Phala Newsletter #1, 9.21-9.27

Partnership, upgrading, visual identity improvements.

What’s New

• Phala Network partnered with Maskbook.

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• Testnet PoC-3 will be launched soon in October with PHA mining function and miner tutorials.

• COME MEET PHALA TEAM at the end of October on Web3 Forum Shanghai →

Development

• Progress

  • Phala Network codebase has been upgraded to Substrate 2.0 release version: https://github.com/Phala-Network/phala-blockchain/pull/44

  • Substrate-TEE bridge refactor for better performance: https://github.com/Phala-Network/phala-blockchain/pull/43

  • E2E Web3 Analytics tests have passed: https://github.com/Phala-Network/phala-blockchain/pull/42

  • Finished PoC pLIBRA light client; started to port to confidential contracts

• Ongoing tasks

  • PoC-3 Miner reward and staking runtime logic

  • W3A automatic deployment

  • Libra light client and singing in confidential contract

  • Adopt XCMP; waiting for Rococo v1

Community

1. Phala substack account is live and subscribers will receive Phala newsletter containing Phala updates of all aspects.

2. Improved visual identity of Phala forum.

3. Added a welcome channel on Phala Discord server which better explains the value of Phala and Phala community.

4. Did research on international miner contest events.

5. Translated and published Recap | A Privacy Computing Discussion between Oasis Labs and Phala Network.

Activity

1. On 25 September, Marvin presented at Polkadot China Tour 2020 Shanghai station as a round table talk guest and shared about how he valued Polkadot parachain and its future possibility.

2. On 26 September, Marvin presented as a speaker at the Polkadot gathering hold by Candaq Group.