Weekly Technical Progress Update #3, Sunday June 27th

The frontend team continued work on a library to build swap transactions, using emurgo's serialization library. They also built a low-fidelity version of the swap component along with a state machine for an end to end swap transaction.

The infrastructure team got an Alonzo Blue node connected to the testnet; This work is being wrapped up in a dockerized / k8s environment, so we can quickly spin up small private testnets. We're open sourcing this work, in the hopes that others in the Cardano community find it useful!

The backend and smart contract team built out an interactive swap demo; Running one node as a PAB, we can submit the appropriate swap transactions via HTTP, such as from a browser. We also augmented our soft-serve ISO tool to build the appropriate metadata for the ISO rewards transactions, and added handling for a configurable minimum payout threshold, which was previously going to be handled manually.

The research team focused on exploring different tokenomics structures, fee structures, and protocol mechanisms to resist certain types of market manipulation.