Weekly Engineering Update

Halving: First Halving successfully completed at block 840000!

Zend: Working on a Reindex performance optimization. Preliminary measures show a speedup. Currently measuring benchmarks

zend_oo: Completed first draft with all the relevant functionalities and integration tests. Proceeding with improving the performances with code refactoring and adding Unit Tests.

Proving System: Identified bottleneck on the GPU optimizations.

SDK: Applying changes related to the state reorganization, new state extensibility mechanism, state view concept introduction and a new forger transactions collecting logic

Sidechain Explorer: Started working on the SDK in order to allow the future support of sidechain Explorer. Implemented websocket server architecture on the sidechain node and started to add the endpoints needed by the Sidechain Explorer. Design of related unit tests to follow