Logos Blockchain Weekly Update - 2026-01-12

`blockchain:highlights`

Work has begun on turning Logos Execution Environment into a proper Zone running on the Logos Blockchain
Unification of Public and Private execution inside of Logos Execution Environment will provide a more consistent experience for developers in building applications using private or public state.
Published our 2025 Year in Review blog.

blockchain:bedrock:research:areon
- Preparing Areon paper for CCS submission progress
blockchain:bedrock:research:da:sampling
- Derived error-tolerant sampling threshold under different expansion factors analysis
blockchain:bedrock:research:architecture
- Bedrock Architecture has been updated to reflect new naming (in-review) spec
blockchain:bedrock:research:block
- v1.1.1 of Block Construction, Validation and Execution is published improving block and service reward distribution spec
- Work has begun on a new block compression mechanism which may substantially compress the size of messages travelling through the Blend Network (WIP) proposal
blockchain:bedrock:research:mantle
- Decentralized Sequencing and Bridging has been specified (in-review) Mantle

blockchain:bedrock:eng:cryptarchia
- Reject blocks from the future (in-review) logos-blockchain#2009
- Merkle path computation for Leader Notes (merged) logos-blockchain#2003 & logos-blockchain#2010
blockchain:bedrock:eng:testnet
- Support for running a single-node network for local Zone development logos-blockchain#2006
blockchain:bedrock:eng:ci
- Progress towards cache-aware cargo-hack in CI (reducing cargo-hack CI runtimes from 1h20m to 12s) (WIP) logos-blockchain#1997
blockchain:bedrock:eng:release
- Windows build support (merged) logos-blockchain#1982
- Grafana Metrics published from blockchain node (in-review) logos-blockchain#2012
blockchain:bedrock:eng:testing
- Cucumber auto deployer for the Logos Blockchain Testing Framework (merged) logos-blockchain-testing#2
- Testing Framework integrated into Logos Blockchain (merged) logos-blockchain#2008

blockchain:lee:state-unification
- Feasibility of unifying nonce structure across private and public execution analysis
- Feasibility of unifying Program Derived Accounts (PDA) across private and public execution analysis
- Feasibility of unifying Tail Calls across private and public execution analysis
blockchain:lee:sequencer
- Resolve program execution error from missing r0vm (merged) lssa#271
blockchain:lee:indexer
- Prepared Bedrock HTTP Client for use in Logos Execution Environment Indexer (in-review) lssa#270
- Indexer parsing and validating blocks (WIP) lssa#282