Native Ads Protocol - Weekly Dev Update #1

It's been a week since I started working on the Native Ads protocol, as a standalone protocol. Here's a brief overview of what I have developed in the last week.

33 commits, 563 additions and 48 deletions, comparing the dev branch before merging into master...

See all my commits here: https://gitlab.com/imwatsi/native-ads/-/commits/master

Caching

I implemented basic caching for accounts, so as blocks are processed, accounts are mapped to database IDs from an in-memory cache, which also holds account properties. This reduces the number of DB queries made as the service runs.

Basic monetizer ops

• account_init: to initialize monetizer accounts
• set_props: to update the monetizer account properties

DB schema

• monetizer_accs table to store the monetizer accounts and their properites
• advertizer_acc table to store the advertizer accounts and their properties
• monetizer_spaces table to store spaces that monetizer accounts create
• ad_posts table to store ads created by advertizer accounts

Improved DB initialization and setup

I refactored the code and changed the logic to allow for a more unified flow and support future migrations. DB checks happen on every startup.

Preparatory code for advertizer ops

I wrote shell code in preparation for advertizer ops and related processes.

Next week's scope

• Advertizer ops: ad_submit, ad_bid, ad_approve, ad_reject, ad_fund
• Ad posts creation and updates

I'm aiming for an alpha release within the next 2-3 weeks.

Upon release, the server will be available on: https://native-ads.imwatsi.com, and anyone who wants to run the server can download the source, pip install it according to the README and run. I'll continue improving the setup and installation methods.

• Native Ads Repo
• Native Ads Documentation