2026-02-02 Logos storage weekly

Week 5 2026 §

Highlights §

1. Rename: completed transition to Logos Storage across codebase and Docker images
2. Specs: New and improved Merkle tree spec
3. Anon comms: advanced provider/publisher anonymity research with echomix protocol exploration

Status Integration §

• achieved:
  • new libstorage integrated with status-go
  • agreed on the merging sequence with Igor
  • new PR openned for extracting ArchiveService to a separate package and preparing for new abstraction hierarchy so that it is easier to add/remove new history archive storage technologies (e.g. BitTorrent, LogosStorage) - still draft PR, some work still in progress. Link to this PR: status-im/status-go/pull/7312
  • in parallel applying the new class hierarchy to the LogosStorage integration (to make rebasing in the final merge step easier)
• next:
  • finishing ArchiveService extraction
  • upgrading the build system in a separate PR (second merging step)
  • final merge with LogosStorage extension moved to a new hierarchy

Testnet filesharing client §

• achieved:
  • E2E testing:
    • logos-storage-nim Docker image tweaks:
      • Renamed the Docker image and the repository its stored from codexstorage/nim-codex to logosstorage/logos-storage-nim. Finished also internal renaming of the configuration env. variables and other related things.
      • Fixed support for NAT_IP_AUTO config variable to use only IPv4 and ignore IPv6 addresses.
    • Dist. testing project:
      • Fixed Github Actions testing workflow input to reflect the Docker rename tweaks
      • WIP on removing Marketplace and Proving support and its related tests and actually running the tests.
  • Final renaming effort in codebase to remove Codex and replace with Logos Storage
  • Fixed release not producing the correct artifacts, in particular libstorage for use in bindings modules, like Logos Core.
• next:
  • Evaluate libp2p KAD DHT feasibility as replacement for Discv5 in Logos Storage
  • Block exchange protocol
    • Adding Codex proof support to block serialization
    • Tuning BDP-based adaptive pipelining for multi-node download scenarios

Logos Storage Documentation §

• achieved:

  • wrote a simple C wrapper over libstorage with examples of:
    • a simple file uploader;
    • a simple file downloader;
    • a console application.
  • Merkle tree spec added to the RFC repo and under review.

• next:

  • libstorage tutorial using the C wrapper and complementary Logos Storage documentation to introduce and clarify concepts.

AnonComm Collaboration §

• achieved:
  • wrote a blog/forum post about speeding up RLN proof generation
  • Continued discussion and meetings with the AnonComm team.
• next:
  • Continue to work on the RLN improvement and integration into zerokit.

Integration with Logos Core §

• achieved:

  • Add support for submodules and provide documentation for Qt Creator to improve the developer experience
  • Move Storage UI to QML. This includes the creation of an internal Qt app to access the QML Preview feature and speed up UI development
  • Fix the Nix build on macOS
  • Update the PR in liblogos to properly terminate the process on shutdown
  • Provide an example of Storage configuration

• next:

  • Finish the peer connection implementation in the Storage Module
  • Implement upload in the Storage Module and Storage UI

Privacy track / research §

• achieved:
  • Improved and revised the Merkle tree spec
  • Continued research into related work for provider/publisher anonymity, studied echomix pigeonhole storage protocol as a possible approach.
• next:
  • Draft an initial approach/specs for integrating the mix protocol intro the file-sharing client with provider/publisher anonymity.