v1.1.0-beta

Our team is very excited to announce the beta release of our Full Node for Mainnet.
The Full Node is a key part of our blockchain ecosystem and this beta release represents a significant milestone. We have focused on ensuring our software is more functional, stable and performant.

This node includes the latest improvements which are listed below:

General:

• Improved detailed logging
• Improved configuration
• Moving to async approach
• Adding a CLI project
• Fixing of race conditions
• Increased code documentation
• Increased test coverage

Complete refactoring of the P2P code:

• Resolution of memory leaks
• P2P code is completely asynchronous
• Peer discovery improvements
• Address database moved to JSON files
• Introduction of peer banning
• Improved code abstraction
• New logic for time syncing between peers

Wallet:

• Resolution of reorg issues
• Improved transaction broadcasting
• Resolved concurrency issues in the wallet
• Wallet optimised to handle larger number of transactions
• Support for staking

Consensus:

• Improved consensus validation flow
• Improved block downloading flow
• Introduction of a Rules Engine
• Migration of consensus logic to rules
• Removal of unused POSv2 validation
• Enhanced block and transaction relay

Staking:

• Staking on multiple threads
• Improved algorithm of splitting stake outputs

API/RPC:

• Introduction of additional endpoints
• Introduction of SwaggerUI
• Controllers discoverable by features

New features:

• Watch-only wallet
• DNS crawler
• Azure Indexer

This is a beta release, therefore, please use the staking feature with caution.

Please help us by reporting any issue you may find:
On GitHub: https://github.com/stratisproject/StratisBitcoinFullNode/issues
On Slack: #fullnode_support channel

V1.0.1-alpha

Stratis Fullnode.

To run on the main Bitcoin network, from the command line:

dotnet Stratis.BitcoinD.dll

Included in this release:

• Stabilizing the consensus validation and block download code.
• Signaling of new blocks and transactions that are discovered on the network.
• Block Store is stand alone:
  • Store can respond to GetData payloads enabling FullNode capabilities.
  • Push blocks in batches to disk.
  • Download missing blocks from the network (catch-up mode).
  • Broadcast blocks to peers using Inv or Header payload
  • Cache store for faster block reads.
• Memory Pool:
  • Async lock free implementation of the memory pool.
  • Logic and tests pulled form core.
  • Broadcast transactions to peers.
  • Fee estimation.
• Introducing the Builder Pattern:
  • Build a full node in an easy and familiar builder pattern in a modular approach.
  • Support for creating new features inject-able to the full node.
  • Dependency Injection
• Testing
  • Adding many more unit tests
  • A separate integration test project
• Full Block SPV
  • Laying the grounds for a full block spv (for Breeze wallet)

V1.0

Requires .NET Core 1.1.0>

To execute, from the commandline run: dotnet Stratis.BitcoinD.dll