MILESTONES.md

CX Chain Milestones

v1.0 (Initial release)

• Simplify chain creation (Due: 26/10/2020 Monday).

  • Simplify cx chain creation to 2 commands.
  • Command for manual connection management.
  • Use base64 encoding for program state to save space.
  • CLI should provide ENV help menu and global flag support.
  • Implement retry logic for obtaining chain program state. This will avoid failures with tx injection.
  • Fix merge conflicts.

• Integration with CX Tracker (Due: 02/11/2020 Monday).

  • Actually implement CX Tracker.
  • Implement method to reference and register chain spec.
    • Subcommand cxchain-cli register-spec.
  • Implement method to auto-register CX nodes.
    • have CX Tracker serves peer list that gets updated. 3 Sections:
      1. Trusted nodes (publisher nodes).
      2. App nodes (nodes that possess an app address's secret key).
      3. Other nodes (other client nodes).
    • Nodes should auto-register themselves via the CX Tracker.
    • Modify chain spec to have CX Tracker URL instead of "peer_list_url".

• Integration with Dmsg (Due: 09/11/2020 Monday).

  • App nodes should expose an endpoint via dmsg.
  • Logic for other nodes to connect to app nodes.
  • To reference an app node: {chain_pk}.{app_pk}.

v1.1 (Backlogged changes)

• Allow 0-coin transactions (Switch cx transactions to be 0-coin transactions).
• Fix MainExpression representation in transactions (allows for more secure transaction verification).
• Rework pex, daemon and associated modules to be able to manually add/remove peers/connections.
• Improve CLI interface further: add descriptions.
• Remove legacy code. Need to do this later as some parts may still be needed.