hey everybody its Charles Hoskinson broadcasting live from warm sunny Colorado I wanted to give you guys an update on a few things just had a great meeting with me working on the brand refresh the vision statement and a litany of other initiatives and it's really a a cross organizational initiative so I figured I should talk a little bit about it and explain the context so we've always cared a lot about brand and visualization we've always cared a lot to try to represent the the mission of Cardno in ways that are not only creative but also beautiful and it's always nice to bring an external party and teach them what we're trying to do and then have them provide an independent opinion of ways we can improve how we tell that story and how we visualize things and the initial relationship was a little rocky because it took them a bit of time to get over that learning curve but when we got through it they finally broke through and started making very meaningful and significant contributions so I get asked a lot in my mas well when are we going to see something from McCann what's the output of this process the output will be initially the cardinal org website we're completely reconstructing the Cardinal org website so that it has both role and behavioral navigation so role developers and up Rises people who want to use the protocol and then behavioral navigation so behavioral navigation and things like you want to govern you so voting you want to develop on the platform you want to operate the platform things like stake pull operators and so forth and we're finding a beautiful synthesis in all of that and we're trying to put everything we can into creating a great beautiful simplistic yet elegant experience for everybody including a lot of dynamicism so we're trying to put that Flair that scott Darby's it's famous for and those 3gs animations in addition to good old-fashioned good information architecture so once that's been set in stone the next step will be to propagate that throughout all other Cardinal assets the reddit and other things that can be brandable and so make sure that there's consistency and the text the colors the fonts and so forth and the goal is conciseness so it's good to have an elevator pitch good to have a 30 second and vision statement you know it's good to have these assets ready to go and socialized throughout the ambassadors and so forth as with all things we do as we get closer to a finished product there we're gonna bring on the ambassadors and the state pull operators first to these experiences and just to get their feedback almost like a focus group and it gives us a chance to make some last-minute changes and the card org asset will be released on par with with the release of Shelley so we're all kind of converging in that point and we'll probably showcase it at the virtual summit when we do the virtual summit the launch of Shelley so that's what's going on with McCann it's a it's a lot of work there's a very big team in fact that call had over 20 people in it and it's it's like herding cats in some cases and there's a lot of difficult conversations because there aren't clear answers on whether we should go with a or B I mean this color palette versus this color palette we have to just kind of think around and it's not going to be pleasing to every single person because design is is like art everybody has an opinion but we hope that for the mainstream it's something that most people are very happy about second documentation you may have noticed I tweeted today some documentation there's about 176 pages of documentation for the benchmarking frameworks we've constructed documentation is another huge overall effort that we're pushing very hard for the release of Shelley and namely we think that if there's code it needs to be documented if there's architecture it needs to be documented and if you want to build something with this you need proper documentation to build something so we have very high standards and we are aggressively pushing our developers and technical writers to backfill and update the documentation to be correct relevant and current as well as understandable this is a less a less subjective thing design we can all have an opinion on a color palette documentation it has to be useful and so our users are going to use it and we're gonna get a lot of feedback it's kind of a Blue Team Red Team model Black team red team model where you have a team produce it and then a team consume it and the team that consumes it consumes it with a skeptical and critical and tries to actually do things and they let you know if you've actually hit the mark or not but that will also be released with the release of Shelley and we have a lot of people not sleeping right now trying to get all that done because there's just so much to document so many things to think about and it also has to be understandable so so that says something you should look for a card on our website will reference the documentation and and there's gonna be a dedicated website forward probably something like documentation cardano's org or domain like that likely a sub domain and then i which k of course will maintain relevant documentation there's probably still going to be some github based documentation source management is a very delicate topic and you know where should all this stuff live there's a lot of open questions about that i and in fact even the balance between the help desk and get issues is a big conversation speaking of helpdesk moving to that topic real briefly we have gotten probably about 100 so tickets give or take on Dedalus 1.0 a big chunk of them came from people using unsupported operating systems namely windows 7 or below and they said hey we're having problems and i said well what OS are you using and it turned out was windows 7 ok well we don't support that and i said well that's not fair and I say well Microsoft stops supporting Windows 7 January of to 2020 so if Microsoft is no longer supporting the software I think it's pretty fair for us to say that we're not going to support that we do support Windows 8.1 and above so likely what we'll do is make it difficult to install Dedalus 1.0 on older versions of Windows and your options start to either upgrade your version of windows or to use your ROI if you have an unsupported OS in that respect we have noticed another problem in particular on Mac for a certain set of users a very high CPU utilization likely what's occurring is there's some issue with logs or some issue with network interaction that's causing a lot of unnecessary CPU utilization that that shouldn't be so high so we are looking into it and a later version of Daedalus will Hachette for that user set but overall we've gotten overwhelmingly positive feedback about Dedalus 1.0 in particular compared to the old Daedalus and it's a much easier codebase to work with so bug fixing can happen pretty quickly I but I will remind anybody that if you have an issue with Daedalus please please please please please please please submit logs don't go to Reddit don't go to Twitter don't go to telegram it's useless you will not get support and help you will not get your problem solved and also we do not have enough information to even begin to discuss your problem so you are trolling if you go to these channels the reason the helpdesk exists the reason why we spend money with dedicated support people and they work every single day we get tickets every single day is so that we can have a structured way of examining not only your problem but solving your problem if you go to reddit telegram Twitter or any other channel you are not helping you're hurting you are not contributing you're hurting the helpdesk exists it's not going into oblivion people work full-time jobs specifically to do this and you're wasting my time your time and everyone else's time and you're just complaining okay so do not go to Reddit don't go to Twitter don't go to telegram don't go to other channels if you're experiencing a problem submit a helpdesk ticket and then we can in a structured way look at your logs and get a sense of what's going on if you don't want to do that you will be ignored I've instructed the ambassadors I've instructed my own people don't reply or even pay attention these things we might even just start deleting these threads on reddit they're not helpful to anybody so if we want to have better software the only way we're gonna do that is by getting enough information to understand which configurations and situations or creating issues the only way we can do that is through a structured process and getting logs that's it no if ands or buts about its basic software 101 okay so so that's the story about the helpdesk now on to Shelley related stuff you may have noticed that we had a tweet I had a tweet where I tweeted a message from Duncan so how we built Shelley is that we constructed it in a collection of pieces and now we're basically wiring those pieces together and Duncan was the first person to wire all of those pieces together for the new codebase and actually was able to launch his own node and network and make blocks with it this is a massive internal milestone because it basically confirms that all the things we thought about integration were true now there's a lot of rough edges there and they have to be polished and that's basically what the team is doing right now is they're pulling things together improving the CLI experience and very rapidly will converge to a point where it makes sense to share that experience with friends and family for further QA verification after we clear that stage the next step would be a public test net where everybody gets to download and try out a command line card ATO node meaning they can stall the node the node will allow them create a state pool delegate to that state pool and we can get broad-scale verification that the network the consensus algorithm the staking mechanics are working properly okay that is primarily intended for state co-operators so the thousand plus actors who on the ITN are creating blocks right now this gives them an opportunity to try out all this stuff and for us to talk around some last-minute system parameterization for example the pledge amount eccentric cetera once they're comfortable and used to that experience the next step will be the balance check test that and that's for everybody so that's going to be Daedalus with the new user interface the wallet back-end fully linked up and the note together all three components that will contain the state above Byron as well as all the new Shelly's state and what that effectively means is that when you download that and restore your wallets as I mentioned in the wallet video that I did and we'll have further content for that you'll be able to verify your ITN rewards reported over properly and that your byron balance looks proper now that test net is also going to be good enough for people to integrate exchange listings and other such things against it and it's a high fidelity environment meaning experience integration that gets there will also be an equivalent experience to when we launch Shelly so balance check is effectively like a beta Shelly and if everything goes well there then the next step will be launching the client for people to download now this client will be buyer and interoperable and it'll have all the Shelly code in it but that Shelly code will not activate until we have the hard fork and that hard fork will happen likely four weeks after the Shelly client is launched okay so this will give everybody proper time to be able to upgrade exchanges to be able to redo their infrastructure so they can support staking and other such things it's the only responsible way of doing this because it's the most significant upgrade and then as I mentioned the prior video then we go to the Shelly hybrid phase where once we've done the hard fork then state pools can register start making blocks and the network will become increasingly more decentralized rapidly over time so that's the structured I which Kay way of launching these things you start with a small group small circle and that group basically allows you to have a sanity check that the things you think are true or true then you give people an opportunity to migrate the single most important group of people to migrate are the state pool operators and that's what the first test net is about the node with the CLI and that migration should happen very quickly and because we did that initial version for friends and family there's going to be not just people from IO to help people migrate but also people within the community who have enough skill sets to do that there's a thousand people that's a lot of coordination so but we want to do it as quickly as possible and then the balance check is really our last opportunity to make sure that everything's been checked off and then at that point we launched that Shelly client and then everybody's downloading installing the Shelly client and we're seeing just like with the Biran reboot Dedalus flight program a wave of people migrating over and then we do the hard work at the tail end of that and then we've fully entered the Shelly phase and at that point the network will gradually decentralize hopefully as rapidly as possible and we'll wake up one day and the D parameter will be 0 and the Shelly era it was a complete success I think this is the first time the history of crypto currencies that anybody's tried to do something this ambitious in terms of transitioning from a federated system that a static and federated to a dynamic and decentralized system and do so with as many users as we have with completely new protocols that have never been tested before outside of the test that we've done so it's a colossal undertaking and it's a lot of work but it seems like we are definitely on target and on schedule in terms of specific dates I no longer announced those dates those are announced by aparna and they will be announced if we're going to announce States at the product updates that's the time to do it so this upcoming product update that we have on the 30th two days from now you will get some dates and that's a good reason to dial in and listen and there's tons of other content that it'll be produced highly recommended but every time we do one of these things if there are dates to announce there's a strong probability that something will be announced and these are firm dates meaning that we don't anticipate they're going to slip at all or internal roadmap is mostly conform to reality we're basically right in those margin of error windows that we've seen so the things that we thought about when Shelly was going to ship a little while ago have still held so that's a very encouraging metric and our development velocity continues to maintain that the remarkable pace in fact you may have noticed if you look at a card on updates and all these metrics sites that are actually accurately reporting we are number one for commits and we are the the most developed cryptocurrency in the entire industry and before anybody else oh but those are just commits and commits are meaningless please challenge them to point to commit yes that were meaningless we make follows a structured pattern there are processes and it has to be meaningful there are no superfluous commits in the commits that we make every one is a small brick or a large brick and a wall that we're building and every single brick is necessary to build that wall so that we're not just going and changing a single string or character of text this is a very meaningful metric and it's a good example of development velocity and perhaps the more meaningful thing is the level of parallelism amongst teams you'll notice lots of commits from the Dedalus team the wallet back-end team the node team there is no single block of code in Shelly that is updated once and then we wait six months to touch it again everything is dynamic everything is growing as we go and we're actually even starting to get community suggestions for improvements in fact for the ITN we got over 250 suggestions for improvements and we've been slowly working our way through that list and making sure as many as possible that we're reasonable are included in Shelly so Shelly is a done deal we're marching towards it we have a good strategy I think to get us there and I think the virtual summit is going to be a phenomenal event in terms of timing of one we're going to announce that when we launched the first Haskell test that right when we do that we will also launch the website for the virtual summit and registration for it as it's a virtual event we can have a shorter lead time but we'll have a lot of great presentations and the team has already selected a vendor and they're already working on getting all the speaker's lined up it'll be a Cardinal oriented event so a mirco will be there the Cardinal foundation will be there the ambassadors will be there we'll probably have Phillipe and and Rick and the rest of the gang do something like with the Cardinal effect livestream with the virtual summit well may make sure that everybody is there and it'll be a big big celebration of what has been accomplished and a big discussion about where we're going and the cool things that are coming and of course there'll be a few surprise announcements as well just just to get everybody excited about where we're going you're going to be very excited about the infrastructure around car not on not just Shelly so that's a that's pretty much it for the update I try to keep these things concise where I can but you know we also try to keep things as accurate as we can Minoo this is such a complicated project and there's just so much going on and so many moving pieces to it and it just gets confusing over time for people so we try as often as we can to be very clear and specific and precise and the things that we say I do and given that there are well over 200 people waking up every day trying to get us to this point it's it's of course gonna mean that just staying at pace with their labors is difficult much less understanding the in totality of the roadmap so hang with it I do attend the product updates those are our moments to shine and really get things out there and all of you are gonna be very busy in May and very busy in June and hopefully everything is gonna work out without a hitch I'm very optimistic about that things could of course happen you know life is life but overall things are looking pretty good and we're pretty excited about where we're going and frankly the foundations of Shelly once that's out are going to be just like the foundations with the byron reboot such a beautiful piece of software to continue to work on and build on so it's gonna be a lot of fun get to Gogan and it's gonna be a lot of fun to get to Volterra and roll these things out and pull these things together and as we exit 2020 there will frankly be no cryptocurrency in the world in my view that will be as decentralized as good of a development experience from a functional sense or to develop on top of or list and this is really just a testimony to the work of the engineers the product people the scientists and others who really thought carefully about where we'd like to go and it'll just simply make everything else look like a toy so to all of those who've stuck with us thank you and until next time have a nice day
