Version 1.7.0 - 2021-06-15

Updates - Improvements related to Hyperledger Sawtooth 1.0.5

• Improved numerous performance and resilience issues for the REST API, processor and validator.

• Resolved issues on block reward allocation for miners.

• Introduced injection of housekeeping transactions improving decentralization of the network.

• Optimized code for retrieving state data from Sawtooth REST API.

• Resolved issues with fork resolution.

• Removed dependency on Sawtooth REST API from Creditcoin Processor.

• Resolved several race conditions which caused platform instability.

• Refactored peering and gossip code to improve performance and reliability.

• Implemented upgrade to validators: dropping stale connections and reacquiring valid peers.