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title: Infrastructure Foundations
date: December 20, 2024
version: "0.8.0"
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## 📦 December 2024: Infrastructure Foundations

- **Launch of EdgeNode SDK v0.1 (Private Beta)**  
  Released a developer-focused SDK enabling power users to integrate their own nodes into the GPU network. This SDK provided control hooks for workload queuing, availability broadcasting, and lease negotiation.

- **Initial Implementation of GridLink Protocol**  
  GridLink, Vertex’s decentralized node coordination layer, was deployed in a limited testnet, featuring:  
  - Peer discovery and handshaking  
  - Local job scheduling using hybrid gossip-tree routing  
  - Proto-resilience layer for handling edge node churn