gno.land Core Team (bi-weekly)

August 7th

Change:

Announcement sections
Team adds to discussions they want to cover and decide what they want to dicuss

Section One: What to Gno section: What are the highlevel updates to share! (short and sweet a TL;DR)

Test4 status update from Milos
- A hotfix for the test4 issue
- r/gov/dao/v2` in the final review stages, pending merge and deployment to test4.
- Strategy for Test4 and beyond
Better stack traces in Gno merged! Congratz @omarsy
Lots of people OOO

Section Two: gno.land Blockchain

Add a ugnot constant PR 2656 (Dylan)
Removing the admin from the system contract entirely Issue 2657(Piux2)
Present Indexer Proposal: Generic Filter Functionality Issue 76 (Antonio)
Quick update on the vision for Gnoweb (Guilhem and Alexis)
- design preview: https://github.com/gnolang/gno/issues/2046
Executable markdown:
- https://github.com/gnolang/gno/pull/2357 related to https://github.com/gnolang/gno/issues/2245 (notJoon/Dylan)

Section Three: Governance and DAO structurization

Topics we can discuss

Section Four: VM and Gno

Fix max names in block check PR 2645 (Dylan)
Handling loop variables PR 2429 (Maxwell/Jae)
Preventing cyclic references in type declarations PR 2081 related to self-referential types crash the VM PR 2008 (Dylan)
Showing "out of gas" errors PR 2368 (grepsuzette)
Catching out of gas exceptions in preprocess PR 2638 (Piux2)
Proposal for better error handling in realms by Dylan

Section Five: Tendermint 2

Section Six: Security

Developing ideas for improving user confidence in contracts, such as verified contracts and audited contracts reflected in UIs (gnoweb, wallets, explorers, web dev environments, VSCode plugin, etc.)
- Discussions from frontends like Adena and Gnoswap welcome :)

Open Discussion

Inter-realm Panics - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eCgGPCJ8fMhNc_vc_pbgCxP10X7jGKLC89nBUGatsD4/edit?usp=sharing&authuser=1
GnoWeb change
JSON keeper input/output:
- keep Msg JSON format : https://github.com/gnolang/gno/pull/1776
- TypedValue Marshal: https://github.com/gnolang/gno/pull/2652
Sync GC (Petar)
- Jae: "It's a synchronous non-garbage collector"

New format for the weekly call:

Short form updates from either core or contributors (20 minutes)
Discussion section lead by Jae:
- A selection of discussion topics selected and owned by the topic moderator

July 24th

Section One: What to Gno section: What are the highlevel updates to share! (short and sweet a TL;DR)

What is new?
- Short overview of ongoing Governance discussions and considerations for Test4 (team)
  - Currently 30 members and an estimated 3 governance proposals for adding 3 validators
  - Considerations for future governance proposals: notable contributions
- GnoBro update is done, and documentation coming soon!
- feat(examples): implement r/events, p/authorizable (PR 2372)

Section Two: Gno.land Blockchain: Faucet, implementation, Portal Loop, clients, SDK as examples

What is new?
- Debugging test4 cache
- JSON specs discussion (PR 1776) and PR 2029
- Short summary of GopherCon challenges and workshops
- Gno files on-chain are now automatically formatted
- Transaction hashes are now printed out when using maketx (PR 2309)
What is being discussed?
- How upgrades can work, and upgrade patterns examples folder (add link)

Section Three: Governance and DAO structurization

What is new?
- Recap from discussions and next steps

Section Four: VM and Gno

What is new?
- repair selector type aliasing (PR 2483)
- limit value string size (PR 2570)
- named and unnamed type assignment (PR 2367) (Ray)
- repl now has a debugger – expect it to land on the playground soon (PR #2567)
- interrealm rules; not complete ready for review; https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eCgGPCJ8fMhNc_vc_pbgCxP10X7jGKLC89nBUGatsD4/edit?usp=sharing
- write reason why a type doesn't implement an interface (PR 2492)
What is being discussed?
- revert to storing frames in the machine as values instead of pointers (PR 2596) @deelawn
- feat: protocol level dynamic gas price (PR 2544) Ray
- follow up works on loop scope (PR 2440) Maxwell
- correct comparison between different types (PR 1890) Maxwell
- prevent cyclic references in struct declarations (PR 2081) Maxwell
- add Stacktrace Mechanism to Machine for Improved Exception Handling (PR 2145) and relation to use OpCall to run deferred statements (PR 2597) with Omar

Section Five: Tendermint 2

What is new?
- feat: protocol level dynamic gas price (PR 2544) Ray
- expose InitChain tx responses (PR 1941)

Section Six: Security

Researching approaches to fuzzing:
- generating random gno code to crash node
- generate random gno code and compare result of gnovm to running go run on same file
PR reviews underway
Findings validation
Investigating graphql testing (indexer)

Questions and comments!

For security fixes, best way to engage devs? Manager assignment or git blame?

July 10, 2024

Section One: What to Gno section: What are the highlevel updates to share! (short and sweet a TL;DR)

What is new?
- We have our first genesis! Update on the internal launch of Test4 in preparation for Monday, July 15th @zmilos
  - We have roughly 30 GovDAO members for testing purposes, and by Monday will have conducted voting on 3 governance proposals and on-chain update.
- We have the full v0.1.0 release updates
- Important update on Namespaces in gno.land @gfanton
What is planned for the next two weeks?
- A breather :)

Section Two: Gno.land Blockchain: Faucet, implementation, Portal Loop, clients, SDK as examples

What is new?
- GovDAO added functionality PR 2493 @ajnavarro
- Namespace user feature PR 2471 @gfanton
- Gnovanity tool from @tyge
- Gnodev lazy loading implemented @gfanton
- Timeline PR for Gnodev (PR 2286)
- Portal Loop bug fix runtime error: index out of range [2] with length 0 while deploying certain realm on poral-loop (PR 2283)
- Feat: Add watchdog and monit (PR 2329)
- Refactor GRC20 (PR 2529) @moul @leohhhn
- Feat: new govDAO pattern with context (PR 2380)
- GnoSDK MVP PR 2205 @gfanton
What is planned for the next two weeks?
- Refactor, add versioning and remove nighlightlies (PR 2477) - user work flow related and manual releases @tyge
- Others we want to add?

Section Three: Governance and DAO structurization

What is new?
- Governance Updates @moul

Section Four: VM and Gno

What is new?
- Protocol level dynamic gas pricing PR 2544 @ray
- refactor(stdlibs/std): re-organize gnoEvent struct (PR 2160) @tyge
What is planned for the next two weeks?
- Integrating GnoVM debugger with REPL (PR 2567) @marc733
- ABI specifications for Realms and packages issue 1842
- Named and unnamed types PR 2367 @ray
- Draft: add importer package [PR 2201] (https://github.com/gnolang/gno/pull/2201) @tyge

Section Five: Tendermint 2

What is new?
- libtm << not exactly new, we mentioned it before
- Blog for food for thought https://gno.land/r/gnoland/blog:p/reaching-consensus
What is planned for the next two weeks?

Section Six: Security

Auditing in final stages of validation, results are being compiled into a private doc available upon request
Taking a quick look at GovDAO

June 26th, 2024

Today, we will have the last 20 minutes for presentations from the SCP Roeun students.

Section One: What to Gno section: What are the highlevel updates to share! (short and sweet a TL;DR)

What is new?
- Recent supernova tests showed that we have ~550 TPS on a single node machine (M3 Mac; 100k txs, 1s block time).
  - Impact: Last year, the TPS performance we had varied from 7-20 TPS with the same setup, so this is a huge boost over the last year.
  - Build CI merged https://github.com/gnolang/supernova/pull/34
- gno type check has been merged!!!
- And transpile gno standard libraries, too
What is planned?
- Gno Namespace https://github.com/gnolang/gno/pull/384 (@guilhem)
- Entering the final stages for Test4! (@milos)
- Finally, part of the team is preparing to go to GopherCon US 2024 in Chicago in 2 weeks!

Section Two: Gno.land Blockchain: Faucet, implementation, Portal Loop, clients, SDK as examples

What is new?
- Wrapping up work on r/sys/vals and improving the initial GovDAO implementation - larger issue - it looks like it is happening :)
- Updated the calling syntax for gnokey qeval and qrender
- making gnokey more convenient to use
- Added JSON output to gnoland config & gnoland secrets subcommands
- improved support for OpenTelemetry
What is planned and in the works for the next two weeks?
- Merging gno fmt command soon! @gfanton
- Merging gnodev transaction manipulation PR soon! @gfanton

Section Three: Governance and DAO structurization

What is new?
- @moul
- Continued work on GovDAO

Section Four: VM and Gno

What is new?
- fixes to assignment of star expressions
- for loop and if improvements
- custom boolean types in conditional statements
- Using TestSkipHeight now moves time forward as well.
What is planned and in the works for the next two weeks?
- Type check in Gno linter
- Starting work on reorganizing the std standard library @tyge

Section Five: Tendermint 2

What is new?
- Opened up the PR for migrating libtm to the monorepo (gnolang/gno#2424)

Section Six: Security

What is new?
- https://github.com/kristovatlas/gosec PoC
- Gno internal audit underway for test4

Presentation/feedback from our first SCP cohort

Malek
Zak
Mustapha
Theo

gnobro demo by Guilhem what you all are here for! :)

Date: June 12th, 2024

Duration: One hour of structured updates

Description:

This call will primarily focus on the Gno Core team updates related to specific topics

Duration: One hour, with the option to go over if there are issues to cover and discuss

Agenda format

It is broken down into sections that can be discussed by respective gno core team members

Section One: What to Gno section: What are the highlevel updates to share! (short and sweet a TL;DR)

What is new?
- We finished the migration to GoReleaser @antonio
- In the final phases for wrapping up our test4 milestone:
  - Currently, the hot topic is the initial govdao proposal implementation, on-chain validator set implementation (r/sys/vals) and on-chain validator set injection.
- MsgCall can only be used on r/ - reference issue on purifying p/ - thanks var meta!
What is planned?
- Wrapping up more efforts that will bring us closer to completing the test4 milestone, which is currently 64% completehttps://github.com/gnolang/gno/pull/2327

Section Two: Gno.land Blockchain: Faucet, implementation, Portal Loop, clients, SDK as examples

What is new?
- Dropped support for all unused DB implementations, apart from leveldb and boltdb. @tyge
- Added the ability to add packages to genesis transactions @zmilos
- gnodev can now be started with specific transactions to load in
- gnoweb will now correctly show gno.mod files when viewing them from the "source" files.
- The help page commands to make "airgapped" gnokey transaction has been updated, following the updates on gnokey sign
What is planned and in the works for the next two weeks?
- Manipulating transactions in gnodev @gfanton
- Fixes to infrastructure, related to Portal Loop & Staging
- Examples:
  - Upgrade patten examples
  - Improving the p/demo/ownable API
  - Refactoring the p/demo/grc/grc20 package
  - Many more proposals for new examples from students, Var Meta, etc.

Section Three: Governance and DAO structurization

What is new?
- Continued work on the initial sys/validators & gov/dao contracts - feedback is much appreciated
What is planned and in the works for the next two weeks?
- Work on r/sys/vals & validator set injection using it

Section Four: VM and Gno

What is new?
- Bumped the GnoVM test coverage from ~34% to ~67%
- Added more functionality to stdlibs/time @deelawn
- Small fix to std.Emit
- gno test no longer supports transpilation – eventually this will be added back by including the changes in #1730 also in gno test.
- The gnovm debugger now correctly supports adding breakpoints in loop bodies.
- Assignments mixing named and unnamed types are now correctly supported
- Error lines should now be correctly marked when printing errors coming from type, constant and variable declarations.
What is planned and in the works for the next two weeks?
- Fixes for the VM by Petar
- More fixes for the VM by @ltzmaxwell
- Merging a long-standing transpiler PR, which will be the first step to splitting and reorganizing the std package @tyge

Section Five: Tendermint 2

What is new?
- Finally fixed the long-standing failing BFT test

Section Six: Security & Ops

Audit in validation phase, findings are being compiled in a private doc
- No blocking issues so far, will only interrupt test4 efforts for critical severity issues
Taking a quick look at GovDAO

Gno.land Core Team (bi-weekly)

Date: May 29th, 2024

Duration: One hour of structured updates

Description:

This call will primarily focus on the Gno Core team updates related to specific topics

Duration: One hour, with the option to go over if there are issues to cover and discuss

Agenda format

It is broken down into sections that can be discussed by respective gno core team members

Section One: What to Gno section: What are the highlevel updates to share! (short and sweet a TL;DR)

What is new?
- A short update from @zmilos on the Test4 plans and progress plus takeaways from test3 debugging (@thehowl)
- A short recap from the Engineering retreat (@Kouteki)
- Update on Portal Loop recent changes
- We've consolidated port numbers to from 3665{6,7,8} to 2665{6,7,8}
- gnoland start was overhauled
- Successfully finished our Golang Serbia meetup while in Belgrade - recap blog coming soon!
- Coins now have more functionality in Gno
- gnopls is now official https://github.com/gnolang/gnopls

What is planned?
- gnora, Blockchain-less Gno Interpreter PoC

Section Two: Gno.land Blockchain: Faucet, implementation, Portal Loop, clients, SDK as examples

What is new?
- First nightly release and how this will be managed moving forward @zmilos
  - Note that the docker containers have changed; they are now lighter, but are incompatible with the previous ones (due to changing directory structures, etc)
  - Different docker tags (nightly, master, latest)
  - We'll start tagging our releases with test4
- Fixed the annoying wal folder when running gnodev
- Had improvements by Alexis to gnoweb, making blog posts much nicer. Preparing for a full revamp of gnoweb, making it much more useful and nicer on the UX/UI side as well as on the code side.
- Import paths are now limited to 256 characters in size.
- More telemetry statistics have been added to the node
What is planned and in the works for the next two weeks?
- For feedback: feat(amino): Add TypeDesc Amino implementation and TypedValue marshaler #2113 @gfanton
- Work on a new gno fmt command by @gfanton
- Discussions and initial implementations about an upgrade pattern for Gno by @moul

Section Three: Governance and DAO structurization

What is new?
- r/sys/teams @moul
- /gov/dao contracts @moul
What is planned and in the works for the next two weeks?

Section Four: VM and gno

What is new?
- Gnovm std lib tests #2110 @thehowl
- TestSetPrevRealm renamed to TestSetRealm; the API has changed as well: std.TestSetRealm(std.NewCodeRealm("gno.land/r/demo/users")).
- AssertOriginCall will now panic for MsgRun
- PrevRealm will not return the user realm anymore in MsgRun
- std.CurrentRealmPath() has been deprecated in favor of std.CurrentRealm().Path(). Thanks Varmeta!
- Parsing gno files will now print all parsing errors encountered, instead of only the first one. Thanks Teritori!
What is planned and in the works for the next two weeks?
- Marc has been working on improving the coverage of GnoVM tests
- VM Fixes by Petar, Maxwell & Dylan:
- The Standard Library changes will be coming, together with a better way to support them.
- Type checking in gno lint

Section Five: Tendermint 2

What is new?
- Finished our work on overhauling node initializations (hello operator, give me Seoul) @zivkovicmilos
- BFT test in the CI has been fixed, finally.
What is planned and in the works for the next two weeks?
- Initial implementation for r/sys/vals is ready for reviews @zivkovicmilos
- Draft validator set injection from r/sys/vals is open for comments @zivkovicmilos
- Using ExitCodeError to use in place of os.Exit

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