Keep Network Dev Updates: Issue #5

Ownership of tBTC v1 Contracts Transferred to Multi-sig, Gov. Forum Launched and Winners of the Design Contest Announced.

Evandro Saturnino
3 min readFeb 22, 2021

Hey everyone! Another Keep Network DEV Updates is out! A weekly recap of all things related to the development of the Keep Network.

What is Keep Network? Keep is Ethereum’s first private computer, able to store and compute data hidden even from itself.

This Week in Keep Network

  • The Keep team transferred the ownership of tBTC v1 contracts to the community multi-sig members. This is a huge step towards empowering the community for the long-run through our decentralized community governance plan — Check out the details.
  • The project now has a community governance forum to discuss Keep Network Improvement Proposals or KIPs. Our community members Dat and Pants designed and set up the forum — Access it here.
  • Keep Network team updated Ropsten contract addresses on Ropsten network and now is fully fixed — Access the keep-core and keep-ecdsa contract docs.
  • The incentive rewards for liquidity pools have been updated, and for specifically the KEEP/ETH pool the rewards have been increased to 170k KEEPs for the next week, you don’t want to miss it — Read more.
  • The Stakedrop rewards for the interval between 02/12/2021 and 02/19/2021 rewards were distributed to our stakers, they are now available to be claimed in KEEP Token Dashboard. — Read more here.
  • The winners of our design contest have already been announced, congratulations to the winners: #1 Blackchain, #2 satoshi, #3 djalaev — Catch up here.
  • Keep Network multi-sigs members are already signing the first two transactions about the proposals that were voted by the community, new details will be made available soon.

Development Updates

Automatically broadcast BTC recovery address PR was added this week — The aim of this PR is to demonstrate a mechanism that broadcasts a BTC address to each other client in a signing group in the case of a Terminated event. (#691)

A PR was opened to update the contract addresses in test environment documentation. The contracts were migrated in @keep-network/keep-ecdsa@1.5.1-rc.1 and are currently backed by nodes running in keep-test environment. (#2337)(#696)

Was observed a need for a refactorization of Keep and tBTC release processes in order to reduce human involvement and make the processes faster and less error-prone. A part of this task is migration from CircleCI jobs to GitHub Actions. For keep-core part of the workflow responsible for testing and linting of Solidity build was already developed as a GitHub Actions workflow.

A commit was introduced with four changes to the workflow, to make the implementation similar to analogous workflow in keep-core.
Those changes are:

  • Added triggering of workflow on the push and pull request events for
    ‘rfc-18/*’ branches;
  • Updated versions of actions;
  • Added a step that builds solidity contracts;
  • Name of ‘test’ step changed to ‘build and test’;

For more information access the PR here (#2336)

Ongoing Discussions

Also, just like last week’s Weekly Dev Update, I’m highlighting the community marketing call meeting that takes place every Thursday at 3 pm EST at Discord, if you are interested in being part of this and makes a difference yourself with marketing ideas this meeting is for you, I’ll be expecting you there!

On our last call we discussed:

  • We reached in the Top 10 Social Activity — How to maintain it ;
  • How to use the infographic design made by the winners of the design contest;
  • Better ways of making the community engage in creating new guides and articles;

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Did I Miss Something?

If I missed an important event and you think it should be added here, just contact me (EvandroSaturnino#9833) directly through Discord on the Keep Network server!

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