Hey everyone, I wanna start by saying thank you to the community for the overwhelming support of OpenGov referendum 494. Since then we have been heads down working on the storage network and have now completed phase 1 and some extra parts.
If you weren't aware we have been posting weekly updates on the forum
Check out the book https://eigerco.github.io/polka-storage-book/ It contains lots of technical details and some nice instructions on how to test it. Work continues uninterrupted on phase 2 tasks.
During this time, in addition to the work on the storage network, there's two more projects we have been working on that contribute to Polkadot:
We integrated Move to Substrate. Allowing builders to integrate the Move VM and execute Move smart contracts. Anyone can now create a Move parachain on Polkadot. https://x.com/Polkadot/status/1816109501394637034
We have a full team working on Strawberry our client implementation of JAM and are very close to the first milestone. More updates on that soon.
Links:
Edit: Adding some notes on the value proposition and our integration with JAM as we had looked at this months ago but realized that we hadn't shared it here.
Why PolkaStorage, adding native storage offering to Polkadot:
Integrating Eiger’s Polka Storage with JAM's Preimage Lookup System and Data Availability
Providing access to larger data capacity that doesn't fit in account state and being the underlying storage layer for resupply of unrequested data that needs to be provided to validators on request.
Read our notes on this topic at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1L1jlMI9-KOfxMYUMQVeq0tPNtz1fitxTXlg6gKwjXnM/edit?usp=sharing
SubSquare has completed phase 1 of their storage network and is working on phase 2 tasks. They have integrated Move to Substrate and have a team working on Strawberry, their client implementation of JAM. They have provided links to their full proposal, JAM DA integration, initial research pre-implementation, forum discussion, forum development updates, and OpenGov Phase 1/3. SubSquare's PolkaStorage adds native storage offering to Polkadot, using DOT exclusively as the fee token. They are integrating Eiger's Polka Storage with JAM's Preimage Lookup System and Data Availability to provide access to larger data capacity and build the underlying storage layer for that data.
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Has anyone used the move pallet? I have personally star'ed it on github to follow the development, is this pallet live somewhere with a polkadot.js.org link that you can send me? ~flipchan