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Announcing The Mercury BETA Release.

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After a short delay, we’re finally here with the BETA release. In this short post, we’ll share the numerous developments that this release brings, and announce the beginning of our quarterly sprints.

Announcements

  • Mercury Webapp! We have shipped a simple and minimalistic web app to create and display subscriptions. We plan to also add an API keys management and a Zephyr program monitoring interface to the app once these are ready.
  • Mercury Sprint documents. We are committed to sharing our quarterly development sprints, starting with the Q4 2023 development sprint.
  • New documentation. The new documentation is up to date and better explains concepts around mercury.
  • Open access. No need to request access now, you can easily sign up now (though the current flow can surely be improved).
  • Rebranded discord server. The Xycloo Labs discord server is now the home of mercury announcements, status updates, and help.

Technical Improvements

  • (Much more) stable and efficient Mercury core and ZephyrVM integration.
  • Updated infrastructure. While we haven’t set up a high availability infrastructure yet, over time we have switched providers, set up secure tls connections and set up cloudflare’s proxy.
  • Improved Stellar classic indexing and set up more efficient DB management.
  • Implemented light catchups upon subscriptions.
  • Many refactorings and lower level improvements!

What's Next

We want to make sure that once Soroban is live, the necessary infrastructure is already there and this BETA release is a huge milestone towards that direction.

Also, this is only the first of the exciting announcements we have lined-up for the buildup to Soroban mainnet, make sure to not miss any updates on X, the discord server and this blog!