News:Project Update 2025-03-29

Summary

Bug Fixes & Crashes

• Resolved a few crashes recently
• If not updated, the current build is 5.1.5rc12.2

Syncing Improvements

• Improved syncing speed, especially from hard drives
• Reduced dataset size by ~17 GB through better indexing
• Bootstrap file size also reduced by 1–2 GB

Development Progress

• Working on merging branch 6.0 (some time locks set, but delayed)
• Plan to release the wallet in the next 1–2 weeks

Use Cases in Development

• Three new use cases under active development
• One related to media
• Another connected to an existing real-world popular app

Exchange Issues

• Addressing challenges related to Xeggex
• Plans for listing on new exchanges

Hardware & Research

• Doing hardware-related research (schematics available on request)
• Applications may extend to mining, communication nodes, and even

propulsion

Community & UI

• Planning to revive the beta testing channel
• UI updates being developed by Kendall and Krysto

Future Plans

• Additional use cases and features in development
• More updates expected in next week’s development update.

Transcription

Hey, guys. Welcome to the development update for today, Friday, March 28. This last week, I've spent a bit of time working and tracking down some bugs. We had a couple crashes that I've had to resolve. If you're not on the newest, it is 5.1.5rc12.2. That would be the build number. I found some stability issues. I've been doing some testing and improvements on the syncing code again. As I said, I did a sequential sync that I've gotten it to sync much faster off of hard drives. So, I got a fresh new, sync that I'm actually updating on some of our our bootstrap nodes. I think that should cut about 10 or 15 gigabytes off of the dataset just because of the way those were built. Basically, the indexes were built after it was already synced, and so I wasn't actually overriding any of that, data chain data. So it should cut quite a bit off. I'm seeing pretty good reduction, I think, 17 gigabytes. So that should help improve the download speed. It cut a few hundred megabytes off of the actual bootstrap file, so that uncompressed should be, yeah, about a gigabyte or two, which is good. And that should also help the sequential sync since the data was written in that, more consistently.

And then, I'm just getting getting ready for the merging-6.0. If you wanna see that, that's the branch that I've been working on. I've got some of the time locks set, but I did not meet my mark for this week as far as getting it out the door. We've got a couple more things to go on that. I'm also working on a couple new use cases. I said one for media. I also have another really cool one. This is gonna be used in in the real world based off of an app that has a pretty large usage already. So that's another one. So currently, we have about three use cases that are in the development, which is good. I definitely see good things coming for us in the future. Once we get on some new exchanges too, I've been seeing that's a big issue. It's unfortunate kinda what's happened with Xeggex.

But, again, we'll get through this, and, we'll get all these these challenges. You know, anything that, doesn't kill us will make us stronger. And, I mean, I think by now, it's pretty easy to see that Nexus is here to stay. We ain't going anywhere. Everybody can see my dedication and passion for the project. And there's a lot of different facets to it. One of such facets I've actually been working on this week. I don't talk too much about it publicly. But anybody that's interested, if you wanna find out some of the new research that I've been doing as far as hardware is concerned, I'd be happy to share some of the schematics. Those things I think will be very beneficial for not only our mining industry, but for the communication nodes and eventually propulsion, which is really interesting.

So, that pretty much concludes us for this week. Short update. I hope to have more to report to you guys next week. As I said, a little bit more lab work this week and kinda bug fixes, so I didn't get as much future development done as I would have liked to. But I do would like to see that next week. So looking for the next week or two to have that wallet out the door. We'll create a beta testing channel or we'll revive that beta testing channel to get you guys starting new builds, and I think there's some UI updates that Kendall and Chris have been working on as well. So until next time, guys. We will speak again next week.