roadmap/content/codex/updates/2024-06-17.md

title	tags	date	lastmod	draft	description
2024-06-17 Codex Weekly	codex-updates	2024-06-17	2024-07-09	false	Weekly update of Codex

Codex Update June 11th - June 17th

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 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

• L2 assumptions, planning and deployment options
• NAT Traversal in Codex

Ongoing

• Workshop preparations
• Developing single binary pipeline for releases
• Some splitting of PRs further into datastore and rework
• Need this Safe block deletion (with ref count) PR approved

Marketplace

Completed

• Merged fix: createReservation lock
• L2 overview and Marketplace support/compatibility check

Ongoing

• Workshop preparations
• Looking into more research about contract upgradability and industry practices
• Reviews of Marketplace spec
• 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

• Figuring out usable NTT options on the Grumpkin curve; WIP notes

Ongoing

• Prototyping with intent of a full implementation soon