New Ardor testnet version 2.0.4e released:
https://nxtforum.org/nrs-releases/ardor-v2-0-4eWhat's new:
Change log:
This Ardor platform release introduces several important new features.
It is for testnet only, and involves a reset of the existing testnet and
starting from a new Genesis block.
Major new features:
- - Asset Control.
Similar to Account Control which once set requires all transactions of an
account to be subject to approval (i.e. to use phasing), the new Asset Control
feature allows imposing such restriction to all transactions involving a given
asset - such as placing bid and ask orders, transfers, share deletions, and
dividend payments that use the asset as a dividend.
This feature enables for example a private company to issue its shares on the
Ardor blockchain, yet to impose control over who can purchase or sell them, for
example requiring asset transactions to be approved by its board of directors,
or a shareholder voting.
It also allows asset issuers to be KYC compliant, by only allowing verified
accounts to transact with their assets.
- - Composite Phasing
The Composite Phasing ("Smart Phasing") is a very powerful new feature that
allows approval models for conditional transactions to be defined in terms of a
Boolean combination of other approval models, i.e. allows joining the current
primitive approval models such as by whitelist, by asset balance, by hash, etc,
using the AND, OR, and NOT operators.
This allows the new Asset Control feature to be used in combination with the
Account Control feature when required, the transaction execution being made
conditional on satisfying both the Asset Control and Account Control settings.
It also allows for example combining the existing by hash or by transaction
approval models with by whitelist, by balance, etc, approvals, which enables
doing atomic coupling of transactions (including cross-blockchain) even for
multisignature accounts (i.e. subject to Account Control), or with assets
subject to Asset Control.
The NOT operator allows for dead-man-switch type conditions, where a
transaction is executed only if some condition (e.g. revealing a secret) is not
satisfied.
- - By-Property phasing
The new by-property approval model allows the transaction execution to be made
conditional on the sender account or the recipient account having a specific
account property set. If this property is set, the transaction will be executed
immediately, else, a second check whether the property is set is performed at
the finish height defined. This allows for example enforcing KYC by asset
issuers, who can define in their Asset Control settings that only KYC-verified
accounts, labelled with a predefined account property by a trusted authority
(or the asset issuer itself), to perform transactions with their assets.
- - Asset share increase
A new transaction type has been added, allowing the asset issuer to increase
the total number of asset shares in existence. The new shares are allocated to
the asset issuer account, but can be then distributed to shareholders using
a separate dividend payment transaction. This allows corporate actions such as
capital increases or stock splits to be performed.
Imports from Nxt blockchain:
To test the snapshot process planned for the production Ardor release, this
testnet release is based on a Genesis block created from a snapshot of the
production Nxt blockchain as of block height 1558030. The following records
have been imported:
- - Accounts public keys
- - Account balances. ARDOR chain balances are based on ARDR asset balances, and
IGNIS chain balances are based on NXT balances divided by 2, plus JLRDA asset
balances. Each of those has been additionally divided by 2, in order to
allocate 50% of the testnet coins to developer accounts for testing purposes.
BITSWIFT chain balances are based on Bitswift asset balances, plus a 10%
airdrop distributed proportionately to all IGNIS holders.
- - Account info (name and description)
- - Account properties
- - Account control settings, but only for account control by whitelist with no
minimum balance. Other types of account control will not be imported.
- - Account aliases have been imported to the IGNIS child chain.
- - Assets. Only the Janus, JanusXT, and ComJNSXT assets have been imported, with
their asset ids preserved.
- - Monetary system currencies have been imported to the IGNIS child chain, but
only the currency code and name, in order to reserve those. It would be up to
each currency issuer to re-issue the currency with the appropriate properties
and re-distribute it to users.
Modified APIs:
GetAssetDeletes has been replaced with GetAssetHistory, with "deletesOnly", and
"increasesOnly" optional parameters to retrieve only share delete or share
increase history events.
ApproveTransaction now takes multivalued revealedSecret parameter, to allow
revealing multiple secrets for transactions using composite phasing.
SetPhasingOnlyControl now optionally also accepts the account control phasing
parameters in a JSON format, as a single "controlPhasing" parameter.
All CreateTransaction API now optionally also accept the transaction phasing
parameters in a JSON format as "phasingParams" and "phasingSubPolls" parameters.
For by-property phasing, the following new parameters have been added:
"phasingSenderPropertySetter", "phasingSenderPropertyName",
"phasingSenderPropertyValue", "phasingRecipientPropertySetter",
"phasingRecipientPropertyName", "phasingRecipientPropertyValue".
For composite phasing, the boolean expression can be supplied in Disjunctive
Normal Form as "phasingExpression" parameter, with no parentheses, variables
in format [a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]* and operators "&" (AND), "|" (OR), "!" (NOT).
For each variable appearing in the boolean expression, the phasing parameters
of its sub-poll can be specified as separate parameter with prefix
"phasing
", or as JSON in the "phasingSubPolls" parameter.
New APIs:
IncreaseAssetShares - create new asset shares. Only the asset issuer can submit
a share increase transaction.
EvaluateExpression - evaluates a Boolean expression, for use in composite
phasing.
ParsePhasingParams - converts phasing parameters, submitted as HTTP request
parameters, to a JSON format.
GetPhasingAssetControl - returns the phasing control for a given asset, if set.
SetPhasingAssetControl - set or unset phasing control for an asset. Only the
asset issuer can change asset control settings. If an asset is not under asset
control, a new asset control can only be set if all shares are currently owned
by the asset issuer.
Ported various bugfixes and improvements from Nxt up to version 1.11.9.
Updated jetty to version 9.3.22, bouncycastle to 1.58, and the izpack installer
to version 5.1.2.
Since this release requires a full reset of testnet starting from a new Genesis
block, if upgrading from 2.0.3e or earlier, in addition to the lib folder the
nxt_test_db folder must also be deleted. The import of snapshot balances on
first start may take a few minutes and should not be interrupted.
The testnet Genesis block timestamp has been set to 00:00 (midnight) UTC time
on Monday, Nov 6th, in order to allow time for users to setup nodes check their
balances, and start forging.
Block generation will commence automatically once that time has been reached,
and only then it will become possible to create and send new transactions. 
