the wallet holders in a variety of unequal fashions.…

11 August 2022

New Milestones for Carpe

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The 0L Network today reached a new record in terms of activity on the network: The daily number of active Carpe miners topped 2,000 for the first time today, with 2,080 installations running and earning tokens today. The number of active Carpe miners has been increasing steadily across the last 30 days, as new users have joined the community and discovered how easy it is to run Carpe and earn rewards.

Also on this date we have released a newly updated version of Carpe – version 0.5.0. Here’s what’s new:

  • Wallet-to-wallet coin transfers
  • Better reliability connecting to the chain
  • Dynamic VDF proofs (improving network and miner performance!)
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29 April 2022

Spring Forward

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Growth requires challenge. 

There was plenty of such fuel over the last several weeks, challenging our community to run a functional and fair network that is more poised for growth. This announcement will detail what has happened, how we addressed it and how, along the way, we solved a number of different problems and improved prospects going forward.

On 9 April 2022, the 0L Network halted. Multiple factors combined to create the incident; factors that started small and cascaded until the entire network ceased to produce blocks. While the detailed causes and the technical forensics have been discussed at length in our community meetings, the important point to raise here is that the halt was avoidable – or rather would have been avoidable – had a sufficient number within our validator community been more attentive to their machines and taken steps in a timely fashion.…

25 March 2022

Carpe Goes Multilingual

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We’ve released, today, a new version of the 0L Network’s Carpe Wallet & Desktop Miner. This release (v.0.3.0) is our latest release in the Carpe Beta series and includes significant new functionality, including multilingual support and a new tab “Events”, which displays a list of events associated with your account (i.e., when coins move in and out of the wallet). This latest version ships with Chinese, Portuguese, and French language support. It is our plan to add additional languages in the near future.

To upgrade to the latest version, simply shut down and then restart your Carpe instance. You should be prompted to install the new version.…

22 March 2022

Research Report: Decentralizing Permissioned Blockchain with Delay Towers

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This report, published 18 March 2022, looks at the Delay Towers mechanism that was pioneered and deployed in the 0L Network.

The article was co-authored by Shashank Motepalli and Hans-Arno Jocobsen of the University of Toronoto. We quote the original synopsis below:

Growing excitement around permissionless blockchains is uncovering its latent scalability concerns. Permissioned blockchains offer high transactional throughput and low latencies while compromising decentralization. In the quest for a decentralized, scalable blockchain fabric, i.e., to offer the scalability of permissioned blockchain in a permissionless setting, we present L4L to encourage decentralization over the permissioned Libra network without compromising its sustainability.…