Our team is very excited to announce the beta release of our Full Node for Mainnet.
The Full Node is a key part of our blockchain ecosystem and this beta release represents a significant milestone. We have focused on ensuring our software is more functional, stable and performant.
This node includes the latest improvements which are listed below:
General:

• Improved detailed logging
• Improved configuration
• Move to asynchronous approach
• Adding a CLI project
• Resolution of race conditions
• Increased code documentation
• Increased test coverage

Complete refactoring of the P2P code:

• Resolution of memory leaks
• P2P code is completely asynchronous
• Peer discovery improvements
• Address database moved to JSON files
• Introduction of peer banning
• Improved code abstraction
• New logic for time syncing between peers

Wallet:

• Resolution of reorg issues
• Improved transaction broadcasting
• Resolved concurrency issues in the wallet
• Wallet optimised to handle larger number of transactions
• Support for staking

Consensus:

• Improved consensus validation flow
• Improved block downloading flow
• Introduction of a Rules Engine
• Migration of consensus logic to rules
• Removal of unused POSv2 validation
• Enhanced block and transaction relay

Staking:

• Staking on multiple threads
• Improved algorithm of splitting stake outputs

API/RPC:

• Introduction of additional endpoints
• Introduction of SwaggerUI
• Controllers discoverable by features

New features:

• Watch-only wallet
• DNS crawler
• Azure Indexer

This is a beta release, therefore, please use the staking feature with caution.
Please help us by reporting any issues you may find:
GitHub: https://github.com/stratisproject/StratisBitcoinFullNode/issues
Slack: #fullnode_support channel