Boog900 completes first three milestones for Cuprate CCS proposal

Boog900¹ has posted the first progress report² for their CCS proposal³ to continue working full time on Cuprate⁴ for 3 months:

I have completed the first 3 milestones and created a test binary that downloads, verifies and stores the blockchain. [..] There was some design changes that I made while working on this CCS, the biggest would probably be replacing the PeerSet..

Work overview

• Found that nodes who see different txs in a double spend attack will drop each other, splitting the network⁵
• Found some mismatches in the dandelion++ paper and monerod’s impl⁶
• Fixed an issue in monero-serai’s CLSAG verification⁷
• Made a proposal that should significantly reduce nodes P2P bandwidth usage⁸
• Released a new monero-rs version 0.21.0 [..]⁹
• Managed to reproduce the monerod getting killed issue [..]¹⁰
• Created the block downloader and syncer¹¹

Boog900 will probably focus on the fourth CCS milestone next (P2P Documentation). The full dev update is available on Gitlab².

Consult previous Monero Observer reports¹² to learn more about the project.

This is an ongoing story and the report will be updated when new information is available.