Logos Collective Weekly Summary

Week 19, 2026 (May 11, 2026)

Teams Reporting

80+

PRs & Updates

Key Highlights

Blockchain

Multiple-owners task complete on LEZ: GroupKeyHolder for GMS key management and wallet group commands with shared account derivation (PDA + non-PDA) both merged.

Blockchain

Areon paper submitted to NDSS 2027: substantial revision of the CCS 2026 version with tightened claims, expanded theory, and new experiments.

Blockchain

Mantle Tx simplification RFC implemented: transaction hash simplified to blake-only (Poseidon2 removed) and gas prices removed from Mantle Transactions. Decentralized sequencing main logic merged.

AnonComms

Multi-steward de-MLS specification complete with significant edge-case treatment; specification deliverable considered done.

AnonComms

Logos service discovery standalone API published as a raw LIP; capability discovery production integration in Logos Delivery started. Stake-weighted Mix RLN DoS protection spec refactored.

Messaging

SDS state persistence interface defined and nim-sds wired into logos-delivery; v0.38.1 deployed to waku.sandbox; LEZ spike opened as an account registry for contact discovery.

Logos Delivery — Reliable Channel API Developer Preview

Implement Reliable Channel API

Achieved

Logos Delivery — QUIC Transport

Trial QUIC

Implement QUIC support in logos-delivery (not blocked)
QA-reproducible QUIC-in-Logos-Delivery used in Logos Delivery Simulator to validate QUIC support (blocked)

Blockers

Solved but awaiting a future nim-libp2p version with the fix: nim-lsquic benchmark

Logos Chat — Group Conversations

Implement contact discovery

Achieved

Spike: LEZ as an account registry for discovery

Maintenance

Fixes & Releases

Achieved

Bedrock — Research

Cryptarchia & Total Stake Inference

Achieved

Areon paper submitted to NDSS 2027: substantial revision of CCS 2026 version; protocol scoped to Nakamoto-style multi-proposer PoS DAG with explicit assumptions; new simulations (multi-seed comparison, delay stress tests, robustness, design ablations) — submission, artifacts
Cryptarchia v1 and Post-Quantum Security report updated with operational migration table
"Modelling of random delays" doc created: proposes new model accounting for O(log N) broadcast latency

Blend Research

Achieved

Session-removal RFC: Mantle spec revision added, withdrawal-logic inconsistency identified and corrected, SDP snapshot timings clarified
Post-Quantum Safety Analysis of the Blend Protocol: revisions incorporating review feedback (doc)

Bedrock — Mantle & Mempool

Mantle Tx simplification RFC implemented

Achieved

Transaction hash simplified: Poseidon2 removed; only blake used, with modulo to convert to Fr element where needed #2612
Gas prices removed from Mantle Transactions #2670
Poseidon2 instantiation clarified in specs and test values implemented #2710

Mempool

Achieved

Remove unused tx broadcast #2684

Bedrock — Blend Engineering

Blend engineering progress

Achieved

HTTP CLI wrapper for API; first command joins Blend as a core node #2695
Expose Blend provider ID via /blend/info #2715
Fix core→edge transition bug in Blend (in-review) #2722
Remove sessions from SDP (in-review) #2692
SDP: remove dead SessionState::update code as preparation for session→epoch replacement #2666
SDP: don't store Blend reward parameters in recovery state — always loaded from deployment config #2676
SDP HTTP set-declaration-id endpoint #2716
SDP genesis validation context (in-review) #2731
Add blend_zk_pk to known keys #2718

Bedrock — Decentralized Sequencing

Decentralized sequencing

Achieved

Zone-SDK competing sequencers main logic merged #2446
Zone-SDK reorg event simplified for decentralized sequencer first-write-wins (in-review) #2697
Channel signature and zone-sdk updates (in-review) #2733
Flexible bounded blocks streaming API merged (in support of sequencer PoC) #2610

Bedrock — Testing & Testnet

Testing

Achieved

Use different runner for each platform when building images in CI #2647
cargo hack proc-macro feature declaration fix #2689
Fix large transaction input handling in cucumber tests #2680
Stress test for continuous coin split transactions (in-review) #2711

Testnet

Achieved

Docker image publish workflow: latest for releases, latest-rc for release candidates #2665
Use explorer tag for environment in docker #2726

Bedrock — Node

Node improvements

Achieved

Block-tracker abstraction explored and closed; follow-up issue opened to revisit multi-branch state tracking #2674, issue #2687
Validate locator format: reject multiaddrs with peer ID or unspecified IPv4/IPv6 #2712
KMS configuration detached from node config: enables easier config migration across testnet runs and token migrations #2713
Logging improvements: reduce noisy node logs (in-review) #2675, runtime log reload (in-review) #2706, init log filter #2720, normalise default node logs (in-review) #2719
Verify immutable block ID #2682; ignore blocks before LIB #2683; restore unwired metrics #2690
Cryptarchia: always compute LCA with old tip to collect reorged blocks (fixes potential infinite loop) #2677
Chainsync: MAX_INCOMING_REQUESTS made user-configurable #2701
Add --no-ibd flag and increase default PBP to 1 hour #2705
Orphan recovery node stalling fix (in-review) #2709
Stateless genesis block generation tooling: distribution #2688, inscriptions (in-review) #2696, ceremony (in-review) #2728, genesis CI workflow (in-review) #2732
Tracing/logging: appender options for max files + simple logger #2717, compressed appender #2686
Chain service: await chain start time #2685
Blockchain-tools binary name prefix #2723

Bedrock — Circuits

Circuits as libraries

Achieved

poc, pol, and signature circuits implemented (joining poq); common utils crate extracted; pre-commit + CI lint/test workflows added (WIP) logos-blockchain-circuits#16
Integrate circuits libraries into node for poq, pol, poc, and sig (in-review) #2679
Unify proofs' Error type across ZK code #2694

Logos Execution Zone

Accounts

Achieved

Multiple-owners task complete: GroupKeyHolder for GMS key management #449 and wallet group commands with shared account derivation (PDA + non-PDA, sync mechanism, tests) #460 both merged
Diversify private PDAs by identifier: integration tests and edge case coverage added (in-review) #464
Investigated Kyber as a replacement for ECIES for key agreement in LEZ: initial findings documented
Strong-type PrivacyPreservingCircuitInput with per-account enum merged #462
Privacy-preserving circuit refactor: split guest into bin-dir submodules (in-review) #469

Indexer & Sequencer

Achieved

Indexer query API merged #456
Basic UI for indexer-module testing (in-review) indexer-module-ui#2
LEZ sequencer and indexer migrated to zone-sdk (away from bedrock client) #389

Deployment

Achieved

Genesis configurable state reimplemented to use system faucet and vaults to supply accounts (in-review) #450

Nimbos

Nim client

Achieved

Genesis from deployment (in-review) nimbos#40
Genesis Mantle tx vectors: deterministic genesis vector coverage for Mantle tx encoding, hashing, and block root/id checks (WIP) branch
Nimbos code restructured to align with the modular architecture proposed in issue #29 (in-review) nimbos#41

Comms — Docs

Documentation

Achieved

LEZ specs update started (in-review) #472, task

Deliver de-MLS for p2p group messaging

Specify multi-steward and advanced group management protocol

Achieved

Multi-steward de-MLS specification complete, incorporating significant edge case treatment (spec); merge PR ready and specification deliverable considered complete with no major changes expected

Finalise spec merge

Integrate de-MLS into Logos Chat

Achieved

Integration started; architecture reworked from one-per-user to one-per-conversation
Integration specification drafted

Move consensus plugin from user to conversation scope (likely requires small API changes in hashgraph-like consensus)

Create a basic capability discovery module

Integrate and dogfood capability discovery in Logos Delivery

Achieved

Logos service discovery standalone API specification published as a raw LIP
Minor issues discovered and fixes implemented in libp2p service discovery; additional dogfooding completed; production version of integration started
Bug fixes and PR reviews completed; testing scenarios prepared

Continue dogfooding and production integration work
Develop additional testing scenarios

Establish libp2p mixnet

Specify and implement extended DoS and exit node abuse protection for libp2p mix

Achieved

Addressed PR #327 review comments and refactored stake-weighted Mix RLN DoS protection spec
Updated Logos Delivery to use stake-weighted rate limit

Update Mix RLN Spam Protection Plugin with the spec refactor
Add stake-weighted dogfooding setup
Implement RLN proof encryption to hide per-hop metadata observability

Specify and implement cover traffic generation

Achieved

Addressed review comments in spec PR
Addressed review comments in rln-plugin PR

Analyse cover traffic implications due to stake-weighted RLN

Modify Sphinx payload encryption to preserve payload integrity

Achieved

Reviewed the new Lioness spec for mix payload integrity
Continued analysis of Sphinx packet format

Implement the spec once primitives are agreed upon

Develop service incentivisation

Implement MVP payment protocol

Achieved

Integration plan written for payment streams with Logos Delivery

Begin integration implementation; refine plan as needed

Maintain and expand the Zerokit library

Rearchitecture Zerokit to support enum-based runtime configuration

Achieved

PR4 review comments addressed

Merge PR4 and proceed to PR5 for rln-wasm module
Continue Zerokit 3.0.0 PR review

Implement RLN membership allocation service

Specify and implement RLN membership allocation service

Achieved

Simulation simplified using Docker; confirmed running on Linux

Migrate RLN program to SPEL

Develop a decentralised oracle for LEZ

Specifying oracle mechanism

Achieved

IFT Research Call conducted; contributed second section of forum post
Decentralised oracle work highlighted in the latest IFT Research Call
LEZ toolchain issues resolved; discussions held on decentralised oracle system design

Continue specifying the Logos oracle network