Leo Chen

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Monthly Goals

Jun/2022

• launch HIP-18; launch HIP-19
• give a talk of Harmony cross-chain NFT in NFT.NYC 2022
• launch game shard with partners
• game studio engagement; fellow, game studio partner
• 25% traffic on s0 to elastic rpc
• cloud cost reduction to 300k per month

May/2022

• talk about Harmony cross-chain NFT in NFT Global Summit in China
• give a lecture of blockchain & NFT to northwestern university students in SF
• elastic rpc launched on shard1, hired/onboarded Diego
• launched HIP-16 in v4.3.9 release
• Talk in coinmarketcap conference panel on multi-chain world, https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/coinmarketcap-the-capital-conference-in-metaverse-lane-two-live-updates

Apr/2022

• Decentralization Roadmap
• Elastic End Point on Shard 1
• iTokens launch (bridge map & application form, tweet, tweet AMA, reddit AMA)
• REIMAGINE conference panel https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reimagine-v12-the-rise-of-the-apes-bayc-nfts-apecoin-metaverse-land-registration-249874801257

Mar/2022

• Rosetta Validation: fixes all rosetta issues and end to end validation process
• New RPC service: rollout getlog and architect new RPC service
• Blockchain checkpoint: optimize the snapshot and level DB

Feb/2022

• Rosetta implementation: fixes all implementation issues and launch new endpoint
• Cross-chain Universal Identity: launch the service and integration demo with DFK/1Wallet
• RPC: launch new endpoint using the new architecture and optimization

Jan/2022

• System: launch beacon chain DB size pruning to reduce 30-50% of disk size for beacon chain DB for shard1/2/3 nodes (deep state pruning)
• System: initial design and implementation of new scalable RPC architecture, roll out new end point for public testing
• NFT: initiate and start Metaverse DAO to expand the NFT/GameFi ecosystem on Harmony

Upcoming Plans

• Yearly Planning: 2022 Q1 - Q3
• System: support external leader rotation and slashing; reduce system resource consumption of validators by 30% incl. CPU/Network/Storage; metrics, monitoring, and alarm dashboard of the entire network.
• Technical Partnership: set the strategy and drive the collaboration with wallet/exchange/API partners; expand the ecosystem of NFT infrastructure and tooling partners.
• Decentralized Ops: fully decentralized the network infrastructure and services to external partners and DAOs;

Ownership

• system: system-level optimization; system monitoring; system architecture for all services
• technical partners: oversee technical partners with blockchain contributors; middleware; infrastructure providers
• NFT: oversee all NFT initiatives; build NFT partnership; drive collaboration of NFT projects

Weekly Update

2021-02-07

• blockchain checkpoint feature
• on-call support
• cross-chain identity relayer

2021-01-24

• Blue Metaverse - cross-chain identity
• Continue Rosetta mainnet testing, fixing implementation issues
• Deploy deep pruning support

2021-01-17

• Continue Rosetta mainnet testing, testnet test passed
• Launch staking smart contract support
• Launch beacon chain pruning support

2021-01-10

• NFT workshop on EthGlobal and hackathon judge
• Launch Partner Testnet
• Continue Rosetta Testing, finished testing on partner testnet
• Staking Wallet Migration Plan
• Mainnet Recovery for beacon chain node stuck

2021-01-03

• on-call duty
• meeting with Ming on Hiring; meeting with Haodi/Lutty on new bounties
• rosetta configuration testing and support
• recovered STN for Jacky’s test
• meeting with Brian on nft dao
• on-call meeting (Every Tue: 8:30)
• on-call weekly summary published (https://talk.harmony.one/t/weekly-oncall-summary-dec-28-jan-03/8710)

2021-12-13

• Team offsite
• Offsite document: Uptime and Scaling for Services
• Propose InfraDAO

2021-12-06

• upgrade explorer nodes to fix /node-sync checking regression in the 4.3.1 release
• RPC investigation and mitigation on high latency
• Review AWS bill and discuss with the team on how to reduce it; made a plan
• prepare for the Day ONE talk
• Day ONE event
• Bounty for BSC/Avax NFT bridge
• Recording the IOSG Old Friends Reunion Panel
• Attend Polygon ZK day
• Fix/Resurrect the snapshot service. It was stopped for a few days due to snapshot nodes failed to catch up with latest blocks.
• Support Chainlink nodes

2021-11-29 - done

• discuss with validators on various HIP proposals (1, 2)
• finally launched cross-chain NFT bridge (twitter, youtube)
• fixed gitbook doc on redundant node setup
• handled explorer indexer lagging behind issue
• help triage release and explorer issues

2021-11-22 - done

• Cross-chain NFT bridge mainnet testing, shoot video with Adrian
• 2022 roadmap/milestones
• Perf review, role model review
• Thanksgiving Holiday

2021-11-15 - done

• bounty review and payout - payout/closed 3 bounties
• allowlist design and rollout plan - https://www.notion.so/harmonyone/allowlist-of-external-leaders-73d4fba057904b27b4055333c57a4d22
• on-call duty - oncall summary
• Davinci DAO sync-up, Miami Art Week sync-up,
• Cross-chain NFT bridge release and publish

2021-11-08 - done

• Post of Cross-chain NFT bridge. https://www.notion.so/harmonyone/Harmony-launch-cross-chain-NFT-bridge-95d3d24373054fb9823d211867da2d8f
• Update open tracking repo with more details on payment and tracking process.
• Urgent release to disable trace_function on all RPC endpoint
• Security review on DNS setup, removed all unused subdomains
• Hiring talk with Ben, and Michael
• Create a new bounty to scale the RPC end point,

2021-11-01 - done

• NFT.NYC Conference
• daVinci.gallery revival plan with Bruno

2021-10-25 - done

• Bounty hunter engagement
• https://github.com/harmony-one/bounties/issues/82
• https://github.com/harmony-one/bounties/issues/84
• Cross-chain NFT bridge code merged, ready to launch on mainnet (https://github.com/harmony-one/bounties/issues/72)
• work with Soph on decentralized RPC nodes, and new DNS nodes
• https://github.com/harmony-one/harmony/issues/3909
• https://github.com/harmony-one/harmony/issues/3910
• twitter AMA with G. Media (https://twitter.com/gokhshteinmedia/status/1452998564188237847?s=20)

2021-10-18 - done

• added HIP-19: https://talk.harmony.one/t/hip-19-100-external-voting-power-and-100-external-slots/4330
• added HIP-18: https://talk.harmony.one/t/hip-18-allowlist-for-external-leaders/4329
• monitoring RPC call duration: https://github.com/harmony-one/harmony/issues/3903
• research and explore EFS design on explorer nodes: https://github.com/harmony-one/harmony/issues/3902
• multisig backend recovery; launching new backend with more resources
• Done Binance broadcast on "NFT on multi-chain" with Zi/Sam
• Shanghai Meet Silicon Valley Event planning and keynote speech

2021-10-08 - done

• meeting with Jean/Jarvis on SH-Meet-SV event schedule (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Z0TORBboUDjKnHfpb9uZYqHXFXjmcrqRbLDrJMo_BRU/edit)
• meeting with zendvibes_ on NFT.NYC event
• hackathon submission evaluation
• on-call duties and weekly on-call meeting