Nakamoto WG: Sprint Sync Thread

[EmbeddedAndroid]

Sprint 7 ➡️ 8: October 17th, 2023

Sprint 7: Wins

✅ Unlocks

• Nakamoto V1 SIP
• sBTC SIP
• HTTP refactor is nearing completion

📢 Shoutouts

• 🏗️ Jude: For the SIPs

Sprint 8: Goals

🚢 Shipping Goals

• Dec 31th: Nakamoto v1 Release Canidate
• Oct 17th: Mockamoto Milestone Complete

🥅 Team Goals

• Improve communication on GitHub
• Improve external updates
• Nakamoto v1 SIP task breakdown
• Improved "Smoke Testing" plan

Sprint N+1: Blockers

🛑 Internal Blockers

• @EmbeddedAndroid getting up to speed on the stacks blockchain

🚨 External Blockers

• Getting things to compile with LLVM

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Sprint 8 ➡️ 9: October 31st, 2023

Sprint 8: Wins

✅ Unlocks

• Nakamoto staging blocks PR Approved!
• Initial implementation of mockamoto stack-node mode : 1 Approval
• Nakamoto Coordinator : In Review

📢 Shoutout

• Jude and Aaron for the PRs and Reviews
• Brice for the quick turnaround on Reviews

Sprint 9: Goals

🚢 Shipping Goals

• Mockamoto Readiness
• Dec 31st : Testnet Readiness

🥅 Team Goals

• Nakamoto v1 SIP task breakdown
• Milestones from Now - Code Complete
• Exhaustive Testing Plan

Sprint N+1: Blockers

[saralab]

Sprint 9 ➡️ 10: November 14, 2023

Sprint 9: Wins

✅ Unlocks

• Nakamoto Coordinator : In Review
• Nakamoto v1 SIP task breakdown

📢 Shoutout

• Ashton for facilitating the SIP Reviews
• Jude and Aaron for helping with the SIP Reviews

Sprint 10: Goals

🚢 Shipping Goals

• Mockamoto Tag
• Neon Kick off
• Dec 31st : Testnet Readiness

🥅 Team Goals

• Milestones from Now - Code Complete
• Task allocations and estimates
• Road to Testnet
• Exhaustive Testing Plan

Sprint N+1: Blockers

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Sprint 10 ➡️ 11: November 29, 2023

Sprint 10: Wins

✅ Unlocks

• First PR our for v 0.2 : In Review 🎉
• Task breakdown for 0.2 , 0.3 and task allocation
• Detailed Roadmap
• MVP for Mainnet launch

📢 Shoutout

• Aaron, Jude for for helping unblock Jacinta
• Jacinta for her tenacity in getting the first v0.2 PR ready for review
• Jesse for kicking of this discussion on testing
• Jesus for the PoX-4 Clarity design, task assignment and implementation

Sprint 11: Goals

🚢 Shipping Goals

• Code Complete for v 0.2
• Dec 31st : Testnet Readiness

Sprint N+1: Blockers

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Sprint 11 ➡️ 12: December 13, 2023

Sprint 11: Wins

✅ Unlocks

• All 0.2[Neon] PRs In Review 🎉
• 0.2 [Neon] : 80% Complete
• CI Improvements

📢 Shoutout

• Entire team for rallying towards code complete this week
• Jesse for tackling multiple CI issues to unblock the team
• Aaron, Matt for the extra hours to bring the neon node up locally
• Jude, Jacinta for helping unblock multiple PRs

Sprint 12: Goals

• 0.3 Kick off
• Nakamoto SIP Ready for Voting
• Controlled Testnet Readiness
• Kick off performance benchmarking

🚢 Shipping Goals

• Dec 31st : Testnet Readiness

Sprint N+1: Blockers

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Sprint 12 ➡️ 13: December 27, 2023

Sprint 11: Wins

✅ Unlocks

• Controlled Testnet 1 with current Clarity VM : READY! 🎉
• Controlled Testnet 2 with new Clarity Wasm : READY! 🎉
• Products Ready: API, Clarinet, Explorer🎉

📢 Shoutout

• Entire team for ensuring Neon Testnet goes Live!
• Charlie for working past multiple issues to ensure Testnets are Ready!
• Matt for the multiple tests and envs he spun up to test , identify and help fix multiple bugs

Sprint 12: Goals

• 0.3 - P2P Readiness
• Nakamoto SIP Readiness for Voting
• Kick off performance benchmarking

[saralab]

Sprint 13 ➡️ 14: Jan 10 2024

Sprint 12: Wins

✅ Unlocks

• SIP Readiness for CAB Review
• Interim milestones form now - Xe
• Testing is dialed up : Mutation, Fuzzing, Benchmarking all in motion
• Block Proposal Jan 15: At Risk
• Block Validation Jan 15: On Track
• StackerDB Jan 19
• DKG|Signer Jan 31
• PoX-4 Clarity Jan 31
• Products Ready: API, Clarinet, Explorer

📢 Shoutout

• Ashton for leading the SIP Readiness
• Nikos for the first glimpses of Fuzzing
• Matt for the multiple tests and envs he spun up to test , identify and help fix multiple bugs

Sprint 13: Goals

• Block Proposal, Block Validation Readiness
• Stacks-Signer Ready for testing
• DKG, StackerDB Audit Kick Off
• Benchmarking Results for Clarity Wasm and the Current VM

[saralab]

Sprint 14 ➡️ 15: Jan 24 2024

Sprint 14: Wins

✅ Unlocks

• CAB Review underway for the SIP
• Initiated StackerDB Audits
• Block Validation : Done
• Testing is dialed up : Mutation, Fuzzing, Benchmarking all in motion

🎏 Milestones, Status

• Block Proposal initially slated for Jan 15, then Jan 22, is now targeted for Jan 31 and remains in a critical state.
• StackerDB : Bug Fixes In Progress
• Signer, previously expected by Jan 31, is now rescheduled to Feb 15 and is under close watch.
• PoX-4 Clarity aimed for Jan 31.
• Products Ready: API, Clarinet, Explorer

📢 Shoutout

• Aaron for helping the Signer stream, this PR that tackles multiple issues.
• Jeff and Alin, for delivering the inaugural benchmarking results.
• Jude, for identifying critical gaps in StackerDB

Sprint 15: Goals

• Block Proposal, Signer, DKG , pox-4 Readiness
• Commencing audits for DKG and Wasm
• Focusing on optimizations for the current Clarity VM, informed by recent profiling.

[saralab]

Sprint 15 ➡️ 16: Feb 07 2024

Sprint 15: Wins

✅ Unlocks

• Block Proposal Done 🟢
• SIP Ready to vote!
• Initial benchmark results are out and optimizations in progress! 🧪
• Fuzzer is running on a VM against the VM

🎏 Milestones, Status

• StackerDB : Bug Fixes In Progress
• Signer, previously expected by Jan 31, is now rescheduled to Feb 15 and is under close watch.
• PoX-4 Clarity expected by Jan 31, is now rescheduled to Feb 15 and the team is rallying to wrap it up
• Products Ready: API, Clarinet, Explorer

📢 Shoutout

• Ashton, Will, Brice for getting the SIP Ready to Vote
• Hank for helping with the signer onboarding process

Sprint 15: Goals

• Signer, DKG , pox-4 Readiness
• Commencing audits for DKG, Wasm
• Spin up a parallel public testnet

[saralab]

Sprint 16 ➡️ 17: Feb 21 2024

Sprint 15: Wins

✅ Unlocks

• Block Proposal Done 🟢
• SIP Voting In Progress!
• Initial optimizations show 40% improvement in Block Processing times! 🧪
• Fuzzer set up in progress for pox-4 contract

🎏 Milestones, Status

• StackerDB : Audits In Progress
• Signer: Final PRs In Review
• PoX-4: Final Reviews in progress
• Products Ready: API, Clarinet, Explorer

📢 Shoutout

• Brice, Aaron for getting the [voter signing contract to track APK’s threshold] to the finish line!(Process successful .signers-voting results stacks-core#4360)
• Jeff Bencin for finding a way(s) to improve block processing times by 40%!! This is a huge improvement, without even having to tweak the Clarity Interpretor yet!

Sprint 17: Goals

• Signer, DKG , pox-4 Readiness
• Commencing audits for DKG, Wasm
• Spin up a parallel public testnet