Progress Report for Week of March 8th - March 14th, 2021

Development Work Completed During Week:

Repositories Updated:

- https://github.com/blur-network/dpow-blur - Testnet repository for v11 network hardfork
- https://github.com/blur-network/blur-explorer - Testnet explorer with v11 changes
- https://github.com/blur-network/blur-api-cpp - Compatibility layer for cross-chain comms with KMD
- https://github.com/who-biz/dPoW - Fork of Komodo's DPoW repository
- https://github.com/who-biz/nntools - Notary node monitoring tools

Development Milestones Reached:

- Testnet explorer with real-time display of pending notarization in ntzpool/txpool is now live at https://testnetexplorer.blur.cash
- Completed approximately 100 successful notarizations to KMD mainnet blockchain (partially valid)
- Improvement of `dpow-blur` testnet synchronization speed by minimizing expensive calls to database
- Added support for importing bitcoin-like public keys to blur daemon via `--btc-pubkey` commandline option
- Addition of `scriptPubKey` generation for for valid mocking of BTC `P2PK` scripts(necessary for iguana transaction-handling)
- Surpassed 1100+ notarizations on Blur Network testnet
- Added support for pending notarizations to Blur Network Explorer
- Forked https://github.com/who-biz/nntools from https://github.com/webworker01/nntools, for notary node data monitoring on Komodo
- Successful testing with Komodo of blur<->kmd cross-chain comms
- Resolved crashes in `blur-api-cpp` due to concurrent RPC calls for Blur chain data coming from iguana

Community Work Completed During Week:

- Discord bridge between Komodo Discord and Blur Network Discord has been created in channel #kmd-bridge, for live feeding of messages from their chat to ours
- Began planning for participation in Komodo 2021 NN tesnet
- Researched with help of Telegram community Member "Ultimate": ways to automate press releases for weekly/monthly progress reports (plan to use Zapier to post WordPress blog posts to Medium/Twitter)

Goals for Week of March 15th - March 21st:

- Continued testing wtih Komodo
- Shore up deployment procedures for Blur Notary Node setup
- Improve procedure instructions, consolidate full setup into single deployment script
- Add `sig_count`/`signers_index` fields to explorer's Pending Notarization Pool
- Make communication through `blur-api-cpp` bi-directional so that `blurd` can fetch information from iguana to embed in blur transactions
- Update Roadmap for 2021, input milestones from 2020 not currently reflected on Roadmap
- Set up section for *Progress Reports* on https://blur.cash, automate publishing of these releases to Medium/Twitter
- Decoding of `OP_RETURN` data posted to Komodo's blockchain for BLUR notarizations, fetch data for publishing data to BLUR blockchain in back-notarization portion of feedback loop
- Add `decoderawtransaction` to `blur-api-cpp` compat layer, make `signrawtransaction` functional rather than just a dummy method