2026-09-14 Logos Blockchain weekly

Logos Blockchain Weekly Update - 2026-09-14

blockchain:highlights

• EmPoWering machinery RFC merged: Proof of Work mining, claims, and reward pool specified in Mantle logos-lips#400
• Blend Failure Detection and Reaction RFC merged logos-lips#412
• Hierarchical deterministic wallet primitives merged #3508, logos-lips#437
• Logos Execution Zone 2/3 threshold slashing signatures merged #818
• Logos Execution Zone v0.2.5 release candidates published for internal devnet testing v0.2.5-rc2, v0.2.5-rc3
• Nimbos mempool and block proposal merged nimbos#143

blockchain:bedrock:research

• blockchain:bedrock:research:cryptarchia

  • Every Operation now carries a proof, with gas independent of it: spec merged logos-lips#431; node verifies the fresh channel config proof and derives execution gas from state, merged #3456
  • Last served epoch made rewardable: RFC merged logos-lips#435, implementation merged #3492, #3493
  • Wallet Technical Standard 1.1.0 merged: key derivation constants and Poseidon2 mode fixed logos-lips#437
  • Blend Failure Detection and Reaction RFC merged logos-lips#412
  • Blend connection traffic RFC moved to review: message budget enforced at the receiver, sized from the node verification rate and shared over connections with a reserve for edge nodes; liveness judged per identity so a reconnect resumes observation (in-review) logos-lips#421
  • Dual-key notes RFC opened: every note commits to a STARK-field public key now, easing the later proof-system transition (in-review) logos-lips#442
  • Mempool transaction retention and maturity RFC opened: retired transactions stay resolvable until release at 2 * TRANSACTION_TTL, block building gated on a maturity age of BLEND_DELAY + BROADCAST_DELAY (in-review) logos-lips#448
  • Blend data messages carry a length-prefixed batch of transactions in one payload (draft) logos-lips#444

• blockchain:bedrock:research:empowering

  • EmPoWering machinery RFC merged: claims signed with the mined key, tickets ordered with the epoch nonce last, reward pool and difficulty controllers moved into a new Proof of Work document logos-lips#400
  • Follow-up RFCs carved out of the merged machinery: reward retarget floor and pool refill from a fee share (in-review) logos-lips#443; reward puzzle solved with Equi-X against an effort target (draft) logos-lips#447
  • Proof of Work ticket derivation updated to resist mining optimizations #3500; Proof of Quota circuits updated with the new Poseidon2 input order logos-blockchain-circuits#55
  • Most conservative onboarding design analysed: Proof of Work earns non-transferable stake credits towards a sponsored validator position, and sponsored tokens transfer only after satisfactory validator service; economic simulation is straightforward, production integration with Private Proof of Stake significantly harder doc

• blockchain:bedrock:research:post-quantum

  • Companion document of fix propositions to ease the Post-Quantum ZK migration doc

• blockchain:bedrock:research:permissionless-channel-sequencing

  • Research started on reducing the blast radius of a malicious zone sequencer set (WIP) doc

blockchain:bedrock:eng

• blockchain:bedrock:eng:blend

  • Service structure simplified, merged #3490; cover traffic schedule kept intact when blending transactions, merged #3496
  • Pool state fingerprint diagnostics merged #3497
  • Connection monitoring per the revised RFC started: unused machinery cleaned up (draft) #3510, new monitoring machinery introduced (draft) #3539

• blockchain:bedrock:eng:node

  • Hierarchical deterministic wallet primitives merged #3508
  • Proof of Work precomputed difficulty settings merged #3481
  • UI-facing data exposed, merged: voucher rewards and claimable total #3487, network info over FFI #3488, leader aged notes #3489, node version over HTTP and FFI #3498
  • Chain leader enforces cumulative gas correctly during block creation, merged #3480; finite block-range retrieval consolidated, merged #3478
  • Rejected blocks with invalid signatures no longer cached for the orphan downloader (in-review) #3452
  • cargo-deny entries resolved or justified #3505; SECURITY.md added #3506
  • Trace export over OTLP fixed (in-review) #3543

• blockchain:bedrock:eng:testing

  • Controllable Blend provider endpoints and improved test diagnostics merged #3491
  • Testing Framework deployments unified under the app model: clusters and container services logos-blockchain-testing#67, Compose provisioning logos-blockchain-testing#68

• blockchain:bedrock:eng:zone-sdk

  • Signing helper exposed #3499; signing operations exposed in prepared transactions #3541
  • λSQL write status tracking: apps see when their writes are displaced, restored, or finalized (in-review) #3509

• blockchain:bedrock:eng:logos-core

  • Blockchain module updated with the newly exposed 0.3.0 node data (in-review) logos-blockchain-module#75
  • Rust client for the blockchain module (in-review) logos-blockchain-module#76, with client types logos-blockchain-module#77; Zone SDK client for the module (WIP) branch

blockchain:logos-execution-zone

• blockchain:logos-execution-zone:sequencer

  • 2/3 threshold slashing signatures merged #818; 2/3 threshold signatures for Bedrock channel config updates complete the threshold signature work (in-review) #834
  • Actor architecture: gossip module turned into an actor, merged #833; Bedrock communication moved into a BedrockActor (draft) #885
  • Read-only sequencer: sequencer FFI (in-review) #823, remaining FFI query methods (in-review) #878

• blockchain:logos-execution-zone:release

  • Release candidates published for internal devnet testing v0.2.5-rc2, v0.2.5-rc3
  • Fixes from release candidate testing: faucet program removed and its genesis role replaced, so deposits show up on the zone again #875; logging added around blocks submitted with a rewound id #843

• blockchain:logos-execution-zone:fees

  • Non-zero program exit codes handled in the state machine, merged #837
  • Fee payer can be given explicitly in the wallet #841 and over FFI logos-execution-zone-module#56
  • Fee wiring merged across modules and UIs: Logos Execution Zone module logos-execution-zone-module#55, wallet UI logos-execution-zone-wallet-ui#47, indexer module lez-indexer-module#23, explorer UI lez-explorer-ui#22
  • Priority tip and nonce-based transaction ordering in the mempool (in-review) #880; gas limit configurable per wallet (in-review) #884

• blockchain:logos-execution-zone:accounts

  • Environment unification: sharded program state moved to review (in-review) #835
  • Programs as accounts: kernel omitted from program deployments, saving storage (in-review) #845; ProgramId and Program clean-up (in-review) #846; private execution of immutable programs and shadow programs moved to review (in-review) #824
  • Incremental updates reworked as opt-in, with chained call interaction (draft) #881

• blockchain:logos-execution-zone:testing

  • CI optimised: host cache saves repaired and superseded runs cancelled #844, guests run in-process via the memoized image cache #872, single writer for the host Rust cache #874, integration shards no longer gated on fixture tests #883
  • Integration tests fixed on Apple Silicon #887

nimbos

• Mempool and block proposal merged nimbos#143
• ZK prover support in Nim (WIP) nimbos#197