<aside> 🛠 This section is about the issues tackled by the development team for this week, and that the changes which won't be included in the next release right away.
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For those of you who haven't seen Nine Chronicle before this August, this may be a bit of an absurd story. “Is the time-out more likely than it is now?” Yes, unfortunately until August 28th.
As previously shared, this problem was primarily due to Libplanet's throughput issues, and we were able to fix it when we faced the problem of not getting blocks on the first day of applying permission mining. This reduced the timeout very sharply.
However, with recent patches and changes to usage patterns, we have observed that this timeout continues to increase, albeit slowly. Of course, it is still at a smooth level compared to before August, but to solve this problem, we are experimenting with various changes by setting agendas such as block synchronization method and processing speed improvement.
After integrating v100082, we found too many performance degradations and freezing points. 😢 Fortunately, we fixed some of the UI freezing issues on v100083. but they're still slow and unstable yet.
On the other hand, we'll restore the "Send NCG" menu that RPC mode hadn't supported. To safely implement this, command-line commands are being added to Nine Chronicle Headless, and you will be able to create your own applications (i.e., wallet) using them outside of the game launcher.
As previously stated, we were testing our implementation of PBFT on Libplanet. Unfortunately, the review has led to the internal conclusion that it is impossible to implement all of the PBFT full modes within the year.
Therefore, we are going to try two styles of approach.
What we were initially thinking about was a direct implementation of a PoA system like 1. However, it takes time to implement it ourselves (albeit simpler than PBFT), and it may take more effort to improve it to work reliably. So there was a suggestion to recycle the old authentication miner system. Of course, if the old authentication miner system is reused as it is, it is difficult to secure finality, so the block interval should be extremely low. We are going to quickly check whether the second option works properly in an internal test cluster.