WEEKLY DEV UPDATES 02-14-2022

FRONTEND

🔹Implemented Connection & Create Wallet Page UI in Drawer

🔹Prepared layout for the KIRA Dashboard Page

MIDDLEWARE

🔹Refactored interx init & allowed to specify home directory

🔹Added execution fee query by specific transaction hash

BACKEND

🔹Created infrastructure for the spending pools KIP

WALLET

🔹Started work on besh32 encoding of signatures & standardization of the QR-codes for cross compatibility with MyCrpto and MyEtherWallet

INFRASTRUCTURE

🔹Created the script which allows to create deb packages for KM2 and Interex


https://twitter.com/kira_core/status/1494003821491757059?s=21

WEEKLY DEV UPDATES

FRONTEND
🔹Implemented designs and new login mechanism in Saifu Sign-in Page
🔹Started work on the Dashboard Validators stats section
🔹Created basic data cache mechanism

MIDDLEWARE
🔹Added status_only flag for validators query api
🔹Included execution fees query for sekai & interx

BACKEND
🔹WIP building proposal system for spending pools

WALLET
🔹Added support for signing & verifying files
🔹Improved text signing & verification UX

INFRASTRUCTURE
🔹Added documentation on creating GPG keys. Resolved issues with the deb packaging

https://twitter.com/kira_core/status/1496466927035822083?s=21

WEEKLY DEV UPDATES

FRONTEND
🔹WIP Account Page
🔹Started work on Loading Page

MIDDLEWARE
🔹Created new interxd installation script that does not depend on the docker containers
🔹Modified protobuf generation script to automatically source sekai proto files
🔹Resolved issue with account/balances query endpoints after proto files sourcing

BACKEND
🔹Finalized UBI module
🔹Resolved edge case with spending pool reward rate change

WALLET
🔹Started work on securing vaults and option to import private key wallets

INFRASTRUCTURE
🔹Created github workflow for building & signing docker images in the KRIA docker repository

https://twitter.com/kira_core/status/1502267586314133505?s=21

WEEKLY DEV UPDATES

FRONTEND
🔹WIP Testing and fixing reported issue with Account Balances Page

MIDDLEWARE
🔹Updated all endpoints grpc paths to ensure compatibility with latest sekai release
🔹Added spending pool query with names filter

BACKEND
🔹KIP_73 (fee pool spending module) review and implementation drafts
🔹Testing changes in the bash script used for setup and release packaging

WALLET
🔹Implementation and designs of securing SAIFU vaults with pin
🔹Improved SAIFU database management

INFRASTRUCTURE
🔹Created workflow for generation of DEB releases for SEKAI & INTERX. Created script for asynchronous queries to API endpoints.

https://twitter.com/kira_core/status/1504076955595026435?s=21

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WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

FRONTEND
🔹Finished Account Balances Page & started code refactor

MIDDLEWARE
🔹Updated proto types for spending pools and corresponding proposals query
🔹Finalized spending pools/proposals query & updated postman API collections
🔹Updated interx functions metadata query to support latest sekai release

BACKEND
🔹KIP_73 (fee distributor module) WIP - building module infra

WALLET
🔹Features and UX update from feedbacks.
🔹Documentation write up for deployment and automation for Saifu.
🔹New SAIFU version released.

INFRASTRUCTURE
🔹Created workflow for automated generation of DEB releases for all KIRA Tools

https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1507307510667042833?s=21

WEEKLY DEV UPDATES

FRONTEND
🔹Added Firefox private window support
🔹Added build scripts & documentation to enable simple, one command deployments
🔹WIP Account Transactions page

MIDDLEWARE
🔹Updated node discovery response: add safe, block-height, sekaid/interxd version
🔹Added new flags allowing for easier for node discovery & chain_id check

BACKEND
🔹Implement KIP_73 (fee distributor module), added tests and pushed new release v0.1.25-rc.9

WALLET
🔹Refactoring of SAIFU Transfer website for production use
🔹Migrating packages to null safety and testing implementation

INFRASTRUCTURE
🔹Refactored SEKAI & INTERX workflows to protect against unwanted PRs to already released branches
🔹Created workflow for automated generation of Android APK & AAB releases for the SAIFU wallet
🔹Created scripts to analyze 1M+ blocks of the current testnet and generate empirical proof of approximately equal chances for all KIRA validators to propose new blocks

https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1513117034057715712?s=21

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

FRONTEND
🔹Fixed connection error with localhost interx
🔹WIP to enable automated unit & integration testing via github actions

MIDDLEWARE
🔹Updated node-discovery module. (WIP)
🔹Node discovery queries now verify chain-id, block height & hash to prevent including forks in the output

BACKEND
🔹Resolved snap period issue in the fee distributor module
🔹Added performance counter query to monitor node uptime for the puropse of the fair fee distribution
🔹WIP multistake module - KIP_74

WALLET
🔹Added backup exporting and importing feature
🔹Finalized KIRA Transfers web app
🔹WIP on updating network code for signing transactions & messages

INFRASTRUCTURE
🔹Created workflows allowing generation of automated KIRA miro & SAIFU transfer releases

https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1516396522573037568?s=21

WEEKLY DEV UPDATES 1/2

FRONTEND
🔹Started work on the Identity Registrar UI
🔹WIP to enable automated unit & integration testing via github actions

MIDDLEWARE
🔹Updated documentation to include details on the INTERX RPC response caching capabilities & configurations
🔹Added check of the current & historical block hash while connecting to INTERX nodes to ensure that forks are not being added to the nodes list
🔹WIP adding new parameters to enable simpler queries of the priv/pub/interx nodes via network discovery endpoint

BACKEND
🔹Started work on the new multistake module, corresponding protobufs & generating types
🔹Updated tokens registrar to support new multistake module

https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1518243599514992640?s=21

WEEKLY DEV UPDATES 2/2

WALLET
🔹WIP on the new UI screens for the SAIFU wallet backups feature.
🔹Enabled exporting and importing backups within SAIFU app, including both wallets and user preferences

INFRASTRUCTURE
🔹Created bip39gen tool based on go-bip39 with additional user & system mixed entropy to provide higher security while generating mnemonics in the next iteration of the KIRA Manager
🔹Added dedicated action workers for the tool repo to correctly produce & test ARM64 releases for all KIRA tools
🔹Researched potential security breach related to on chain validator mnemonics manipulations

https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1518243599514992640?s=21

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

FRONTEND
🔹WIP Account transactions query and Identity Registrar UI support

MIDDLEWARE
🔹Created new INTERX release v0.4.8 containing unsafe & behind query parameters in the node discovery endpoints allowing filtering of search results by all accessible public IP’s & maximum number of blocks that other nodes might fall behind before being discarded from results.

BACKEND
🔹WIP multistake module types, keeper, corresponding cli commands & module code prototype

WALLET
🔹Finalized restoring, importing and generating backups for the SAIFU wallet with password protection.
🔹Started work on a single UX to enable processing of cryptographic signatures, file transfers & transaction signing by utilizing generalized QR code metadata structure

INFRASTRUCTURE
🔹Started work on updating KIRA manager to support SEKAI, INTERX & tools repo release files

https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1521570840516915200?s=21

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WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

FRONTEND
🔹Finalized transactions service infrastructure (identity registrar, tokens transfer)

MIDDLEWARE
🔹Created dedicated endpoint for the frontend dashboard excluding proposals summary

BACKEND
🔹Refactored message interface to ensure consistency of all parameters
🔹Added protobuf fix for local proto-generation & WIP multi-stake module

WALLET
🔹Released first version of SAIFU profiles & contacts with search functionality

INFRASTRUCTURE
🔹WIP console tool enabling upload of release packages into IPFS via pinata.cloud API

https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1527276260790968321?s=21

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

FRONTEND
🔹Added support for customizable interx port
🔹WIP - UI for propagating transactions on chain

MIDDLEWARE
🔹Integrated proposers/voters query.
🔹Finalized dashboard endpoint (/api/dashboard)

BACKEND
🔹Added outstanding rewards, staking pools and undelegations queries
🔹Implement cli commands for for the multi-stake module txs/queries

WALLET
🔹WIP secure seed generation library enabling human verification & hardening with user supplied entropy

INFRASTRUCTURE
🔹Added support for large files (multipart) upload/download to the IPFS console tool & refactored an API calls for pinning

https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1532710597061640195

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

FRONTEND
🔹WIP - UI for creating payment requests & propagating transactions on chain

MIDDLEWARE
🔹Upgraded INTERX to support grpc-gateway v2

BACKEND
🔹Added claim reward feature & ability to upsert staking pool properties
🔹Resolved multi-staking module integration & fee distribution issues

WALLET
🔹WIP secure seed generation UX for mobile
🔹Resolved issue with missing controls on the saifu transfer & signer UI

INFRASTRUCTURE
🔹Finalized multi-part upload for folders/files

https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1537407230605148164

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

FRONTEND
🔹Implemented api/dashboard handler in infra
🔹Fixed updating mnemonic when generating new address on the Create Account page
🔹Rebuilt toasts & refactored UI assets for better user experience

MIDDLEWARE
🔹Fixed proto generation script to support grpc-gateway v2 & created new INTEX release

BACKEND
🔹Created keeper unit tests for staking pools & added support for fetching module status

WALLET
🔹Added signatures generator & verification on mobile
🔹Added a screen to navigate the features/apps available within SAIFU app environment

INFRASTRUCTURE
🔹Finalized ipfs-api cli tool alongside folder upload & page hosting
🔹WIP ci/cd pipe for automated internal devnet deployment from public release packages

https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1539965989449650176

Dear Community, we offer you a selection of articles that will help you understand the scale and idea of KIRA:

🔹 Connecting Crypto with Real World Economies
🔹 Introduction to the Multi-Bonded Proof of Stake
🔹 KIRA Leverage Staking: Why It Matters?

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🔵 KIRA is built as the powerhouse of the Web 3 economy to host decentralized financial applications 🔵

Wondering how we do it? 🤔

- Multi-Bonded Proof of Stake
- Interchain Exchange Protocol
- Initial Validator Offering

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES

FRONTEND
🔹WIP - UI for sending tokens & documentation of all new modules with UML diagrams

MIDDLEWARE
🔹Added metadata for dashboard endpoint & synced interx with latest changes in sekai

BACKEND
🔹Created new release for multi-staking module with support for claiming rewards & init/export genesis
🔹Added unit tests for PoolDelegator / IncreasePoolRewards

WALLET
🔹Added a dialogue to navigate accessibly between vaults and wallets
🔹WIP saifu-ethereum tx broadcasting

INFRASTRUCTURE
🔹Added data structures to handle the responses from pinata in the ipfs-api tool, installation scripts, unit tests & verbosity log levels

https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1542465843061194753

Dear community, our Friday collection of articles on getting to know the KIRA:

🔹KIRA & NFTs Staking
🔹Passive Income Explained with Liquid Staking & Staking Derivatives
🔹Pitfalls of The Proof of Stake Paradigm

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