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Dear OPEN Community,

As our swap process finishes up, we are excited to share technical details and updates regarding the OPEN Chain.

Though the Platform has been completed and has been available for use, we wanted to in addition develop an open-sourced protocol that would provide the crypto ecosystem a modular, high-throughput blockchain that introduces a novel interoperable architecture. While some smart contract platforms exist, we see the space as very early, providing a golden opportunity for technically sound protocols built from the ground up to emerge over existing highly-marketed copies of Ethereum. The team is proud of the progress that has been made in this additional contribution to the ecosystem. While other projects may focus on their roadmaps we thought this additional contribution to the ecosystem would serve well bringing a faster, more interoperable solution to the market.

We wanted to detail some of the accomplished deliverables over the past 6 months from our first public Github release published on June 2018 to the end of December 2018 surrounding this project. You’ll find an explanation around notable components below that will provide some understanding.

 

OPEN Chain 1.0 – 1.5 Development Updates

We’ve made progress on a number of OPEN Chain components.

Core:

Transaction validation along with block capacity have both been developed. Ongoing improvements to transaction creation and validation are taking place in our private tests. Time synchronization and block synchronization have both been implemented. This will allow for quick verification of transaction history.


RPC:


The ability to vote and see sum votes has been included. Response pagination has also been improved.

 

Smart Contract:

We’ve added base initialization, base entities, base service interface, and samples. With smart contract generation, a test contract has also been conducted. Loading of this contract into JVM and basic validation has been performed which are important steps towards deploying live contracts on a public chain. We have recently included the contract executor as well.

 

Network:

Time synchronization protocol accuracy has been improved. New client info now broadcasts across the network and expired messages are filtered. Safeguards have been implemented for failed connection attempts.

We have made tremendous progress on OPEN Chain as shown through our GitHub releases. Please see below for a comprehensive list of our OPEN Chain releases with our first release on June 18th.  

 

 

Development

A release history can be found below to show consistent development by the team throughout the year. Release notes are provided as well as downloadbles along with the change log. Developments to the network layer, Core layer, RPC layer, Smart Contract layer and other components are described below. Additional details and notes will be provided in our end of year update.

 

OPEN Chain Releases (June 2018 – December 2018)

 

[1.5.0] – 2018-12-14 released this 15 days ago

Assets

Added

  • Smart contracts: contract basic executor

Changed

  • Sync: time synchronization based on ntp servers
  • Network: strict quantity of permanent connections
  • Network: in case of failed connection attempt, node is not allowed to retry connect for an hour
  • Network: node maintains minimum amount of connections, when there is a lack of them
  • Smart contracts: contract variable class validation is supplemented

Checksums

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[1.4.0] – 2018-11-29 released this 26 days ago · 188 commits to master since this release

Assets

[1.4.0] – 2018-11-29

Added

  • Smart contracts: loading of a contract to JVM
  • Smart contracts: contract basic validation

Changed

  • Core: at chain synchronization a chain of blocks is requested instead of last block
  • Core: time synchronization is based on time-synchronized nodes

Checksums

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[1.3.0] – 2018-11-16 released this on Nov 16 · 260 commits to master since this release

Assets

Added

  • Network: broadcast new client info over the entire network
  • Network: filtering expired messages

Changed

  • Network: removed heartbeat handler response
  • RPC: Response pagination improved

Checksums

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[1.2.0] – 2018-10-22  released this on Oct 22 · 292 commits to master since this release

Assets

Added

  • Smart contract: address generation utilities
  • Smart contract: test contract

Changed

  • Network: time synchronization protocol accuracy is increased
  • Communication Protocol: time synchronization messages are updated
  • Smart contract: base contract class structure

Checksums

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[1.1.0] – 2018-10-11 released this on Oct 11 · 324 commits to master since this release

Assets

Added

  • Smart contract: base initialization
  • Smart contract: base entities
  • Smart contract: base service interface
  • Smart contract: samples
  • Core: unconfirmed balance check by unconfirmed transactions
  • Wallet UI: sorting transactions by timestamp in a reverse order

Changed

  • Core: transaction validation improved when creating a block
  • Core: update configuration file information when values change
  • Database: unconfirmed balance removed from wallets table

Checksums

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[1.0.0] – 2018-09-25  released this on Sep 25 · 376 commits to master since this release

Assets

Added

  • Core: transaction validation
  • Core: transactions priority balancing
  • Core: block capacity
  • Database: tables indexes
  • RPC: recalled vote flag
  • RPC: vote date to “get all votes” response

Changed

  • SQLite database changed to H2
  • Core: unconfirmed balance calculation is improved

Checksums

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Pre-release

[0.8.0] – 2018-09-07 released this on Sep 7 · 485 commits to master since this release

Assets

Added

  • Consensus: delegate public key field to a delegation transaction
  • RPC: delegate public key parameter to a delegation transaction request
  • Network: node ID as a network identifier
  • Core: unconfirmed output balance to a wallet
  • RPC: wallet address validation
  • RPC: node ID added to active delegate response
  • Wallet UI: Send delegate transaction
  • Wallet UI: Send vote transaction
  • Wallet UI: Transactions list

Changed

  • Network: addresses exploring mechanism
  • Network: nodes reconnection mechanism
  • Core: synchronization mechanism
  • Core: wallet balances calculation improved

Checksums

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Pre-release

[0.7.0] – 2018-08-31  released this on Aug 31 · 598 commits to master since this release

Assets

Added

  • Initiation as active delegates on chain start
  • Configuration file
  • Network: Greeting response message contains node’s external host

Changed

  • Node private key moved from a separate file to a configuration file
  • Network: Improved connection to active delegates
  • Core: Improved vote transaction validation when a wallet had already voted
  • Core: Empty block creation is allowed

Checksums

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Pre-release

[0.6.1] – 2018-08-27 released this on Aug 27 · 666 commits to master since this release

Assets

Added

  • Application properties for docker

Checksums

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Pre-release

[0.6.0] – 2018-08-24

evgeny-krylov released this on Aug 24 · 680 commits to master since this release

Assets

Added

  • Network: A UID for nodes
  • Sync: Up node synchronization
  • Sync: Application synchronization status
  • Sync: Check application synchronization status and start synchronization if need
  • RPC: Get explorer info
  • RPC: Get a list of blocks
  • RPC: Get a list of transactions
  • RPC: Main and genesis block endpoints unit tests
  • Wallet UI: Create a transaction
  • Wallet UI: Past transaction list

Changed

  • Core: Genesis and Main blocks are not broadcasted after creation, pending blocks are broadcasted instead
  • Core validation: Now it is impossible to create vote transaction on the nonexistent delegate
  • Core validation: Now it is impossible to generate a request of vote transaction with the nonexistent vote type
  • Core validation: Now it is impossible to create transactions with a negative fee
  • Core validation: Improved fee and amount validation for the transfer transaction
  • Core: Removed validation from main block service on adding a block
  • Core: Removed validation from genesis service on adding a block

Checksums

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[0.5.0] – 2018-08-10  released this on Aug 10 · 883 commits to master since this release

Assets

Added

  • Consensus: Intervals between time slots for synchronization
  • Consensus: Prevote stage on block creation
  • Consensus: Commit stage on block creation
  • Wallet UI: Generate a seed phrase
  • Wallet UI: Create a wallet
  • Wallet UI: Save wallet data in a file
  • Wallet UI: Protect the file with password
  • Wallet UI: Access wallet with file
  • Wallet UI: Restore wallet from a private key
  • Wallet UI: Restore wallet from the seed phrase
  • RPC: Total number of nodes connected to the network
  • RPC: Get number of current epoch
  • RPC: Get when the current epoch started
  • RPC: Get number of delegates
  • RPC: Get number of an epoch when the block was created
  • RPC: Import private key in hex format
  • RPC: Get transactions by wallet address

Changed

  • New file structure

Checksums

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Pre-release

[0.4.0] – 2018-07-27 released this on Jul 27 · 1254 commits to master since this release

Assets

Added

  • Time slots mechanism
  • Delegate transaction
  • Vote/Recall vote transaction
  • Vote weight based on wallet balance
  • Reward transaction
  • Transaction sign
  • Delegate transaction verification
  • Vote/Recall vote verification
  • Reward transaction verification
  • Transaction fee
  • Genesis address defined in properties
  • Transactions fees are defined in properties
  • Reward for block creation is defined in properties
  • RPC: Add delegate transaction
  • RPC: Add vote/recall vote transaction
  • RPC: Add transfer transaction
  • RPC: Get delegates info
  • RPC: Page request filter
  • RPC: Application version and timestamp fields to all responses
  • TCP: Application version and timestamp fields to all packets
  • Database: unconfirmed transactions tables

Changed

  • Serialization mechanism to support kotlin classes
  • Transactions structure

Checksums

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Pre-release

[0.3.0] – 2018-07-13 released this on Jul 13 · 1459 commits to master since this release

Assets

Added

  • Address mixed-case checksum
  • Address validation
  • RPC requests: validateAddress
  • Vote transaction type
  • Voting algorithm mechanism
  • Voting storing
  • Delegate rating calculation
  • Active delegates storing
  • Wallet balance calculation
  • Database: added Wallet entity
  • RPC requests: getWalletBalance
  • Sign data
  • Verify signed data
  • Define epoch duration in properties
  • Get current epoch height
  • Check if genesis block is needed
  • Sharing peers between nodes
  • Maintaining necessary connections count
  • Connection establishing logic
  • Scheduled check of connections
  • Reconnection logic
  • Generating private and public key pairs on app start and saving in a file if not existing
  • Shuffle active delegates
  • Transaction Merkle hash calculation
  • Block production
  • Block validation
  • Block, transaction, signature conversion from protobuff to the business object and vice versa
  • Accumulation of signatures from nodes
  • Block approving
  • Block applying by scheduling

Changed

  • Default account info is added to the doGenerateMaster end-point response
  • doGenerateMaster end-point renamed to doRestore
  • Blocks are divided by types: GenesisBlock and MainBlock

Checksums

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Pre-release

[0.2.0] – 2018-06-29 released this on Jun 29 · 1922 commits to master since this release

Assets

Added

  • Seed phrase generator
  • Seed phrase validator
  • Generate a master key with seed phrase
  • Key derivation algorithm
  • Get derivation key of master key by seed phrase and derivation path
  • Get a serialized public key value in base58 format from extended key
  • Get serialized private key value in base58 format from extended key
  • End-point: get a master key by seed phrase
  • End-point: get derivation key with an address of master key by seed phrase and derivation path
  • Extended private key serialization
  • Extended public key serialization
  • Export private key
  • Import private key
  • RPC requests: importKey
  • RPC requests: importKey in WIF (Wallet Import Format)
  • RPC requests: generateKey

Checksums

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Pre-release

[0.1.0] – 2018-06-18 released this on Jun 18 · 2199 commits to master since this release

Assets

Added

  • Setup Netty server for socket connection
  • Setup Netty clients for socket connection
  • Setup Netty server for HTTP
  • Binary serialization communication protocol
  • Binary deserialization communication protocol
  • Time synchronization
  • End-point chain stability check
  • Heartbeat implementation
  • Database structure
  • Database: setup database connection
  • Database: add Base entity
  • Database: add Block entity
  • Database: add Transaction entity
  • Database: setup repository for Block entity
  • Database: setup repository for Transaction entity
  • Service: define base service interface for Block entity
  • Service: define base service interface for Transaction entity
  • Service: add base implementation Block entity service
  • Service: add base implementation Transaction entity service
  • RPC requests: getVersion
  • RPC requests: getHardwareInfo
  • RPC requests: getTimestamp

Checksums

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