Logos Blockchain Weekly Update - 2026-10-19

blockchain:highlights

  • Node 0.3.2 released: OpenMetrics exposed, gossip stability fixes 0.3.2
  • Logos Execution Zone transactional actors merged: atomic composition and asynchronous messaging across public and private execution #935
  • Logos Execution Zone wallet storage now encrypted with the wallet password #987
  • λSQL writes batched into shared inscriptions, raising write throughput #3650, #3654

blockchain:bedrock:research

  • blockchain:bedrock:research:cryptarchia

    • Mantle operation data payloads bounded RFC merged logos-lips#467
    • Private UTXO: programs governing channel notes RFC (in-review) logos-lips#481, stacked on the private UTXO ledger RFC logos-lips#480; private ledger circuits for transfer, program spend, Proof of Leadership and Proof of Quota (in-review) logos-blockchain-circuits#59; Mantle and token economics formalised in Lean (in-review) research#25
    • Off-chain inscription bodies on Logos Storage: first measurements on the live storage network show the protocol is fast enough for Logos Execution Zone sized payloads, three storage-side issues found (draft) logos-lips#454
  • blockchain:bedrock:research:empowering

    • Mining-funded onboarding model consolidated into a standalone document doc; fixed total mining payout per epoch analysed for onboarding times, pool dynamics, and newcomer arrivals slides
    • Constant per-miner rewards with mining expenses: qualification-time bound and pool expenditure bounds derived, one- and two-week qualification targets evaluated for 3,500 newcomers and 100 incumbent miners
    • Block-rewards baseline rebuilt: its 1.33% holds only without recycled fees (in-review) research#24
  • blockchain:bedrock:research:post-quantum

    • Post-quantum transport security RFC narrowed to hybrid key exchange only (in-review) logos-lips#429

blockchain:bedrock:eng

  • blockchain:bedrock:eng:node

    • Node 0.3.2 released: OpenMetrics over FFI, recovery on lagged dissemination streams, gossipsub duplicate cache extended to 24 hours 0.3.2
    • Era support in every service (in-review): Proof of Work #3787, network #3792, transactions #3800, chain network #3801, ledger #3809, chain #3817, chain leader #3819, wallet #3821, Blend #3832; fork digest computed from the whole genesis block id (in-review) #3810
    • Mempool: retired transactions kept resolvable during the grace period #3802 and only recorded as removed when held #3815; policy-based evictor with a policy dropping expired reward claims #3789; all merged
    • Chain: future-slot check skipped when replaying stored blocks #3783; chain sync answers Unknown when no service replies #3831; both merged
    • SDP declarations identified by service and zk_id (RFC 407) implementation stack (in-review): declaration ids and lifecycle-bound nonces #3835, provider and service-note bindings #3839, withdrawal note derived from the declaration #3841, finalized declaration queries #3842
    • Security audit fix: node HTTP and tracing endpoints restricted to localhost, merged #3799; faucet_pk replaced with a consensus_excluded_keys list, merged #3822; Blend join picks an unlocked note automatically, merged #3838
    • JSON log output merged #3586; dependency advisories fixed #3805, #3823
  • blockchain:bedrock:eng:testing

    • Recovery-dependent service startup readiness fixed (in-review) #3811; mempool and Blend diagnostic stability scenarios improved (in-review) #3830
  • blockchain:bedrock:eng:zone-sdk

    • Backfill fixes merged: pending entries retired by message id on resume #3826, unseen reported tip backfilled before adoption #3825, re-mirrored transactions classified one at a time #3824
    • Block states refactor merged: block states extracted from transaction state #3788; channel notes, per-block channel lineage, and shared channel transaction bytes tracked in block states #3828, #3833, #3836, #3845
    • Signer added to block zone messages, merged #3797; TUI zone tutorial and solution updated to the 0.3.2 Zone SDK #3812, #3813
    • λSQL merged: writes batched into shared inscriptions #3650, write throughput improved with a settlement benchmark #3654, SQL execution bounded #3701, recovery rebuilt from Zone SDK history #3778, password manager handles displaced writes #3598 and encrypts credentials #3785
    • λSQL Explorer (in-review): read-only C bindings #3820 on shared FFI support #3798, Basecamp module logos-blockchain-module#117; λSQL guides (draft) logos-docs#559
  • blockchain:bedrock:eng:logos-core

blockchain:logos-execution-zone

  • blockchain:logos-execution-zone:release

  • blockchain:logos-execution-zone:sequencer

    • Transactional actors with side-effects merged: atomic composition and asynchronous message delivery across public and private execution #935
    • Read-only sequencer: FFI primitives unified for the sequencer and wallet, merged #993; sequencer address options made uniform, merged #981
    • Deployment improvements: config trimming and SIGTERM handling (draft) #980
  • blockchain:logos-execution-zone:wallet

    • Wallet storage encrypted with AES-256-GCM under an Argon2id key from the wallet password, merged #987
  • blockchain:logos-execution-zone:fees

    • Privacy-preserving transaction fees redesigned on transactional actors: in-proof reserve and refund, transaction dry-runs (draft) #985
  • blockchain:logos-execution-zone:accounts

    • Builtin system program upgrades (in-review) #946
  • blockchain:logos-execution-zone:referral-program

    • Referral program moved into its own repository, no longer relying on the wallet nsk: program merged uplink#1, claim planner, late claims, and publication rules tested uplink#2, local devnet with an oracle, dashboard, and Blend recipes uplink#3

nimbos

  • Deployment settings validation and genesis block creation merged nimbos#212; signature encoding fixed nimbos#231; circuits upgraded to v0.5.7 nimbos#236
  • Mantle channel gas and channel tips follow the spec (in-review) nimbos#237; SDP metadata encoding fixed (in-review) nimbos#244