2026-04-20 Logos storage weekly

Week 16 2026 (Mon Apr 13 - Fri Apr 17, 2026) §

Highlights §

• Status-go integration PR #7332 approved and ready to merge, with history archive storage PR in prep.
• Testnet client work: BDP throughput rework, manifest CID decoupling, and infra migration to Google Cloud underway.
• NAT Traversal progressed with Autonat finalized, Nim 2.2.8 upgrades, and --allow-private-address support added.

Status Integration §

• achieved:
  • approval and final fixes on status-go/pull/7332 - ready to be merged - waiting for the companion PR from the status-go team.
• next:
  • creating the final PR in which logosstorage is integrated for the history archive storage, prep work has been done in status-go/pull/7344

Testnet filesharing client §

• achieved:
  • Reworked BDP throughput calculation, added active probing with exponential backoff for block exchange downloads.
  • Manifest CID decoupling: DHT advertises manifest CID only, tree CID is used internally for block addressing
  • Release tests: Rename Codex > Logos Storage, including infra repo and docker images
  • Release tests: ported terraform cluster deployment files over to Google Cloud Environment in an attempt to use the integrated log console, instead of shipping logs to kibana. Yet to test — waiting on payment card for setup of GCE org.
• next:
  • Setup GCE org, add usage limits
  • Test and fix issues with terraform port

AnonComm Collaboration §

• achieved:
  • Continued to work on logos-storage hidden services over Mix:
    • Cryptographic primitives
    • Intro point protocol.
    • Hidden service descriptors.
• next:
  • Work on the LIONESS specifications, its implementation and use in the mix protocol.
  • Continue to work on logos-storage hidden services over Mix:
    • DOS/spam prevention for hidden services.
    • Client authentication and restricted discovery mode.
    • Specification for descriptor signature scheme with key blinding.
    • Encoding SURBs for direct client-service direct communication & experiment.

Integration with Logos Core §

• achieved:
  • Quick look at the Storage Module update
• next:
  • Review the Logos Storage UI PR

NAT Traversal §

• achieved:
  • Discussion and design updates for NAT Traversal
  • Updated chronicles here and here
  • Updated to Nim 2.2.8 here and here
  • This PR adds --allow-private-address to allow private IPs when no public IPs are detected here
  • Finalise Autonat integration
• next:
  • Continue NAT Traversal implementation with a state machine

Privacy track / research §

• achieved:
• next: