Decentralized Threshold Signing Service Implementation: Milestone 3 Delivery

[Fiono11]

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Link to the application pull request: PR #2618

[keeganquigley]

Hi @Fiono11 thanks for M3. As part of the last milestone, the contract notes a "production-ready web app" but I'm not finding a link anywhere. Do you have a GH or Vercel deployment you can link me to? Thanks.

[Fiono11]

Hi, @keeganquigley ! M3 is this one, the "production-ready web app" is a future plan.

[keeganquigley]

thanks for clarifying @Fiono11 fair enough, but I would still expect to see a more completed state. Such as more unit tests, and an ability to connect to a testnet (Paseo) instead of having to spin up a local node. So far there haven't been any changes since M2 and the last commit was 3 months ago.

[Fiono11]

Fair enough as well! Will improve on that and get back to you.

[Fiono11]

Hi, @keeganquigley ! I made the following improvements:

• The service was deployed in a cloud instance and can be accessed here

• Support for the Paseo test network (besides Westend) was added

• The following unit tests were implemented for two participants:

  • Test the threshold signing (round 1 and 2)
  • Test the aggregation of the threshold signatures
  • Test the full end-to-end protocol (threshold key generation, threshold signing and aggregation)
  • Test the construction and submission of the threshold signed extrinsic to a test network (Westend and Paseo)

More details can be found in the README.

[keeganquigley]

Thanks @Fiono11 looks much better. The unit tests are all passing and cloud deployment works. The frontend works nicely with Paseo. I'm willing to pass it now, you can find my final evaluation here. Cheers.

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