Mercury Upgrade Deployed!

The final software upgrade for our DevNet chain has been deployed, and we're all in on transitioning to TestNet! This release builds on the "rebuilt from scratch" announced on January 17, 2023.

➡ Highlights

IPFS Gateway and Resolver Deployed!
UCAN Storage Encryption
Tightened x/identity and Cosmos SDK Integration
Standardized Type Definitions
Cosmos Signature Authentication (Next Step IBC)
...and introducing ETHAccount, and BTCAccount interfaces!

➡ UCAN ❤️ Sonr

The UCAN Specification by the Fission Labs team was a stunningly seamless integration within the Sonr DID Spec. Documents can Issue/Verify Claims and create Attestation/Origin Tokens - all while using JWKs as an authorization header for the Vault API endpoints. We plan to utilize the recent WebTransport implementation by the Libp2p team for the upcoming motor.js.

➡ Generic Blockchain Accounts

There's little dispute that we will live in a Multi-Chain future. The Sonr MPC protocol offers a Decentralized Solution to the traditional onboarding mechanism in Web3, greatly alleviating user friction points. Our latest release has begun migrating our Account Interface to allow for custom transaction signing implementations. This includes the initial development of accounts for BitCoin and Ethereum.

So far, we have incorporated the following hashing functions:

Keccak-256 (Ethereum)
SHA-256 (Bitcoin)
BLAKE-3 (Sonr Authentication)

What's Next?

The primary focus of our next upgrade (Venus) is to coordinate the launch of our Testnet to the general developer audience. We anticipate reaching this goal by the end of March - Early April. Outside of what's on our roadmap, we will be prioritizing these initiatives:

IBC Integration and Cosmos Hub Testnet Interactions
Interchain Account Support with DIDDocuments
Rosetta Client Implementation for Generic Accounts
Upgrade Motor API to support x/identity

Full Changelog

Improvements

Build Account Abstraction for Network Fine-Tuning
Interface cryptotypes.pubkey over Share Config
Separate Vault, Auth Service for UCAN/MPC
Use Bitswap for PubKey Varints Encoding
Allow DID Service to operate as a Relaying party
Create protocol implementation under x/identity
Provide Server Context to underlying WebAuthn Service
Use Blockchain Keeper State to Query Accounts
Integrate Nebula Design System
Implement API Playground for Core Cosmos Modules
Inherit IPFS API and IPFS Node methods for Motor

Features

Introduce OrbitDB for structured IPFS Storage
Create Wallet Store Interface
Add WalletConfig to DID Controller Interface
IPFS NACL Secret Box Encryption
Introduce OrbitDB for structured IPFS Storage
Create Wallet Store Interface
Add WalletConfig to DID Controller Interface
IPFS NACL Secret Box Encryption
Support UCAN Token Generation Over Account
Implement x/identity PubKey MultiCodec
Add Challenge and Authentication Methods
Add Alias/Domain Registration Methods
Enable Proposal Based Upgrades

Chores

Add Method to return SignerData from AccountConfig.
Create Enum Types for Common Token Denominations
Build Conversion Ramp for Credentials
Utilize CosmoVisor for Upgrades
Backup Genesis File on Network Upgrades
Migrate Generation to buf.gen.yaml
Add Generation Script for Types
Integrate Upgrade Module
Merge Docs Repo with Blockchain Repo for Mint

Transfer CI/CD Pipeline from GitHub Actions to Buddy.Works

Bug Fixes