- 8/4 Fri: Slashing article with:
- Internal approval from all Protocol team members (6+)
- Community approval
- Implementation details
- Justification on the approach
- Pros and cons
- 7/24 Mon - 7/28 Fri: Out of office
- Slashing implementation and production launch
- 8/25 Fri: Localnet
- 9/1 Fri: Devnet
- 9/8 Fri: Testnet
- 9/22 Fri: Mainnet
- AI cloud cost. Only $1000 total.
- Resource profiling on mainnet nodes for optimizing BLS signature aggregation (determining if CPU bound on 1 thread, or parallelizable to 4 cores)
- Change block finalization during consensus from 99% signature collection to 80% (using uncle blocks for validator rewards)
- Reuse components from HotStuff (semi-synchronous consensus and aggressive pipelining like RapidChain), already implemented in Aptos and Sui; as well as larger deploys in Binance Smart Chain (100 nodes) and Cosmos chains (300 nodes)