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2024-09-13

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Present

  • Work on last soundness proof
  • Enhanced generators, coverage, and adversarial scenarios in conformance tests
  • Major edits to Peras FAQ

Future

  • Release conformance tests
  • Move Peras github repo from private to public access
  • Internal Q&A session for Peras

Issues

  • Approval needed for formal submission of CIP
  • Slight methodological incoherence in conformance tests

2024-09-06

· One min read

Present

  • Soundness proofs near completion.
  • Developed and documented conformance-testing framework for external (non-Haskell) implementations of the Peras protocol.
  • Packaged the reference/prototype implementation of Peras as a standalone program with an interface conforming to the external conformance tests.
  • Defined next Quviq tasks for enhancements of conformance testing.
  • Presented Peras at Monthly R&D Backlog meeting.

Future

  • Complete soundness proofs.
  • Complete conformance tests.

Issues

  • Waiting for approval to transition Peras CIP pull request from "draft" to "ready for review".

2024-08-30

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Present

  • Soundness proofs nearly complete, aside from a few edge cases
  • Completed interactive dashboard
  • Wrote FAQ and overview slides

Future

  • Additional adversarial conformance tests, collaboration with Quviq.

Issues

  • CIP draft needs more internal reviewers

2024-08-23

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Present

  • Significant progress on soundness proofs
  • Analytic formulae for fast estimation of settlement probabilities
  • Initial dashboard for exploring performance and safety implications of Peras protocol-parameter choices
  • Wrote Peras section for IOR Methodology document

Future

  • Complete soundness proofs
  • Polish and improve usability of performance dashboard
  • Outreach materials (FAQ, slides, business case) for Peras

2024-08-16

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Present

  • Work on soundness proofs
  • Developed and analyzed adversarial scenarios for settlement/finality in Peras vs Praos
  • Enhanced Markov-chain simulator (higher precision, additional metrics)
  • Expanded the CI builds/tests and made them more efficient

Future

  • IOE meeting on 2025 level-of-effort estimate
  • Dashboard for exploring Peras protocol parameters