2026-02-16 Logos Blockchain weekly

Logos Blockchain Weekly Update - 2026-02-16 §

blockchain:highlights §

• Devnet stabilization: 0.1.2 release, config overhaul, IBD and NAT fixes
• Initial LEE Bedrock integration merged, now testing end-to-end
• Zone-SDK v0 API complete: sequencer, indexer, checkpoint, and self-healing support
• SQLite zone demo MVP ready
• DA sampling security: median time to first block built from unavailable data being accepted exceeds age of universe

blockchain:bedrock:research §

• blockchain:bedrock:research:cryptarchia

  • Continued refining Total Stake Inference (TSI) draft, addressing technical comments with updated sections and simulations draft
  • Updated EmPoWering the Consensus with PoW mining options, exploring methods of transmitting PoW claims through Blend doc
  • Began research on ZK checkpoints

• blockchain:bedrock:research:tokenomics

  • Proposed RFC for removing DA from TKE block rewards and fees specifications RFC

• blockchain:bedrock:research:da:sampling

  • Computed joint probability of a node building a block from unavailable data, winning election, and the block being accepted by validators. Lower bound on median time to first such event exceeds age of the universe (epsilon=10^-4, f=1/30, 1-second slots) analysis
  • Began Private DA literature review, examining Celestia’s blob encryption and verifiable encryption approach notes

• blockchain:bedrock:research:blend

  • Iterating on Compressed Block Proposal RFC, expanded analysis to account for multiple collisions per transaction RFC
  • Reviewed Circom constraint optimization for comparisons paper, appended summary doc

blockchain:bedrock:eng §

• blockchain:bedrock:eng:cryptarchia

  • IBD bug fix: fail if no peer is successfully caught up (merged) logos-blockchain#2179
  • Derived t0/t1_constant from f (in-review) logos-blockchain#2155
  • CryptarchiaParameter for genesis block (in-review) logos-blockchain#2174
  • Use NOM for CryptarchiaParameter encode/decode (merged) logos-blockchain#2185
  • Initialize LIB with correct slot and height (merged) logos-blockchain#2198
  • Use s_gen for bootstrap fork choice rule (merged) logos-blockchain#2209
  • Remove OnceLock for LotteryConstants (merged) logos-blockchain#2203
  • Add tracing for epoch state changes (merged) logos-blockchain#2202
  • Stake inference beta config (merged) logos-blockchain#2199
  • Remove waiting service dependencies from API (merged) logos-blockchain#2194

• blockchain:bedrock:eng:blend

  • Fix Blend panic with empty membership (merged) logos-blockchain#2158
  • Reduce blend net inactivity and retention period to 1 (merged) logos-blockchain#2168

• blockchain:bedrock:eng:testing

  • Improved cucumber tests (merged) logos-blockchain#2150
  • Fix NTP config value and Windows compile (merged) logos-blockchain#2148
  • Prevent potential panics (merged) logos-blockchain#2162
  • Framework core and Logos separation (draft) logos-blockchain-testing#28
  • Logos integration layer for testing framework (in-review) logos-blockchain#2196
  • Config sync updates (merged) logos-blockchain-testing#30, logos-blockchain-testing#31

• blockchain:bedrock:eng:deployment

  • 0.1.2 release with major configuration overhaul
  • Configuration improvements: remove YAML bundling from binary logos-blockchain#2147, promote genesis state logos-blockchain#2149 and chain start time logos-blockchain#2159 to deployment config, decouple service configs from node config logos-blockchain#2160, use sensible defaults logos-blockchain#2173, skip serialization of default fields (WIP) logos-blockchain#2183
  • logos-blockchain-node init subcommand for streamlined node setup logos-blockchain#2164
  • Collect all node state into single recovery folder logos-blockchain#2197
  • Docker improvements: compose volumes for setup/run logos-blockchain#2172, node images use release binaries logos-blockchain#2154, fix Docker build workflow logos-blockchain#2189, tar release binaries logos-blockchain#2200
  • Faucet improvements: multiple UTXOs logos-blockchain#2169, all faucet keys in node config logos-blockchain#2204
  • Networking: NAT traversal via autonat for external IP discovery logos-blockchain#2193, extract peer IDs from multiaddr for IBD logos-blockchain#2180
  • Devnet tuning: extend bootstrap period logos-blockchain#2186, debug log level for init nodes logos-blockchain#2192, override axum JSON body limit logos-blockchain#2167, standalone node tokens logos-blockchain#2176
  • Release process: checklist updates logos-blockchain#2181 logos-blockchain#2205, 0.1.3 devnet spec logos-blockchain#2207
  • Systemd template file for node deployment logos-blockchain#2152

• blockchain:bedrock:eng:da

  • Remove kzgrs params and mentions (merged) logos-blockchain#2190

• blockchain:bedrock:eng:logos-core

  • Logos Blockchain Module improvements: packaging with deps logos-blockchain-module#5, emit events via Logos Client logos-blockchain-module#6, use class static instead of global logos-blockchain-module#7, set circuits environment logos-blockchain-module#8, fix constructor crash logos-blockchain-module#10, known address functionality logos-blockchain-module#11, nix files for C++ code auto generation (WIP) logos-blockchain-module#9
  • Fix linux-aarch64 circuits issue (merged) logos-blockchain-circuits#13, logos-blockchain#2184
  • Output circuits as part of nix build (merged) logos-blockchain#2165
  • Fix Nix OSX dependencies (merged) logos-blockchain#2157
  • C-bindings: wallet known address retrieval methods logos-blockchain#2191, storage get_blocks range (in-review) logos-blockchain#2188

• blockchain:bedrock:eng:zones

  • Zone-SDK v0 API complete: non-finalized block tracking (merged) logos-blockchain#2132, v0 indexer/sequencer e2e (merged) logos-blockchain#2161, backfilling + checkpoint API with self-healing sequencer (merged) logos-blockchain#2175
  • TUI zone: sample sequencer for posting text inscriptions (merged) logos-blockchain#2177
  • SQLite zone demo MVP ready branch

blockchain:lee §

• blockchain:lee:key-protocol

  • Multi-owner private accounts: researched PDA approach, solved ownership griefing attack via sequencer-enforced rules, finished program-based approach document doc
  • SLIP-010 key generation security document for LEE doc
  • Nonce mechanism update for private accounts (in-review) lssa#334
  • Public key protocol updated to match HD key specs (merged) lssa#249

• blockchain:lee:token-program

  • AMM Program refactor merged: logic to amm_program lib crate, types to amm_core, strongly-typed instructions lssa#306
  • Auth transfer FFI full functionality (merged) lssa#332
  • AMM program ID fix for sequencer RPC (merged) lssa#335

• blockchain:lee:indexer

  • Indexer state management: added integration tests for block and public state queries, fixed config and port mappings lssa#308
  • Indexer correct startup and restart: rewrote finalized block fetching from streams to polling with backfilling via consensus_info, storing latest seen finalized L1 header in DB for restart support (in-review) lssa#331

• blockchain:lee:integration

  • Full Bedrock integration (merged): Sequencer accepts generic Bedrock/Indexer clients, testcontainers for Bedrock in tests, bedrock-related retries, flaky test fixes, all-in-one docker compose for local running and stage deployment lssa#316
  • Fix sequencer data synchronization problems: updated docs, tests, CI, and sequencer (merged) lssa#333

• blockchain:lee:explorer

  • Block Explorer merged: leptos Rust fullstack framework with pages for blocks/transactions/accounts and Docker support lssa#315

• blockchain:lee:logos-core

  • LEZ Nixify (merged) lssa#320

blockchain:comms §

• blockchain:comms:blog
  • Sovereign Zone Interoperability blog draft (in-progress) draft