Explosive growth of the network continues
The November Swarm Community Call came packed with great news. The network has grown to almost 20,000 nodes, showing an incredible influx over the last couple of months.
Bee Track has been working relentlessly on improving network observability, which will serve as the basis for improving network performance. Additionally, the team is increasing network resilience and fixing connectivity issues that came with the recent growth.
Towards Swarm 2.0!
The Price Oracle
The Research Track has achieved a major milestone – the Price Oracle is ready to be launched onto the mainnet. This will be one of the more important releases in Swarm’s recent history, wrapping up the key milestone in the storage incentives roadmap.
“We've been working on very, very difficult challenges and problems over and over again. And finally, we're close to the end of development. We're pleased to announce that most of our work should be finished for the release, potentially by early next week or the middle or end of next week,” Callum Toner from the Research Track announced.
Erasure coding
Simultaneously, the team is already also working on introducing erasure coding to the Swarm network.
“And that's huge for the network … That will be Swarm 2.0! Feature complete, within the next 30 days,” Callum added with excitement.
Later in the programme, Gyuri Barabás led the audience to understanding why implementing erasure coding into the network is such a coveted goal, by providing a smile-cracking, non-apologetic deep dive into the system that introduces additional pieces of data into the network to allow for the successful reconstruction of potentially lost data.
Noah Maizels followed with a detailed overview of how stamp batches are utilised in Swarm.To make this not so instinctual process easier on you, the research team has compiled an effective utilisation table contrasting the theoretical maximum volume (theoretical amount of storage) and the practical volume of batches at various depths. This chart should help you when selecting the practical volume that aligns with your project’s needs.