2026-07-27 AnonComms Weekly

Highlights

• The oracle mechanism specification is now published as a LIP, laying the groundwork for the Decentralised Oracle Network.
• Mix-based chat with DoS protection was presented and demoed at the IFT Town Hall.

Create a basic service discovery module

• Validate service discovery protocol correctness in large-scale simulations
  • achieved:
    • nim-libp2p #2865 — fixed Kademlia retry logic
    • nim-libp2p #2870 — closed a gap where service discovery’s per-service routing tables accepted peers straight from REGISTER/GET_ADS senders and gossiped closerPeers, without the address-policy/IP-diversity checks the main Kad-DHT table already enforced
    • logos-lips #377 — RFC spec work
    • PR reviews and discussions on protocol correctness; a protocol flaw was discovered during analysis
  • next:
    • continue further investigations and analysis on protocol correctness
    • fix the discovered protocol flaw

Establish libp2p mixnet

• Research more advanced cover traffic generation techniques

  • achieved: bumped the libp2p version in mix and addressed nimble issues
  • next: fix a possible leak

• Implement local reputation mechanism and research advanced DoS protection

  • achieved:
    • presented Mix-based chat at the IFT Town Hall
    • explored and compared candidate non-RLN DoS schemes against the current RLN approach (precompute and slashing variants, plus the Dynark optimisation) [WiP]
  • next: finalise the comparison document and the non-RLN DoS research note

Deliver de-MLS for p2p group messaging

• Implementing recovery mode

  • achieved: moved all liveness timers outside de-MLS, allowing the libchat side to choose how, when, and by whom to react when something goes wrong, or when the group needs adjusting to a concrete policy

• Integrating de-MLS into libchat

  • achieved:
    • added a public API that allows creating a group with members
    • implemented a simple version of the integration policy
  • next:
    • finish the libchat PR
    • start working on a new issue

Implement RLN membership allocation service

• Implement basic RLN membership management module

  • achieved: implemented registration via the membership allocation protocol
  • next:
    • implement functions for proof generation, proof verification, and rate limit budget
    • align with the latest spec

• Research advanced authentication techniques for RLN membership allocation

  • achieved: used a Keycard device certificate as an authentication mechanism

Decentralised Oracle Network

• Specifying oracle mechanism
  • achieved:
    • addressed feedback and merged the oracle mechanism PR
    • reviewed the oracle mechanism PR; started a Logos Oracle Network implementation
  • next:
    • follow-up PR including the indexer proposer mechanism
    • continue work on the Logos Oracle Network implementation

Maintain and expand Zerokit

• Release Zerokit (v3.0.0) with enum-based runtime configuration
  • achieved:
    • completed the Zerokit refactor (PR14), now reviewed and close to being merged
    • merged the zerokit-api docs PR after review
  • next: merge PR14 and release v3.0.0