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A Successful Hard Fork, State Channel Improvements and Expanded Node APIs

The Minerva hard fork was activated last Thursday (07.03.2019) migrating all Phase 1 AE tokens and introducing a number of consensus-breaking improvements. You can look at the release notes for a detailed list of …
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March 13, 2019

Minerva Fork Testing and Planning for Fortuna

Photo by Kirill Last week work was dedicated to both protocol upgrades — Minerva and Fortuna. Last week the æternity core developers were in Krakow, Poland. The team was engaged in the final preparations for the Minerva protocol …
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February 27, 2019

The Minerva Fork Improvements, Windows Node and New APIs

Photo by Janis Laubergs The dev team is preparing for the first scheduled fork of the æternity protocol. Here are some of the most important changes that will be introduced. After making sure that release …
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February 19, 2019

Preparations to close Phase 1 of AE Token Migration

After making sure that release 1.4.0 was running smoothly, the æternity core dev team began focusing on preparations for the Minerva release. Minerva will close Phase 1 of AE Token Migration and contains a number …
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February 14, 2019

Satoshi, Synergy & Self-Sustaining Systems: An Interview with Michal Zajda

A hands-on kind of engineer with a proven track record of working on some of the hottest development projects of the past few years. Michal Zajda has been responsible for the architecture, scalability, and performance …
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February 11, 2019

Update Your æternity Node to Version 1.4.0

The latest maintenance release introduces improvements in the UPnP/NAT-PMP, the noise protocol, syncing and state channels. Last week we have decided to announce a maintenance release containing some important improvements to the UPnP/NAT-PMP implementation. …
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February 6, 2019

Sophia and VM Improvements, Preparing for Minerva, and Getting Closer to Stratum Support

Last week the æternity core developers team continued its work on Stratum, improving the usability of state channels, adding new functionality to the VM and the Sophia language, as well as adding features that …
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January 29, 2019

Enhancing Node Communication, Developing Monitoring Tools and Deprecating the “Epoch” Name

Release 1.3.0 is coming later this week. Here is a sneak-peak of its main features. After completing release 1.2.0 on the 10th of January, we immediately began working on our next sprint. This sprint …
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January 23, 2019

Important Stability Release and New Sophia Compiler Features

Node operators, especially miners and pools, are strongly encouraged to update their software to version 1.2.0. Last week æternity Roma v1.2.0 was released. 1.2.0 is a maintenance release that contains several major stability improvements. All …
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January 16, 2019

More Mining Improvements

Release 1.1.0. went out last Thursday. Here are the details. Last week the Roma team (the team responsible for supporting and updating æternity’s Roma release 1.X.X) was wrapping up tasks that were scheduled for release …
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December 17, 2018