Smilo Update — Quorum 2.6.0 & GETH 1.9.7

We are very proud to announce that we have managed to finish a months long milestone to update Smilo and pair up with Quorum.

We have released and tested with the community the Smilodon Populator — Quorum 2.6.0 (GETH 1.9.7)

This release brings private transactions to the Tendermint, Istanbul and Sport consensus, before this was disabled.

What is Tendermint Consensus ?

Tendermint is Consensus created to secure and replicate an application on many machines. Tendermint works even if up to 1/3 of machines fail in arbitrary ways.

The main idea behind adapting this consensus to Smilo is because Tendermint is designed to be easy-to-use, simple-to-understand, it provides high performance, proof of stake, and useful for a wide variety of distributed applications.

Using Tendermint, All non-faulty nodes will effectively seeing the same transaction log and computes the same state.

We are super proud to present our latest release of the Smilo Blockchain Platform: https://github.com/smilofoundation/go-smilo/releases/tag/v1.9.7.0

The next release we are planning to merge with Autonity 0.4.0 and bring in a full spec compliant Tendermint implementation, our development team is working around the clock to make this happen, you can follow our PR for more details.