Simulation and study of consensus algorithms started.
Design of consensus algorithm and distributed ledger started.
Specifications for the consensus algorithm completed.
Specifications for the distributed ledger completed.
Small-scale testing of the consensus algorithm was carried out.
Legal opinion on the project funding model was obtained.
The website and whitepaper were developed.
The project was launched as Unblocked Ledger Coin. No ICO needed.
The core team has been expanded with more developers.
The Project was rebranded from Unblocked Ledger to Shardus.
The Shardus Consensus Algorithm for a single shard was developed.
Large-scale testing of the Shardus Consensus Algorithm was carried out on global network.
The Shardus mobile app and web wallet were developed.
Videos, blog posts and other content explaining the Shardus project were developed.
The team gave a demo of the Drift concensus algorithm.
The first version of the Shardus server software will be developed using only one shard and simple transactions.
The Shardus mobile and web wallet will be updated to work with the Enterprise server.
The team gave a demo of 20 node unsharded network for simple coin transfer along with a mobile wallet app. The network got out of sync.
Node rotation, load detection, rate limiting and auto scaling added to the Shardus server software.
The Shardus mobile and web wallet will be updated to work with the Enterprise server.
The team gave a demo of a 20 node unsharded network with node rotation, auto-scaling and rate-limiting. The network ran at 50 TPS.
Lost node detection added to the server.
Initial implementation of sharding. Demo sharding in static network. Added lost node detection, transaction routing, cross shard consensus and communication, partition repair.
The team gave a demo of the development tools. Also demoed a 15 node sharded network with transactions hitting multiple shards. But the network was static with all nodes joining at the beginning.
Demo sharding in dynamic network. Support for archive server and data repair in progress.
The Liberdus payment network Website developed to build a community for the project.
The team demonstrated sharding in a dynamic network to acheive linear scaling. A 10 node sharded network was able to process 100 TPS and when it grew to 40 nodes it was able to process 400 TPS.
Support for archive server and data repair in progress.
The Liberdus payment network application was developed by forking the Shardus software and modifying the application layer.
The Liberdus wallet was developed with support for coin transfer, secure messaging, and DAO for funding projects and adjusting economic parameters.
The team demonstrated the Liberdus network and wallet
Converted code base to TypeScript. Rework of the Peer-to-peer network consensus code. Code converted to TypwScript. Archive server storing cycles. Auto NAT traversal. Node admin interface. Global accounts feature added. Docker image for Rasberry Pi. Improvement to the data repair code. Documentation rewrite.
The public Liberdus test network was released for validators to download the binaries and join the network.
The team demonstrated the proposal and voting features of the Liberdus DAO. Also demoed running a validator node for the Liberdus network using a VPS and Rasberry Pi.
Improvement to the data repair code. Archive Server feature enhancements. Code hardening.
Experiment with network parameters. Code hardening.
The team demonstrated rebooting a sharded network and recovering the state even when only a fraction of the nodes rejoin.
Merging of Enterprise and Global server. Trustless transaction verification. Map reduce for stats in sharded network. Archive Server feature enhancements. Sharded network stability improvement. Shardus CLI improvements.
Redesign of the Liberdus UI. Development of the Liberdus Explorer. Code hardening
The team demonstrated the Liberdus explorer, the new Liberdus UI and the trustless transaction verification system.
Archive servers are able join the network and sync with others.
Liberdus server stability improvements. Code hardening
The team demonstrated linear scaling on a network of AWS t3.miros running across 20 data centers. A sharded 20 node network was able to acheive 100 TPS and a sharded 200 node network was able to hit 1000 TPS.
The team tried to demonstrate auto-scaling, but had issies with nodes getting out of sync when the network was scaling down.
The gossip algorithm was improved. The team demonstrated auto-scaling and linear scaling, with a network of 20 nodes growing to 80 nodes as the transaction throughput increased. When the transaction load was decreased the network shrank back down to 20 nodes.
The team demonstrated the PeerSwap decentralized network built using Shardus. Also demonstrated linear and auto-scaling by growing a new network on AWS to 1000 nodes and achieving 5000 TPS.
Shardus partners with Shardeum to build a sharded smart contract platform.
The team demonstrated a
prototype EVM compatible smart contract platform built using Shardus.
The team demonstrate and launched Shardeum Alphanet 1.0, an unsharded network of 10 nodes and throughput of 15 TPS.
The team demonstrated and launched Shardeum Alphanet 2.0 with sharding enabled and showed a 200 node network acheiving 100 TPS.
The team demonstrated autoscaling in an EVM based smart contract platform. Started with a network of 250 active nodes and 250 standby nodes. Load transactions were ERC20 token transfers that started at 130 TPS and grew to 250 TPS. Network automatically grew to 500 nodes to accomidate the new load. When the TPS load was removed the network size went down. Team manually did AMM swaps to show composability.
The team demonstrated automatic EIP2930 access list generation. This allows EVM contracts on Shardeum to be used with existing front-ends without requiring developers to implement EIP2930.
The team announced the launch of the Shardeum Betanet (aka Sphinx network) which allows community members to run validators and join the network. Over 5,000 community run validators joined the network in first month.
The team announced the launch of the Shardeum Dappsnet and improvements to the Betanet. Over 16,000 community run validators joined the Betanet.