Phala Network, aiming to be the privacy infrastructure parachain in Polkadot ecosystem, has been under development for almost a year. With the help of Web3 Foundation and Parity on Substrate framework, Phala has achieved significant progress in our milestones, which could take millions of dollars and several years for our competitors to accomplish. Today, we are excited to announce our roadmap in the next few months including the big updates such as the launch of our new testnet Vendetta, pre-mainnet, and the support for Polkadot parachain consensus.

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Phase 0

Network Type：Testnet

Milestone：

• PoC-1
• PoC-2 (Testnet Rorschach)

Core Development：

NPoS：A decentralized mechanism…

Dev Updates

💯Completed

• Deployed ChainBridge via runtime upgrade
• pRuntime switched to Protobuf-based API

PR:https://github.com/Phala-Network/phala-blockchain/pull/317

• Final polish for mining and staking

💻Work in progress

PRB:

• Adapting to Khala
• API

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After reading this article, you’ll have an understanding of how traditional Proof of Work systems work, why they are doomed to keep moving towards ASICs, and how Phala network will bring the original dream of CPU mining back to life.

The Dawn of Cryptocurrency: CPU mining

Khala Network is the pre-mainnet for Phala, running the same code, token economics, and even using the same base token. Serving the same purpose as Kusama for Polkadot, Khala will help sort out potential problems as the canary network for Phala: Expect Chaos! But don’t be afraid; we will stare down the difficulties and chaos.

As Littlefinger said in Game of Thrones:

Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder.

By catching the problems and developing solutions on pre-mainnet we can raise the codebase higher and avoid those concerns when mainnet Phala goes live. …

Dev Updates

💯Completed

1. Phala Blockchain

• Final work before public mining test event
• Stake pool
• pHost named to pHerry
• perry and pRuntime compatibility with Khala
• Many improvements and bug fixes
• More coverage of unit tests

2. Khala Parachain

• Fixed “chain-stuck” problem
• enhanced Polkadot-launch to prep for public mining testnet
• Integrated Phala
• Sent rewards on Khala for Crowdloan contributors and Phala event participants
• Published Khala wallet

https://app.phala.network/

💻Work in progress

1. PRB

• Adapting to Khala
• API
• pRuntime
• Switch to Protobuf-based API

2. ChainBridge-based PHA token two-way (ETH <> Khala) bridge

• Fixing blocking issue that prevents us from bringing the bridge online

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Dear Phamily:

We’re thrilled to announce that Phala wallet goes live! Users can claim your rewards through https://app.phala.network/ now!

24,961,006 K-PHA were issued as rewards for Khala Crowdloan and the Vendetta 1605 Race & contributions on July 23. Details 👇

The Khala network does not currently provide a transfer function. We will decide whether and when to enable transfer through a referendum after removing Sudo.

Early Bird Honor Gem NFTs were already distributed. Next, we will distribute the Colorful Honor Gems and the Sparkling Honor Gems. Stay tuned.

1. Tutorial — How to Check and Collect your Khala Crowdloan Rewards

To claim your rewards on Khala chain successfully, please read carefully below:

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Dear Phamily:

Khala Network has won the 4th slot in the Kusama parachain slot auctions, with a winning bid of 132,280 KSM from 2,759 contributing addresses. At present, Khala has been successfully launched as a Kusama Parachain.

We will unlock 34% of the contribution rewards as scheduled, and will issue rewards for the previous testnet races and contributions.

To allow these rewards to be distributed before the ETH/Khala cross-chain bridge comes online, Phala will use Khala to mint tokens to generate these unlock rewards. When the ETH-Khala one-way bridge is online, Phala will charge the corresponding reward amounts from ERC20…

Dev Updates

Phala blockchain

• New mining mechanism PR
• Remove legacy mining mechanism PR
• GateKeeper key provision PR
• GateKeeper VRF, registration, masterkey exchange PR
• StakePool PR
• E2E test tool

Khala parachain

• On-boarded Kusama as parachain

💻Work in progress

Long-term work See Tracker

• Mining pool system: Runtime Bridge
• Bug investigation: Polkadot 0.9.8 dependency led to problem with Parity and Phala runtime getting stuck

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