Hey Octant community!
I wanted to share some updates since the previous Epoch, Epoch 3 as well as an updated roadmap.
-
Achievements since the last Octant Epoch
Major Highlights
- Impact Dashboard Ethereum page with client diversity at NiceNode Impact Dashboard
- Automatic port assignment to avoid conflicting ports when running multiple nodes
- End-to-end testing simulating a user for testing combinations of Ethereum clients, adding and removing a node, and successfully syncing (video coming soon)
- Major rewrite of internal build and configuration tools to switch to the official, long-term supported Electron tooling
- NiceNode available for Linux ARM now! (Raspberry Pis, Rock 5B, RockChip boards, upcoming Snapdragon Elite X ARM chips, etc.)
- Complete upgrade to Podman v5
- Much more support for a variety of Linux distros by detecting and using user’s Linux package manager to install dependencies instead of allowlisting Linux distros directly
Minor updates
- Users can input any text as config directly to a client
- Minor config changes for new client releases and changes
- Czech language
- commit history: Commits · NiceNode/nice-node · GitHub
- release history: https://github.com/NiceNode/nice-node/releases
-
Upcoming milestones on your project roadmap
- Smooth and automatic Node configuration updates
- Node options supplied by an HTTP API
- Prerequisite for permissionless node options
- Better integration of our hardware checking tool https://benchbuddy.xyz/ which can detect SSD IOPS required to sync a node
- See the Roadmap Graphic for more info (see Warpcast which needs updated)
-
How funds from the previous Epoch were utilized and plans for any funds raised in the upcoming Epoch
- Previous Epoch funds
- Primarily used for app development
- Internal costs like software subscriptions.
- Future funds
- Fund contributors of app development and ongoing costs like software subscriptions
- May use a small % of funds to our software dependencies using Radicle’s Drips tool (https://www.drips.network/app/projects/github/NiceNode/nice-node?exact)
- Previous Epoch funds
-
Grant funding received since the last Epoch (e.g., RetroPGF, Gitcoin, etc.), including funding amounts
- Received roughly 25K OP tokens per month from about February 5th to May 5th
- Gitcoin Grants round 20 (payout soon?) estimated at $2-4k USD
-
Other non-grant funding sources (like user payments, donations, staking or LP contributions to treasury, VC investments, etc.).
- None
Ps. I will be adding a few attachments or links to this post soon