Taxa Monthly Highlights for December 2021
Greetings Community,
We wish everyone a happy new year! Below please find the monthly highlights for December.
Technology:
Pyxa:
- Imported new libraries into Pyxa:
Keccak hash library — a commonly used hash algorithm in blockchain protocols such as Ethereum. It also offers a more light-weight solution on EVM smart contracts to verify messages’ genuity from tServices (using hash instead of ECDSA signatures).
json.encode — a feature that was temporarily taken off due to previous bugs. Now it’s re-implemented and added into the json library.
Taxa Core:
- Researched and refactored 2 libraries on MacOS version of taxa-client (Libcrypto and libippcp), resolved the previous bugs on AES encryption’s padding errors.
DevOps:
- Public mainnet’s mining mechanism and miner fee module in testing.
Ecosystem
Taxa Developer Grant Program:
We are pleased to introduce the Taxa Developer Grant Program. The goal of the Program is to grow the Taxa ecosystem, foster a dynamic Taxa developer community, and encourage creative applications built with the Taxa platform.
The Program consists of multiple phases so as to help developers to kick start their development journey with Taxa, and by accomplishing the challenges of each phase developers shall earn their chances to receive the award granted by Taxa.
Phase I aims at helping developers kick start with the first step of developing with Taxa: set up the development environment, and communicate with tServices. Each winner will receive 7,000 TXT, until the total award pool of Phase I is all consumed.
Read more about how to participate here.
About Taxa
Taxa Network is a privacy-preserving, computationally powerful, blockchain agnostic middleware infrastructure. Designed with a layered architecture philosophy, and built with cutting edge trusted execution environment (TEE) technologies, Taxa aims at enabling the Web 3.0 apps to develop and thrive. With Taxa, developers are able to unlock whole new possibilities in privacy-centric, data-intensive or computation-heavy scenarios in DeFi, NFT, gaming, AI/Machine Learning, etc.
