Weekly Dev Update #33

Hey Y’all,

We’re back with another Dev Update, and starting our week on a Tuesday coz public holidays!

Loki Core

• Service Node bandwidth tests are in development: (

  github.com/msgmaxim/loki/commit/877ac673eb95bd7f518a37a05e455249870d26c4

  , 

  github.com/msgmaxim/loki/commit/a865f5d222b3e566bfbcb6d82b55d943a0b2f83a

  )

• RPC call to return Service Node ID’s as Base32z in preparation for integration with Lokinet: (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki/pull/404

  )

• Infinite Staking: Blacklist outputs with known destinations/amounts from output selection improving privacy of transactions on the network (

  github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commit/c324ad75c059876892c277898dffc308f1a602d7

  ) (

  github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commit/4b1758a0f3725de82246d25063f0e9c64366446a

  ) (

  github.com/Doy-lee/loki/commit/6d03cb29322c16dc9ac85099701811cc0f8fbfd4

  )

LLARP / Lokinet

If you’re lucky and join our Discord you might also catch Jeff or Ryan, the developers of LLARP, live streaming as they code: https://www.twitch.tv/uguu25519, https://www.twitch.tv/neuroscr

We could really use your help. To be considered for inclusion in packaging distribution, we need people to star, watch and fork our Github repo. If you have a Github account, please consider helping us out.

• Master branch changes

• Staging branch changes (gets posted to master when stable)

• PR suggested changes (coming to staging soon)

Loki Messenger

• Implementation of the HTTP server running inside the Messenger for P2P (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/144

  )

• Signal 1.20 has been merged into our development branch (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/148

  )

• The initiator of a friend request will now see the recipient’s nickname immediately after it has been accepted (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/150

   and 

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/152

  )

• Provide a user-friendly way to reset the database after the user fails 3 times to provide the database password (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/155

  )

• Continued work on handling multiple potentially stale Service Nodes when retrieving and sending messages (

  https://github.com/loki-project/loki-messenger/pull/147

  )

Research work:

• More algorithms have been tested regarding our public key to swarm id assignment. By changing the swarm id algorithm from using a uniform random number generator to a specific predetermined sequence that maximises uniformity, the Euclidean distance calculations now provides mapping with much better uniformity, while only affecting neighbours when a swarm is added or removed. (

  https://github.com/sachaaaaa/loki-swarm-pubkey-test

  )

Thanks,

Kee