Gmmmmm Fellow Square Members🌄

Presenting the 4th episode of the #Aleo Pulse [Season 2], your one-stop hub for all things on Aleo, The first Fullstack blockchain powered by Zero Knowledge Proofs🚀

Let's begin with today's episode🚀

This Week's Updates

➡️The Community call was held last Wednesday at 20:00 IST @ Discord.

➡️The hosts were Viv and Howard Wu

🔵Howard is a co-founder of Aleo and is now the CEO of Provable

➡️According to Howard,

🟦The provable team is currently focused on building final requests for validators and stakers.

🟦The Provable team also consists of engineers who are working on Leo, Explorer and other UX-related tooling around Aleo

🟦The ZK-circuit design has now transitioned from the original ZEXE design, and now the Aleo Synthesizer is used.

🟦The audit report which was conducted by zkSecurity can be found in the blog.

🟦Although Aleo already has privacy which can be controlled by devs, the team is working on a solution to enable functional privacy a swell.

🟦When someone writes a contract on Leo, they generate circuits off-chain and then submit them on-chain.

🟦Provers are written on AVM bytecodes and then converted into mathematical polynomials.

🟦The consensus bug has been fixed🤩

🟦Now, the team is working on implementing ARC 37 and 38

🟦The team is working on rebuilding the coinbase mechanism

🟦Bullshark [a consensus algorithm, to keep things simple] and Narwhal [ an efficient BFT consensus] are used as they can,

1️⃣scale way better than BFT

2️⃣work is evenly distributed among validators

3️⃣Slashing is not required at the consensus level

I know it's a lot already, but hangon tight🦁

🟦All 4 validators on testnet3 remain operational, but some weird behaviour might occur as testnet3 uses the old consensus version.

🟦Aleo will become the first zkVM with privacy + programmability

🟦The team is also exploring the intro of custom lookups, and adding batch-verification

[batch execution has already been shipped]

🟦Aleo can store zkNFT's metadata on-chain, completely.




And, that's all for today :)

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I'll see ya in the next episode🫡

Until then, LFG!