First half 2015 R&D plan of DarkNetSpace

DarkNetCoin was forked from the ByteCoin which was developed by CryptoNote team. The implementation code of CryptoNote series cryptocurrencies is completely different with Bitcoin. Currently the code is not mature enough and the user experience is not good, so DNC team decided to solve these problems with higher priority.

I. The open issues of CryptoNote series cryptocurrencies

• 1. Open-sourced blockchain explorer not available.
• 2. The maximal bytes of transaction and blockchain are limited to 30K, which will lead to "Transaction too big" issue. It is because the miner's wallet have many small incoming amount so that the transaction will be bigger that 30K.
• 3. All blockchain date stores in a single file which can't afford huge amount of trades. The whole data file will occupy lots of system memory after it is loaded.
• 4. No online wallet, online wallet is difficult to build because of the anonymous system.
• 5. No light weight wallet. The SPV protocol is not suitable for CryptoNote series cryptocurrencies.
• 6. Script system not available, which is necessary to build smart contract.

All of above are the reasons to block the CryptoNote series cryptocurrencies spreading globally. Before these issues are fixed, the cryptocurrencies will face poor user experience, and the anonymous applications such as P2P exchange or onchainshop can't be developed.

DNC team makes these issues as the first priority. not only contribute to the CryptoNote community, but also extend the way of DNC development.

II. R&D Plan

• Jan: release 0.7.0 wallet, blockchain explorer 0.2.0, fix issue #1 and #2.
• Feb: release 0.7.2 wallet, implant TOR, fix issue #3.
• Apr: release 0.7.5 wallet, release online wallet, fix issue #4.
• May: release 0.7.8 wallet, implant TRR, release POS system, fix issue #5.
• Jun: release 0.8.0 wallet, release script system, fix issue #6.

III. Version 0.7.0 Features, release soon

Changelog:

1.Support socks5 proxy.

2.blockchain rule update:

• Implant Make Alias feature, it will cost 101 DNC each alias, 100DNC will be rewarded to miners and 1DNC to DNC team.
  
• Modify the rule of fee calculation, no more exceed fee issue.
• Increase the maximal bytes of blockchain to 1M bytes from 130000th block. fixed the "Transaction too big" issue.

3.dnsd

• Add height command to display current block height.
  
• Add alias command to display all aliases.
  
• Add 3 RPC json API, get_transactions, get_tx_pool, get_blocks_by_heights
  
• Add command line parameter: --enable-proxy 127.0.0.1:1080
  
• Add builtin command: enable_proxy, disable_proxy
  

4.simplewallet

• Add make_alias command to create alias.
  
• Add change_password command to change the password of wallet.
  
• The simplewallet will auto-save the data every 4 hours.
• Add RPC API get_incoming_tx.
  
• Fixed the simplewallet RPC mode stop to connecting the dnsd when it failed 3 times.

5.qt-dnsp

• Add Setting interface to display and save the configuration.
  
• Add Alias interface to display and create the alias.
  
• Add Change Password interface to change the wallet password.
  
• Add statistics data in the Network interface.

6.connectivity_tool

• Add default time out value, it will prevent daemon from unable to communicate when the timeout parameter missing in the command line.