---
title: 2024-07-01 Codex Weekly
tags:
  - codex-updates
date: 2024-07-01
lastmod: 2024-07-09
draft: false
description: Weekly update of Codex
---

# Codex Update June 25th - July 1st
> The Codex team wrapped up a successful demo at the Logos off-site and now aims to prepare the demo for the Q2 public testnet release potentially coinciding with EthCC. 
> 
> An internal devnet has been running for the past few weeks and has been used to test the latest version of Codex and can be accessed using the [Codex Testnet Starter](https://github.com/codex-storage/codex-testnet-starter) documentation.

Development is currently broken into three distinct teams: 

1. Client, Testing, and Infrastructure
2. Marketplace 
3. Research

The following are their team updates.

## Client, Testing and Infrastructure
Completed
- Release pipeline for Linux setup (x64 & ARM for Ubuntu and MacOS)

Ongoing
- Workshop preparations
  - Slides presentation and complete demo run-through
- General bug hunting and fixing towards baseline stability and BitTorrent-like performance

## Marketplace
Completed
- Workshop preparations

Ongoing
- WIP in the Certora's Application Properties work

## Research
```
2024 R&D Goals
1. Proving system and aggregation improvements (folding or lookups)
2. Aggregator/validator design
3. DHT improvements
4. Tokenomics and incentive design
5. Bandwidth incentives
6. Dynamic data (appendable data)
7. Encryption
```
Completed
- [Gathered all ZK related documents here](https://www.notion.so/Codex-ZK-stuff-ca2a503baa504e99ab489b345d412361)
- [Writeup on OTP-like encryption to prevent outsourcing attacks](https://hackmd.io/prAbwLpUReqR4OaDLfeeMg)

Ongoing
- Ongoing research into the details of folding
- Interviewing more ZK engineer candidates
  - Creating take-home programming exercise
- Thinking about how to describe Plonkish circuits
- Looking at [new ZK research](https://zkmesh.substack.com/p/zkmesh-june-2024-recap)