Progress to Date - 24th October -
https://htmlcoin.com/whitepaperThis is all largely stuff we have reported along the way, but its worth repeating for everyone here:
The manual swap system was completed last week and moved to testnet. The secure (airgapped) server has been constructed, with cold storage as appropriate, and our pen testers have checked the swap platform is safe, secure and protected.
The explorer and API is constructed and in testnet. The blockchain, genesis block etc. is constructed with premine probably completing shortly. The blocktime has been set to 1 minute which should make us nice and quick. All the features of the blockchain have been installed (automatic checkpointing etc)
The network layer, account abstraction and ether cpp client is all succesfully compiled and in test. At the moment the devs are wading through all the testing and fixing little problems which have generally come from the open souorce authors not doumenting things and using hard coded parameters, where they call the bitcoin core. But, this simply takes time as we step through sequentially fixing it as we go.
Other ancilliaries..... wallets, QT etc. are quite simple to create and are mostly all ready done by the guys, with a couple of small improvements.
So.... in summary we can succesfully compile the whole system end to end and are in integration testing, where we run things until something doesnt look right and we step in to fix it... for example, creating blocks, as the authors of the code have not been quite so hygenic as we would like, and we are correcting it at source so the problem does not re-occur.... a job done properly makes our lives so much easier in the longterm and helps all other users if the codebas in the future - such is open source !
So, we cannot commit to a swap date, because we do not know what each day will bring. We might find its clean today, tomorrow or next week. Its really not possible on a lump of code this broad and complex. But, experience does tell us it still feels like we should be there by 20th November.
I hope this gives a little more information than last time.......theres not much more we can do to speed things up, and it really is this unexciting !