Release Notes

Mercury (v1.0.0)

This is the first test-net version of the dipperin-core(v1.0.0) program and it marks a milestone in the history of Dipperin. Mercury introduced the following features:

• Original Deterministic Proof of Work(DPoW) consensus mechanism.
• Verifiable Random Function(VRF) based verifier sortition mechanism.
• Invertible Bloom filter Lookup Table(IBLT) based block propagation.
• Hierarchical deterministic wallet.
• Formalized ERC20 smart contract.
• Built-in economic model.
• Map-reduce proof of work mechanism.

Dipperin-core includes the following programs:

• Node main program: dipperin
• Client program: dipperin-cli
• Mining program: miner