✅ If you have a question about why your node is not producing blocks or producing the blocks slowly, please check out the F.A.Q. here: https://docs.taraxa.io/faq/testnet#what-makes-one-node-generate-more-blocks-than-another

Testnet node operations:

With the latest upgrade to the mainnet candidate, we’ve been investigating and debugging some new issues that have to do mainly with staking delegation:

• PBFT blocks proposal rate change depending on the number of stakes, not every delegation node has the same proposal rate anymore.
• Monitoring the overall mainnet candidate…

On the last week of the year, we’d like to take a moment and look back at Taraxa’s 2021, a year we officially launched our token, advanced our network development, and secured some high-profile partnerships. So pour a cup of your favorite winter drink, and let’s dive in!

👥 🔛Community: tokensale, exchange listings, AMAs.

2021 was a big year for us, but there’s one thing that shines a bit brighter than the rest: our stellar Taraxa Community. The major event of Q1 was the public sale of TARA token, followed by the first exchange listings on KuCoin, BitMax, and Gate.io:

After the token…

✅ If you have a question about why your node is not producing blocks, or producing the blocks slowly, please check out the F.A.Q. here: https://docs.taraxa.io/faq/testnet#what-makes-one-node-generate-more-blocks-than-another

Testnet node operations:

This week we were hard at work debugging and investigating multiple testnet issues:

• Implemented a hotfix for the race condition between the DAG structure that’s stored in memory and DB being out of sync specifically in terms of whether or not they’re finalized.
• Monitored the PBFT progress, debugged, and downloaded…

✅ 🚦If you have a question about why your node is not producing blocks, or producing the blocks slowly, please check out the F.A.Q. here: https://docs.taraxa.io/faq/testnet#what-makes-one-node-generate-more-blocks-than-another

Testnet node operations:

• Debugged and investigated on the testnet is down issue, monitoring the PBFT progress in all of our consensus nodes.
• Checked and investigated the binomial distribution for PBFT blocks proposal rate, and PBFT blocks production rate for all delegation players.
• Added a binary search for the binomial distribution, in order to…

✅ 🚦If you have a question about why your node is not producing blocks, or producing the blocks slowly, please check out the F.A.Q. here: https://docs.taraxa.io/faq/testnet#what-makes-one-node-generate-more-blocks-than-another

Testnet node operations:

• Ran a local node on the updated testnet, monitoring PBFT progress.
• Debugged and investigated on why the PBFT blocks finalization takes a bit longer to reach consensus, while the PBFT rounds are making progress pretty quick, found three issues that might affect that:
  1. DAG blocks proposal rate is low.
  2…

Testnet node operations:

1. Looking into a few critical issues that are causing nodes to stall:

• There is a race condition that causes nodes to stop syncing and get stuck, we have a PR that’s already implemented & being reviewed, will be merged soon.
• There might be other race conditions impacting syncing & gossip…

It’s our third week of Californicum testnet operations and we’ve been busy fixing some remaining node syncing issues — all with the help of our brilliant Discord community. On to the updates!

Node syncing:

Working on making node synching faster by fixing the PBFT proposal blocks:

• Enabled an exponential backoff for advanced steps in PBFT, tested the reboot consensus nodes: when nodes get partition and fail to reach consensus, the exponential backoff can extend voting speed. After exceeding the maximum steps, the extended sleep…

Our monthly rewards redemption day is here! If you staked $TARA or participated in our ongoing bounty campaigns this month, you can now claim your rewards:

a/ To redeem your bounty rewards, navigate to https://community.taraxa.io/redeem and click REDEEM.