Weekly Report | 13th — 19th Apr 2026
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Weekly Highlights
- The CESS testnet Pre-Mainnet Venus+ has been live for 250 days, with over 878 registered storage nodes and 5 consensus nodes, providing 4.34 PiB of total storage capacity and a cumulative 314.55 TiB of verified storage.
- Storage node operational efficiency continued to improve with refinements to monitoring workflows, enhanced anomaly prioritization, and more structured maintenance processes.
- CD²N Gateway optimization focused on improving monitoring clarity and validation consistency, with incremental refinements to operational visibility and troubleshooting workflows.
- DeShare user workflows were further enhanced through improved interaction consistency, better feedback mechanisms, and smoother handling under varying network conditions.
- CESS Network partnered with BigWater Protocol to power verifiable environmental data infrastructure, bringing real-world impact data, IoT signals, and on-chain water and carbon credits onto decentralized storage.
Project Development Details
The CESS testnet has been updated to Pre-Mainnet Venus+ and consists of a consensus node and a storage node. Consensus Nodes maintains the world state of the CESS network and serves as the “data authentication station” (via TEE Worker), while Storage Nodes provides verifiable storage space and serves as the “data storage pool” in the CESS network.
Here are the key updates this week:
1. Storage Node [Pre-Mainnet Venus+]
- Further refined node monitoring workflows to improve visibility across long-running node operations and performance trends.
- Enhanced anomaly prioritization logic to better distinguish operational urgency and streamline maintenance actions.
- Improved operational reporting structures for more efficient multi-node review and status comparison.
- Continued optimization of node self-check and validation routines to reinforce runtime stability and reduce manual intervention.
CESS is a blockchain powered decentralized storage and CD²N (content decentralized delivery network) infrastructure for Web3. By utilizing a DePIN (decentralized physical infrastructure network) model, CESS drives mass deployment of network nodes globally through incentives. The first of its kind, DeOSS (decentralized object storage services) by CESS has significantly contributed to the gradual enrichment and flourishing of the product ecosystem within the CESS network, DeShare (online file sharing tool), and public chain snapshot storage services have been incubated. The developments for this week are as follows:
Decentralized Object Storage Service (DeOSS)
- Improved CD²N Gateway monitoring clarity to support faster anomaly identification and operational review.
- Refined validation workflows to ensure more consistent behavior across different operational conditions.
- Enhanced cross-node data consistency checks to improve reliability in multi-node environments.
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- Improved DeShare interaction feedback to provide clearer user operation status and system response.
- Enhanced sharing workflow consistency, improving reliability across different usage scenarios.
- Further refined upload and resume handling to improve performance and feedback in unstable network environments.
Testnet
Overview:
250 days since Pre-Mainnet Venus+ testnet was launched. More details availble on the CESS blockchain explorer, CESS Scan. If you encounter any issues building a node, please seek assistance on CESS Discord.
- 5 consensus nodes
- 878 storage nodes
- 314.55 TiB verified storage space
- 4.34 PiB total storage space
Community Activity
CESS Network × BigWater Protocol Partnership
CESS Network announced a strategic partnership with BigWater Protocol to support the next generation of verifiable environmental data infrastructure.
This collaboration focuses on enabling:
- Real-world impact data integration
- Large-scale IoT data ingestion
- On-chain water and carbon credit systems
- Tamper-proof decentralized storage for environmental datasets
By combining CESS’s decentralized data infrastructure with BigWater’s environmental data capabilities, the partnership brings real Proof of Impact utility to Web3.
Both teams will further explore this collaboration in an upcoming X Space discussion, sharing insights on the future of environmental data, on-chain impact, and decentralized infrastructure.
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