v1.3.0 - Bayfront Upgrade

Mandatory upgrade

This is a mandatory upgrade for the upcoming Bayfront hardfork.

Bayfront hardfork is set for block 405,000 (ETA Monday November 2nd, 2020 5:00am UTC). You should upgrade before the hardfork block.

Changelog

This is a major update that introduces a hardfork (codename: Bayfront hardfork). The hardfork height will be set at 405,000. The following features will be introduced:

Beginning from the hardfork height, the network will support the following features:

1. Liquidity pools

   • The ability to trade tokens on liquidity pool exchanges
   • Liquidity providers earning returns from trading fees and liquidity incentives.
   • RPC API: https://github.com/DeFiCh/ain/wiki/Liquidity-Pool-API-Document

2. Minor RPC and bug fixes, e.g. gettokenbalances #60

How to run

Download and untar the relevant version to your operating system, run bin/defid or bin/defid.exe to start a DeFi Blockchain daemon. The client (CLI) can be found at bin/defi-cli or bin/defi-cli.exe.

Upgrade

To upgrade, simply replace defid binary.

You will have to reindex after the first upgrade to 1.3.0. To reindex, run defid -reindex.

App (GUI) users

If you are running the desktop app, you do not have to manually update the underlying node. Check https://github.com/DeFiCh/defi-app/releases for the latest releases.

Testnet reset

To facilitate testing and integration work esp. of that on and around liquidity pools, testnet will be reset with immediate effect, with Bayfront hardfork set to block 3,000. If you run a testnet node, please download and run v1.3.0 with immediate effect.

Issues

Please report any issues to [email protected], or reach out to is via Telegram or Reddit.

v1.2.0

Mandatory upgrade

This is a mandatory upgrade for the upcoming AMK hardfork.

AMK hardfork is set for block 356500 (ETA est. Friday October 9th, 9:30pm UTC). You will need to upgrade before the hardfork block.

Changelog

This is a major update that introduces a hardfork (codename: AMK hardfork). The hardfork height will be set at 356500. The following features will be introduced:

Beginning from the hardfork height, the network will support the following features:

1. Tokenization support

   • Availability of DeFi Standard Token (DST), DeFi Custom Token (DCT) and DeFi Asset Token (DAT). Refer to tokenization on whitepaper for more detials.
   • The ability to create, mint and distribute tokens has opened to all users.
   • RPC API: https://github.com/DeFiCh/ain/wiki/Tokenization-API-Documentation

2. DFIP #1: Bitcoin anchor reward source and mechanics adjustments

   • Details: DeFiCh/dfips#1

3. DFIP #2: DeFi incentive funding

   • Details: DeFiCh/dfips#2

4. Message header update (#36)

   • Message header updated to better distinguish DeFi messages with Bitcoin messages.

How to run

Download and untar the relevant version to your operating system, run bin/defid or bin/defid.exe to start a DeFi Blockchain daemon. The client (CLI) can be found at bin/defi-cli or bin/defi-cli.exe.

Upgrade

To upgrade, simply replace defid binary.

You will have to reindex after the first upgrade to 1.2.0. To reindex, run defid -reindex.

App (GUI) users

If you are running the desktop app, you do not have to manually update the underlying node. Check https://github.com/DeFiCh/defi-app/releases for the latest releases.

Issues

Please report any issues to [email protected], or reach out to is via Telegram or Reddit.

v1.0.2

Release Notes

Recommended Update

This is an optional but recommended update.

Summary of changes

This is a minor update that fixed defi app wallet on windows and removed unnecessary source code.

How to run

Download and untar the relevant version to your operating system, run bin/defid or bin/defid.exe to start a DeFi Blockchain daemon. The client (CLI) can be found at bin/defi-cli or bin/defi-cli.exe.

App (GUI) users

If you are running the desktop app, you do not have to manually update the underlying node. Check https://github.com/DeFiCh/defi-app/releases for the latest releases.

Compatibility

Defid is compatible with Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.

v1.0.1

Release Notes

Recommended Update

This is an optional but recommended update.

Summary of changes

This is a minor update that introduces faster syncing and the ability to set the reward address for minting rewards.

How to run

Download and untar the relevant version to your operating system, run bin/defid or bin/defid.exe to start a DeFi Blockchain daemon. The client (CLI) can be found at bin/defi-cli or bin/defi-cli.exe.

Compatibility

Defid is compatible with Linux, Mac OSX and Windows.

Credits

Credits to the following external contributors:

• Akshay CM (@akshaynexus)

v1.0.0

Release Notes

This marks the first non-release candidate release. Alongside this release we have the release of the desktop gui, defi-app, in it's own separate repo. This release includes several bugfixes including no longer needing to specify the default fallback fee in defid.conf.

How to run

Download and untar the relevant version to your operating system, run bin/defid or bin/defid.exe to start a DeFi Blockchain daemon. The client (CLI) can be found at bin/defi-cli or bin/defi-cli.exe.

v1.0.0-rc1

Release Notes

Along with our usual x64 Linux builds, we're now excited to announce the official support for the following going forward:

• MacOS x64 binaries
• Windows x64 binaries
• Official Docker image (https://hub.docker.com/r/defi/defichain)

Additionally, pre-release tag has been removed. Release candidate version marks the full support for mining/minting.

Note, this release is for daemon and CLI client.
GUI is not yet available with this version.

How to run

Download and untar the relevant version to your operating system, run bin/defid or bin/defid.exe to start a DeFi Blockchain daemon. The client (CLI) can be found at bin/defi-cli or bin/defi-cli.exe.

GUI will be available soon, but not included in this release.

v1.0.0-beta2

Release Notes

• Added test_defi binary
• Example conf files in share/defi/examples
• Service template files in share/defi/service
• RPC auth helper in share/defi/rpcauth
• Bash completion files in share/bash-completion/completions

v1.0.0-beta1

Release Notes

• Finalize genesis
• Add DNS seeds
• Fresh genesis timestamp message

v1.0.0-alpha1

Release Notes

• Moving from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake
• Masternode model
• Community fund support
• Bitcoin blockchain block anchoring
• Increased decentralized financial transaction and opcode support, etc.
• Configuration defaults (mainnet ports: 8555/4, testnet ports: 18555/4, regnet ports: 19555/4, etc)