roadmap/content/codex/updates/2024-07-01.md

title	tags	date	lastmod	draft	description
2024-07-01 Codex Weekly	codex-updates	2024-07-01	2024-07-09	false	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 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
• Writeup on OTP-like encryption to prevent outsourcing attacks

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