they're so pantheon is a new aetherium
client built with the JVM because we
built it from the ground up it's a
patchy - license and we quietly over
open-source it over the weekend it's now
fully open source you can check it out
we'll be sharing the repo later we had a
few crawlers find us over the weekend
and commit PRS submit PRS and getting
committed so we're up and running it all
works
it runs live on main net on rinkeby on
Rob Stan there's proof of work there's
click POA it's a it's a real functioning
client you know we integrate with a
bunch of other consensus projects within
furo with Alessio with truffle meta mask
and a bunch of non consensus players in
the ecosystem as well and we're always
looking for more so you know the final
point that I just want to say on what we
are and where we are is this is our
first release we wanted to release early
so we could get feedback and help the
community shape what we're doing so
please play around with it please
realize it's a work in progress but
please work with us to make it better
and so just to prove that we're real
this is a snapshot we took this morning
from each stats and lo and behold there
we are running both our own nodes and
running on in fear uh Pantheon nodes
which for us is pretty exciting it works
it's real we're not making this up so
[Applause]
so why did we do this why don't we spend
the last year building another aetherium
client a couple reasons first we believe
that a healthy ecosystem requires a
number of clients we want a diversity of
approaches we want a diversity of
techniques and teams all contributing
ideas and so we thought another a client
could really contribute the second bit
though is we really wanted to build our
capabilities from the ground up and get
into the weeds of the challenges of
building a client that's really
important for us because it provides a
foundation for a lot of the research
efforts we're contributing to as well on
aetherium 2.0 work as well as some of
our enterprise research and you know the
other bit that's really important to us
is we want to help grow the community
you know theorem wins and aetherium
works and aetherium thrives because of
the community we have and so by enabling
another language and other team and
other set of developers to work with the
community we're hoping to grow and and
help this community thrive but the final
bit is we also wanted to bring
enterprises to Maine that help
facilitate enterprises working on
maintenance and so we built it from the
ground up to be a patchy to license out
of the box any Enterprise can take this
and play with it and so drilling a
little deeper into this we chose Java
for a Pantheon for three main reasons
the first is that Java is a really
mature ecosystem and it comes with a lot
of free tooling database integrations
other sorts of integrations
instrumentation monitoring logging stuff
that you just get for free out of the
box with Java which is really exciting
but it's the second and third reason
that excite us the most Java has an
enormous community of developers that
aren't engaging sufficiently in
aetherium right now and they're usually
Enterprise developers and so we're
hoping by delivering Enterprise great
software we can help port them over here
the final bit is enterprises have
invested in Java they have Java systems
they have Java talent and it's just
easier for them to play around on Java
and so I'm gonna hand over to Shahan
who'll talk more about our enterprise
vision as well hi everybody so one of
the reasons why we
so why is Pegasus building Pantheon well
when we started getting involved in this
space we were we were involved in the EA
founding of the EEA we were getting
involved with enterprises forming the
enterprise aetherium Alliance vision and
we were hearing from enterprises that
they wanted to use aetherium well no no
kidding it's a great platform
it's robust it's a resilient and we we
wanted to hear their requirements so we
were trying to ingest their requirements
into the EA vision and then from there
we started working with customers we
engage with the government of Dubai we
were hearing from the government that
they wanted to use enterprise-grade
etherium and they also wanted to use
maenette well no no kidding and so we
wanted to bridge these two disparate
worlds we wanted to build
enterprise-grade maenette technologies
with that would integrate and
interoperate with enterprise technology
stacks and that's why Pegasus was
founded in order to build Pantheon from
the ground up in a way that enterprises
would be able to incorporate into their
technology stacks so where is Pegasus
well Pegasus is a global group where a
group of 50 people in Australia Europe
and North America we have three main
three main prongs we have product which
is building Pantheon which is focused on
maenette maenette is our number one
priority and at the same time we are
building Enterprise modules for
aetherium enterprise-grade aetherium and
at the same time we're doing a research
and development with the if they're in
foundation we're focus on if their iam
2.0 we're focused on Enterprise ethereum
we're we're working on Enterprise
modules like interoperability
scalability working with existing
technology stacks and at the same time
we have a standards group that is
helping to bring maenette standards into
the enterprise group an enterprise space
so that enterprises can have trust that
they can use may not technologies in
their technology stack
and now I will hand it over to Rob who
will talk demo Pantheon and talk about
the roadmap so while it was kind of cool
showing like a screenshot of stats it's
actually kind of nice to see software as
well so I'll start off by showing we've
created a QuickStart that we ship as a
part of Pantheon and I'll start by just
running that up and I won't stop it
first it's already stopped so we'll
start with they're running the private
private network so this is just a series
of docker docker images running a few
notes and a nice little block Explorer
that's been built by alessio so as this
is started I'm going to quickly go
across and go to our acceptance tests so
we take I guess our software really
seriously we've got a great set of
acceptance tests that we are regularly
running on commit and then some extra
acceptance tests that we have sort of
running as well so we've got truffle is
one of the tools that we think is pretty
important for us to be able to support
and so it's what we're running and so
I'm going to use that and we're gonna
kick off we're gonna get some
transactions happening in our chain
we're going to get some things happening
some real blocks actually being created
and transactions inside those blocks we
can see that things are compiling and
working there you'll see up there as
well in the blue we've got a series of
services that are running on our
QuickStart so we've got a HTTP endpoint
that's what our truffle is interacting
with right now there's a WebSocket
endpoints so that's supporting the
pub/sub API which is sort of well known
and being more well established now and
there's also the block Explorer sitting
there as well so I'll go through and
show you our connecting into the
WebSocket so it's just using a normal
simple WebSocket client Chrome extension
sitting here so I'm just going to open a
connection to that WebSocket and send in
a subscribe telling it that we're
subscribing to the new heads events and
if the demo gods are kind we'll start to
see some transactions coming through and
there we go so ever
we've got blocks being created switch
across now to our block Explorer which
ships is a part of the test network that
we've got sitting there and we should
start to see that the best blocks
numbers will be increasing there so you
can see that the blocks are going
through this is a new block Explorer
that's been produced by the team Alessio
they're going to be open sourcing this
and making it available for people to
have on their own private networks as
well so you can see it's kind of a nice
clean simple interface that we've got
sitting here if I go into that best
block you can also see I guess some
things you can see there so we've got
six peers on our network so that docker
network that I have sitting there has
six peers sort of sitting in connecting
talking to each other our best block is
sitting there and you can see that the
current head block there doesn't have
any transactions in it we're mining
pretty rapidly in this network so that
we can keep seeing our transactions come
through if I go down to here you can
sort of see the the nice interface there
you go kind of a length that here's how
many transactions there are on each
block so if I click on one you can see
there's our transactions and then we can
drill down and actually see the details
of one of our transactions and get some
of the details of what's happening here
so that's us with a live block Explorer
interacting with Pantheon a new main net
client one last thing is I want to
highlight here is just we've got some
simple documentation where we're working
towards making this an accessible client
for people to get working with and using
it easily so we expect that I guess the
if we're pulling people in from the Java
community they're going to know nothing
about a theorem so that QuickStart is a
great way for them to get started our
documentation we're making it easy for
people to get started and working with
the product this is I guess an area
where we'd love to get feedback so if
people are downloading and getting
started with Pantheon you're going WTF
what's happening here then we want to
know and get and get feedback and know
how we can make this thing better that's
our demo
[Applause]
let's have a look at some of this stuff
yep it's just a test net so yep okay so
we've got our roadmap here of things
that are happening so there's three main
themes that we've got happening as a
group at pegasus so we've got our core
client we've got our enterprise features
and our theory and 2.0 work we take main
net as the message has been we take
maintenance seriously and so we want to
make sure that we are having main that
as our first class thing
its main net first in our client we've
built main net support we have this
vision for an enterprise client that
will be used by enterprises and it is
enterprise grade but maintenance first
you know you've got to build on top of
what's there and a world where
enterprises are pinning their their
technologies may be using side chains
like we've got on our enterprise stack
their opinions back to to main and it
all sort of works is is the world that
we want to enable with Pantheon and so
that's why we're doing what we're doing
so core our two sort of big things that
we see in the short term there we don't
have a far sink yet so we're running as
a full archive node it's our alpha
that's where we started we're gonna
build on top of that and be running as a
full node and getting the the sort of
fast sink East 63 sort of messages
working well and working on performance
so working with the inferior guys and
making sure that Pantheon is working
well enough to support that billions of
requests that are coming in through in
furor we'd love to have Pantheon being a
part of that and we're working within
fiatter to help make that happen on the
enterprise side so there's a bunch of
things happening there I guess the the
interesting ones so we're doing a pbft
based consensus mechanism we've got some
really smart guys way smarter than me
actually doing the formal definition of
that and doing like the liveness proofs
and making sure that this protocol that
we're we're specifying up there that's
pbft based is
sort of robust and a good protocol for
us to be using and building on top of
we're looking at the the EEA so the
enterprise aetherium alliance they've
specifying a bunch of stuff around the
consensus mechanisms but also the
permissioning and privacy side so we're
doing our own implementations of those
standards and making sure that our
client is ready for enterprises to start
using and provides the features which we
know that they they really care about
and meet looking as well at the site
change side so I guess being able to
support that as we go it forward with
the future the last section I got down
the bottom there and last but clearly
not least is a theory of 2.0 and so
Pegasus has a bunch of work that we are
doing in the etherium 2.0 space we've
got Ben Edgington is probably not here
but he's I guess got a team around him
that's doing a really great work in the
the research side and bringing that
forward into the development side as
well and so our Pantheon client is going
to be an ethereal 2.0 client and so
we're doing the work on the the beacon
chains sharding and all the etherium 2.0
research and bring that forward into our
development space as well that's our
roadmap
so looking at that there's a bunch of
ways that we'd love to get people
involved for anyone that's enterprise-e
and working it working at places in in
enterprise we're looking for our
company's partners clients that we can
sort of partner with to make sure that
we're building the software that's the
right software for you we want to make
sure that our code is not being built in
a vacuum off to the side by a bunch of
theoretical engineering guys like I'm
the product guy saying let's actually
build stuff that solves problems and
meets client needs so we're looking for
people on the enterprise side there
we're looking for I feel almost like
Steve Ballmer
but like developers so I won't say it
three times but and I guess in - in a
bunch of ways so Pegasus is hiring we'd
love to have people join our team and
come work with us but also we don't want
to like be the only ones doing work on
this product we'd love to have an
open-source community and be working
with a community of people so if you've
got ideas things that you want to see in
a client come along contribute create
pull requests we're open source for
Apache - you know we're there to work
with you if you I guess the other thing
for the developers is download us use us
and tell us what doesn't work
tell us what's hard you know it's an
alpha it's it's actually a really good
alpha I think but it's it's it's still
an alpha and you know you know things
aren't going to be perfect and we'd love
to get feedback and we want to make this
like the best client I am going to hand
over to Johan thank you rob so we are on
github we are open source please submit
PRS we have already received an OPR from
somebody out there in the world and
we've accepted the PR join us on gator
on twit on Twitter
visit us at the booth we are close by
and we are hiring we are keen on talking
to you developers
enterprises product people we want to
ingest your ideas we want to chat with
you so please talk to us talk to rob
about product talk to Dan about
engagement about strategy talk to me
about research talk to Ben about
research please just talk with us engage
with us thank you thank you very much
guys I think you're doing in hacker tone
to open up for questions we're gonna
take questions now but if everyone who
is a member of Pegasus could raise their
hand there's a few of you in the room
feel free after this talk to go up to
any one of them for questions as well
and we're gonna be at the booth
the consensus booth which is just in the
sponsor zone right at the end of this
hall all afternoon and as drum said
there's an enterprise hackathon this
weekend that's here in Prague so if
you're spending a few days in this
beautiful city and don't want to see
pretty sights but want a hack instead
come join us we we can give you all the
info at the booth what a sales pitch -
yeah I know it's gonna be raining this
weekend I think yeah there we go
so where's question hi
so for interaction with Pantheon will
people use a web 3j library or is it
something else that y'all have created
yep so it's the standard sort of API
czar the main way to work with it at the
moment
sorry web 3j web 3j yes so the ways to
go right now I expect in the fullness of
time there'll be a more direct API for
Java people to interact with but right
now web 3j works really really well so
we're using web 3j as a part of our
acceptance tests sort of suite so you
think that like in the future that
Pantheon will be maybe a library that
you bring in to whatever Java project
you're doing cool thank you
what do you think what do you think
about using cotton to get most of the
Java benefits but you don't have to
write this language yeah I think
Cotton's definitely we've got people
that are really excited about Kotlin and
and looking at it for for definitely
some of the the parts of the code base
and I think as we start to build more
and more modules
I think cot alone is probably my
preference over like a scholar so
there'll be some people I think maybe
even on the stage who might say that
scholars a better choice than colon but
we're open to all its JVM so yeah we're
we're actually already in the process of
transitioning to support card line we're
revamping some of the infrastructure all
right the architecture to do that are we
going to provide corporative support
like great corporation standards and a
corporation support company to support
companies just want to use your software
the short answer that I'll give is yes
and then might say more so absolutely we
have a support offering that we're
already working on if you're interested
in that would love to chat a little bit
more we can talk through the truth is we
haven't rolled it out yet so the details
of it we didn't want to talk to
enterprises and understand what you'd be
looking for as we define it but
absolutely yep yeah hey it's super
exciting thank you did you start working
on faster yet and if not I entrusted to
collaborate with was the guest team the
parity team on maybe solutions in this
regard
yes we haven't on the product side
started doing much Casper related stuff
but Ben Edgington has been definitely
looking into it and yeah definitely love
the idea of collaborating with people
yeah and with the past thing yeah we're
working on having that interoperability
that extensibility of in the network
protocol for example on this
mechanism yeah did I hear
interoperability in sync mode fasting
mode we're looking at interoperability
at different layers so at the network
layer at the EVM layer because some
enterprises may want to extend the EVM
in some fashion such as use integrating
their databases or a big data framework
sorry IA iframe works the use cases are
still open
we'd love to hear the use cases that
enterprises would love to engage on and
we're and the more we talk with
customers the more we'll understand
where at what layers we can develop that
at API those api's just wanted to add to
some something that every said about
fasting so with the parity team and
guess team wanted to collaborate on a
new sync protocol and if you guys are
interested you were more than welcome to
join in about eight minutes the
discussion of where to take the whole
thing protocols because it's a really
paint for everybody so where's that
happening here we're not sure yet
somewhere okay great I'll grab me one
more question gentleman in the green
have you reuse any of the themes echoed
or you have started from scratch sorry
for licensing reasons so you started
from scratch
thanks for the presentation do you have
any point in your roadmap to support
OSGi integration for example not
currently but we're I guess we've got a
short short-term roadmap and then open
sort of roadmap beyond yeah so even
though we're not supporting usgi it
works with spring so dependency
injection works very well with the the
framework that as is and it's very easy
to use so very easy to extend and apply
there's probably a PR sitting somewhere
that does the spring integration I saw I
BFT is on the roadmap is that for future
quorum support so we're using an IBF tea
based protocol and so the potential for
Interop with with quorum is there the
actual details of how that's going to
work is is not yet I guess
developed and so it's hard to say how
it's going to exactly work well we have
IB ft implementation and it is
interoperable with quorum right now
we're working on an IPF TP 2.0 which is
meets better constraints for liveness
and safety yeah do you all have on your
roadmap a plan to maybe improve the
privacy features of private transactions
and in Coram you talk about what tiller
doing in there yep so we definitely have
the ideas around how to do a privacy in
a way that's I guess different decorum
and so sort of inspired by learning some
of the lessons from quorum but done
somewhat differently and the actual
implementation details us again it's not
like a broken record haven't got a
actually done yet but yeah there's
definitely some some diagrams and things
that I can I can share with you and have
a chat with later and be a spec v1 was
released in May v2 was released
yesterday they have privacy levels we're
looking to see how quorums privacy and
our privacy features may interoperate or
just compare and see how we can perhaps
support the EI standards as well as
customer
quirements they may not overlap so we're
very curious to hear what kind of
privacy requirements that you're seeking
so please come talk to us it also might
be worth I mean you might have thought
about this but you know creating a
bounty to see if you know there's a lot
of different ways to kind of glean
information on those private
transactions so yeah it might be a good
idea to like try and open that up just
to show up and make sure that banks and
insurance companies are you know or
comfortable with yeah definitely just
just a thought yeah I mean our R&D team
the eath 2.0 team they're working on ZK
start CK starts trying to figure out how
those get integrated at multiple layers
of the protocol how they can be
simplified aggregated composed these are
all pieces that we're all actively
looking into what kind of technology are
you using for the chain data storage yep
so at the moment we're we're still
working on a Rox DB sort of database for
the the storage we're looking at so
we've got an abstraction layer around
that and so moving into support I guess
you know pluggable storage mechanisms so
I guess it's Java so probably something
JDBC based with the casing layer to
actually make sure that performance
happens as well yeah and the R&D team is
also looking at database technologies to
try and simplify the integration and the
indexing benefits that come from
databases so we're trying to see where
where the technologies can be leveraged
in in the blockchain and vice-versa
because that's how we're trying to
bridge we're trying to bring main
technologies to enterprise and
vice-versa
bring Enterprise technologies to may not
you