Weekly Technical Progress Update

The frontend team started building reusable components for the swap interface, and researching wallet connection APIs. We invested in setting up storybook, which will allow us to refine our design system as we experiment and push the usability bar higher and higher.

The infrastructure team focused on setting up build pipelines for deploying our static site via API gateway, and a build pipeline for our smart contracts. API gateway buys us a smaller attack surface area, DDOS protection, and more, while the docker-based plutus environment for compiling and running our smart contracts will provide continuous feedback if test failures are introduced.

The backend/smart contract team onboarded two more expert Haskell engineers, and implemented a simple swap state machine that can be tested independent from the Plutus PAB. This simple swap included the first of several scalability solutions we want to investigate, as well as the beginnings of a test suite. We also worked towards building a tool for fully automating the future ISO, upgrading our semi-manual process.

The research team focused on organizing notes for a second whitepaper, and implementing a low-fidelity prototype and visualization of several variations of scaling the constant product pool model. These visualizations will allow all engineers to quickly reach alignment on implementation, and serve as the foundation for educational materials on how the protocol works when the DEX launches.