DeFi Updates
I will give a more extensive update of the current state of DeFi: As I advance I see more things coming up that also need to be adjusted, because the DeFi update I am working on is a really big update. I completely rewrote the parsing and serialization of blocks, and today I wrote the Merkle tree functions. Now they will be nice and clean using generic code that allows easy extension when I want to add some more transaction types later on. The current transaction types that will be supported in the first DeFi testnet release include:
New address registration
Mining reward
Sending WART
Sending a token
Creating a token
Creating a new order
Canceling an order
Adding liquidity to a pool
Removing liquidity from a pool.
right now only the first three are supported. I have not fully decided on the "Creating a token" method. For now it will only support creating new tokens, (no balance cloning yet), however the balance cloning tech will be built in and will be activated later in a second testnet release when I have ironed out the major bugs, after the first testnet release.
In general I can say that I have done most architectural changes, and I am now adapting the code details to the new architecture. I heavily use C++ templates now, also modern C++20 features. Sometimes I wish I could use C++23 features, but that would break our compiler toolchain pipeline, and also most people could not compile Warthog on their machines with their own compiler anymore without installing a sufficiently modern compiler (and this is often not as simple as apt install gcc, because system package repositories of popular old Ubuntu LTS might not have such modern packages). So I opted against that to keep everything simple for the user and have it a bit more difficult on my side.
