2026-01-19 AnonComms Weekly

Highlights §

• A new RFC describing a pluggable spam protection mechanism for libp2p-mix based on RLN now ready for review
• Brand new track to focus on RLN membership allocations kicked off, with initial abstractions already documented

Create basic capability discovery module for Logos Core §

• Specify basic capability discovery protocol

  • achieved: study the bucket overflow handling in go-kad dht and rust kad dht implementations, add bucket overflow handling part in the capability discovery rfc, complete working on the comments in the PR
  • next: continue working on the improving the wire protocol in the rfc

• Specify and implement Kad-DHT discovery protocol and API

  • achieved: update/feedback cycle for extended kad discovery spec & implementation in libp2p PR
  • next: capability discovery implementation & finishing extended kad discovery spec/implementation

Establish libp2p mixnet for Logos Core §

• Specify DoS and Sybil protection protocol for libp2p mix

  • achieved: RFC for spam protection with RLN ready for review ,
  • next: start implementing spam protection pluggable interface in mix

• Create demo chat app in Logos Core for messaging over libp2p mix

  • achieved: added a change in libp2p to help handle connection errors
  • next: use new libp2p version with logos-messaging and verify, also update app to use waku-relay for receiving

Deliver de-MLS API supporting multi-stewards and advanced group management §

• Separate Hashgraph-like consensus crate

  • achieved: fixed issue and added additional functions based on de-mls integration
  • next: publish patch release with updates

• Specify and implement de-MLS API

  • achieved: fully moved to hasgrahlike consensus, make API for mls and identity service, changed poc based on this API, started to work on client api
  • next: introduce api for client and implement it on poc

Deliver public Zerokit 1.0 API with big-endian support §

• Rework Zerokit Public API
  • achieved: addressed PR comments and update RFC function definition format
  • next: continue address comments and merge PR

Release RLN Prover for gasless L2 transactions §

• Allow multiple RLN provers to share a database

  • achieved:
    • unit tests for the PgFr & PgFr2 types
    • started benchmarking but realize it was not using binary protocol (text protocol is indeed slower)
    • achieved using binary postgresql protocol with PgFr custom type
  • next:
    • proper benchmarking & optimisation using binary protocol
    • find a way to deploy the extension in Docker postgresql

• Authenticated connections between prover and slashers

  • achieved: worked on twi possible ways to architecture a solution for multi-prover, multi-slasher topology, discussed with infra

• Support burning multiple IDs in a single RLN proof

  • achieved:
    • PR addressed feedback
    • implemented multi message_id burn as in RFC and benchmarked, studied the gnark-rln implementation
  • next: merge open PR

• Write whitepaper on gasless L2 transactions

  • achieved: added deny list abstraction in RFC, inits discussion for deny list
  • next: finish adding deny list on whitepaper by having consensus on. Also the add decentralized slasher architecture with aggregator node.

Implement RLN membership allocation service for Logos Core §

• Specify and implement RLN membership allocation service
  • achieved: began writing spec for the RLN membership allocation service
  • next: continue writing spec, discussing RLN on LSSA
  • blockers: figuring out how to effectively run RLN contracts in LSSA, see discussion here: https://discord.com/channels/973324189794697286/1458650650492801055