Our CEO @milanavalmont discusses the differences between PoW and PoS systems in the context of the Ethereum Merge. Crucially, she highlights the weaknesses that remain in a PoS system, namely that the system favors early adopters who may have gotten a big bag of native tokens for cheap, and being dependent on a “stake-as-trust” system could have protocol-breaking implications in a cross-chain ecosystem. She then explains how KIRA's innovative Multi-Bonded-Proof-of-Stake solves such issues. Check out the full article below👇: https://hackernoon.com/looking-into-ethereums-merge-and-how-kira-circumvents-poss-biggest-weakness

KIRA has a unique and innovative Governance Model that aims to continuously improve its efficiency and decentralisation, independent of wealth and stake distribution. In order for an individual to become a validator, they must first be accepted by the current network validators in order to prevent fraudulent activities and bad actors. On top of this, by allowing the network to be governed by a syndicate of validators the scalability of the network itself is guaranteed, while eliminating the need to worry about what occurs on-chain. Learn more about our Governance Model below: https://blog.kira.network/kira-governance-model-4ef09e067386

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹 Finished integration of Send Tokens page with infrastructure 🔹 Started Confirm Transaction page 🔹 Next step : Broadcast Transaction page MIDDLEWARE 🔹 Completed unit tests and released new version that involves integration tests written in bash script and unit tests for golang 🔹 Worked on bitcoin api and completed bitcoin status api. 🔹 Next step : Continue to work on adding more bitcoin apis and complete blocks and transactions endpoint. BACKEND 🔹 Added permission to check basket module emergency actions 🔹 Added queries for mints,burn,swap amount done during limit period along with CLI commands 🔹 Tested emergency cli commands, and mints, burn, swap amount on limit period query CLI and resolve issues 🔹 Implemented average disbalance function & slippage fee on swap operation 🔹 Implemented sending slippage fee to “fee collector account” to pay network 🔹 Implemented basket tokens to claim rewards in case of holding multistaking tokens 🔹 Added unit test for basket action history, basket get, set, delete, create, min, burn 🔹 Resolved issue for in-state upgrade without binary changes 🔹 Next step : Resolve soft fork issue + upgrade plan fields, governance claim councilor WALLET 🔹 Tons of chrome extension testing and started the first working extension with back-end communications, and tons of features 🔹 Added Flutter into the chrome extension and made it possible to support video scanning 🔹 Added useful scanning ability, for the future features we want to add 🔹 Next step : Finish up the back-end for the chrome extension, so we can start scaling it up with UX and features. INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹 Researching on how to implement multisig for validator set without breaking to groups 🔹 Researched rescan threshold for bitcoin core watchwallet 🔹 Next step : Continue to research on multisig https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1575434684871413767

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹 Started integration of Send Tokens page with infrastructure 🔹 Next step: Finishing Send Tokens page integration with infrastructure MIDDLEWARE 🔹 Added EVM contract write endpoint 🔹 Introduced EVM faucet configuration 🔹 Completed unit tests for proposal, UBI, pool and status API functions 🔹 Working on integration tests using golang 🔹 Next step : write EVM faucet endpoint 🔹 Next step: work on bitcoin APIs and build basic structure for integration tests BACKEND 🔹 Added basket stores management by denom 🔹 Implemented CLI commands for transactions, queries, proposals and grpc query 🔹 Add limitation on min/max amounts on mint/burn/swap 🔹 Added more restrictions on tokens cap and limitation period 🔹 Added permission to check basket module emergency actions 🔹 Tested CLI commands : mints/burn/swap amount, limitation period, emergency actions and resolved issues 🔹 Next step : Complete basket module, upgrade issue fixes (in-state) WALLET 🔹 Report page is setup, similar to a Google Forms, for reporting bugs and Issues related to SAIFU 🔹 Fixes as reported by Internal team from Report page 🔹 Testing and working on web extensions to add SAIFU features to internet browsers, and connecting browser to saifu via an extensions 🔹 Next step : Continue exploring what’s possible with web extensions and what features it can or can’t support from SAIFU INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹 Finalized research of the bitcoin core limitations. Results written in documentation 🔹 Next step : Prepare data for the next testnet iteration. Research limitations of multisig transactions on bitcoin network https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1573249197280837632

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹 Finished Send Tokens page 🔹 Next step : Integration of Send Tokens page and infrastructure MIDDLEWARE 🔹 ABI decode for contract call 🔹 Finalize Read Contract endpoint 🔹 WIP: Write Contract endpoint 🔹 Unit tests for APIs that query genesis, data reference, tokens, upgrade plan, node discovery, and permission data 🔹 Next step : EVM faucet endpoint 🔹 Next step : Complete unit tests and basic structure for integration tests BACKEND 🔹 Connect basket module to app.go 🔹 Add more protobuf for txs of basket module 🔹 Implement mint, burn, swap operations 🔹 Implement proposal system 🔹 Surplus increase on swap operation 🔹 Implement surplus withdraw operation via proposal 🔹 Next step : Complete basket module, gov claim councilor WALLET 🔹 Built interface screens for Shared Secrets update, these are simplified screen to support the back-end code produced last week. 🔹 Added feature to show all the Shared Secret’s categories, selecting multiple categories, and storing data with a secure storage. 🔹 Next step : Implement Shared Secret’s functions (such as adding/deleting/modifying peers that you want to share information securely) and expanding the categories of things that can shared securely. INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹 Continued testing btcnode endpoints and address re-scanning features 🔹 Next step : Put results in the doc. Test multisig limitations. https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1570760921571786760

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹 Finished new Transactions system. 🔹 Next step : Send Tokens Page UI. MIDDLEWARE 🔹 Fix response json snake_case issue. 🔹 Prepare read/write contract for EVM endpoints. (query ABI, read ABI json and prepare packed calldata) 🔹 Complete unit tests for api functions related to account, transactions, validators, faucet and proposals. 🔹 Next step: Complete unit tests for apis that query genesis, data reference, tokens, upgrade plan, node discovery, and permission data. 🔹 Next step : Read/Write contract on EVM chains. BACKEND 🔹 Built basic protobuf for basket module. 🔹 Initiate basket module types, keeper, CLI files. 🔹 In progress of building read/write logic for basket objects. WALLET 🔹 Finished end to end encryption implementation (Diffie-Hellman), that is to be used for SAIFU and others applications. 🔹 Continued working on IOS fixes and release, waiting approval. 🔹 Next step : Built new UI that interacts with new (end to end) implementation of Diffie-Hellman, so that SAIFU can register and store many secret communication channels and also be able to ensure each interaction with SAIFU is a secure channel. INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹 Deployed latest environment for the front-end. 🔹 Next step : Testing Bitcoinnode capabilities and limitations in terms of processing requests. https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1568140947740925953

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹 Finished rebuilding Account Page - Balances tab 🔹 Next step : Dashboard Page. MIDDLEWARE 🔹 Update response data json to always use snake_case 🔹 Remove gas_wanted and gas_used from transaction endpoints 🔹 Application Binary Interface (ABI) endpoints of EVM chains 🔹 Next step : Add remaining EVM endpoints. BACKEND 🔹 Built documents for staking, slashing, updated gov module proposals section 🔹 Resolves issue on upgrade module for distributor module genesis import/export 🔹 Next step : KIP 78 - Token Basketing module (*multiple types of a different tokens such as stablecoins can be combined - basketed - into a single token before whitelisting them for staking*) WALLET 🔹 Worked on creating audio files (wav) and including hidden data inside (steganography) 🔹 Worked on release of experimental SAIFU app for IOS. 🔹 Added documentation on Audio QRC Steganography 🔹 Next step : Start working on diffie key exchange for establishing secure communication channels. INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹 Tested prime numbers generator for SAIFU [DHKE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exchange). Collected data from bitcoin node for further testing. Tested bitcoin node CLI wrapper under the load (I/O operations) 🔹 Next step : Testing RPC endpoints of bitcoin node. Deploying testing environment for front-end team. https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1565656366475255809

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹 Working on Account page, list of current Tokens Balances tab 🔹 Next step : Loading page MIDDLEWARE 🔹(EVM chains) - Finalized account/balance queries (70%). 🔹 Next step : Finalize remaining EVM queries (30%) , update response data JSON to use snake_case BACKEND 🔹Consider LP tokens and coins ratio in case of undelegation 🔹Prevent upsert staking pool and new delegation for slashed pool 🔹Try CLI command and add example commands for operations on slashed pools 🔹Moved Undelegate function into delegation.go for better management 🔹Added test for Undelegation / SlashStakingPool / RefuteSlashingProposal 🔹Automatic proposal : Proposal now shows “colluders” = previously jailed validators within a short timeframe before proposal is triggered 🔹Automatic proposal : Proposal creation don’t trigger when MaxJailedValidators parameter does not reach 🔹Automatic proposal : Proposal now tests if same validator slash proposal already exists to prevent double proposal 🔹Slash proposal integration test 🔹Next step : Staking module documentation, upgrade proposal rollback WALLET 🔹Working on audio steganography documentation and worked on simplest experimental build (using Least Bit Algorithm with encrypted messages) 🔹Next step : Continue documentation and use a more robust for audio steganography INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹Researching queries limitations, loads on BTC test network https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1563130251722366977

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹Upgraded project version to flutter 3.0.5 🔹Fixed clearing data about latest connection info when server went offline. Now connection info is kept until user manually switches to different server. 🔹Completed some minor and major refactors around project. MIDDLEWARE 🔹KIP-77 : Finalized INTERX endpoint for transactions estimation & propagation 🔹Complete writing integration tests using bash script for apis related to account and transactions. BACKEND 🔹Consider poolCoins and coins ratio in case of undelegation 🔹Prevent upsert staking pool and new delegation for slashed pool 🔹Try CLI command and add example commands for operations on slashed pools 🔹Moved Undelegate function into delegation.go for better management 🔹Added test for undelegate, SlashStakingPool, RefuteSlashingProposal WALLET 🔹Continued work and research on Audio Stenography, in order to listen and process encoded audio data. The first iteration is to be built to support encoding and decoding secret messages hidden in tone. INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹BIP93 : Improved readability of data output on terminal + added functionality to handle raw entropy with checksum bits. https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1560228989578493954

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹Finished backwards compatible network module & added warning message when nodes run older version of interx or serve outdated responses 🔹Frontend is now auto connecting to interx if there are no warnings and provides a list of pre-configured endpoints for the user to choose from 🔹Added auto-refresh of all networks specified in the list MIDDLEWARE 🔹Added multiple RPC authentication methods for EVM chains, native full node (no key required), quicknode, infura & pokt 🔹Finalized EVM blocks & transactions query BACKEND 🔹Added new permission for creating slashing proposals 🔹Slashing proposal now allows to submit a judgement vote by each voter regarding expected percentage of stake to be slashed WALLET 🔹Released new versions of saifu key generator enabling verification of the secure seed phrase derivation INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹Finished BIP39 CLI generator including all vector tests https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1557708689137668097

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND (miro) 🔹WIP - Backwards compatible networking module MIDDLEWARE (interx) 🔹Implement EVM status query 🔹WIP - Caching service for EVM requests BACKEND (sekai) 🔹Execution fees query now returns all transaction types 🔹Implement slashing proposals, refuting of slashing proposal & staking pool list query 🔹Add new permission allowing to vote on slashing proposals WALLET (saifu) 🔹Added error reporting to ethereum transaction signer in the egress service INFRASTRUCTURE (km, tools) 🔹WIP - Implementing release packages support and deployment workflows to the KIRA Infrastructure Manager https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1555600517572722688

Dear community ❗️ Attention ❗️ Starting today, the interest rate on the AscendEX exchange has been reduced to 5% APY. However, you can get up to 16% of the APY on stake.kira.network

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND (miro) 🔹WIP - Network Module allowing to establish connection with older versions of INTERX MIDDLEWARE 🔹Added unit test architecture to INTERX repository & resolved issue with node discovery query causing node restart BACKEND 🔹Created slashing proposal with support for customisable slash percentage 🔹Automated raising of the slashing proposal at the time of the double sign event 🔹Added GRPC & CLI query allowing for listing of all available transaction execution types WALLET 🔹Executed first ethereum transaction signing via dedicated Web gateway 🔹Added support for human provided entropy to the wallet generator INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹Added backward compatibility with SAIFU hardware wallet to bip39 CLI generator, including human provided entropy. https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1552990107850121216

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹Finished new pagination system & structure of controllers for handling list views (account balance list, transactions list, validators list etc.) MIDDLEWARE 🔹Added integration tests to interx repository 🔹WIP - ethereum RPC queries rate limiting BACKEND 🔹Released new sekai version with finalized multi-stake module 🔹Validators can now self-delegate tokens even if maximum number of delegators is reached (used as spam prevention mechanism) 🔹Created basic protobufs for a new slashing-module WALLET 🔹WIP - egress service allowing SAIFU to sign and propagate ethereum transactions on-chain INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹WIP - snapshot management for sekai & state sync using Cosmos SDK tools https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1550442434156548096

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹WIP - Structure of generic controllers for handling list views (account balance list, transactions list, validators list etc.) MIDDLEWARE 🔹Added support to configure Etherium-based chain RPC 🔹 WIP - Ethereum-based chain status endpoint BACKEND 🔹Implement delegators cap - each validator has limited number of delegators to protect against dust spam attacks 🔹Implement delegators pushout - delegators can push out other delegators if they have sufficient stake 🔹Added staking pool delegators query & automated unregister of delegator from a staking pool in the case of insufficient stake 🔹Ensured that delegation to not active validators is no longer possible to prevent accidental slashing WALLET 🔹WIP offline Ethereum transactions signing with SAIFU INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹Refactored IPFS-API tool structure to decrease resource consumption & increase security https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1547534463026053120

Trading and staking of KEX are available on Ascendex. Please let us know if there are any issues.

We're in the process of talking to Ascendex about this issue as we speak. There has been some confusion between our market market and Ascendex in regards to trading spreads and we're waiting for both parties to be able to speak about it. We'll provide an update as soon as possible.

Dear community, we continue our Friday collection of articles on getting to know KIRA: 🔹Odaily’s Interview with KIRA CEO Milana Valmont 🔹KIRA Network Token Metrics 🔹Mainnet: What to Expect Also join us: Twitter | Medium | Discord | Telegram #WhatIsKIRA

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹Rebuild the structure of generic controllers for handling list views (account balance list, transactions list, validators list etc.) MIDDLEWARE 🔹Updated Balances query pagination 🔹 Introduced caching for EVM chains query (WIP) BACKEND 🔹Implement token inflation distribution system 🔹Implement rewards auto-compound feature for the multi-staking module WALLET 🔹Offline Ethereum transactions signing with SAIFU (WIP) INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹IPFS API tool now supports CID hash validation, query by file name & upload name pre-checks 🔹Added unit tests to test for CID validation to the KIRA ipfs-api tool https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1544980313583063040

Dear community, our Friday collection of articles on getting to know the KIRA: 🔹KIRA & NFTs Staking 🔹Passive Income Explained with Liquid Staking & Staking Derivatives 🔹Pitfalls of The Proof of Stake Paradigm Also join us: Twitter | Medium | Discord | Telegram #WhatisKIRA

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹WIP - UI for sending tokens & documentation of all new modules with UML diagrams MIDDLEWARE 🔹Added metadata for dashboard endpoint & synced interx with latest changes in sekai BACKEND 🔹Created new release for multi-staking module with support for claiming rewards & init/export genesis 🔹Added unit tests for PoolDelegator / IncreasePoolRewards WALLET 🔹Added a dialogue to navigate accessibly between vaults and wallets 🔹WIP saifu-ethereum tx broadcasting INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹Added data structures to handle the responses from pinata in the ipfs-api tool, installation scripts, unit tests & verbosity log levels https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1542465843061194753

🔵 KIRA is built as the powerhouse of the Web 3 economy to host decentralized financial applications 🔵 Wondering how we do it? 🤔 - Multi-Bonded Proof of Stake - Interchain Exchange Protocol - Initial Validator Offering

Dear Community, we offer you a selection of articles that will help you understand the scale and idea of KIRA: 🔹 Connecting Crypto with Real World Economies 🔹 Introduction to the Multi-Bonded Proof of Stake 🔹 KIRA Leverage Staking: Why It Matters? Also join us: Twitter | Medium | Discord | Telegram #WhatIsKIRA

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹Implemented api/dashboard handler in infra 🔹Fixed updating mnemonic when generating new address on the Create Account page 🔹Rebuilt toasts & refactored UI assets for better user experience MIDDLEWARE 🔹Fixed proto generation script to support grpc-gateway v2 & created new INTEX release BACKEND 🔹Created keeper unit tests for staking pools & added support for fetching module status WALLET 🔹Added signatures generator & verification on mobile 🔹Added a screen to navigate the features/apps available within SAIFU app environment INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹Finalized ipfs-api cli tool alongside folder upload & page hosting 🔹WIP ci/cd pipe for automated internal devnet deployment from public release packages https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1539965989449650176

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹WIP - UI for creating payment requests & propagating transactions on chain MIDDLEWARE 🔹Upgraded INTERX to support grpc-gateway v2 BACKEND 🔹Added claim reward feature & ability to upsert staking pool properties 🔹Resolved multi-staking module integration & fee distribution issues WALLET 🔹WIP secure seed generation UX for mobile 🔹Resolved issue with missing controls on the saifu transfer & signer UI INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹Finalized multi-part upload for folders/files https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1537407230605148164

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹Added support for customizable interx port 🔹WIP - UI for propagating transactions on chain MIDDLEWARE 🔹Integrated proposers/voters query. 🔹Finalized dashboard endpoint (/api/dashboard) BACKEND 🔹Added outstanding rewards, staking pools and undelegations queries 🔹Implement cli commands for for the multi-stake module txs/queries WALLET 🔹WIP secure seed generation library enabling human verification & hardening with user supplied entropy INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹Added support for large files (multipart) upload/download to the IPFS console tool & refactored an API calls for pinning https://twitter.com/KIRA_Official/status/1532710597061640195

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹Finalized transactions service infrastructure (identity registrar, tokens transfer) MIDDLEWARE 🔹Created dedicated endpoint for the frontend dashboard excluding proposals summary BACKEND 🔹Refactored message interface to ensure consistency of all parameters 🔹Added protobuf fix for local proto-generation & WIP multi-stake module WALLET 🔹Released first version of SAIFU profiles & contacts with search functionality INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹WIP console tool enabling upload of release packages into IPFS via pinata.cloud API https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1527276260790968321?s=21

📣 Make sure you tune in to our Twitter Spaces TODAY with @WOLF_Financial! Our CTO @Asmodat will be co-hosting and discussing Cross Chain #Staking with some awesome projects 🙌 ⏰ 1PM EST https://twitter.com/wolf_financial/status/1521890477947113476?s=21

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹WIP Account transactions query and Identity Registrar UI support MIDDLEWARE 🔹Created new INTERX release v0.4.8 containing unsafe & behind query parameters in the node discovery endpoints allowing filtering of search results by all accessible public IP’s & maximum number of blocks that other nodes might fall behind before being discarded from results. BACKEND 🔹WIP multistake module types, keeper, corresponding cli commands & module code prototype WALLET 🔹Finalized restoring, importing and generating backups for the SAIFU wallet with password protection. 🔹Started work on a single UX to enable processing of cryptographic signatures, file transfers & transaction signing by utilizing generalized QR code metadata structure INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹Started work on updating KIRA manager to support SEKAI, INTERX & tools repo release files https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1521570840516915200?s=21

WEEKLY DEV UPDATES 1/2 FRONTEND 🔹Started work on the Identity Registrar UI 🔹WIP to enable automated unit & integration testing via github actions MIDDLEWARE 🔹Updated documentation to include details on the INTERX RPC response caching capabilities & configurations 🔹Added check of the current & historical block hash while connecting to INTERX nodes to ensure that forks are not being added to the nodes list 🔹WIP adding new parameters to enable simpler queries of the priv/pub/interx nodes via network discovery endpoint BACKEND 🔹Started work on the new multistake module, corresponding protobufs & generating types 🔹Updated tokens registrar to support new multistake module https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1518243599514992640?s=21

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹Fixed connection error with localhost interx 🔹WIP to enable automated unit & integration testing via github actions MIDDLEWARE 🔹Updated node-discovery module. (WIP) 🔹Node discovery queries now verify chain-id, block height & hash to prevent including forks in the output BACKEND 🔹Resolved snap period issue in the fee distributor module 🔹Added performance counter query to monitor node uptime for the puropse of the fair fee distribution 🔹WIP multistake module - KIP_74 WALLET 🔹Added backup exporting and importing feature 🔹Finalized KIRA Transfers web app 🔹WIP on updating network code for signing transactions & messages INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹Created workflows allowing generation of automated KIRA miro & SAIFU transfer releases https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1516396522573037568?s=21

WEEKLY DEV UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹Added Firefox private window support 🔹Added build scripts & documentation to enable simple, one command deployments 🔹WIP Account Transactions page MIDDLEWARE 🔹Updated node discovery response: add safe, block-height, sekaid/interxd version 🔹Added new flags allowing for easier for node discovery & chain_id check BACKEND 🔹Implement KIP_73 (fee distributor module), added tests and pushed new release v0.1.25-rc.9 WALLET 🔹Refactoring of SAIFU Transfer website for production use 🔹Migrating packages to null safety and testing implementation INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹Refactored SEKAI & INTERX workflows to protect against unwanted PRs to already released branches 🔹Created workflow for automated generation of Android APK & AAB releases for the SAIFU wallet 🔹Created scripts to analyze 1M+ blocks of the current testnet and generate empirical proof of approximately equal chances for all KIRA validators to propose new blocks https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1513117034057715712?s=21

WEEKLY DEVELOPMENT UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹Finished Account Balances Page & started code refactor MIDDLEWARE 🔹Updated proto types for spending pools and corresponding proposals query 🔹Finalized spending pools/proposals query & updated postman API collections 🔹Updated interx functions metadata query to support latest sekai release BACKEND 🔹KIP_73 (fee distributor module) WIP - building module infra WALLET 🔹Features and UX update from feedbacks. 🔹Documentation write up for deployment and automation for Saifu. 🔹New SAIFU version released. INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹Created workflow for automated generation of DEB releases for all KIRA Tools https://twitter.com/kira_official/status/1507307510667042833?s=21

Tune in to listen to our Co-Founder & CTO, Mateusz Grzelak @Asmodat , discuss KIRA, #Web3 and Multi-Bonded-Proof-of-Stake (#MBPoS) with zempcapital on EP.238 of the Blockhash Podcast. 🎧 Follow the podcast link: https://anchor.fm/blockhash-podcast/episodes/Mateusz-Grzelak---CTO-of-Kira-e1g4nc5

WEEKLY DEV UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹WIP Testing and fixing reported issue with Account Balances Page MIDDLEWARE 🔹Updated all endpoints grpc paths to ensure compatibility with latest sekai release 🔹Added spending pool query with names filter BACKEND 🔹KIP_73 (fee pool spending module) review and implementation drafts 🔹Testing changes in the bash script used for setup and release packaging WALLET 🔹Implementation and designs of securing SAIFU vaults with pin 🔹Improved SAIFU database management INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹Created workflow for generation of DEB releases for SEKAI & INTERX. Created script for asynchronous queries to API endpoints. https://twitter.com/kira_core/status/1504076955595026435?s=21

WEEKLY DEV UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹WIP Account Page 🔹Started work on Loading Page MIDDLEWARE 🔹Created new interxd installation script that does not depend on the docker containers 🔹Modified protobuf generation script to automatically source sekai proto files 🔹Resolved issue with account/balances query endpoints after proto files sourcing BACKEND 🔹Finalized UBI module 🔹Resolved edge case with spending pool reward rate change WALLET 🔹Started work on securing vaults and option to import private key wallets INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹Created github workflow for building & signing docker images in the KRIA docker repository https://twitter.com/kira_core/status/1502267586314133505?s=21

WEEKLY DEV UPDATES FRONTEND 🔹Implemented designs and new login mechanism in Saifu Sign-in Page 🔹Started work on the Dashboard Validators stats section 🔹Created basic data cache mechanism MIDDLEWARE 🔹Added status_only flag for validators query api 🔹Included execution fees query for sekai & interx BACKEND 🔹WIP building proposal system for spending pools WALLET 🔹Added support for signing & verifying files 🔹Improved text signing & verification UX INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹Added documentation on creating GPG keys. Resolved issues with the deb packaging https://twitter.com/kira_core/status/1496466927035822083?s=21

WEEKLY DEV UPDATES 02-14-2022 FRONTEND 🔹Implemented Connection & Create Wallet Page UI in Drawer 🔹Prepared layout for the KIRA Dashboard Page MIDDLEWARE 🔹Refactored interx init & allowed to specify home directory 🔹Added execution fee query by specific transaction hash BACKEND 🔹Created infrastructure for the spending pools KIP WALLET 🔹Started work on besh32 encoding of signatures & standardization of the QR-codes for cross compatibility with MyCrpto and MyEtherWallet INFRASTRUCTURE 🔹Created the script which allows to create deb packages for KM2 and Interex https://twitter.com/kira_core/status/1494003821491757059?s=21

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❗️ATTENTION❗️ All #KIRA testnet validators MUST manually reinitialize their nodes using testnet-9 branch 🔹List of peers to connect with can be found here: https://testnet-rpc.kira.network/api/pub_p2p_list?ip_only=true&connected=true 🔹Starting block of the testnet-9 chain is 920527 🔹After re-init nodes will be syncing until 2/3 of validators come online Currently 167/263 of all validators who voted YES on the update proposal are live, only 10 more needed to reach > 2/3 and launch the network!

We are happy to announce that KIRA upgrade proposal 668 passed successfully! As the result testnet-8 will be hard-forked into testnet-9 at 16:30:00 UTC on Fri Jan 07 2022. All validators who voted YES should be fully synced and online at that time!

We are delighted to announce that we rewarded 529 of our testnet validators with 1,250 $KEX each. Congratulations!🥳